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"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, February 25, 2011

TGIF: The Wisconsin Labor Brouhaha

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[E]ven free-market advocates with a natural sympathy for labor in the corporate state find it hard to side with government employees. How c...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Freeman, March 2011, Online Now!

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Monday, February 21, 2011

Op-ed: When Will George W. Bush Be Tried for His War Crimes?

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We should take a small measure of satisfaction in former President George W. Bush’s cancellation of his trip to Switzerland after human-ri...
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

The Law of Cost, cont’d.

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More from Philip Wicksteed, The Common Sense of Political Economy : We can now see how "cost of production," which is simply ...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Another U.S. Veto of Palestinian Rights

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From the New York Times : The Obama administration vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Friday condemning Israeli settlem...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

TGIF: There's Got to Be a Better Way

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What’s so remarkable about events in the Middle East is that a significant number of people who had felt powerless looked around at what t...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

The Law of Cost

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For anyone who thinks that costs do not govern value and price, hear Philip Wicksteed, the British "Austrian," thoroughgoing subje...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Glenn Beck, Call Your Office

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"We as a nation must move towards God, not away from God." No, not the Muslim Brotherhood. Tim Pawlenty at CPAC .
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Egypt Today

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Good to see the tyrant, Mubarak, out of there. It is something to celebrate, indeed. But now the army is in charge. Here's hoping the Eg...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

TGIF: What Egyptians Are Teaching the World

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In Egypt the powers that be continue to defy the peaceful throngs in the streets. Yet their rulers’ clumsy efforts to mollify the courageou...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

TGIF: Wrong Lesson from Egypt

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Looks like I forgot to post a link to last Friday's TGIF. "Wrong Lesson from Egypt" is here .
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Sunday, February 06, 2011

The Danger in Egypt

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The biggest danger facing the Egyptian people now is the real possibility that the U.S. government, in collusion with the ruling goons and k...
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It's Not Really a Peace Treaty

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Throughout the Egyptian uprising, the 1979 American-brokered deal between Israel and Egypt has been called a "peace treaty." This ...
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Saturday, February 05, 2011

Supreme Irony

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How ironic that the U.S. and Britain once saw the Muslim Brotherhood as the religious-right counterweight to secular Arab nationalism and ...
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Obama Backs Dictator

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From Al Jazeera : Frank Wisner, a special envoy for Barack Obama, the US president, has said Hosni Mubarak "must stay in office to ste...
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This Revolution Will Do Until the Real Thing Comes Along

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Neoconservatives like Charles Krauthammer warn that the popular uprising against U.S.-financed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak could easil...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

The American Conservative: Libertarian Left:

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My article "Libertarian Left: Free-Market Anti-Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal" is now online at The American Conservative.
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Op-ed: The Unraveling of U.S. Mideast Policy

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The blow to U.S. foreign policy by the popular uprising in Egypt cannot be overstated. The Egyptians’ demand that Hosni Mubarak, who has rul...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

The U.S. Fallback Policy for Egypt

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For might makes right, And till they've seen the light, They've got to be protected, All their rights respected, 'till somebody ...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Op-Ed: Ron Paul and Ralph Nader on Corporatism and War

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What is American politics coming to? I just watched a joint interview with Ralph Nader and Rep. Ron Paul — and they were mostly on the sam...
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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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