Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Purpose of Government

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I pause when people write, "The purpose of government is to protect life, liberty, and property." What are those words worth? If w...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Israeli Foreign Minister Wants Palestinians Punished

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From the Middle East Monitor , September 22: Israel's Foreign Minister has warned Benjamin Netanyahu that the governing coalition will f...

Antiwar Radio Interview on Palestinian Statehood

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[UPDATED September 27, 2011] Scott Horton, the great host of the great Antiwar Radio, interviewed me last week about the Palestinian bid...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Op-Ed: Peace Prize-Winner Obama Savages Somalia

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A human catastrophe is taking place in Somalia, the result of drought, famine — and the savage war conducted by the Obama administration, co...
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TGIF: Elizabeth Warren's Non Sequitur

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If you spend any time on a social network, you’re bound to come across this video of Elizabeth Warren, who’s running for the U.S. Senate in...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Happy Constitution Day

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NO TREASON NO. VI. THE CONSTITUTION OF NO AUTHORITY Lysander Spooner I. The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no ...

TGIF: "Government Is Force"

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Some pundits really don’t understand why libertarians dislike government and therefore want it to do little, if anything at all. Unable to g...

Op-Ed: "Stimulus II Won't Work, Either"

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President Obama won’t use the “stimulus” label to describe his nearly half-trillion-dollar jobs bill, but that refusal can’t hide the fact t...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Limbaugh’s Creative Accounting

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I understand Rush Limbaugh has nominated George W. Bush for the next vacancy on Mount Rushmore because “the United States” has not been atta...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ten Lessons Plus

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Ten Lessons, Plus One, We Should Learn from 9/11: 1. Killing one or many innocents, regardless of one's grievances, is monstrous. This e...
Friday, September 09, 2011

It Makes One's Head Spin

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President Obama’s jobs program calls for cuts in both sides of the payroll tax. That tax finances Social Security and Medicare. Social Secur...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

Ron Paul & Immigration: A Speculative Theory

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Ron Paul’s position on what I’ll call unauthorized immigration—or immigration sans government permission--is indeed strange. He calls for “s...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

A Better Fit

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For the life of me, I can't see why "capitalism" fits the hitherto-unrealized free market better than it fits the actual Ameri...
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Monday, September 05, 2011

Labor Day: Not What You Think

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Thaddeus Russell, author of A Renegade History of the United States , has the lowdown on Labor Day here . It's not what you think. Clue:...

TGIF: Ponzi Unmasked

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Social Security: Ponzi scheme or not? I think we have to say it once was, but is no more, because Social Security was unmasked as a coercive...

Op-ed: Libya Is Nothing for Obama to Be Proud Of

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Barack Obama will no doubt list the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya as one of his foreign-policy triumphs. But anyone paying close att...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Mises and Mussolini

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In fairness to Ludwig von Mises (whom Michael Lind uses, cynically and dishonestly, as example of libertarian softness on fascism; see post ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Michael Lind’s False Alternative

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Michael Lind writes at Salon.com: “Having denounced liberals as crypto communists for half a century during the Cold War, the American righ...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

TGIF: Social Cooperation, Part 2

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Only individuals value, choose, and act, of course, but in an important sense the resulting social whole is greater than the sum of its indi...

Op-Ed: Federal Reserve Grabs New Powers

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While inflation hawks understandably keep a close watch on the Federal Reserve’s money-creation activities, an equally worrisome Fed activit...