Monthly Archive: April 2011

On May 13, 1943, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The Allies suddenly found themselves saddled with nearly three hundred thousand prisoners of war, including the bulk of General Erwin Rommel’s famed Afrika Korps....

I’ve taken a lot of heat in the comments for arguing that the recent poll showing a plurality of Mississippi voters would support a ban on interracial marriage is, in effect, bogus.  I think...

First the Jukebox.  We’re a few weeks past St. Patrick’s day at this point, but I’m feeling in an Irish mood today.  So first some drinking music: Now for the bleg. My birthday is...

A conservative talking point you’re bound to hear, if you haven’t already: “Why should my taxes pay for baby killers?” The shallow liberal response: “Planned Parenthood already can’t spend federal money on abortion.” The...

According to a recent poll by left-leaning Public Policy Polling, they do. Several liberal sites have not surprisingly jumped on this finding, as did Doug Mataconis at Outside the Beltway. A poll result like...

In comments, North writes what has become conventional wisdom in the press these days with regards to Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: But let’s give credit where it’s due. Ryan’s budget is at least putting...

Aidan writes: It’s pretty easy to oppose government spending when the budget is just an abstract concept. When actually faced with a government shutdown or severe cuts, people with libertarian views on spending are...

  I have a very distinct memory from last summer, sitting in a chair on our back porch and taking a break from my reading. I was looking at out lilac bush, just sitting...

I have some grave personal reasons to fear a government shutdown. My husband earns way more than I do. He’s an engineer for NASA. He won’t be getting paid during the shutdown. It’s possible...

Roger Williams’ concept of “separation of church and state” first became a part of Establishment Clause jurisprudence in Reynolds v. U.S., 98 U.S. 145 (1878), and became incorporated to and applicable to the several...

The woman who allegedly tried to tear a Gauguin painting off a wall at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has been identified as a 53-year-old convicted felon who, after her arrest...

This story made me sad. Needless to say, Dad’s newfound obsession with the individual didn’t pan out so well with the woman he married. He was always controlling, but he became even more so....

This month’s Cato Unbound could hardly be more prosaic. It’s about parking. Ho-hum! Yet parking and parking policy shape a great deal about how we live and work. Hardly an aspect of our lives...

At the new blog Bleeding Heart Libertarians (whose roster of contributors is impeccable, I must add), Matt Zwolinski has an outstanding couple of posts responding to arguments by Bryan Caplan that libertarians should be,...

…some arguments are more fun if you turn them upside down: The same with the conservative-rightwinger today.  Certain possibilities for political economy and social affairs enter his imagination.  He thinks for a while.  This...

~by Koz “Everybody knows an ant, can’t, move a rubber tree plant.” – Frank Sinatra When Lenin needed to describe a strategy for lifting the working classes into political consciousness, he wrote a pamphlet...

It is probably telling that I was so easily taken in by the local NPR station this morning. Their trick was to couple the truth with a lie. They started with the truth. In...

So I went on vacation for a week, got back, got buried in real, actual work, and now I’ve been fighting off some sort of fun little illness for the last week.  But I...