Friday, June 29, 2007

Why They Hate Us

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What’s more obnoxious than a person who constantly whines about the injustices committed against him while ignoring his own injustices again...

Last Taxpayer Standing

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The popular American folklore that taxpaying citizens are the masters and government the servant might lead one to expect that taxpayers can...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Mind Your Brain

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Of these two statements: The mind is the product of the brain; and The brain is the product of the mind I should think that the second is cl...
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America's Engineer

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No president is more despised by opponents of big government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His New Deal is singularly blamed for introduci...

Bush's Tyranny Thwarted--For Now

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The news media seemed too preoccupied with Paris Hilton’s detention to notice, but a U.S. appeals court last week struck a major blow for li...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

Free Trade Imperialism

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Here's something left-libertarians need to attend to: Deepak Lal of UCLA is touting a program of unilateral free trade and unabashed U....
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Good Sense on Immigration

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Immigration wisdom from Jeff Jacoby : For most illegal immigrants, a legal option simply doesn't exist. Under current law, a young Mexic...
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Friday, June 22, 2007

Why Did They Attack?

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Comedian David Cross's take on Ron Paul, Rudolph Giuliani, and bin Laden's reason for the 9/11 attacks. Hat tip: Ben Richman
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Monday, June 18, 2007

Free the New Youth 4!

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A new blog has been started with the objective of freeing four young Chinese imprisoned for exercising their natural rights to free speech a...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

Cory Maye Update

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The latest from Radley Balko : Last word on the Cory Maye case came late last summer, when the trial judge threw out Maye's death senten...

Dare We Call It Tyranny?

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The American people’s response to President Bush’s “war on terror” should be … terror. The administration, sometimes with Congress’s complic...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Habeas Corpus's Fork in the Road

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" No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standi...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

George II Thwarted (So Far) on Habeas Corpus

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George II may not arrest a U.S. resident on U.S. soil -- citizen or not -- and hold him in a military brig without charge indefinitely. So s...
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Friday, June 08, 2007

The U.S.S. Liberty

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My excerpt below on the Six-Day War does not discuss the curious Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, an intelligence ship, on June 8, 196...

Illiberal Means, Illiberal Ends

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The years 1914-1918 must have been lonely for Randolph Bourne. Bourne was a popular writer in Progressive circles, prolifically ...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

War Somehow Fastened on Us

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Time brings a better adjustment to the war. There had been so many times when, to those who had energetically resisted its coming, it seemed...
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The Six-Day War

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Excerpted from my "'Ancient His tory': U.S. Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention,"...
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The Libertarian Event of the Season

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The Future of Freedom Foundation scored big with its long-weekend conference on foreign policy and civil liberties in Reston, Va. I enjoyed...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

A Democracy of Dunces?

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When pro-free-market critics of democracy explain why laissez faire is not a winning election issue, they usually say that voters have a no ...
Monday, May 28, 2007

Happy Revisionist History Day

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Revised and re-posted from last Memorial Day: Since, as Paddy Chayefsky has his main character say in his movie The Americanization of Emily...
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