Category Archives: politics

the last veto

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 February 25 by Anton

Hey hey! Today’s headline in The Daily Review (Hayward, California) is: Jurors find merit in nullification. As I said before, nullification is not the whole story in the case that prompted this; but it’s good to see it in the … Continue reading →

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essence

Posted on Sunday, 2003 February 23 by Anton

Ross Douthat writes in part: No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that’s just why it remains on the ideological fringe — because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a … Continue reading →

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selective violence

Posted on Saturday, 2003 February 22 by Anton

Duncan Frissell (Technoptimist) explains How to Invade Iraq Without Violating the Non-Aggression Principle (In case you felt the need to). Link from Daniel Boone (Nolo Consentire).

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the young empire

Posted on Friday, 2003 February 21 by Anton

In “An American Empire! If You Want It instead of Freedom, Part 1”, Richard Ebeling quotes Garet Garrett on the symptoms of imperialism. “Second, domestic-policy issues become increasingly subordinate to foreign-policy matters.” But perhaps this was inevitable; foreign policy is … Continue reading →

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no favors

Posted on Friday, 2003 February 21 by Anton

Demons in a death penalty case – Ellen Goodman writes in the Boston Globe about the peculiar practice of forcibly medicating mad prisoners. I am particularly struck by the ruling in Ford v. Wainwright that it is “cruel and unusual … Continue reading →

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I’m just askin’

Posted on Friday, 2003 February 21 by Anton

When was the last time street protests had any effect on US policy?

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new Ninth Circuit gun case

Posted on Thursday, 2003 February 20 by Anton

Though Nordyke v King follows the Ninth Circuit’s gross misreading of US v Miller (1939) in its Hickman ruling, it’s interesting because Gould’s concurrent opinion says: I join the court’s opinion, and write to elaborate that Hickman v. Block, 81 … Continue reading →

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