I have to talk about a fraudulent article in Nature magazine, which promotes religious propaganda. The article talks about how innocent people often go to prison based on police having eyewitnesses point the finger at the wrong person. And not …
I. The Structure of Government in Expanding Societies II. Imposing Social Rather than Systemic Coordination III. Communist Meanings and Terms that Aren’t In the Constitution IV. Whom did Congress give What Power to? V. Why does a Legislature Delegate Powers? …
Communism is an incorrect belief that social processes combined with human goodness, will produce information needed to make decisions, and will result in people making optimal decisions for the benefit of others. The basic idea is if people go hungry …
The basic question in Trump v. CASA is can a court enjoin the government from just grabbing everyone off the street without even an accusation, and just make them all file habeas petitions? Or is it up to the voters …
In her book “Justice Abandoned”, Rachel Barkow makes the following statement: “The real check on pretrial detention should not be coming from politics but from the Supreme Court enforcing the Constitution.” The word “should” implies there is a reason why …
Rachel Barkow’s book “Justice Abandoned” is another tragedy of someone who will have zero effect, for being wrong in basic assumptions. This includes 1) a misguided marketing appeal to people’s taste for liberty, 2) calling executive-branch discretion “efficient” while arguing …
A while back “The Onion” made a sarcastic video about students having trouble understanding the concept of object permanence. This is the idea that when you see an apple, and then you stop looking at it, it is still there. …
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True story, back in the 1970’s a guy Richard Dennis made a fortune trading commodities. He did it buying commodities when the price was already way up, when it made no sense to anybody why the price should be so …
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After the industrial revolution, economists like Karl Marx made heroic efforts to propose alternate systems for coordinating economic actors, other than free-market auctions. They imagined complete nations and societies, which visions were logically consistent. Even if they missed flawed assumptions …
Steven Calabresi’s concept of the “Unitary Executive” relies on the same incorrect model of how society processes information, as industrial central planning and dangerous utopian movements in general. They assume the sharing of information across vantage points is so perfect …
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