Saturday, April 29, 2006

Immigration and Citizenship

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In a comment on an earlier post on immigration , Larry Ruane said: Given the current welfare state, would you oppose citizenship, including ...
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My President Invaded Iraq and I Didn't Even Get Any Oil to Show for It

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From the Associated Press : With the global economy carrying the weight of $70-a-barrel oil, dismay among many economists is focusing on Ira...
Friday, April 28, 2006

Burma and Forced Factory Labor: No Evidence, No Allegations

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In a recent post I recommended an article in the Journal of Libertarian Studies (Summer 2005) on forced labor in Third World sweatshops ru...
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Thursday, April 27, 2006

The Price of Empire

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Empire — sorry, benevolent hegemony — has its price. Terrorism is one. Every empire in history probably had terrorism directed at it, becaus...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)

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Jane Jacobs, champion of the spontaneous life of cities and radical critic of government urban planning, died yesterday at age 89. Through h...
Monday, April 24, 2006

On Immigrants and Sweatshops

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Jesse Walker of Reason magazine has an excellent article on the problem of sweatshops and immigrants in the United States. A sample: There...
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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Against Monopoly -- New Blog

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A new blog devoted to the case against "intellectual monopoly" (a.k.a. intellectual property) is now in operation. Against Monopol...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

China, Oil, Sudan, Scorched Earth, Genocide

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Revised, Sunday April 23 When George II welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House this week, the smiles were on ostentatious d...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Corporate State or Laissez Faire?

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This picks up on a running theme of Kevin Carson's: Vulgar Libertarianism. We free-market folks can sometimes be confusing to the rest ...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

It's Not Easy Being a Benevolent Hegemon

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In an editorial about China today the Wall Street Journal says, "Managing the rise of any great power is an enormous foreign policy ch...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

What Do You Mean "We"?

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To say the least, there is tension between the ideas that we live in a free society and that government may determine whom we may sell to, r...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

U.S. Holds Acknowledged Noncombatants at Gitmo

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Here's a story to raise your blood pressure. From the Christian Science Monitor : Compared with most other detainees at the US Naval Bas...

Eradicating Crops: Who Do They Think They Are?

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The news has me fuming today. The Washington Post reports that the likely next president of Peru, Ollanta Humala, has promised to end the ...
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Monday, April 17, 2006

Patents and Other Privileges

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The New York Times had an enlightening story yesterday on the background to the BlackBerry patent miscarriage of justice. It turns out that...
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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Good Quote

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Browsing Chomsky on Anarchism at Barnes & Noble today, I came across this quotation from Daniel Bell: It has been war rather than peace...
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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Capitalism versus Capitalism, continued

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In my previous post about the Journal of Libertarian Studies symposium on Kevin Carson's Studies in Mutualist Political Economy , I sa...
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Friday, April 14, 2006

"Failure to File" Says It All

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“Willful failure to file a tax return is a misdemeanor per IRC Section 7203. In egregious cases, willful failure to file may be elevated to ...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Gotta Love 'Em

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I love those conservatives and Republicans who say that the key to ending the illegal immigration "problem" is to crack down on th...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Capitalism versus Capitalism

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While reading the symposium on Kevin Carson's book, Studies in Mutualist Political Economy , in the latest Journal of Libertarian Studie...
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Letter to the Editor

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My letter to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette appeared this morning: The Democrat-Gazette shamefully “reports” that, in passing the minimum wa...