Sunday, October 29, 2006

Who Does He Think He Is?

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, I mean. Has he never heard the words "regime change" before? Does he think he can contradict...
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Bush Explained

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I highly recommend Gene Callahan's article "We're Living in the Dream World of George W. Bush." It's an excellent acc...

The Libertarian Nobel Peace-Prize Winner

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Last week, with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, I underscored the historical-philosophical lin...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Government Spying Can Be Entertaining

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If you haven't already seen this fabulous musical animation about government spying, see it now. You'll get a good laugh about a sa...

Page Scandal: Political Corruption Precedes Sexual Corruption

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For the sake of those vulnerable 16-year-old boys and girls who come to Washington each year, we should abolish the congressional page progr...
Friday, October 20, 2006

Peace and Free Trade: "One and the Same Cause"

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The Nobel Peace Prize this year went to a different sort of activist. Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economics professor, and his Grameen Ban...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Watch This...

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... commentary by Keith Olbermann on George II and his power grab. Hat tips: Brad Spangler and Roderick Long.

Free Speech and Antifederalism

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My old friend Dave Barry is the center of controversy in a campus free-speech incident at Marquette University. A graduate student taped thi...
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The Superpower Myth

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What does it mean to be the world’s only superpower? Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the U.S. government is bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Time to Get Rid of the State?

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The practical case for free-market anarchism grows stronger each day. The proliferation of nuclear weapons, which so often is used as a rea...
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Center for a Stateless Society

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The Molinari Institute has unveiled a new project: The Center for a Stateless Society , under the directorship of Brad Spangler. Here's ...
Friday, October 13, 2006

The Just Market

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Edmund Phelps, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in economics, published an inspiring, yet frustrating article, "Dynamic Capitalism...
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Friday, October 06, 2006

History Lesson Lost

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Call me nostalgic, but I still have a thing for the Articles of Confederation. Maybe it's the enticement of forbidden fruit. In the gove...
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Foley Hits the Trifecta

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It's official now: U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, who quit Congress after getting caught sending sexually explicit messages to teenaged male cong...
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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Not Deep Enough

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The revelations in the new Bob Woodward book, as revealed in the newspaper accounts, are fascinating and instructive. But I fear that the m...
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...