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"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

This Is the Wall Street Journal on Drugs

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Something's happening at the Wall Street Journal ($ site). For the longest time the editorial page there showed zero tolerance for anyo...
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Monday, May 29, 2006

Happy Revisionist History Day

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Since, as Paddy Chayefsky has his main character say in his movie The Americanization of Emily , " We...perpetuate war by exalting its ...
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Friday, May 26, 2006

Independent Migrant

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I hereby propose that in lieu of the term illegal alien all lovers of liberty use independent migrant .
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Natural, Not National, Rights

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Somewhere in my reading about immigration, someone made the deceptively simple point that it's not immigration we should be talking abou...
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Thursday, May 25, 2006

No Freedom without Responsibility

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Do you wish forever to be swaddled children in the national orphanage? If freedom is to be reclaimed and, as logically required, the state r...
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More Gore

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Patrick Michaels has a column in the Washington Times about Al Gore's new documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth....
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Cory Maye News

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Radley Balko continues to monitor the case of Cory Maye, who is on death row in Mississippi after fatally shooting a policeman when his home...
Monday, May 22, 2006

Mutual-Aid Societies, Private Schools, and Salted Peanuts

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I'm back home after a weekend FEE seminar in Houston, where I lectured on mutual-aid societies as a proper alternative to a government s...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

The Neo-Monarchy of George W. Bush

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The Bush administration, without court authorization, collects our telephone records and eavesdrops on calls involving U.S. residents to and...
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Scene of the Next Blowback?

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In today's Washington Post : More than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, of...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Who Owns Baseball Statistics?

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The New York Times reports that Major League Baseball claims to own the commercial use of baseball statistics. If MLB prevails, unlicensed ...
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Monday, May 15, 2006

Beware State-Directed Globalization

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Kevin Carson's latest Vulgar Libertarianism Watch is a definite a must-read. It's another badly needed warning that globalization i...
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More Cobden Quotes

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No one is more quotable on issues that plague us today than Richard Cobden, the great nineteenth-century British free-trade, anti-imperialis...
Sunday, May 14, 2006

World to U.S.: Butt Out!

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Drop everything and read Stephen Kinzer's op-ed in the L.A. Times from yesterday, "U.S. History Lesson: Stop Meddling." Kinze...
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Saturday, May 13, 2006

Nothing Unlawful

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George II defended whatever eavesdropping he might be doing (he wouldn't say), by stating: "The intelligence activities I authorize...

Republic versus Empire

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Here is my favorite single line on how empire changes the domestic population: [T]he difference between republic and empire might be restate...
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Rush to Fallacy

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Rush "Jail All Drug Users But Me" Limbaugh did it again yesterday. His Blowhardedness, ever striving to be George II's No. 1 b...
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Friday, May 12, 2006

Another Psychiatric Political Prisoner

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Anyone who values liberty should read about this travesty of justice over at Rad Geek People's Daily. Here's a taste: Cleveland ant...
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They Think We're Morons

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Rule #1 in the Bush administration: When you get caught, insult the America people's intelligence. USA Today learned that the NSA, with...
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Hillary vs. McCain? I'll take Hillary

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George Will reports today that Sen. John McCain, a presidential aspirant, recently told radio guy Don Imus: I would rather have a clean gov...
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Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."
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