Category Archives: politics

grrr!

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 21 by Anton

The Violence of Conservatism by Jeffrey A. Tucker So there we have it. The magic of the marketplace, delivering via your computer screen straight to your doorstep, for only a buck, hundreds of pages of the most violent rhetoric put … Continue reading →

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better than average as unelected rulers go

Posted on Monday, 2004 July 26 by Anton

Will Wilkinson on State Autonomy and Electoral Triviality I once went on a date with an EPA lawyer. I said to her, more or less, this is my guess about what you do . . . A new environmental law is passed. … Continue reading →

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gummint culture

Posted on Sunday, 2004 July 25 by Anton

Christopher Westley: Why Be Proud of Government Work? Recently, when walking home from work, I was passed by one of those red monster pick-up trucks with an oversized bumper sticker on the back window that announced: FORMER MARINE. It made … Continue reading →

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the price of pot

Posted on Saturday, 2004 July 24 by Anton

Educated Guesswork relays graphs – purporting to be from the ONDCP, no less – showing that the retail prices of heroin, cocaïne and methamphetamine (as adjusted for purity as well as currency inflation) declined fairly steadily between 1981 and 2001, … Continue reading →

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“Democrats For Guns”

Posted on Friday, 2004 July 23 by Anton

Ted Rall, of all people, on Why Kerry Should Stand Up for the Second Amendment

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with all due respect

Posted on Saturday, 2004 July 17 by Anton

Civil disobedience at its finest (cited by Bill St Clair, who got it from Claire Wolfe)

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duck and cover!

Posted on Monday, 2004 July 12 by Anton

The pointless “assault weapon” ban of 1994 is about to sunset, and the usual suspects are twitching. The Violence Policy Center . . . notes the 1994 law does not cover new assault weapons that have entered the market place. At the … Continue reading →

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