Welcome. This blog evolved from a few friends corresponding about economics and politics. The last subject was about guns in public. This proved such a popular topic that we needed more room for discussion. This blog is the result.

The authors have no illusions or delusions that this, out of the millions of blogs, will ever amount to anything more than a bull session among a few hundred people interested in civil discourse on subjects of mutual interest.

No ideas, thoughts, opinions, or heresies are forbidden so long as they are presented without profanity and the ad hominem argument. If you accept that small constraint, pull up a chair and join the fray.