Virginia Right!

This blog entry from Daniel J. Mitchell, from the Cato Institute, in Forbes Magazine, perhaps not surprisingly, came out on the side of Estonia, not Prof. Krugman!  Here’s a couple of highlights: I have great fondness for Estonia, in part because it was the first post-communist nation to adopt the flat tax, but also because [...]

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There was an interesting Real Clear Politics/Gallup poll on which nations find the US or its people most popular.  The top five are listed.  I thought it might be Poland (nope), the Baltic Republics (not them), not even Kosovo (They just missed the top five at sixth).  They are seven nations in sub-Saharian Africa:  Democratic [...]

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By Elwood “Sandy” Sanders

The best part of any Olympics (I wait for it every Olympics!) is the opening ceremonies. Each nation comes into the stadium with their athletes, one (sometimes the only one) carrying the flag of their nation, except for Taiwan, the Republic of China, our old ally in WWII until President Nixon sold them out to Red China. Taiwan cannot now carry its flag in (This was not always true: There is a scene in the 1924 Olympic movie Chariots of Fire where there is an unusual five striped flag and that was the old flag of the Republic of China) and goes by Chinese Taipei. This is shameful and we ought to protest but Red China might sell some of its Treasury bonds in response! No one has won; no one has lost yet and all nations and athletes (except Taiwan, see above) are equal in dignity.

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