Category Archives: News Commentary

What’s So Special About Chemical Weapons Anyway?

Syria chemical weapons attack blamed on Assad, but where’s the evidence? – CBS News. As you may have heard, Obama is currently considering whether or not to unilaterally start another unnecessary foreign war of choice – this time in Syria.  … Continue reading

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Progressive Nullification

Nullification: All the Cool Kids Are Doing It | Tom Woods. Tom Woods highlights some recent efforts by certain states (including Vermont, a state that voted 66% for Obama in 2013) to nullify federal laws they deem objectionable.  Of course, … Continue reading

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Europe: More Enlightened Or More Authoritarian?

Despite all its flaws, the United States remains one of the freest nations on the planet.  Given this status, it’s not at all surprising that the progressive left attempts to insult, mock, belittle, and denigrate it at every opportunity, usually … Continue reading

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Sliding Down The Slippery Slope Of Gay Marriage

  Gay Couple Set to Sue Church of England Over Refusal to Offer Same-Sex Nuptials | TheBlaze.com. One of the reasons I’ve always been very reluctant to join other libertarians in supporting gay marriage is a deep suspicion that the … Continue reading

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Economists Oppose Immigration Because “Dey Took Our Jerbs!”

The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage: How Guest Workers Lower US Wages | The Business Desk with Paul Solman | PBS NewsHour | PBS. Don’t let the big words and the scientific sounding rhetoric fool you, this piece by Hal Salzman, … Continue reading

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Eric Holder Seeks To Make Juries Irrelevant

  Eric Holder promises “compassion” and “truth” in Zimmerman case – CBS News. It should be obvious to everyone at this point that the race-baiter who runs the Department of Justice (Orwell would be proud of that name) has absolutely … Continue reading

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Modern Day Social Crusaders Are Unpopular Extremists

  Hey, Everyone, Look at Me: I’m Against Slavery! | Tom Woods. This entire piece by Tom Woods is well worth reading, but I want to concentrate on the excellent point he makes in the first couple paragraphs.  Tom writes: … Continue reading

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The Keynesian Solution To Malware

US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses | Ars Technica. Another story involving a sequence of events so entirely idiotic, it could only possibly occur in a government agency.  In the private sector, something … Continue reading

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CDC Study Confirms: John Lott Was Right

  Handguns, suicides, mass shootings deaths, and self-defense: Findings from a research report on gun violence. – Slate Magazine. Rare indeed is the article that will somehow manage to surprise both the pro and anti-gun crowds at the same time, … Continue reading

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The ABCT Explains The Student Loan Bubble

  Everything you need to know about the student loan rate hike. 2007 Trends in Higher Education Series:  Student Loans I’ve heard a lot of whining over the last few days from the college student crowd over the impending doom … Continue reading

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