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As Detroit's government collapses, private police firms meet the demand for...
Almost on cue in response to my earlier post on private police comes this story from Detroit, "911 is a Joke." As the government collapses and the people are unable to rely on the Detroit PD for...
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In the nanny state that is modern America, do parents have any rights left?
From the LRC blog:"A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.The girl’s...
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The best article on Ron Paul you are likely to read this week
From "Ron Paul and his Enemies" by Scott McConnell of The American Conservative:Foreign policy is a different matter. Paul’s skepticism about American military interventionism—the Iraq War, the Afghan...
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The Fed's latest attempt to further conceal the impoverishment it creates
I knew I was in store for a doozy when I came across this Bloomberg Businessweek article entitled, "Inflation is Still Too Low." Yet, I was still unprepared to see the following:Bernanke has said that...
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End the War on Drugs, End the War on Terror. You can keep the promise of...
I have noticed a rather disturbing trend lately in the federal government’s efforts in the various “wars” on drugs and terror. The first thing we should notice is that neither one of these “wars” are...
View ArticleI decided to check out the Las Vegas Mob Museum
My friend Katie and I were on our way over to the “Mob Bar” for some food and drink the other night and decided to check out the newly opened, $42 million taxpayer funded Las Vegas Mob Museum, which...
View ArticleTyrannical regime continues to terrorize non-criminals
The federal government continues its war on peaceful people indicting Bodog.com founder Calvin Ayre on money laundering charges with a penalty of up to 20 years in federal prison. There is no clearer...
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Dispelling the insufficient quantity of gold myth
This post will be necessarily incomplete. The topic of money, of a medium of exchange, of how money comes to be, what transforms a good into a medium of exchange (or money, these words are...
View ArticleFBI’s counter-terrorism specialist: “The TSA is one of the most ineffective...
I came across the most devastating, authoritative, and substantive critique of the TSA I’ve ever seen. I’ve cropped the intro and last paragraph to wet your appetite, but you must read the whole...
View ArticleLive video Q&A with Tom Woods and I on Liberty Chat next week!
Should be fun. You need to register at Libertychat.com to participate, but that only takes a minute. The Q&A is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13th at 9:30pm EST. Hope to see you there!Update: Walter...
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Government safety regulations make it illegal to improve safety in combat sports
As the sport of Mixed Martials Arts (MMA) continues to grow at a rapid pace, marked improvements have been made in all areas of the industry with only one exception that stands as a potential...
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Metro Police should spend less time searching for weeds on a mountain and...
Putting aside whether or not you support the criminalization of drugs, as a resident of Las Vegas, I find it hard to believe the most urgent use of police resources is scouring Mt. Charleston in search...
View ArticleMcDonalds refuses to use it, yet public schools feed it to your children
Headline from USA Today: 'Pink slime' eliminated from fast food, but not school lunches. Boy, I wonder what people would say if schools were purely privatized and they behaved in this way? Absolute,...
View ArticleLiberals most likely to unfriend those with opposing political views
The money section from a new Pew Research study reads as follows:Liberals are the most likely to have taken each of these steps to block, unfriend, or hide. In all, 28% of liberals have blocked,...
View ArticleShocker! Nevada state officials caught double dipping!
The immensely talented, Geoffrey Lawrence, of the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) has authored a truly remarkable set of policy recommendations in the just released Solutions 2013 handbook. Of...
View ArticleNew books!
I just added three new books to my reading list: Last Exit: Privatization and Deregulation of the U.S. Transportation System by Clifford Winston, No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East by...
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Last Exit
Cost overruns on public road projects average at least 8.4% with a very large standard error, indicating some overruns are much greater. It appears this consistent pattern of under estimating the cost...
View ArticleNo War for Oil
I am currently reading, No War for Oil, by Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute. It is a masterful book, powerfully written, steeped in solid economic analysis and understanding, fantastically well...
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The GOP platform calls for a ban on online poker
I suppose the slogan of “keeping the government out of your bedroom” is pretty much officially retired amongst Republican circles now. The stated justification for this horribly intrusive,...
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Book Review: Delusions of Power by Robert Higgs
The Independent Institute has released a new volume, Delusions of Power, by Dr. Robert Higgs which critically examines the state, war, and the economy. The volume is a sweeping indictment against the...
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Book Review: The Conscience of an Anarchist
This book has me quite excited. It could easily be the Economics in One Lesson for traditionally leftist issues such as social justice and welfare. What I mean by that is it where Economics in One...
View ArticleYou should be a subscriber of The Independent Review
For so many reasons. Their latest issue is chock full of brilliant work, as usual, and I feel compelled to share with you this except from Daniel Klein’s The Improprieties of the Pretense of...
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Reviewing God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson
God of the Machine is a book I struggled with. There can be no doubt that Isabel Paterson is a deep thinker and contributes much in the way of political theory. However, I found the prevailing theme...
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Libertarianism taken to its logical conclusion
Professor Walter Block’s Defending the Undefendableis mandatory reading for the libertarian. It’s extremely brief, given the scope of material it covers, easy to read, straightforward, and accessible...
View ArticleWould you buy a $29,000 a year health insurance plan?
The tiny town of Corte Madera, CA, makes up for what it lacks in size and population, roughly 4 square miles with 9,425 residents, in its exorbitant government compensation packages. City government...
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