Robert E. Wright
@robertewright
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All views my own. If you don't like a post, ignore it. If you do, spread it round. Either way, have a nice day.
Austin, TX
Joined December 2010
Lots of people, including (embarrassingly) a lot of lawyers are on this site claiming that a case called US v. Lucas from the 8th Circuit says that law enforcement can enter your home with only an administrative warrant signed by an ICE officer (as opposed to a 4th Amendment
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A Republic of Merchants --- not men, nor geography. Thomas Willing, the founding banker you never heard of, captured in this book by Richard Vague. https://t.co/Xuoctng4bb
nationalreview.com
The life and enterprise of America’s founding financier.
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"UATX put me in rooms I wouldn’t have been in anywhere else and forced me to grow fast. I’m genuinely miles ahead, intellectually and personally, because of it. I couldn't imagine myself anywhere else.” – Jack Erickson, UATX sophomore
“UATX has made me appreciate the liberal arts much more than I thought possible. Locke and Hobbes have made me a patriot as well as a pessimist on the nature of man (Machiavelli has helped this too). The people here have so much good energy and it's really fun to be able to do
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🚨🚨The U.S. may be headed for a Fiscal Crisis 🚨🚨 Here's what it could look like:
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Of course she doesn't want to review her pandemic management. She'd either have to lie or be exposed for tyranny or gross stupidity.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who took some of the most aggressive measures in the country during COVID-19, recently said she has no desire to review her pandemic management.
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"The very same people who say that the government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults." — Thomas Sowell
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Mine too fwiw.
"My general sense was that U. Austin undergraduates are on a par with undergraduates at top five schools." — @tylercowen
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I love @Anastasia_esq SCOTUS Scoop though it often makes me cry to read things like this: " I filed briefs on behalf of a charity whose member was arrested for handing a homeless man a burrito and a virtual real estate brokerage that is stifled by a useless in-state office
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See my non-paywalled review of a very important new book on the transatlantic slave trade by David Eltis:
independent.org
Atlantic Cataclysm exemplifies top-notch economic history because it is based on command of the secondary literature and three expert “crowdsourced” data
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See my non-paywalled review of a very important new book on the transatlantic slave trade by David Eltis:
independent.org
Atlantic Cataclysm exemplifies top-notch economic history because it is based on command of the secondary literature and three expert “crowdsourced” data
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I just took a ride in a driverless Jag in Austin, TX. I would do it again but I won't got out of my way to do so. It drove too fast sometimes and went through a red light. Then, with the coast clear, it drove way too slow. It thought a school zone was active at 7 pm but
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See my non-paywalled review of a very important new book on the transatlantic slave trade by David Eltis:
independent.org
Atlantic Cataclysm exemplifies top-notch economic history because it is based on command of the secondary literature and three expert “crowdsourced” data
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This is hilarious but the framing is anachronistic. Early Americans did not think in terms of retirement at a certain age, they thought in terms of superannuation, of becoming unable to earn a living. That might come at 60, 70, 80, even 90 depending on one's "constitution" and
COMMANDER: We’re fighting for freedom. And part of that freedom… is the freedom to retire with dignity. So we’re going to start accounts called 401(k)s. SOLDIER 1: What’s a 401(k)? COMMANDER: It’s a retirement account. You put money in, it grows tax-free, you take it out when
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See my non-paywalled review of a very important new book on the transatlantic slave trade by David Eltis:
independent.org
Atlantic Cataclysm exemplifies top-notch economic history because it is based on command of the secondary literature and three expert “crowdsourced” data
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See my non-paywalled review of a very important new book on the transatlantic slave trade by David Eltis:
independent.org
Atlantic Cataclysm exemplifies top-notch economic history because it is based on command of the secondary literature and three expert “crowdsourced” data
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