http://www.catocampus.org/tag info@catocampus.org http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/468.html By Ibsen Martinez: "Shortly after noon, on Wednesday, I finally sat down to write my monthly column when I received news that 15 hostages, including three U.S. defence contractors, held for years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the infamous drug-trafficking guerrilla, branded a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union, had been rescued by a successful army operation. Most eminent among the hostages was the 46-year-old former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt." 889@http://www.catocampus.org Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:48:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/468.html "Mike Munger and Russ Roberts deliver one of the best podcasts ever. Munger describes the way in which moving from a private bus system to a public system in Santiago Chile made essentially everyone in the city worse off. The puzzle that Roberts keeps pushing Munger to resolve is why the political incentives do not work to abolish the public system and revert to a private system." - Bryan Caplan 888@http://www.catocampus.org Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:39:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/468.html By Mary Anastasia O'Grady: "As the presidential campaign drones on, Barack Obama and the Democrats are fleshing out the promise of "change" with some specific, big-government policy proposals. Many are familiar, perhaps because they already have been tried – in Argentina." 880@http://www.catocampus.org Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:38:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/468.html AfricanLiberty.org produced this short video about the political factors behind the Global food crisis. 863@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 21 May 2008 09:48:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/468.html Yon Goicoechea, leader of the pro-democracy student movement in Venezuela, has been awarded the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. Under Goicoechea's leadership, the student movement organized mass opposition to the erosion of human and civil rights in Venezuela and played the key role in defeating Hugo Chávez's bid for a constitutional reform that would have turned the country into a dictatorship. 846@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:02:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/468.html By Daniel T. Griswold: "But tinkering with a 14-year-old trade agreement [NAFTA] will not bring an industrial renaissance to Youngstown and other Rust Belt cites. The relative decline of those regions dates back to the 1960s and 1970s, when the American economy began a transition from heavy industry toward an information-based service economy." 800@http://www.catocampus.org Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:17:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/468.html By Alvaro Vargas Llosa: "It is not surprising, of course, that Che Guevara's remains are a myth. Everything about this modern saint is a myth -- his love of justice, his romantic disposition, his goodness." 671@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:36:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/468.html By Mario Vargas Llosa: "Institutions cannot flourish in a country if the people don’t believe in them—if, on the contrary, people have a fundamental distrust of their institutions and see in them not a guarantee of security, or of justice, but precisely the opposite." 420@http://www.catocampus.org Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:12:00 EDT