Monday, August 31, 2015

Anarchism 101

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"The state is required in order to assure that people will behave well." "What assures that state operatives will behave wel...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Libertarianism 101

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If you agree with this statement: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. (Lincoln) You have to agree with this statement: If sel...
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Let's Talk: Left-Libertarianism

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Walter Block discussed left-libertarianism at Liberty.me. Here's the video.   Relatedly, I talked about libertarian class analysi...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

The Self-Serving News Media

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The gross TV over-coverage of the murders of the Virginia TV news people is patently self-centered, self-serving, and even self-flattering. ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Trump Neither Smart nor Wise

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Trump thinks the problem with government is bad managers. Open-and-shut case against him that is. Therein lies a confession that undermines ...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Here He Comes

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Open tyranny will come to America in the form of a braggart with bad hair and a ridiculous baseball cap. --Alexis de Tocqueville ...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Unlimited Limited Government

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One thing that bothers me about the idea of limited government is how unlimited it is. After all the acknowledged illegitimate departments a...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

TGIF: Trump's Trade Snake Oil

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Donald Trump may think the media stenographers are out to get him, but if they were really doing their job, his head would be spinning. He d...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Israel Wanted Iran Talks to Deal with Nukes Only

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Opponents of the Iran deal -- the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action -- loudly complain that it deals only with the nuclear issue. Why, the...
Friday, August 14, 2015

TGIF: The U.S.-Israel Conflict Is Finally Visible for All to See

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Thanks to the Iran nuclear deal, something remarkable is happening in American politics: the irreconcilable conflict of interest between mos...
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Thursday, August 06, 2015

Regarding Amnesty

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I'd be for amnesty  were it not for the fact  that improving your life  while ignoring the state  is the essence of  fre...
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Truman, A-bombs, and the Killing of Innocents

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Seventy years ago today a president of the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a city full of innocent Japanese. It was the se...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2015

70th Anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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This month marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, President Harry Truman's acts of mass mu...

The State Defined

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The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitim...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Obama and Kerry Play with Fire on Iran Agreement

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Barack Obama and John Kerry are playing with fire. They presumably want Congress and the American public to accept the nuclear agreement the...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Another Iranian Non-Threat

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This image tweeted by Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a lot of people upset. Is it supposed to be Barack Obama holding a ...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Trump & the Establishment

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Trump outrages the establishment because he's a caricature of it.
Friday, July 24, 2015

TGIF: Thought Crimes, Domestic "Terrorism," and Police Bullying

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Dylann Roof, who murdered nine black parishioners because they were black has been charged by the central government with committing hate cr...
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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Free Association -- The Webinar

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Lucy Steigerwald and I converse on topics of interest to libertarians every other Tuesday evening at Liberty.me The latest one was on the Ir...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

No "Compensation" to Israel for Iran Deal

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In The Joys of Yiddish , Leo Rosten defined chutzpah  as  " that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, t...
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