Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Ferguson

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In shootings by police, fully independent and public adversarial inquiries should be conducted. There's no getting around the fact that ...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Uber: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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UPDATED Nov. 25, 2014 Cheryl and I had our first Uber experience yesterday and thought I'd report on it. The experience itself was firs...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

TGIF: Unjust Immigration Law Is Not Law

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I know better than to think that Obama’s executive order is the start of something big. But that is no reason not to rejoice. Because of hi...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Familiar Bedfellows

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Hillary and Henry sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G-E-R! It says a lot about former secretary of state and presumed presidential aspirant ...
Friday, November 14, 2014

TGIF: Free-Market Socialism

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The freed market would give traditional leftists what they say they want: a society in which free, voluntary, and peaceful cooperation ult...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Stop Those Who Would Stop Uber

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The nerve of some people! Imagine coming to a city and doing business without first asking permission from local officials!  That’s what ...
Friday, November 07, 2014

TGIF: The Political Sterility of Jon Stewart

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Political satire has a long and honorable history: Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift; W.S. Gilbert; George Orwell; Tom Lehr...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

Election 2014: The Good News and Bad

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The 2014 midterm election delivered both good news and bad. The good news is that the losers lost. The bad news is that the winners won. R...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

The Day After

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"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -- H. L. Mencken
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

TGIF: Nothing Is More Local and the Individual

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There is no better example of how government treats adults like children than the laws governing beer, wine, and spirits. The range of regu...
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...