Monday, May 28, 2018

Superheroes Live in Cities

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The easy narrative is that good guys protect cities because bad guys want to rule millions of people and that is hard to do by extending yo...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Captain America

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Directed by Joe Johnston I watched  Captain America: The First Avenger  expecting no more (and hopefully no less) than the other superh...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Blaming Ayn Rand for the 2010 Financial Crisis

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The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis  by Darryl Cunningham (Abrams, 2015) is a closely written and tightly ...
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Monday, May 14, 2018

Physically Fit is Mentally Fit

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"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around." Widely attributed in several forms to Thomas Edison, I am not sure ...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Spanish Coins on American Notes

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Until 1857, silver and gold coins from Mexico, Spain, France, Brazil, and other nations were legal tender in the United States. We know comm...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Chimes of Freedom

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Flashing for the warrior whose strength is not to fight. Flashing for the refugee on the unarmed road of flight. And for eac...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Confiscation: Gold as Contraband

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Confiscation: Gold as Contraband 1933-1974  by Kenneth R. Ferguson was a pleasure to read. Ferguson writes well. I met Ken Ferguson in pers...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Soldiers of Peace

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The military teaches the way of peace, said Paul K. Chappell, because they praise in public and reprimand in private. I heard Paul K. Chapp...
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Sunday, April 8, 2018

Aaron Feldman:"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin"

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BUY THE BOOK BEFORE THE COIN headlined an advertisement in the March 1966 issue of The Numismatist. Aaron R. Feldman offered 25 titles, so...