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...foundation in Ohio who practiced transcendental meditation with Kimberlin's sister. After the vote, with a pledge from the benefactor, Kimberlin posted on justicethroughmusic.org a $100,000 reward for any evidence that the election had been stolen. And things took off. First, the reward attracted blogger Brad Friedman, who then co-founded the netroots voting-reform website VelvetRevolution.us with Kimberlin and serves as his face man. The reward attracted other donors (including a politically active relative of mine who last year introduced me to Kimberlin). And it produced several people who claimed to have information on problems with electronic voting...
Lowell House economics advisor John N. Friedman said he thought that House advisers should not have trouble shouldering the increased responsibility...
...Free-Market Man Ben Stein wrote an over-the-top, utterly misguided eulogy for economist Milton Friedman [Nov. 27]. Friedman thought that freedom comes primarily from laissez-faire capitalism, meaning government should leave business alone. This concept was useful at the time of the American Revolution but is anachronistic now. Even Adam Smith said that when men of the same trade meet, they conspire against the public. Friedman's thinking provides a rationalization for government to turn business loose to monopolize the market, exploit the consumer and pollute the environment. Harry L. Cook Ashland, Oregon...
...study’s authors—Friedman Professor of Law Lucian A. Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein of Cornell University, and Urs Peyer from the Paris-based business school INSEAD—found that board directors at 6,500 companies received “lucky grants” or backdated options for which the strike date is timed in order to maximize profit...
...enjoyed Stein's tribute to Friedman. Surely, it is a difficult task to write an adequate epitaph for a Nobel prizewinner who had a positive impact on hundreds of millions of people around the world. Friedman defied the political correctness of his day to show that America's unique success was due to its founders' creation of a system that minimized the government and maximized personal and market freedoms. ROGER E. HAUGO Sioux Falls...