Two themes have been making their way through various posts this past week, and though they have been somewhat separated by post they are so intertwined that I’d argue each must be seen through...
It remains to be seen how effective the Occupy Wall Street folks will be. (We should see some more specific demands out of the occupiers in the coming weeks and months.) I tend to...
~by Aaron B. Slowly but surely, the Occupy Wall Street protests are gaining the attention of the mainstream media. A New York Times story on global protest movements makes a passing mention of the...
More capable legal minds have already written adroitly about the civil liberties nightmare that this due-process-less killing was. Consequently, I won’t delve too deeply into the legal (or moral) ramifications of granting the president...
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that I was being slightly hyperbolic when I suggested that libertarians dislike democracy; let’s also shuffle aside the Michael Lind article I linked to and the various...
Robinson Crusoe was an immediate success when first published in April, 1719. By the end of the year, it had been put through four editions in English, appeared in Dutch, French and German, was...
~by David Ryan Hello gents and ladies too. Erik has been nice enough to invite me back for another guest appearance. Regulars won’t have too much trouble guessing at my previous post, and for the rest...
Charlie Whittington owns the Kwik Kar Lube & Service in Plano, Texas, and he circulated a coupon giving any customer who recites John 3:16 a discount on an oil change. Marshall Wei, although aware...
Erik writes: [For libertarians] coercion can take a bunch of different shapes. Taxes are coercion. Democracy is coercion. Unions are coercion. Anything that represents the will of the collective over the will of the...
I’ve been thinking over Erik’s post about libertarians and democracy, and I’ve been taking the opportunity to think over my own attitudes toward democracy, and how compatible with libertarianism I think democracy is. First...
It appears that as part of what used to be called the Global War On Terror and now our permanent state of selective war, an American citizen who we may safely presume was both...
One thing libertarians talk about a lot is coercion. If you really peel back libertarian philosophy, that word looms just about as large as “liberty” or “freedom”. Coercion can take a bunch of different...
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on Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025The court won't, and shouldn't, get into 28th Amendment issues because it will be able to decide thi… on Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025Also, and this a somewhat minor detail, but the Joint Chiefs do not have operational control. They a… on Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025My assumption is that the 28th Amendment is a null set, containing nothing. But, you may point out,… on Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025I'm mostly responding to the breathless assertions that something completely untoward is being done…
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