Price Gouging

"Anti-Price Gouging Laws Make as Much Sense as Anti-High Temperature Laws", Mark J. Perry



Also, "Price Gougers Actually Help Solve the Problem of Scarcity", by  Tom Mullen

We're Going to Hire our Own Bully

Part of the reason we have the President that we have is because people got so tired of this stifling, weaponized political correctness from the left, that eventually, a lot of people on the right said. 'We've had enough. If they're going to bully us culturally endlessly, we're going to hire our own bully.'
(Guy Benson, "Gay and Conservative (Guy Benson Pt. 1)", The Rubin Report, YouTube, 30 Aug 2017, circa 16:02)

What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong

What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong
The alt-right ultimately amounts to an oppressive, backwards-looking movement. It's the opposite of libertarianism.
Posted by Reason Magazine on Thursday, August 31, 2017

From Reason.com

The Great American Eclipse path over the Rexburg Idaho Temple

"The Great American Eclipse path over the Rexburg Idaho Temple on August 21, 2017. This composite accurately illustrates the starting and ending points of where the eclipse started its phases into totality and back to normal." (FB Post, Alan Fullmer Temple Photography, Can be purchased at: http://www.alanfullmer.com/LDS-Temples/Temple/Rexburg-Idaho/i-JNRdg4d)

Depth of the Kindness Hormone Appears to Know Some Bounds

There may be a chemical reason for tribalism.

From "Depth of the Kindness Hormone Appears to Know Some Bounds", Nicholas Wade.

"Oxytocin has been described as the hormone of love. This tiny chemical, released from the hypothalamus region of the brain, gives rat mothers the urge to nurse their pups, keeps male prairie voles monogamous and, even more remarkable, makes people trust each other more.

Yes, you knew there had to be a catch. As oxytocin comes into sharper focus, its social radius of action turns out to have definite limits. The love and trust it promotes are not toward the world in general, just toward a person’s in-group. Oxytocin turns out to be the hormone of the clan, not of universal brotherhood. Psychologists trying to specify its role have now concluded it is the agent of ethnocentrism."

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“In the ancestral environment it was very important for people to detect in others whether they had a long-term commitment to the group,”