Category Archives: politics

Russ Nelson

Russ Nelson is, if memory serves, a Quaker and an anarchist. He used to be on my favorite mailing list; I wonder why he dropped. Well, I just noticed that he has a blog; he calls it The Angry Economist.

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remarkable publicity!

Today the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal set forth without comment the principles of “gun-toter” Jeffrey Jordan’s group Liberty Round Table. (Cited by Russell.)

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if it works for Mugabe

Good grief: U.S. immigration authorities are detaining foreign correspondents on grounds they have not obtained special visas . . . True, there is a law stipulating a special visa for journalists, but few have ever heard of it and it is seldom … Continue reading

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drug war news

Steve Kubby, Libertarian candidate for governor of California in 1998, has just been denied asylum in Canada. He will appeal. (Cited by Rational Review News Digest) September 2005: Not deported yet!

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fifty failures

According to the BBC, More than 50 other gun control bills have come before [Brazil’s] Congress over the years and failed to be passed. In other words, they were defeated. You don’t suppose the Beeb has some ulterior motive in … Continue reading

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DIY policing

Riverbend posted in August on the Iraqi populace’s response to chaos: For a while, the men in certain areas began arranging ‘lookouts’. They would gather, every 6 or 7 guys, in a street, armed with Klashnikovs, and watch out for … Continue reading

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protectionism

Rasmusen quotes Steyn: The war on terror is, in one sense, a Saudi civil war that the royal family has successfully exported to the rest of the world. The rest of the world should see that it’s repatriated.

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