Guy Smith | May 9, 2009
Did Adam Smith prophesize Barack Obama?
Having recently stood over Smith’s grave while pondering his enduring observations on the mechanics of society and economy, I grew weary. In recent days I sensed an obnoxious divergence between Smith’s elegant understanding of how people prosper and how it takes authoritarian control to make them poor.
My buddy and [...]
Guy Smith | May 7, 2009
Lexicographers must be laughing aloud.
When battlefield bums captured in Afghanistan were dropped on the western shores of Cuba, there were rumors of torture. Back then little specific information was released concerning the treatment of the Guantánamo gang, yet insinuated was that prisoners were being mistreated and that ‘torture’ was being practiced.
This caught my attention [...]
Guy Smith | May 1, 2009
You can almost feel Internet cables connected to constitutional law clusters buzzing.
Justice Souter has barely announced his retirement and already the pundits, politicos and prognosticators have leapt to the keyboards, predicting how the judicial bull chips will fall. Activist on the right predict Obama will nominate a hard leftist who views the Constitution as [...]
