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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

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Still Making No Sense

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Barack Obama says the Libyan intervention is necessary to save innocent civilians from slaughter. He also says that since Qaddafi is the sou...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

On Antiwar Radio

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Scott Horton's latest interview of me on Antiwar Radio is here .

Geraldine Ferraro: For the Record

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Geraldine Ferraro was not the first woman nominated for vice president to win an electoral vote (or, Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish person ...
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Rizzo on Libya

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Mario Rizzo's "Libya and the Rule of Law" is not to be missed. Rizzo makes many good points, and any self-described advocate ...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Problem

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Many people -- maybe most -- have a presumption against war. The problem is that their ideological framework enables them to knock the presu...
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Unsorted Thoughts on Libya

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Jacob Sullum put it well when he wrote, “Obama claims 'we cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mer...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Op-Ed: Obama's Imperial Adventure

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President Obama’s entry into Libya’s civil war can be criticized on many levels: The mission as explained is incoherent; Congress was not as...

TGIF: A Victim of the State

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Bernard von NotHaus is a victim of State oppression. One hopes his conviction is overturned and he remains a free man. I for one feel safer...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Freeman, April 2011

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The Freeman marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War with articles by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Burton Folsom, Bradle...

Left-Libertarianism at Bleeding Heart Libertarians

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The new blog Bleeding Heart Libertarians has two left-libertarians among its regulars: Roderick Long and Gary Chartier. Here are their open...

Op-ed: Muslim Radicals Strike at U.S. Foreign Policy

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U.S. Rep. Peter King's recent hearing on the domestic radicalization of Muslims was an act of misdirection. While King, a New York Re...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

UN Authorizes War

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"He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the wild elephant goes." I thought of those words of Randolph Bourne , the Progressive w...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

TGIF: A Revolutionary for All Seasons

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If it hasn’t been done already, I hope someone is translating Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (particularly part 2) into Arabic. People risin...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Larry White on Gold and Free Banking

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It doesn't get any clearer than this.
Friday, March 04, 2011

TGIF: Free the Children, Cut the Budget

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Will School be separated from State any time soon? Unlikely. The public-school industry, including the unions and all the vendors selling ...
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Op-Ed: Stay out of Libya

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American presidents have sought to police the globe for generations. What has it gotten us? Endless war abroad, and big government and econo...
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Ethics 101

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No one has the right to bargain with thieves for a bigger share of the loot.
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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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to TheFreemanOnline
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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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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