Tuesday, January 21, 2014

TGIF: Rights Violations Aren't the Only Bads

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The erroneous belief that only conduct for which a coercive response is appropriate — that is, rights violations — may be condemned leads t...
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IP's Purpose Is to Encourage Innovation? Ha!

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See this .
Monday, January 20, 2014

Libertarian Papers

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I'm happy to announce that I have joined the editorial board of Libertarian Papers . I am honored by this recognition.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

One of the Great Antiwar Songs

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Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Oliver's Army (1979) from MTVClassic1 on Vimeo .
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Op-ed: They Don't Mean Well

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Americans have a strange need to believe that their “leaders” mean well. Nowhere is this more true than in foreign policy. Even when the ho...
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Finally Something to Admire in Obama

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates writes in his new book, Duty , that Barack Obama was suspicious of the senior military leadership. Fin...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Ariel Sharon

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Good riddance. He was a monster who saw Palestinians as subhuman creatures who defiled Jewish land. He thought nothing of overseeing, if not...
Friday, January 10, 2014

TGIF: Intellectual Property Fosters Corporate Concentration

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Right here . Also, "U.S. Foreign Policy Is a Shambles"
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

How to End Poverty Corporate State-Style

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Erect countless state-backed tollgates along the road to personal success, starting with the schools.  Filter tens of trillions of dollars...
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Saturday, January 04, 2014

Liars and Fools

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We already knew this, but it's good to see it documented in the February issue of Reason : The advocates of the Patient Protection and A...

This Week's Scribblings

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TGIF: "Dump the Contraception Mandate and All the Rest" Op-ed: "Let's Make 2014 the Year of Freedom for Low-Wage Workers...
Friday, December 27, 2013

TGIF: The Moral Case for Freedom Is the Practical Case for Freedom

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So I, for one, don’t accept the division of the case for freedom into “the moral” and “the practical.” It’s a mistake, not to mention harmf...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Op-ed: Congress Must Not Cede Its War Power to Israel

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I don't want Congress (or the president) to have the power to make war at all, but as long as it has such power, it must not turn it ove...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The Christmas Truce of 1914

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Kevin Carson relates one of the most remarkable stories I know: The Christmas Truce of 1914 , "a spontaneous soldiers’ truce that broke...
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

TGIF: The Pope Dabbles in Economics

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The pope’s concern with the poor and excluded is well-placed. We should not tolerate their condition or its causes. But what the poor and e...
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Remember This . . .

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Soldiers don't die for their country. They die for vain politicians and war profiteers. That's what they kill for too.
Friday, December 13, 2013

TGIF: Will 2016 Be a Good Year for the Corporate State?

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It's shaping up that way. See TGIF .
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Op-ed: Mandela Wasn't Radical Enough

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He led the effort to end the evil apartheid system, but he left in place the corporate state. It's all here .

TGIF: Crime and Punishment in a Free Society

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In the latest TGIF, I argue that there should be no crime and punishment, but only torts and restitution. Read about it here .
Saturday, December 07, 2013

Infamy, Indeed

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From my 1991 Future of Freedom Foundation article "Pearl Harbor: The Controversy Continues" : At 7:53 am. on Sunday, December 7,...