Tuesday, February 26, 2013

What Sequestration Amounts to

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Source: Congressional Budget Office HT: Cato Institute

Big Bad Sequestration

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Friday, February 22, 2013

Latest scribblings

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Op-ed: "The Minimum Wage Harms the Most Vulnerable" TGIF: "What Support for the Minimum Wage Reveals" Op-ed: "The...

Unintended Consequence of the Minimum Wage?

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"Ironically, the minimum wage creates a reserve army of the unemployed. That in turn allows employers to be less thoughtful, helpful, a...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

TGIF: Does the Market Exhibit Cooperation

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Last week's TGIF rebutted a challenge to the view that the market does not embody literal social cooperation. I think it does. Read it h...
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Op-ed: Drone Trust the Government

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My latest op-ed, "Drone Trust the Government," discusses the basic reason to reject the government's policy of drone warfare.

My Appearance on Speaking on Liberty

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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Podcast on the 16th Amendment

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Steve Stanek of the Heartland Institute interviewed me recently about the Constitution, the 16th Amendment, and the income tax. Listen here ...
Monday, February 04, 2013

About Universal Background Checks

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Proponents of government-mandated “universal” background checks on gun buyers make a bad counterargument to those who oppose the popular pro...
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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Misunderstood 16th Amendment Is 100 Years Old

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Today is the 100th anniversary of ratification of the 16th Amendment, the so-called income-tax amendment. Contrary to popular myth, it did n...
Saturday, February 02, 2013

You Can’t Be for Freedom and Border Control

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Conservatives who lie awake nights worrying about “illegal immigration” reveal something unflattering about themselves. Isn’t it odd for peo...
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Friday, February 01, 2013

Hagelian Synthesis

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Much is being made of former senator Chuck Hagel 's seeming lack of preparation for his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday and his ro...
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Recent Scribblings

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TGIF: "Economy or Catallaxy? Op-ed: "The Ominous U.S. Presence in Northwest Africa" Op-ed: "Mali: Here We Go Again...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Did the Government Drive Aaron Swartz to Suicide?

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My latest op-ed explores the case of Aaron Swartz, the programming prodigy and Internet freedom activist who faced 35 years in prison before...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Aaron Swartz, RIP

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I highly commend Glenn Greenwald 's article about Aaron Swartz, the young genius and passionate champion of Internet freedom, who recent...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013

James Buchanan, RIP

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Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan , a founder of the Public Choice school and a proponent of radical subjectivist economics, died today at th...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Israel Lobby or Jewish Lobby?

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I'm amused by the criticism of Chuck Hagel for referring to the Jewish Lobby, instead of the Israel Lobby. When it's convenient, I...
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Friday, January 04, 2013

Priorities

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Hey, no big deal if the U.S. government murders people in other countries. No big deal if it sends people off to be tortured.  No big de...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Bottom Line on the "Fiscal Cliff"

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The tax increases will be real. The spending cuts will be illusions, at best, a minor slowing of the rate of increase. We may not even see t...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Latest FFF Scribblings

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Op-ed: " Gun-Control, Mental-Health Laws Won’t Make Us Safer ." TGIF: "The Year That Was."
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