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"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

Friday, October 29, 2010

TGIF: Is Freedom a Radical Idea?

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Throughout history, and with only the rarest of exceptions, freedom has been far removed from the center of political events — even during ...

Op-Ed: Thank Goodness for WikiLeaks

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Thanks to WikiLeaks we know more now than we did before about the the consequences of the U.S. government’s criminal conduct. Like the Bus...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Op-Ed: Hypocrisy’s Coming Election-Day Triumph

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By nearly all accounts, Republicans are poised for a big win, even by historical midterm standards, in the November 2 congressional election...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Now Online: The Freeman, November 2010

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Juan Williams: Who Cares?

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Must I wade into this? Do I care what NPR does? I don't get nervous when I see people dressed in Muslim garb. The 9/11 hijackers wore we...

TGIF: Obamacare Reality Bites

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One might think that letting government officials exercise discretion in the enforcement of bad regulations would be a good thing. I’m not ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Libertopia Rocked!

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Cheryl and I spent four great days in Hollywood attending Libertopia, the first in what I hope will be a long series of top-notch conference...
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TGIF: The Charade

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The political establishment, helped by the mass media and intelligentsia, has long played a game in this country. It consists in depicting...
Friday, October 08, 2010

TGIF: Presidential Hubris

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If we were going to spend $700 billion, it seems it would be wiser having that $700 billion going to folks who would spend that money righ...

Op-ed: War Doesn't Produce Prosperity

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[H]ave a look at what the leading Progressive Keynesian, Paul Krugman, and leading conservative Keynesian, Martin Feldstein, agree on: a big...

The Lying Media and the "War on Terror"

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Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison the other day for trying to set off a car bomb in Times Square last May. At his sentencing Sh...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

Military Keynesians Are the Worst Keynesians of All

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From the National Journal this week: Two wars are not enough. America's economic outlook is so grim, and political solutions are so ...
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Monday, October 04, 2010

The Truth about the Welfare State

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I can't recommend too highly Kevin Carson's latest at the Center for a Stateless Society. "Giving Back With a Spoon, Taking Wit...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Op-ed Terrorist Threat Has Roots in U.S. Policy

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Each act of the empire provokes a response that serves as a pretext for further imperial action. The battlefield is the world, and the “wa...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

TGIF: The Anti-anti-authoritarians

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It’s easy to point out flaws in the Tea Party. What is getting old quickly is the political elite’s criticism, which exhibits an intoleran...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

D'Souza Goes Off the Edge

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Dinesh D'Souza has written one of the most ridiculous articles ever published, "How Obama Thinks," in Forbes . Naturally, New...
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TGIF: The Grasping Macroeconomic Managers

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A tax cut for the top 2 percent is “just not a good use of limited resources.” That’s what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on tele...

Op-ed: They Died for Iran

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More than 4,400 Americans have died during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Nearly 32,000 Americans have been wounded. And despite wha...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Op-ed: Obama: Neoconservative

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President Barack Obama was far from candid when he announced the end of combat operations in Iraq last month, but he did nothing to hide t...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Ten Lessons

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In my flurry of posts yesterday, I forgot to reprise this one: 1. Killing one or many innocents, regardless of one's grievances, is mon...
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Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."
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