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Implausibly, Freedom Gets a Boost

Jan 12th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Every once in a while, the Supreme Court takes notice of the Constitution and actually comes to the defense of that thing called freedom. True, it doesn't happen often, and hasn't happened much at all for, oh, 100 years or so. But it can and does happen. This time, the ...read more

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Spooner the Prophet

Nov 29th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
How much more ridiculous can the US Postal Service get? This you will not believe. It has embarked on a public relations campaign to get people to stop sending so much email and start licking more stamps. This is how it is dealing with its $10 billion loss last year. ...read more

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Still Fed Up With Constitution Worship

Jun 6th, 2011 | By | Category: Politics
Last year I wrote an article titled "I'm Fed Up With Constitution Worship!" Since that time it seems I hear more and more every day about "getting back to the constitution," mainly from "conservatives" and those of the Tea Party persuasion. I always wonder not only have any of these people ever ...read more

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Freedom Naturally: A Review of Morris and Laura Tannehill’s “The Market for Liberty”

May 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
It is at times useful to imagine how a truly laissez-faire society, one entirely emancipated from the shackles of state coercion, might exist and operate. Morris and Linda Tannehill examine this very idea in, The Market for Liberty: Is Government Really Necessary? Market for Liberty imagines a totally free society; one ...read more

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The Continued Relevance of Ayn Rand’s Villains

Apr 22nd, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
On Saturday, my parents called to report they had driven an hour into Reno, Nevada, to see Paul Johansson’s adaptation of Atlas Shrugged. Despite the film’s strongly negative reviews, the theater was full. Curiously, this scene was true across the nation this weekend, as the film brought in more than ...read more

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Land of the Free, Indeed

Apr 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing, Politics
Woe are we. There is nary a nation state on the planet where a man can be free. The entire planet is a cobweb of governments, police, taxes, laws, rules and regulations. It is with great sorrow that much of the population of the planet now has Stockholm syndrome. They’ve grown ...read more

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The Evils of the Drug War

Jan 21st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Most everyone is familiar with the disastrous consequences of the war on drugs: drug gangs, drug lords, drug suppliers, gang wars, muggings, robberies, thefts, corruption of judges, prosecutors, and law-enforcement officials, murders, assassinations, overcrowded jails, asset forfeiture, and on and on. The fact is that nothing good is produced by ...read more

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Imagining Freedom with the Help of Mises

Jan 26th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
I’m finding it ever more difficult to describe to people the kind of world that the Mises Institute would like to see, with the type of political order that Mises and the entire classical-liberal tradition believed would be most beneficial for mankind. It would appear that the more liberty we lose, ...read more

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Political Intolerance

May 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I’ve heard a lot lately about how we need to be tolerant of one another’s political views.  I hear this, I suspect, because I’m not tolerant of most people’s politics.  I’m told we can have a good argument about our positions on the issues, but when we’re done, we must ...read more

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Progressive Taxation, an Assault on Liberty

May 15th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
Societies that use tax law as a way to achieve political or social goals are societies based on envy and resentment. That is, how a nation treats taxes tells you something of the character of a nation. So when you hear anyone say that the level of taxation in a country ...read more

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