Category Archives: politics

metaphor is where you find it

Angie Schultz calls my attention to James Lileks on Star Trek. I have to disagree with him on this point: [The Borg] were joyless cyborgs intent on crushing all cultural differences. They were the Republicans! The Borg are utterly egalitarian, … Continue reading

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and he’s an expert

Unsurprisingly, Bruce Schneier (who travels much more than I do) is also fed up at having drones demand his documents at every turn in the name of “security”.

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what, there is a Ninth Amendment?

Randy Barnett sees something new in recent Supreme Court decisions: . . . Justice Kennedy refused to rest abortion rights on a “right to privacy,” though this crucial move has been generally ignored. Instead he rested it on liberty, and explicitly on … Continue reading

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Hoppe gets his

Gene Callahan criticizes HH Hoppe’s immigration policy — or is ‘debunks’ a more fitting word?

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QotD

Isabel Paterson: The God of the Machine (quoted by Julian Sanchez) Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered … Continue reading

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Harry Potter and the Libertarian Subtext

Shocking examples of anti-authoritarianism, enumerated by Natalie Solent. (Link from Modulator by way of Mindles)

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in more innocent times

It seems to me that in the Seventies – before John Belushi died – there was talk of relegalizing or decriminalizing the “soft drugs” marijuana and cocaïne. Does anyone else remember that, or am I (ha ha) hallucinating?

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