Here’s a letter to the New York Times:

EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy explains that her agency is designing a new and improved fuel-economy label for (mandated) placement on all new cars sold in the U.S. (Letters, Sept. 7).

Here’s the truest yet saddest paper title that I’ve seen in a long, long time: “The Dodd-Frank Act: Creative Destruction, Destroyed.”  (It’s a new paper by Peter Wallison).

My GMU and Mercatus Center colleague Pete Boettke is wonderfully profiled in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.  And here’s Bill Easterley’s note on the WSJ‘s profile of Pete.

Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman is a good egg.  (HT Dan Polsby)

Here’s a letter to the Washington Post:

Here’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal:

Dear Ms. ___________:

Thanks very much for writing.  I appreciate your thoughts.

I assure you, though, that you’re mistaken in your conclusion that I am “a disgusting typical conservative corporate mouth piece.”  First, I truly am not conservative.  Second, I very often speak out against policies that benefit corporations.  (Whether or not I am disgusting is not for me to say.)

Calgary lawyer Bruce Korol, in this op-ed, argues sensibly for a free-market in body organs.

The Federal Register just hit 50,000 pages.  Here’s Ryan Young’s take.

George Leef properly describes Pres. Obama’s college agenda as “absurd.”

Writing at Foxnews.com, my former GMU student Alex Nowrasteh defends birthright citizenship.

In this video, the great Tom Palmer debates free trade with the duplicitous multiplicitous Lou Dobbs – Judge Napolitano moderates.  (HT Andy Roth)

Here’s a letter to the Boston Globe:

Joanna Weiss asserts that the lack of government-mandated paid maternity leave in the United States is “a sign of how little our society values childrearing” (“Family values?” August 15).

Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Thomas Sowell on FreedomWatch.

Speaking of Sowell, Carpe Diem’s Mark Perry quotes him.

A fascinating graph from Bill Easterly over at Aid Watch.