Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Free Associations

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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss : Greenspan out. Bernanke in. It's still central economic planning. Bah! * * * She May Know Med...

Perpetuating War by Exalting Its Sacrifices

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For the first time in ages I watched the 1964 movie The Americanization of Emily , directed by Arthur Hiller, with screenplay by the great P...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Jefferson's Fears Are Coming True

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Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate , had a noteworthy column last week on the extravagant claims Bush II's people are making for total pre...
Sunday, January 29, 2006

Drug Lies

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At first I was disturbed when I learned James Frey's memoir of drug use and recovery was actually fiction. But then I remembered that ev...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

Go Figure

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A serial killer motivated by money is called a hitman. A serial killer motivated by anything but money is called a schizophrenic.
Friday, January 27, 2006

Is Ayn Rand Spinning in Her Grave Yet?

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Ayn Rand had a pretty good handle on the mixed-economy, i.e., the corporate state (notwithstanding "Big Business: America's Persecu...

Another Victim

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The war on drugs (sic; it's a war on people) has another victim -- or is about to. See this post from Brad Spanger about a man who will...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

Blowback

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Well . . . elections don't always go as expected. Contrary to official U.S. policy, most Palestinians were not overcome by the Spirit of...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Free Associations

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Tautology : It's now being said that the guy who went bananas on a taxiing airliner , charged the flight-deck door, bit a passenger in a...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Intervention Begets Intervention

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Frank J. Gaffney Jr. wants President Bush to impose a "requirement that every car sold in America be flexible fuel-compatible" an...
Monday, January 23, 2006

Beware "School Choice"

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Some advocates of what is euphemistically called school choice argue that their reform would be a crucial step along the road to the separat...
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Sunday, January 22, 2006

Benjamin Tucker on the Therapeutic State

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"Upholding thus the right of every individual to be or select his own priest, they [Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Josiah Warren, and other an...
Saturday, January 21, 2006

The Gospel of Leisure

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Professor David Levy of George Mason University has pointed out that when Thomas Carlyle labeled economics "the dismal science," ...
Friday, January 20, 2006

Eminent-Domain Watch

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It's happening again. The State of New York has promised to turn over private property to the Seneca Indian Nation so it can expand its ...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Happy Birthday, Lysander Spooner

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Today is the 198th anniversary of the birth of the great Lysander Spooner, an inspiration to indivdualist voluntarists and anarchists. Spoon...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Ersatz Autonomy

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The U.S. Supreme Court, as everyone knows by now, has ruled that the federal government can't interfere with Oregon's so-called assi...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Rothbard on Justice in Property

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Murray Rothbard tirelessly insisted that advocates of the free market must have a theory of justice in property, and he often loosed his ire...

Collateral Damage

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Okay, so a bunch of Pakistani civilians died in a U.S. airstrike intended to kill a top al-Qaida guy. Don't you realize we're at war...
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Monday, January 16, 2006

Always a Kerfuffle

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Have you noticed that when right-wingers want to minimize (and defend) some Bush administration violation of civil liberties or individual r...

Mises on the Conquest of Land

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I'm a classic-quote junkie. I admit it. Here's one from Ludwig von Mises, in his great book Socialism . (Truth be told, I saw this m...
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