Spring training in Florida

Baseball is the ideal sport, the late comedian/philosopher George Carlin once observed: It’s a game, played on fields and in parks rather than a contest waged in stadiums, like football. He might have added: Of all the venues for baseball, the most relaxing and tranquil is spring training month in…

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Las Vegas imports Broadway

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas is the slogan used by the famed Nevada city. It implies sin and secrecy, and it brings ever-increasing numbers of visitors. This report will violate the town slogan and tell what actually happens in Vegas. To East Coast Americans, some of it is surprising.

Gambling is the big draw, of course, followed by …

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Chile: Liberty Within Order

Chile offers us a useful lesson in peaceful coexistence between laissez-faire capitalism and nanny-state socialism.

This congruence has given Chile a comprehensive health care system. And Chile’s death toll was low during recent earthquakes, thanks to strict government building laws that have been imposed by Chile’s right-wing dictators and by its Socialist leaders alike. It’s not that the two political …

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