Thursday, November 29, 2007

Whom Is This Intended to Thwart?

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From the Associated Press : RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- If you're planning to vote in Virginia's February Republican presidential primary,...

Isolationism versus Noninterventionism

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I saw most of the debate. Here was Ron Paul's best moment, coming after John McCain accused him of being an isolationist (transcript her...
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Iraq 3.0

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One gets the feeling that even the White House realizes the mess it’s made of Iraq. The other day the newspapers reported that the Bush admi...
Friday, November 23, 2007

Anarchists for Ron Paul?

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Well, this one anyway. More to come.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Should the State License People?

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Democratic presidential candidates are tripping over the driver’s-licenses-for-illegal-aliens issue like a bunch of old slapstick vaudevilli...
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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Individualism, Collectivism, and Other Murky Labels

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Imagine the following person. He believes all individuals should be free to do "anything that's peaceful" and therefore favors...
Monday, November 12, 2007

Ersatz School Choice

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"Vouchers go down in crushing defeat" That headline thundered from Wednesday's Salt Lake City Tribune , as it announced that m...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Woodstock May Have Saved Sen. McCain’s Life

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John McCain scored a standing ovation at the last Republican presidential debate when he attacked Sen. Hillary Clinton for proposing — unsuc...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Robertson Endorses Giuliani

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So let me get this straight: Rudy Giuliani denounces Ron Paul for saying that U.S. foreign intervention in the Middle East created the condi...
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Monday, November 05, 2007

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

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Remember, Remember the Fifth of November The Gunpowder Treason and Plot I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason Shoul...
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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Virtue versus Legal Obligation

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Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter and policy adviser to President George W. Bush, is the latest in a long line of political writers who...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

Regarding the "Founding Fathers"

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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? --Samuel Johnson, "Taxation No Tyranny," 1775 ...
Friday, November 02, 2007

Paul W. Tibbits Jr. Is Dead

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Paul W. Tibbits Jr. died yesterday. He was 92. Tibbits lived 62 years and nearly three months longer than the 140,000 Japanese he helped mu...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Deep Philosophical Question of the Day

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Is waterboarding torture ?
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Bush Has Time to Run the World

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President Bush has been a busy man. Even though the quagmire in Iraq threatens to worsen as Turkey prepares to invade the Kurdish north, Bus...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Liberty and Political Obedience

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Last week I discussed Anthony de Jasay's claim that the freedom philosophy -- liberalism -- is precarious because it "h...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Blackwater and Bush's War

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Blackwater’s involvement in Iraq has been ugly but misunderstood. The presence of security contractors in Iraq does not signify that the war...

What Nearly Killed Liberalism

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The shifting meaning of the word liberal in the direction of statism has been analyzed often. But a few years ago Anthony de Jasa...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Naomi Klein: Free-Market Ally?

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I haven't read Naomi Klein's book The Shock Treatment: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (or her other books). But based on what I...
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Friday, October 12, 2007

America's Anti-Militarist Tradition

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The right wing went apoplectic at the skepticism that greeted Gen. David Petraeus’s recent testimony about the alleged success of the milita...