On Harmony- A Response to Tim Sandefur, and belatedly to Don Boudreaux

Posted on September 13th, 2007 in Culture, Economics, Environment by Greyson
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I recently came across a post at Freespace, a relatively new blog by my friend and former Positive Liberty blogger, Timothy Sandefur.  Sandefur asserts that his observation in The Myth of “Harmony” is not original, but is “one that needs to be made frequent and with fervor.”  Since I’ve found The Myth of “Harmony” to be founded on faulty ground, I felt its necessary to respond with equal fervor.    Sandefur begins by citing a Café Hayek posting from 2 years ago by George Mason University Economics Chair Donald Boudreaux.  Boudreaux had recently visited Sea World where he was inspired by a video at the manatee exhibit to “do [his] ...

Buried alive in bureaucracy…

Posted on August 4th, 2007 in Environment, Government Reform by Greyson
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I know I usually focus my posts on highlighting abuses of power from, and the overreaching nature of the Federal Government, but this time I am going to switch it up a little, and take a pot shot a little closer to home. One of my major summer projects this year has been to landscape my mom's yard, and in the process find places for the fifty or so different trees, shrubs, and perennials that I have accrued over the last seven or eight years.  One of the final touches left in the transformation is the removal of an old, unsightly, gnarled pine tree that my mom has complained about for years.   Now I knew that many cities in Oregon have regulations over such tree ...

Support the Troops

Posted on July 10th, 2007 in Environment by Josh
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Puts a few things in perspective. http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200707/ecology.asp