Friday, December 19, 2014

TGIF: Monopoly and Aggression

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The concepts monopoly and aggression are intimately related, like lock and key , or mother and son . You cannot fully understand the fi...
Friday, December 12, 2014

TGIF: "And the Pursuit of Happiness": Nathaniel Branden, RIP

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The binding together of “perfection” (virtue, or excellence, in the Greek sense) and liberty (internal and external) with the pursuit of ha...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

I Love Loosies and the People Who Sell Them

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The cops who ganged up on Eric Garner, got him into a chokehold, and mashed his face into the sidewalk didn’t intend to kill him. They inte...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Who's the Boss?

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The NYC cops did not intend to kill Eric Garner. They intended only to show him who's boss in a way he would never forget. Hence their r...
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Friday, December 05, 2014

Don't Pray for Peace

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Something else bugs me about Wounded Warrior Project commercials -- besides their use of "warrior" as a term of honor: The song sa...
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TGIF: Tackling Straw Men Is Easier than Critiquing Libertarianism

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Maybe I’m being unreasonable, but I think it behooves a critic to understand what he’s criticizing. I realize that tackling straw men is mu...

The Logic of Resisting Arrest

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One cannot resist an arrest that is not being attempted. Cops and politicians should stop arresting nonviolent people for victimless "c...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Nathaniel Branden, 1930-2014

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Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand's original partner in the Objectivist movement, died December 3. Branden was a complicated man, a big mixtur...

The Not So Grand Jury

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The grand jury may have begun as a check on state abuse, but it has long been a cover for state abuse -- confirming a Rothbard maxim: Princi...

The Ferguson Distraction

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Ironically, the shooting death of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown by white Ferguson, MO, police officer Darren Wilson is a distract...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Nuclear Monopolists Will Be Nuclear Monopolists

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The Associated Press reports : The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution Tuesday calling on Israel to re...

Poor Israel

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Since Israel's rulers favor chaos in the Middle East -- the better to persuade Americans to forget the Palestinians and focus on the ...

Ferguson, continued

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Any analysis of Ferguson and police brutality that falls short of anarchist is bound to be inadequate. The root of the problem is top-down ...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Ferguson, continued

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Turning the Michael Brown case into something it's not serves only to discredit the movement against police abuse and racism.
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 ...