Hear, hear, Stephen. A nice mini-eulogy.

Stephen Pollard writes:

"Then, in 2004, I entered the Bastiat Prize, of which Milton was a judge."

Wall Street Journal Writer Wins Journalism Prize

23 OCTOBER New York – Last night, the International Policy Network awarded its Frédéric Bastiat Prize for Journalism to Brian Carney, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe. He received a US$7000 cash prize and engraved glass candlestick. His winning articles discussed Andorra’s resistance to the EU’s “Savings Tax Directive” which requires information sharing on all account holders, the troubles facing France Telecom, and how recent corporate scandals (such as WorldCom and Enron) actually demonstrate the strengths of capitalism.

Ed Crane, President of the CATO Institute, Washington DC, and one of the judges described Carney as a, “…Clear, insightful writer. Well grounded in philosophy of liberty and explains complex issues with ease and wit.”

Second prize -- $3000 and a candlestick – was awarded to Stephen Pollard, a senior fellow at the Centre for the New Europe (London) and frequent contributor to The Times (UK), The Independent (UK) and the Wall Street Journal Europe.

Pollard’s writing was described by judge Sir Stanley Kalms as an “Extremely clear translation of complex issues into lucid simplicity with style, humour and clever analogy.”

http://www.policynetwork.net/main/press_release.php?pr_id=19

JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN ECONOMICS
(38% of world total, 51% of US total)

# Paul Samuelson (1970)
# Simon Kuznets (1971)
# Kenneth Arrow (1972)
# Wassily Leontief (1973)
# Leonid Kantorovich (1975)
# Milton Friedman (1976)
# Herbert Simon (1978)
# Lawrence Klein (1980)
# Franco Modigliani (1985)
# Robert Solow (1987)
# Harry Markowitz (1990)
# Merton Miller 3 (1990)
# Gary Becker (1992)
# Robert Fogel (1993)
# John Harsanyi (1994)
# Reinhard Selten (1994)
# Robert Merton (1997)
# Myron Scholes (1997)
# George Akerlof (2001)
# Joseph Stiglitz (2001)
# Daniel Kahneman (2002)
# Robert Aumann (2005)

"Born in New York City to a working-class family of Jewish immigrants from Beregszász, Hungary (today Berehove, Ukraine), Friedman grew up in Rahway, New Jersey"

I wonder how many Friedmans were murdered in the Holocaust.

The Holocaust in Beregszász

Just before the Jews of Beregszász were deported, they were subjected to body searches. This is how Siegal remembers her friend Judi, her sister Ibolya and herself being harassed by the German soldiers:

The lines in front of us started to disintegrate, and we moved forward until we could see a group of German soldiers stop the line in front of the Gerbers and search the people, reaching in and under their clothing. Then the Gerbers were next. One of the soldiers grabbed Judi and put his hand inside her blouse. Mother pulled Joli down and clutched Ibolya and me to her sides.

"Nein! You will not touch my daughters!" she declared in German and repeated in Hungarian, her voice filled with anger and fear. They laughed at her, and as we came into the first line position, Ibolya, Mother, and I were pulled apart by three of the leering Germans. The back of my neck was suddenly in an iron grip, and a coarse, rough hand brushed down my chest and over each of my breasts, bursting the buttons of my blouse. Bending over me so close that I could smell his sausagy breath and see the tobacco stains on his teeth, the soldier reached into my bloomers and felt inside my private parts. I couldn't tell if the stinging in my eyes was more from hurt or shame.

http://www.theverylongview.com/WATH/essays/palosuo.htm

It's good to hear that these mythical figures can be so natural and encouraging.

Joshua, have you ever looked up the word "monomaniac"?

And did the definition read "look in the mirror"?

There is a theory by Stuart A, of Indecent Left, with whom I had a bruising encounter here a year ago, that Joshua does not, in fact exist but might be the alter-ego [or Bunbury, I would say] of Stephen himself. Stephen himself has never denied that Joshua emanates from him and it could well be a little bit of mischief the new CNE President has got up to.

"Stephen himself has never denied that Joshua emanates from him." Stephen has also never denied being a penguin, a psycopath or a lover of country music. That's because all four propositions are so stupid as not even to merit a denial. But since you want one, no, I am not Joshua. Since I have a blog and a newspaper column, and am regularly pilloried for my supposedly OTT views, why would I need to invent an alias to whom to attribute OTT views.

I think Joshua is completely over the top in his views about British amitisemitism. But he is as entitled to his view, and to publicise it, as I am to my views.

"Stephen himself has never denied that Joshua emanates from him and it could well be a little bit of mischief the new CNE President has got up to"

Joshie takes that as an enormous compliment.

You are a tit.

'Joshua, have you ever looked up the word "monomaniac"?'

1) Like most British gentiles Bob just hates it when Jews take pride in their culture. If the economist in question had been English and I had provided a list of English Nobel Prize recipients Bob would have been cheering from the rooftops. In many ways these type of gentiles are like the Borg, assimilating what they like, killing what they don't.

2) Similarly, like most European gentiles, Bob loathes it when Jews talk about the Holocaust. They hate being reminded that Europe is a vast Jewish graveyard. They shudder when they are told that 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered with the complicity of almost all of Europe. They go through the roof when they have to think about Britain's active and passive roles in the murder of millions of Jews. It goes without saying that had the vast majority of Brits been murdered within living memory by other Europeans, they would dwell on the subject at length. Just another example of holding Jews to a completely different standard. Just one more example of the anti-Semitism which is coursing through the veins of European gentiles. The very reason in fact why it is so appropriate to remind them of Europe's role in that genocide.