Sunday, June 28, 2015

Do We Have a Right to Marry?

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Do we have a right to marry? It depends on what we mean by marry . If we mean making a contract with another consenting adult setting up a a...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

TGIF: The Libertarian Case for Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

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I tried to come up with a solid libertarian argument for why the Supreme Court should not have struck down state bans on same-sex marriage...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Charleston and Gun Rights

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Dylann Roof’s racially motivated murders of nine black churchgoers have brought predictable calls for new restrictions on the right to kee...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

TGIF: Another Silly Jab at Libertarianism

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The problem with responding to Alan Wolfe’s feeble attempt to critique libertarianism is that one might appear to be defending the particu...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Drone War Delusions

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We are constantly told that US drones are surgically precise. But any weapon – especially a remote-controlled one – is only as accurate as ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

King John Might Envy President Obama

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King John of England, who 800 years ago this week was forced at Runnymede to affix his Great Seal to Magna Carta -- which at least in theo...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

TGIF: Looking Back at Magna Carta

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Monday is the 800th anniversary of the day in 1215 that rotten King John put his seal to the sheet of parchment called the Articles of the ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Abolish Special Ops Forces

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It’s time to disband the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 and all other secretive, unaccountable units of the U.S. imperial military. As is said about la...
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Reason.com Subpoenaed over Anonymous Comments

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The U.S. Justice Department has issued a grand jury subpoena to Reason.com in an attempt to identify anonymous commenters at the website wh...

The Attack on the Liberty, 48 Years Later

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Monday was the 48th anniversary of the infamous Israeli attack on the USS Liberty , an intelligence-gathering ship, during Israel's 1967...
Friday, June 05, 2015

TGIF: Power Thrives in Complexity

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In a democracy citizens prevent the government from abusing them by staying informed and exercising their “rights” under the system. They m...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2015

The National-Security State Lives

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Sen. Rand Paul accomplished something worthwhile when, almost single-handedly, he saw to it that Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired. Fo...
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Monday, June 01, 2015

Thanks, Rand Paul

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I'm pretty sure the NSA will continue to spy on us one way or another, but that should not detract from Rand Paul's unswerving effor...
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?