Tuesday, April 29, 2014

In Defense of John Kerry, Sort of

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I hate being in the position of having to defend Secretary of State John Kerry, but defend him I must. Sort of. Israel's supporters ar...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

The Welfare State Brings Out the Thickness in Thin Libertarians

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There are libertarians who apparently feel they must protect the movement from the thick libertarianism that I and others espouse. (It...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

TGIF: What Libertarians Should Do

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If the libertarian movement is to be the vehicle — actually, collection of vehicles — for the advancement of liberty, then libertarians need...

Op-ed: Obama Plays with Fire in Ukraine

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How many American parents would proudly send their sons and daughters off to kill or be killed in Slovyansk or Donetsk? How many young men ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

TGIF: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other

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If I were compelled to summarize the libertarian philosophy’s distinguishing feature while standing on one foot, I’d say the following: Eve...
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Op-ed: The Ayatollahs' Overlooked Anti-WMD Fatwas

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Why aren't the American people told that the Islamic Republic of Iran's two supreme leaders issued fatwas  against chemical and nucl...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Things Frederic Bastiat Did Not Write (But Obviously Thought)

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1. Paris gets fed. 2. If goods don't cross borders soldiers will. (HT: David Hart of Liberty Fund)

John Quincy Adams's Benign Theory of Anarchism

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While John Quincy Adams, in his famous speech in which he said America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy, used the word...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

No It Isn't

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It's frustrating, to say the least, that many libertarians appear to believe that what went on at Monty Python's Argument Clinic re...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Eyes Wide Shut

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Are those who charge me with the mortal sins of being PC and being a panderer so blind that they cannot see I am showing progressives that d...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Deir Yassin, April 9, 1948

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Today is the 66th anniversary of the slaughter of Palestinian men, women, and children by Zionist paramilitary forces at the village of Deir...
Saturday, April 05, 2014

Again on Thick Libertarianism

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Obviously one cannot define "the initiation of force" by reference to the initiation of force. A good definition will invoke facts...
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Friday, April 04, 2014

Foolproof Method

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There's a great time way to prevent war veterans from killing themselves or others: stop creating war veterans.

TGIF: In Praise of "Thick" Libertarianism

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I continue to have trouble believing that the libertarian philosophy is concerned only with the proper and improper uses of force. Read t...
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Op-ed: The Roots of Iran's Nuclear Secrecy

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Iran has had an innocent reason to develop its civilian nuclear industry largely in secrecy: The United States. Read about it here .
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

GM: More Evidence against the Regulatory State

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I've long said that government regulation gives people a false sense of security, which is worse than no sense of security at all. Lates...
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Obamacare: The Wrong Test

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The core objection to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was never the glitchy website or the deficient number of sign-ups. (It ...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Gaffe = Inadvertent Truth-Telling

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Columnist Michael Kinsley once said that in politics a gaffe is an unintended statement of the truth that has to be withdrawn because it...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

The Obamacre Contraception Controversy Boiled Down

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"My birth control. My choice. (Your money)."
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Friday, March 28, 2014

George Kennan on NATO Expansion

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As told to Thomas Friedman , May 2, 1998: "I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,'' said Mr. Kennan from his Princeton ...
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