Category Archives: politics

distributed defense

Dave Kopel wrote on April 7: The Boston Globe reports that gun sales in Israel are skyrocketing, “particularly since an Israeli shoe salesman used his own weapon to fatally shoot a 46-year-old Palestinian who had opened fire in a Tel … Continue reading

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approval voting

L’affaire du Pen provides an occasion to trot out one of my hobbyhorses. If you mark your ballot as favoring more candidates than can be elected, your ballot will be discarded as ‘spoiled’. Why? What is illogical about saying, “I … Continue reading

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l’affaire du Pen

Mark Steyn argues: If the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain topics, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable politicians — as they’re doing in France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and elsewhere. Le Pen is not an … Continue reading

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one desert is much like another

How about relocating Israel to Mexico?

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in search of monsters to destroy

Way the heck back in November one Jim Henley, of whose blog I have just now become aware, made a very interesting point about foreign intervention: And out of the preceding ingredients the final, general case against “humanitarian intervention” arises … Continue reading

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“. . . unless it would inconvenience the Government.”

CBSNews.com: Moussaoui said he has $30,000 and wants to hire a Muslim lawyer to act as an adviser — but cannot do so because the government has frozen his money. Precht said he knew of no case that would allow … Continue reading

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the late unpleasantness

Recent reading: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (Prima/Forum, 2002). Despite the title, this book is less about Lincoln himself than about his ambition, Republican policy in … Continue reading

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