Archive for P. Gardner Goldsmith

Ethanol versus the Poor

Gardner Goldsmith is a freelance writer in New Hampshire. It is nearly axiomatic that anything Cuban “President” Fidel Castro says will be false, incorrect, misleading, and downright pernicious. It’s not as if the bearded relic from the Cold War—who seems to have replaced his traditional olive military clothing with a more sedate sweatsuit look—has a [...]

1Jul2007 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 5 comments | Continued

A Home with a View . . . and a Higher Property Tax

Gardner Goldsmith is a radio talk-show host in New Hampshire. It took me years to understand what my father meant when, on being confronted by a disagreement in taste or talking about the price of a product, he would suddenly speak in Latin: De gustibus non est disputandum. For someone who took four years of [...]

1Sep2006 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | Continued

The Government Licensing Scam

Last May a man named Mike Fisher, from the town of Newmarket, New Hampshire, performed an act for which he will pay dearly under penalty of law. He engaged in a consensual commercial transaction with another willing individual. He performed a manicure. Mike Fisher, outlaw, enemy of the realm, planted himself outside the state Board [...]

1Apr2006 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 2 comments | Continued

The Effrontery of the "Open Space" Movement

New Hampshire is called the “Live Free or Die”
state. It has garnered such a reputation as a bastion
of freedom that the Porcupine members
of the Free State Project selected it as the place to which
they would like to relocate in order to live more independently
and more productively.

1Nov2005 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | Continued

The Economic Fantasy of “Star Trek”

Gardner Goldsmith (ELGGRANDE@msn.com) is an independent journalist and screenwriter in New Hampshire. A friend of mine is an award-winning science-fiction novelist. When we first met, I happened to mention to him that I was working on a science-fantasy novel, just as he was. He bristled. “I write science-fiction, not fantasy,” he said. “Those two genres [...]

1Dec2004 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 20 comments | Continued

Twisting Economics Against Immigrants

P. Gardner Goldsmith is an independent journalist and screenwriter in New Hampshire. On January 7 President Bush announced what appeared to be a sweeping plan to grant de-facto amnesty to millions of illegal aliens working in the United States. In fact, it was little more than a long-term worker-visa program that barely increased the ability [...]

1Sep2004 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | Continued

Would You Buy a New Car from Procrustes?

During his remarkable adventures, the Greek hero Theseus ranged through beautiful vistas, formed valuable alliances, and battled incomprehensible monsters from beyond the edge of creation. One of the most horrifying was a determined sociopath named Procrustes, whose sole desire was to insure that travelers who slept in his home had no trouble fitting into his [...]

1Nov2002 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | Continued

Plum Deal

At 78, my mother has decided to embark on a new career. She’s going to become a plum grower. She’s not actually going to grow any plums, but she’s going to be a “plum grower” nonetheless, and I really couldn’t be more proud. To display such entrepreneurial spirit at her age is truly admirable. Of [...]

1Jul2002 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | Continued

Say It Isn’t So, Jerry Lewis

It was a disappointing day for me, that day last year when comedian Jerry Lewis testified before a Senate subcommittee seeking taxpayer funding for muscular dystrophy research. It drove home how in the past 70 years the virtue of charity has been corrupted from a matter of individual choice and initiative to one of group [...]

1Jun2002 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | Continued

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