Author: Mark Draughn
State of the Union – 2010
I usually try to make a few comments about the State of the Union address. This time, I’ve decided to include the entire text of the speech—even the parts I have nothing say about—so this post is going to be very long. Working from the official Whitehouse transcript: The White House Office of the Press… Read more
The Continuing Evil of Civil Asset Forfeiture
By the way, Radley Balko is not just a guy who knows how to find wacky videos. He’s also one of the most interesting investigative reporters working today. His latest piece is about some of the shocking things being done in the area of civil asset forfeiture. I’ve been saying for a while that asset… Read more
Economics Rap Duel
I don’t know if you’ll learn anything new from this, but for its format it’s a pretty accurate summary of the economic debate: (Hat tip: Radley Balko. Read more
Explain or Clam Up?
Scott Greenfield has a couple of interesting items up over at Simple Justice. First of all, there’s the case of the Jew with suspicious objects on board a plane, as originally reported in the New York Daily News: A US Airways crew panicked by a Jewish teen’s prayer ritual aborted a flight from LaGuardia Airport… Read more
Haiti
I really have nothing to say. I blog about justice and economics and freedom and government perfidy, but the disaster in Haiti right now has little to do with any of those things. I could probably find a way to link the disaster or the relief effort to one or more of my favorite topics,… Read more