Monthly Archives: March 2010

Human Achievement Hour

I’ll be celebrating Human Achievement Hour, an initiative from the Competitive Enterprise Institutes:

Date: March 27, 2010
Time: 8:30pm-9:30pm local time
Location: Everywhere

Human Achievement Hour (HAH) is the annual holiday wherein people around the world celebrate the human innovations that improve the quality of our daily lives. We acknowledge the individuals responsible for the technologies, medicines, and creature comforts and the necessity of using earth’s resources and energy in order to advance human kind. During the same hour others will “celebrate” Earth Hour—the environmentalist hour of darkness in which people turn out the lights to show their disappointment in the way humanity utilizes earth’s resources and to cast their “vote” for global action against climate change. If Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that our holiday points out the true meaning of earth hour: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-progress.

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Economics in One 3 and a Half Hour Lesson

Don’t be put off by the length of this video. The video is from the Mises Institute, and reviews Henry Hazlett’s “Economics in One Lesson” by asking Austrian economists to give their synopsis of each chapter in the book. If you want an excellent introduction into economics, then put this on in the background while you work. Continue reading

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Joe Hockey On Liberty

Joe Hockey, shadow treasurer of Australia and Member of Parliament, delivered an excellent speech at the Grattan Institute, on liberty, personal responsibility and a call for limited government. Below are snippets of his speech: Continue reading

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The Government Can

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