Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The War on Drugs Claims Another Life

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Once again the idiotic and misnamed War on Drugs has claimed the life of someone minding her own business, this time a frail 88-year-old wom...

Civil War Or Not?

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Is a civil war going on in Iraq? Presidential Press Secretary Tony Snow says no. He defines "civil war" as a situation in which ...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Social Justice?

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Roderick Long has followed up his post on the potential for a libertarian/green alliance with some comments on social and economist justice ...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

Can't We All Just Get Along?

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A thought-provoking post on the possibility of a green-libertarian alliance is here at Roderick Long's website, Austro-Athenian Empire. ...
Sunday, November 19, 2006

So Rush Limbaugh Really Was a Republican Shill

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I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried. -- Rush Limbaugh, post-...
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Misplaced Nostalgia

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Before we get too nostalgic about the foreign-policy prowess of the George H.W. Bush administration, we should remind ourselves of what happ...

Economic Nationalism, Enemy of the People

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"With the 2006 election, America appears to have reached the tipping point on free trade. . . . Anxiety, and fear of jobs lost to India...

Take it from a Real Authority

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program wer...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

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Milton Friedman was the most prominent voice for individual liberty and free markets in my lifetime. I disagree with some of his positions a...
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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Bush Logic

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If U.S. forces leave Iraq, sectarian violence will kill many people. So U.S. forces must stay and do the killing instead.
Saturday, November 11, 2006

Perpetuating War by Exalting Its Sacrifices

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On Veterans Day I can do no better than to refer you all to this earlier post , which praised the movie The Americanization of Emily for its...

Mixed Day at the Polls

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Americans went to the polls on Tuesday not just to pick legislators and governors but also to vote directly on policies. The results were mi...

The Repudiation of Bush

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“Power tends to corrupt,” Lord Acton famously said. “And absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The voters apparently agreed. It’s reasonabl...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

No Vote, But a Party Nonetheless

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I won't be voting Tuesday. I'm not sure if voting is immoral exactly, but it does make me feel dirty. It's one thing to pick som...
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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Fear d'Jour

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August 28 headline in the New York Times : Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity Yesterday's headline in the Boston Globe : Pa...
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Anti-Electorate Manifesto

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For an enlargement click here . From Wally Conger at Out of Step .
Friday, November 03, 2006

Economists Against Economics

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Five economists who either won the Nobel Prize in economics or who served as president of the American Economics Association -- and three wh...

Eminent-Domain Chutzpah

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Talk about chutzpah! A development company is thinking about suing Florida and the city of Riviera Beach for refusing to use eminent domain ...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

He's Another

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Whether Sen. John Kerry really botched his joke about George II or was making an impolitic remark about the troops in Iraq, there is a kerna...
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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