Eyesores vs. Property Rights in a Libertarian Society

Non-libertarians love to come up with ideas about how, in a libertarian society, some ill would occur which (in their mind(s)) cannot be cor...

Where's the beef (with capitalism)?

Over at Arm Your Mind for Liberty , a recent article takes issue with capitalism. I read this article with great interest because (I assume...

Torture instead of prison

Leo Katz has been blogging over at the Volokh Conspiracy this week. He's written a book called Why the Law Is So Perverse , and Volok...

Climate change denial != science-averse

I just watched this clip from last night's Daily Show: Another segment of this show was devoted to poking fun at various pundits' c...

How quickly we forget

I received an email containing a number of complaints about the current administration. On the theory that, in reality, this administration ...

Is the state a criminal conspiracy?

Murray Rothbard famously called the state "a bandit gang writ large", or as it is more commonly rephrased, "a gang of thieve...

Pardon the dust, centralization in progress

A couple of weeks ago, California became the 8th state, joined by the District of Columbia, to pass a law that will give all of its electora...

That triple-A credit rating

Despite a debt deal, the US federal government still faces a downgrade of its credit rating . In my opinion, rating the creditworthiness of...

I can haz liberty now?

Late last week the New York state senate passed a bill allowing same-sex marriages in the state. A few years ago, I would have seen this as...

Texas folds 'em

Last month, during the big dust-up about the anti-TSA bill in Texas that would have made TSA groping illegal, I wrote up a quick piece abo...

Texas tries again

Says Kathryn Muratore : This is very good news , indeed. Texas State Rep David Simpson introduced two bills to the legislative session this ...

Texas capitulates

Lots of people, at various times recently, have pointed me at Texas HB 1937 . This bill would have made the TSA's groping procedures ill...

The legitimacy of voting

With Ron Paul running for president again, much is being made about the legitimacy of voting. In fact, my wife asked me the other day if I w...

The State or the people: who is sovereign?

A few months ago, I wrote an article about what I saw as the demise of the rule of law . In it, I used the Obama administration's aggres...

You are not your own

On November 18, 2007, Richard Barnes got into a fight with his wife, Mary. She called 911, and police were dispatched to the scene to respon...