Saturday, February 27, 2016

Shame on You, Donald Trump

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He hates the media. But aren't you supposed to worship your creator?
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Friday, February 26, 2016

TGIF: The Constitution and the Standing Army

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The U.S. Constitution can reasonably be seen as a massive tax and mercantilist trade-promotion program. However, there's a third leg to...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Sanders and Trump Are Too Establishment on Syria

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Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton both want the U.S. government to set up a "safe zone" in Syria to care for refugees from the ragin...
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Madison on Government and Force

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While we have no evidence that George Washington said, "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force. Like fire it is a...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Hey, Trump

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Let's not make America great. Let's make Americans free. Greatness will take care of itself.

Infamy

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FDR, progressive hero, locked up the Japanese Americans this day 74 years ago. Donald Trump would have approved.
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TGIF: Trump Backs Off Iraq Charge; Admits He Favored the War

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Alas, Donald Trump has backed off from his charge that the Bush administration lied the country into war against Iraq, telling a CNN town-ha...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Can We Finally Understand the Three-Fifths Clause?

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Considering how often the original Constitution's three-fifths clause is invoked in the fight against racism , you'd think people w...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Sanders Over the Others

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If I had the energy for writing about electoral politics, I might have written something like Will Wilkinson has written. (I might still man...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Bush, 9/11, and Iraq: Trump Gets It Right

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Donald Trump, for all his obnoxious demagoguery, is adding value to the presidential campaign by calling former President George W. Bush to ...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Privacy as Property Right

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In 1993, while working at the Cato Institute, I published an article in the institute's  Policy Report  that is relevant to discussions ...
Friday, February 12, 2016

TGIF: Obama Suspends TV Coverage of Middle East

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced today that the government will forbid the television news med...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2016

End, Don't Extend, Draft Registration

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This past week demonstrated with blinding clarity that 1) Republicans, contrary to their rhetoric, oppose individual liberty, and 2) the est...
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Monday, February 08, 2016

Again?

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The Distinguished Woman Stumping for Hillary Clinton

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President Bill Clinton later promoted Madeleine Albright from ambassador to the UN to secretary of state, the first women to hold the offi...
Saturday, February 06, 2016

Clinton's Wall Street Red Herring

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In response to Bernie Sanders's stigmatizing her as an establishment candidate who takes big bucks from Wall Street, Hillary Clinton cha...
Friday, February 05, 2016

TGIF: Justice, Not Amnesty, for "Illegal" Immigrants

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It speaks volumes that the dirtiest word in the Republican and conservative lexicon is amnesty . At a minimum, it exposes as a flagrant lie...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2016

Cruz and Rubio: Heirs to Bush-Obama Militarism

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I see no point splitting hairs over whether Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio is the more egregious warmonger. Both love the bloody and costly U.S. em...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

TGIF: The Bill of Rights Revisited

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Drawing on work by historian Gordon S. Wood, I recently suggested that we see the U.S. Constitution not as a landmark in the struggle for l...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Trump & the Conservative Establishment Deserve Each Other

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No one should need  National Review 's advice to steer clear of Donald Trump. For one thing, the messenger is a curious one indeed. Alth...