Friday, June 30, 2006

Kelo One Year Later

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Last Friday was the first anniversary of a sad occasion, the day the U.S. Supreme Court said the Constitution permits the politicians who ru...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

Contra Constitutional Sentimentalism

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Revised June 25 I want to elaborate on a point I make at the end of my essay, "Is the Income Tax Unconstitutional?" Context is c...
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For Equality; Against Privilege

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I am always looking for ways to make voluntarist, or libertarian, points with the maximum punch. I like to emphasize that, in briefest form,...
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Friday, June 23, 2006

Is the Income Tax Unconstitutional?

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Wishful thinking, always a temptation, is hazardous. Example: An awful lot of people think the income tax as it applies to private-sector wa...
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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Meaning, Not Matter

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Ludwig von Mises pointed out that economics properly conceived is not about material objects, but about people, their understanding of thing...
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Americans Should Be "Anti-American"

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[W]hen [Robert] Kagan writes about anti-Americanism, he’s deliberately using an equivocal term in order to elicit unthinking, knee-jerk anti...
Sunday, June 18, 2006

Is This Really War?

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In 1985, Wilson Goode became the first U.S. mayor to bomb his own city. In an effort to rid a West Philadelphia neighborhood of a ragtag, v...

Shameless Plug

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John Stossel was interviewed in the Christian Science Monitor on Friday. Asked what he reads, he said, in part: I certainly am reading Reas...
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Saturday, June 17, 2006

Government by Obfuscation

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Back when Americans were arguing over whether they should trade the Articles of Confederation for the newly drafted Constitution, the people...

Debate Over?

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As I see it (and as others have said before), the debate over anarchism is actually over among libertarians. Anyone who does not want a sing...
Sunday, June 11, 2006

This Is Where We Are

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Bradley R. Gitz is the William Jefferson Clinton Professor of International Politics at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, but being a go...
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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Whose Money Is It?

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A bid to permanently repeal the federal estate, or inheritance, tax lost to a Senate filibuster Thursday. A compromise that would tax inh...
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Good Riddance, Zarqawi

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I wish someone other than the U.S. military had killed Zarqawi, but I'm glad he's gone nonetheless. He was a ruthless killer, althou...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Iraqi Death by Political Abstraction

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Try as they might, apologists for the war in Iraq won’t be convincing when they insist that, at worst, the Haditha “incident” (or was it a m...
Sunday, June 04, 2006

Please, Mr. President, Take a Rest

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George II has said this sort of thing so many times before, I guess there's no real point in posting these quotes. But here goes one mor...
Saturday, June 03, 2006

Capitalism versus the Free Market

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As Rad Geek points out here , the history of capitalism is not the history of free markets. This issue needs far more attention.
Friday, June 02, 2006

The Governmental Habit

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In 1977 the late economic historian Jonathan R. T. Hughes published a book called The Governmental Habit (updated in 1991 as The Governmenta...
Thursday, June 01, 2006

Haditha

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We already know what will happen. A few of the men on the scene will be charged, tried, and imprisoned. Maybe someone slightly higher up wil...

The State's Mystique

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If we are to be free, it is images such as this that we must de-legitimate. Who are these guys anyway? And how does the one on the right sta...

Limited Government

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Can a polity bind itself with a knot so complex that it can't untie it? I've long wondered about that. The theory of the state offer...