Podcast appearances and mentions of Jeffrey A Miron

Very soon, your pocketbook is going to feel every visit to the grocery store. A grocery chain owner is sounding the warning that inflation will drive food prices roughly 10% higher by October. Might not be a bad time to stock up on what you need. Mandatory military service strikes a patriotic note with some folks but conscription has always been problematic. Jeffrey A. Miron and Sarah Eckhardt have a strong argument why the time is ripe to finally repeal the draft. It's probably just nostalgia but there are many of us who miss the days when people dressed up to go about the business of life. Personally, I wish hats (not ballcaps) and suits would make a comeback. Jeff Minnick has a fascinating take on the decline and decadence of our manners and dress. I make no secret of the fact that I have beef with politics in general. The older--and hopefully wiser--I get, the more I simply want to be left alone to peacefully pursue my own happiness. As J.D. Tuccille explains, that's never going to happen with deluded Republicans and smug Democrats who both suffer from control issues. www.thebryanhydeshow.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Very soon, your pocketbook is going to feel every visit to the grocery store. A grocery chain owner is sounding the warning that inflation will drive food prices roughly 10% higher by October. Might not be a bad time to stock up on what you need. Mandatory military service strikes a patriotic note with some folks but conscription has always been problematic. Jeffrey A. Miron and Sarah Eckhardt have a strong argument why the time is ripe to finally repeal the draft. It's probably just nostalgia but there are many of us who miss the days when people dressed up to go about the business of life. Personally, I wish hats (not ballcaps) and suits would make a comeback. Jeff Minnick has a fascinating take on the decline and decadence of our manners and dress. I make no secret of the fact that I have beef with politics in general. The older--and hopefully wiser--I get, the more I simply want to be left alone to peacefully pursue my own happiness. As J.D. Tuccille explains, that's never going to happen with deluded Republicans and smug Democrats who both suffer from control issues. If you want an excellent primer on what legitimate government should and should not do, it's hard to beat "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat. Sophia Spinazze also has a marvelous article on why we find ourselves living under law but no order. Please visit my sponsors:  Monticello College Lifesaving Food Pure Light HSL Ammo The Heather Turner Team at Patriot Home Mortgage Subscribe to the podcast  Support this program by becoming a Patron 

Drug legalization could reduce government costs and raise tax revenues, but opponents worry over health and social ills State governments facing massive fiscal deficits might consider a rather unusual way to alleviate those debts – through the legalization of drugs like marijuana and thereby ending the costly drug war. In a study for the Cato Institute, Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer on economics at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Cato, and Katherine Waldock, professor of economics at New York University, estimate that legalizing drugs would save the government approximately $41.3 billion annually on expenditures related to the enforcement of prohibition. Of those savings, $25.7 billion would accrue to state and local governments, while $15.6 billion would accrue to the federal government. Miron and Waldock estimate that of that $41.3 billion in savings, about $8.7 billion would result from the legalization of marijuana alone and $32.6 billion from the legalization of other drugs, like cocaine and heroin. Just as important, drug legalization would translate into higher tax revenues generated by the sale of these newly-legalized products in the open commercial marketplace. Drug legalization would yield tax revenues of $46.7 billion annually, assuming legal drugs were taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and tobacco, they said. Approximately $8.7 billion of this revenue would result from the legalization of marijuana, $32.6 billion from legalization of cocaine and heroin, and $5.5 billion from legalization of all other drugs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hollywoodandchinadollshow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hollywoodandchinadollshow/support

When a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania on Friday, May 7th, 1915, Americans found two new enemies: Germany and the beer it was so associated with. Anti-German sentiment grew, and with it hostility to the breweries founded in the 19th century by German immigrants. Soon, the war effort and the temperance movement were linked: it was patriotic to abstain, and Prohibition became law.How did America cope? They swapped their stool at the bar for a seat at the soda shop, listening to new radios and the first ever baseball broadcasts. But Americans’ thirst wasn’t ever fully quenched: they turned to family doctors who prescribed “medicinal alcohol,” and then finally to the bootleggers, moonshiners and rum-runners who made, smuggled and sold hooch of all types, from top-shelf French cognac to homemade swill that might just kill you.For more about the Lusitania, check out Dead Wake: The Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson.Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition has more information on medicinal alcohol and how it was prescribed by doctors. To learn more about medicinal beer, this article by Beverly Gage for The Smithsonian is excellent.The 1991 study “Alcohol Consumption During Prohibition” by Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel, is considered the definitive study about how much people actually drank during the noble experiment. For more information on how Prohibition played out in the early days, check out Professor David J. Hanson’s, “Alcohol Problems and Solutions,” a comprehensive, interactive site that outlines all the various stakeholders in the Noble Experiment.To read more about Americans behaving badly in Cuba and other places during Prohibition, check out Wayne Curtis’s And A Bootle of Rum: A History of the World in Ten Cocktails, as well as Matthew Rowley’s Lost Recipes of Prohibition. And, to learn more about rum-runners, Daniel Francis’s book, Closing Time: Prohibition, Rum-Runners and Border Wars is an excellent reference.Further references can be found in America Walks Into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops by Christine Sismondo.Support this show by supporting our sponsors!

A Measure of Freedom by Jim Davies http://www.strike-the-root.com/91/davies/davies8.html "Government" pretends to be a higher authority than yourself Become part of The Online Freedom Academy http://tolfa.us Government is destined to destroy itself economically There's nothing free about government Twenty Twenty-Two by Jim Davies http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/davies/davies15.html Capitalism creates a greater and greater supply of values The bigger the supply or surplus, the more government steals As long as people can reap the rewards of applying their own intelligence, prosperity is assured James Burke's great Connections program - http://www.mahalo.com/James_Burke ...couldn't find referenced Industrial Revolution episode, but these two are pretty close: James Burke : The Day The Universe Changed: "Credit Where It's Due", 3 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g413rYkYL7I James Burke : The Day The Universe Changed: "Credit Where It's Due", 4 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YmR-BtJx-k MO of government is to cater to special interests at everyone else's expense; "laws" are passed to facilitate this Government is an easy (but unjust) way to take from some in order to give to others--while making it look virtuous The principle of property is denied with any level of taxation The scary thing about the prospect of undiluted freedom is that it challenges the deeply held belief in "authority" The 5 Most Popular Safety Laws (That Don't Work) by Robert Evans http://www.cracked.com/article_17216_5-most-popular-safety-laws-that-dont-work.html Speed limits; Three Strikes laws; The Amber Alert; Sex Offender Registries; Zero Tolerance Policies at School The Power of Design by Richard Farson, a statist intellectual with some stateless tendencies... http://www.greenway.us/index.php?id=112 Government, as a coercive monopoly on so-called justice, can't effectively apprehend criminals, nor is it incentivized to do so Another MO of government is inducing fear and paranoia in the populace "Laws" don't prevent bad people from doing bad things; "laws" violate individual rights and foster irresponsibility We should have zero tolerance of governmental nonsense Commentary: Legalize drugs to stop violence by Jeffrey A. Miron http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/miron.legalization.drugs/ Story pertaining to Ca medical marijuana dispensary owner Charles Lynch http://reason.tv/video/show/760.html ; http://reason.tv/video/show/510.html ; http://reason.tv/video/show/736.html Change we can be jailed for by Greg http://fr33agents.com/change-we-can-be-jailed-for/ http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/226362/april-30-2009/ethan-nadelmann The rights-infringing actions of governmental employees are mostly shielded by a false perception of legitimacy Each person has the right to consume whatever he or she wants We need to get rid of the prohibition on justice in the marketplace, i.e., get rid of government The violence of government traumatizes entire civilizations The Nature Of Present Government http://www.logicallearning.net/libnatureofgover.html Contradictions will always be psychologically and existentially destructive People fear their future in relation to others if they practiced honesty (via RTR http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR ) An active mindset is key to your personal evolution--and to getting rid of an institution that stifles your choices Parents who listen to their children and treat them with respect help build a much better world bumper music "I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar http://www.redrocker.com/index.php?s=media&a=discography&aid=16 http://www.myspace.com/sammyhagar to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697