Friday, May 29, 2015

TGIF: The Choice Is between Government and Liberty

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An article by George H. Smith from a few years ago makes a distinction about freedom that seems worth pursuing. In “Jack and Jill and Two K...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Let the Clock Run Out on the NSA

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Regarding the feverish effort either to reauthorize, “reform,” or abolish the National Security Agency’s collection of our phone and email ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

John Nash, RIP

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Updated May 29, 2015 John Nash, the mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in economics and who was the subject of the 2001 Academy Award-w...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Revisionist History Day, 2015

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Today is  Revisionist History Day , what others call Memorial Day. Americans are supposed to remember the country's war dead while bei...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

TGIF: Magna Carta and Libertarian Strategy

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UPDATED June 2, 2015 The middle of next month will mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. My knowledge of the “great charter” is modes...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Phone Surveillance Must End

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You probably are not a terrorist. Chances are the government doesn’t even suspect you of knowing a terrorist. Even so, the National Securit...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Who, Whom?

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"Bill and I have been blessed," Hillary Clinton says about their big speaking fees. Yes, but blessed by whom?
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Marco Rubio: Reactionary Big-Government Man

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Republican presidential aspirant and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio gave a major foreign-policy speech recently, and the best that can be said is t...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Nakba Day, 2015

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Today is Nakba Day , the day set aside to remember the catastrophe that befell the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 in connection with the creat...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The Emperor Lies

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Four years ago the late great journalist Alexander Cockburn wrote , “Alas, the actual story of ‘our history’ is an unrelenting ability to l...
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Friday, May 08, 2015

TGIF: Clinton v. Bush in 2016

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The more I think about the coming presidential election -- it’s not unreasonable to ask why I think about it at all -- the more I am convin...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Fiorina Is Not the Anti-Hillary

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As an advocate of a stateless society , I don’t want anyone to be president. Nevertheless, someone will be chosen to live in the White Hous...
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Monday, May 04, 2015

"Cowardice Will Save the World"

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I discovered I was a coward. That's my new religion. I'm a big believer in it. Cowardice will save the world. War isn't hell at...
Saturday, May 02, 2015

A Layman’s Early Guide to the Presidential Election

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My article "A Layman’s Early Guide to the Presidential Election," written for the Independent Institute , appears at Inside Source...
Friday, May 01, 2015

TGIF: Avoiding Vietnam Without Regrets

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Hard to believe that 40 years ago the U.S. war in Vietnam ended. Actually, the war was against Indochina: remember Cambodia and Laos. (With...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Power to the Individual, Not to the State

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How can you tell an American progressive from an American radical? A progressive laments the condition of working people and proposes to fu...
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Friday, April 24, 2015

TGIF: A Freed Society Would Not Be Problem-Free

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Modified April 28, 2015 In 1970 country singer Lynn Anderson had a hit recording of a Joe South song that opened with the line: I beg ...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

More Equal

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For leaking classified documents to his mistress/biographer, former general and CIA director David Petraeus gets two years' probation  -...
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Megalomaniacs

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My article "US Foreign Policymakers Can't Be Trusted," written for the Independent Institute , is in today's spotlight at ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Obama Wades Further into Yemen

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“The U.S. Navy … has dispatched the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt toward the waters off Yemen to join other American ships prepar...