Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Austin Bramwell
Matthew Yglesias suggests that out-group bias against environmentalists explains why libertarians, in contradiction to their own ideology, so often defend sprawl. (Jim Henley, Erik Kain and David Schaengold and others also had interesting reactions to my earlier post.) There’s something to that, though I’d like to add two more factors that may be at work.
The first is relatively [...]
Filed under: Culture, Law, Uncategorized, environment, libertarianism
Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Dennis Dale
A question. Has anyone yet attempted to leverage yesterday’s tragedy at Fort Hood into a defense of the Patriot Act’s “lone wolf” provision? Maybe the question is not if, but when. I’m thinking of starting a pool.
Of course it may not be necessary. Yesterday* the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to extend three provisions: roving wiretaps; [...]
Filed under: Law, Politics, liberties
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Philip Giraldi
For those who just cannot get enough on the Sibel Edmonds story, there is a new posting over at Bradblog by Brad Friedman http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7449 regarding the testimony of FBI Counterintelligence officer John Cole.
Friedman relates how “An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the [...]
Filed under: Law, Scandal
Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Patrick J. Buchanan
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of “Bibi” Netanyahu, warns that if Iran’s nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it.
Defense Secretary Gates’ mission to Israel this week, says Bolton, to relay Obama’s red light, [...]
Filed under: Culture, Economics, Law
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Philip Giraldi
My post on the increasing use of speed cameras back about ten days ago in which I though I was attacking the surveillance state attracted some criticism because it revealed inter alia that I am a reckless speeder. Now there is a piece in today’s Wash Post about a man driving to a ball game [...]
Filed under: Law
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Dennis Dale
Impelled by religious zeal, a man commits an act of terrorist murder, targeting an individual he deems responsible for the slaughter of innocents. The charge follows: through the use of extreme language activist organizations, news outlets–the very opinions and beliefs they espouse–provoked the violence. By implication (or direct inference) these beliefs are discredited not by [...]
Filed under: Culture, Law, Politics, Religion, liberties, media
Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Sean Scallon
One of the dangers of nationalized health care (outside of the cost concerns) the potential explosion for litigation once health care becomes a right. Such litigation helped to increase health care costs from the 1980s onward and could make things more expensive in future, only this time its the taxpayers that will bear the brunt.
Not [...]
Filed under: Courts, Law, liberties
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by Dennis Dale
The four torture memos the Obama administration has promised to release are online in PDF.
Filed under: Courts, Law
Posted on April 6th, 2009 by John Schwenkler
Last Friday, Jonah Goldberg wrote a post at The Corner arguing that there is something “unlibertarian” about opponents of drug prohibition who use claims about the drug war’s disproportionate effects on blacks in an attempt to demonstrate its injustice. This post prompted a lengthy response from Reason’s Jacob Sullum, who helpfully [...]
Filed under: Law, libertarianism, liberties
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Kelley Vlahos
For a taste of what happens when hyper-privatization of government services meets the hyper-criminalization of our modern American society — a perfect storm of corruption, greed, runaway authority and shattered lives in its wake — look no further than what’s happening in Pennsylvania today:
Two lawsuits have been filed against two Pennsylvania judges accused of taking [...]
Filed under: Law
