Sunday, March 30, 2008

Hillary the Embellisher

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Sen. Clinton clearly lied about being under fire in Bosnia. But even if things happened exactly as she said (several times), so what? That w...
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Friday, March 28, 2008

RFK Jr., Left Libertarian?

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You show me a polluter and I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the ma...
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Bailout Hypocrisy

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Thud . That was the sound of the other shoe dropping. In response to severe problems in the credit markets, thanks to years of government ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Why the Peaceful Majority of Muslims Are Not Irrelevant

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A few years ago, FrontPageMag.com columnist Paul Marek wrote an article titled “ Why the Peaceful Majority Is Irrelevant ”. His thesis was t...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Only Americans Count

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The U.S. death toll in Iraq hit 4,000. You'd think there were no Iraqis or Iraqi casualties in Iraq.
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Private Protection

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I had the pleasure yesterday of attending a lecture by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, long-time libertarian writer/activist and a professor of econo...
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Was Rev. Wright Right?

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Yes and no. Most of the particulars that I heard Barack Obama's former preacher, Jeremiah Wright, cite -- the government's atomic b...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Who Said This?

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"Many of his policies did not work as intended but in the end FDR deserves great credit for having the courage to abandon failed paradi...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

(State) Capitalism in Action

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From today's Wall Street Journal : Pushed to the brink of collapse by the mortgage crisis, Bear Stearns Cos. agreed -- after prodding by...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Privatized Profits, Socialized Losses

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The Federal Reserve's decision to underwrite the bailout of Bear Stearns, the giant investment bank that's in deep trouble because o...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Latest Writings

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I've been reading the news about soon-to-be-ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with mixed feelings. Yes, mixed. On the one hand, there i...
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Friday, March 14, 2008

Iraq and Afghanistan Aren't the Only Occupied Countries

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I'm increasingly of the mind that the critical difference between radical libertarians -- or voluntarists, or market anarchists -- and e...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Casualties in Iraq

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A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds that only 28 percent of Americans know that U.S. fatalities in Iraq a...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Are the Voters Qualified to Pick a President?

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The big political buzz is over whether John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama are qualified to be president. The voters are expected...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

A Little Symmetry

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Whenever some spectacular example of corruption or incompetence occurs in the more-or-less private sector, the usual cast of government enth...
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Saturday, March 01, 2008

Me on TV in Denver

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I was in Denver last week and taped an interview on local TV with Jon Caldera, president of the Independence Institute. You can see it here....
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Health-Care Cons

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The economist Joan Robinson (1903-1983) wrote, "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of readymade answers to econo...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

William F. Buckley Jr., RIP

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William F. Buckley Jr. died yesterday. Looking over his rich biography, I can't help but take away the impression that one of his goals ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Damn Nationalism

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Several days of news coverage were taken up this week by Michelle Obama's remark to the effect that for the first time in her adult life...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

On Delegitimating the State

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I'm traveling again this week, so I have only have time for a quick thought, a teaser. Any libertarian strategy that has any hope of suc...
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