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At a time when the news is full of signs the government is growing and politicians are talking about expanding the federal bailout to $1.4 TRILLION, it could be easy to get pessimistic about the state of freedom in America. But a great article by Veronique de Rugy appeared in ...

Hey! That dog just pissed up against your dishwasher! Oh. Sure it was only a wee drop. Aren’t you going to kick it’s arse?

This is the greatest video ever. Ever. Sarah Palin shows up to a turkey farm in order to honor the longstanding Thanksgiving tradition of pardoning a single turkey as Governor of Alaska and stops to talk to reporters while a turkey is fed into a grinder chute behind her. This, ...

I had this blog analyzed by Typealyzer, and it has me pegged as an INTP-type personality on the basis of what I’ve written in this blog (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving). That’s interesting, because my normal Myers-Briggs typology is ENTJ (Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging). How is my blog different to my ...

The reality that in the year 2008, in the era of YouTube and global broadband internet, satellite TV with hundreds of channels and high-definition, the DVR, Hulu and so much more, an era when people are living free lives choosing entertainment from a staggering array of sources, that to this ...

Napolitano? Janet Napolitano? According to “multiple” sources cited by CNN, the Arizona Governor is Obama’s top choice for Homeland Security Secretary in his cabinet. This amazes me, not because I don’t think we could do worse as David Weigel suggests, but because I thought we could surely do better! I ...

Now it’s her turn to tell her side of the story. The escort whose services were the downfall of New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, Ashley Dupre, speaks to ABC’s Diane Sawyer this Friday night in her first TV interview since the scandal. This story was of particular interest to libertarians ...

You may know that I’ve been a huge admirer of Apple and Apple products for a very long time, and you may also know that I have a great admiration for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and pastafarians too. Now it has become clear that some Apple employees ...

…is not the statement of someone who actually finds dead babies funny. After all, where’s the humor in that? It is instead the statement of someone who finds the shocked reactions of others funny. And therein lies the humor. Or not. ‘Dead babies make me laugh’ was a Facebook group ...

All comments sections, past and present, are now open for comments again after we fixed an SQL database error (don’t ask). You don’t need to provide anything other than a screen name to post comments, so feel free! (Also, we’re libertarians so we’re not keen on censorship unless it’s disruptive.) ...

This economy really has me thinking about my assets and whether I actually have anything to sell that people would like to buy. My two real estate properties are worthless, as are my SUVs which nobody wants either. I can write (which I’m beginning to do more for some online ...

Libertarianism, like radio avertising in a down economy, is hard to sell. It’s the most misunderstood political philosophy around. I can’t tell you how many times people have come up to me and said, “Yeah, but if we don’t have speed limits everybody will crash. You can’t just have a ...

30 years ago this week, on November 18th, 1978, roughly a year and three months before I was born, 909 people in total – including infants who would have been among my generation – committed suicide together by drinking the Kool-Aid provided by Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. This is ...

So says a Los Angeles Times editorial today, and I couldn’t agree more: The FCC [has] showed an alarming willingness to use government power to impose ineffective and discriminatory decency rules on broadcasters in the name of shielding children from profane or violent programming. More relevant to a bygone era’s ...

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I’ve been having a conversation over at W&T that goes to the heart of the debate over how best to help the poor and whether capitalism is good or evil. It was prompted by the news that the Presbyterian Mutual Society is out of cash and can’t honor the withdrawal ...

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Howard Stern has enjoyed playing these clips of Pastor Manning for some time, but it took a phone call from Manning to the show today to make me interested enough to find it on YouTube. In this clip, Manning ...

Check it out: the Web Design Schools Guide came out with a list of the Top 100 Libertarian Blogs. That’s great. But even more interesting is why they would do it. Why would web entrepreneurs have any interest in libertarianism? Well, because many of them are libertarians. That’s right: the ...

I’ve had a difficult time making both the conservatives who hate him and the liberals who love him understand my position on the election of Barack Obama. I’ve said I think he’s a very intelligent man, that his incredible unflappability, control and calm are among the greatest attributes of any ...