Some of the more controversial parts of the new Arizona immigration law signed by Gov. Jane Brewer have been blocked by Judge Susan Boyle, and, according to Roto-Reuters, a hearing for Arizona’s appeal will be in early November, in time for the next rearranging of deck chairs on the Titanic. Now, I’m not an “open [...]
William Grigg: The Plunderbund’s Persecution of Phil Hart ….During his long reign as West Virginia’s pompadoured paladin of pork, Byrd never faced an ethics inquiry. This is because the erstwhile Klansman was a dutiful servant of the Plunderbund. By way of contrast, Idaho state representative Phil Hart finds himself arraigned before the ethics commisariat because [...]
Jacob Hornberger: The Graveyard of Empires …No matter how bad things get for the Empire, U.S. officials become more and more determined to stay the course and let the chips fall where they may, including the possibility of economic and financial bankruptcy for the United States. Governmental pride and military pride are at stake, after [...]
Russell Longcore: Secession and Ockham’s Razor The US Constitution was a quiet coup d’etat. It established the foundation for an uncontrollable and unaccountable central government. The seeds sown in 1789 are now a maturing crop of crushing taxation, relentless regulation and unchecked tyranny. The US Constitution was designed to be ambiguous, to protect the Federal [...]
Glenn Greenwald writes about CNN nudniks Kyro Phillips and John Roberts in their tirade against “anonymous bloggers,” who are “cowards,” etc., and who believe that “something is going to have to be done legally.” Greenwald points out CNN’s and other news media outlets’ use of anonymous sources for news stories, and also: These CNN journalists [...]
Some bloggers, such as Juan Cole, and Media Matters and news media elites have been making fun of or criticizing Glenn Beck for Beck’s implying that Obama might be planning to assassinate Tea Partiers, or others being falsely labeled as “militants,” “extremists,” etc. by the Obama Administration, and described by the DC rulers as “threat” [...]
I have a clarification on a small part of my article on LewRockwell.com this weekend, Politics or Principle. In the fourth paragraph, I wrote, One thing I don’t understand is how the Tea Party movement, which supposedly supports limited government and moral values, nevertheless supports the U.S. government’s Leviathan bureaucratic military socialism, its foreign interventionism, [...]
Politics or Principle, by Scott Lazarowitz July 24, 2010 Copyright © 2010 by LewRockwell.com Link to this article at LewRockwell.com “Politics or Principle” was the theme of Congressman Ron Paul’s farewell speech in 1984 and of his two presidential campaigns. Advocating the principle of Liberty is the theme of those in the libertarian school of [...]
Gary North Details an Upcoming Economics Seminar at the Mises Institute James Taranto Asks If David Frum Really Thinks Dan Rather Was the Liberal Breitbart Kevin Smith on a Proposed Law to Give Copyright Protection to the Publishing Industry at the Expense of Taxpayers and Public Domain William Anderson on the Child Abuse False Accusation [...]
Property Rights, The Right to Exclude, and NIMBY Nazis Justin Raimondo has this commentary on the New York City “Ground Zero Mosque” proposal. He says it’s actually not a mosque but a community center like the YMCA, and that the actual property is located four blocks from the former World Trade Center site. While the [...]
The Andrew Breitbart-Shirley Sherrod fiasco aside, this week’s uncovering of the ‘Journolist’ conspiracy to suppress stories that were unfavorable to then-2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama has piqued my interest. The Daily Caller’s Jonathan Strong writes: Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a [...]
Here is economist Walter Block’s very interesting review of what sounds like a very interesting new book, Libertarianism Today by Jacob Huebert.