Our country is beset by a large number of economic myths that distort public thinking on important problems and lead us to accept unsound and dangerous government policies. Here are ten of the most dangerous of these myths and an analysis of what is wrong with them.
— Read on mises.org/wire/ten-great-economic-myths
A man walks into a shop and asks, “You don’t have any meat?” “No,” replies the sales clerk, “We don’t have any fish. It’s the store across the street that doesn’t have any meat.”
— Read on mises.org/wire/deprivation-socialism-soviet-union
Thatcher said it best, “Socialists always run out of other people’s money ” nuff said
True leadership is not something you do, but someone you are. The men of your age put on leadership as if it were a suit of clothes. It is, in fact, a type of character: or at least it should be… (imaginative letter from Homer by Louis Markos)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/12/homer-leadership-louis-markos.html
This is one of the best commentaries about leadership I have ever read.
Letters: From a Mother of Teens and a Few Young Men | Jordan Peterson
— Read on jordanbpeterson.com/political-correctness/letters/
In November, it was reported that the Pakistani Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, was unlikely to be offered asylum by the British government due to concerns about “community” relations in the UK. What this means is that the UK government was worried
— Read on www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13455/britain-extremists
Free speech and the individual are under attack.
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
— Read on www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/dailywisdom.cgi
My friends keep me on my toes.
When we strip away all the fancy arguments and strong opinions about capitalism, or industrialism if you like, we see a person in the workplace is a commodity, a thing to be used up and discarded. As a result, capitalism creates a thing-oriented society, where machines, profits, and properties are more important than people… (essay by George Stanciu)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/12/best-possible-world-concrete-living-capitalism-george-stanciu.html
The whole concept of God taking human shape had never made much sense to me. That was because, I realised one… — Quote by Jane Vonnegut Yarmolinsky
— Read on www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/quotemeal.cgi
Nevertheless, there seems to me to be something faintly coercive about these public demonstrations of emotion, as if those who do not join in are somehow failing in their duty or are lacking in proper feeling.
— Read on www.takimag.com/article/thoughts-and-prayers/
I have often pondered this and have never participated in a public vigil. Grieving is a very personal thing for each of us.
There is no one whose private conduct could not put him in a bad light, so we should resist the common practice of judging public matters in terms of private conduct.
— Read on www.takimag.com/article/mind-your-business-hypocrites/
An interesting perspective that I am still unsure of.
John Barleycorn 
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