Friday, September 29, 2006

Community without Compulsion

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It's easy to make something bad look good. All you have to do is leave out its essential characteristic. Consider what NPR commentator ...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

I Don't Get It

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The National Intelligence Estimate says that invading and occupying Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for terrorists around the wo...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Not on Death Row

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I'm late in passing the word that Cory Maye has been granted a new sentencing hearing in his murder case. So for now he is off death row...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Stop the Presses!

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The government finally catches up: A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American inva...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

Washington Harmony

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We are plagued by cooperation in Washington. Because of this allegedly benign spirit, George II will likely be free to legally wiretap peopl...

Washington Logic

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Washington is a funny place, with its own unique "logic." It's a "company" town, the "company" being the f...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Libertarian Class Analysis

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I'm back from the Czech Republic after a successful two-day FEE seminar, in cooperation with the Liberální Institut , for economics st...
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Friday, September 15, 2006

"Don't Download This Song"

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Click here to see and hear Weird Al Yankovic's "Don't Download This Song." It's great! Hat tip: Roderick Long at Aust...
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The Political Economy of Fear

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First it was foreign invasion and the government itself that the people were to be protected from. All the population had to do was surrende...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

It Makes No Sense at All!

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From Glenn Greenwald at Unclaimed Territory : It's not just that this [Iraq] war is deceitful or destructive or immoral. The whole thing...

To the Czech Republic

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I'm off to the Czech Republic for a week -- most of the time at the Hotel Veba in Broumov , then Prague -- to help put on a FEE semina...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Does the Republican Base Know About This?

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From today's Washington Post : For decades, marriages between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq were as ordinary as the daily call to prayer. B...

Robert Higgs Wins Szasz Award

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Robert Higgs , author of Crisis and Leviathan and other important books, is the 2006 winner of the Thomas Szasz Award for Outstanding Contri...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Ten Lessons from 9/11

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1. Killing one or many innocents, regardless of one's grievances, is monstrous. This elementary principle would seem to apply to George ...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

Roderick Long Paper Rules!

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Roderick Long 's important paper " Rule-following, Praxeology, and Anarchy " has been published in New Perspectives in Politic...

One I Missed

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As usual, Jesse Walker has an excellent column at Reason.com, this one about the tenth anniversary of "welfare reform": "The ...

Inflicting More Pain

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When government began controlling narcotics nearly 90 years ago, it assured Americans it would never interfere with the practice of medicine...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

Well-Fed Subjects of the State

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Wally Conger graciously linked to my post "Missing the Boat -- Again." While looking at his site, I found this quotation from Ed...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

Missing the Boat -- Again

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The blogosphere is alive with discussion of what's been happening to compensation for regular workers over the last few years. See the s...
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Friday, September 01, 2006

Eye on the Ball

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Like clockwork, the New York Times has produced another page-one story purporting to show that living standards for many Americans have f...
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