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10/2/09 Roundup

Peter St.Jean
Oct 2, 2009 at 10:57 PM
  • Rachel Maddow blasts Jim DeMint, accusing him of treason for heroically opposing the establishment on Honduras ...
  • And since the Zalaya situation just won't go away, educate yourself with Don Rassmussen's earlier post about what's really going on in Honduras.
  • Don Boudreaux explains that true free-market economists don't (and shouldn't) rely on rote mathematics to explain economic reality.
  • William Kamkwamba, an enterprising Malawian teenager who didn't wait around for foreign aid, is now an international hero ...
  • And William Easterly explains why government and other aid providers should look to entrepreneurs like William for guidance.

Interesting news this morning, just as the 2009 MySQL Conference is starting. As is being reported all over the place, Oracle has agreed to buy Sun at $9.50 per share, giving them to a ton of great technology (Solaris, ZFS, MySQL, DTrace, etc.). One one of the biggest threats to Oracle's core database business (at the low end, at least) for a while now has been MySQL. And now they're poised to own MySQL after Sun bought it not long...

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Maddow has become one of the most tiring Statists on television.

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