Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Rough Day

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"By the decree of the angels and by the command of the holy men, we excommunicate, expel, curse, and damn Baruch [Benedito] de Espi...

Abolish the Income Tax and IRS

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For some time now we’ve lived with the scourge of civil asset forfeiture, under which the police can seize a person’s property on the mere ...
Friday, October 24, 2014

TGIF: The State Is No Friend of the Worker

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The election season is upon us, and we’re hearing the usual political promises about raising wages. Democrats pledge to raise the minimum w...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Obama Still Does a Good Imitation of Bush

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We really should be used to this by now. After almost six years in office, President Obama is far more like George W. Bush in national-secu...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Webinar: The Anti-Militarist Libertarian Tradition

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Here is the video from my Future of Freedom/Liberty.me webinar on the anti-militarist libertarian tradition.  

Leonard P. Liggio, 1933-2014

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I lost one of my favorite teachers this week, as did so many other libertarians, not to mention the freedom movement as a whole. Leonard P...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

The Politicians Are Scaring You Again

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They are doing it again. “They” are the war-party politicians, Democrats and Republicans. “It” is scaring you into supporting another war i...

Webinar: The Antimilitarist Libertarian Tradition

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Next Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. central, I'll conduct a webinar on "The Antimilitarist Libertarian Tradition," for The Future...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

We Have Lost a Giant: Leonard Liggio, RIP

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I'm sad to report that Leonard P. Liggio, the indefatigable globetrotting builder of the modern libertarian movement, whose encycloped...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

A Foreign Policy By and For Knaves

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David Hume (1711-1776) was no hardcore libertarian, but he was a provocative thinker and a key figure in the development of liberalism. Hum...
Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Is Obama Trying to Alienate Muslim-American Youth?

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A 19-year-old Chicago-area man was arrested last weekend for attempting to help the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The U.S. govern...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Libertarian Socialism?

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Some people have a hard time seeing how a libertarian could call himself or herself a socialist. I understand the confusion. But in the l...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

TGIF: The "Boomerang Effect": How Foreign Policy Changes Domestic Policy

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The late Chalmers Johnson, the great analyst of the American empire, warned that if Americans didn’t give up the empire, they would come to...

Will American Ground Troops Be Sent to Fight ISIS?

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With the United States dropping bombs on yet another Muslim country, we might benefit from a close look at President Obama’s anti–Islamic S...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

TGIF: The Antimilitarist Libertarian Heritage

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With the United States on the verge of another war in the Middle East — or is it merely the continuation of a decades-long war? — we libert...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Liar, Liar!

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Calling President Obama's ISIS plan a "counterterrorism operation" is a lie to pacify the American public. ISIS is not a terro...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Is the Foreign-Policy Elite Clueless?

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The American foreign-policy elite seems to have no idea what it’s doing. Americans may believe the government — especially the foreign-pol...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

TGIF: Ownership and Ideas

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Like many libertarians, I’ve learned a lot from Murray Rothbard on a wide variety of subjects. Of course, no one gets everything right, esp...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Ten Lessons, Plus One, We Should Learn from 9/11

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1. Killing one or many innocents, regardless of one's grievances, is monstrous. This elementary principle would seem to apply to George ...
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Friday, September 05, 2014

TGIF: Does Freedom Require Empire?

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In a startling article, Daniel McCarthy, the admirable editor of The American Conservative magazine (TAC), writes, “Successive British and...