Freedom

It's been a rough week for liberty.To begin with, we had two terrorist style attacks, the moderately successful Boston Marathon bombing, and the failed ricin poisoning. I doubt either attack was because "they hate our freedom" (few attacks are) but the attacks themselves are attacks on our freedom. As is often the case, just as the human body's immune system sometimes … [Read more...] about A Bad Week For Liberty

Over at The Agitator guest blogger Jason Kuznicki has a post explaining how the right wing gets freedom wrong. I think he explains it very well, but that didn't stop me from writing some commentary on Kuznicki points over at Nobody's Business. … [Read more...] about A Libertarian Telling the Right Where They Go Wrong

In response to my noting that the Florida Supreme Court has approved the state's policy of convicting people of possessing drugs without proving they did so knowingly (a problem not unique to Florida), someone named Paul Murray comments, Surely all that's needed is to get a pickpocket to plant some grass clippings on these judges. Yeah, I'm convinced that one of the reasons … [Read more...] about Towards Shifting the Judicial Balance

I've always been wary of Godwin's Law -- the internet maxim which says that if you are in an argument and you compare someone or something to Hitler or the Nazis, you automatically lose the argument. (Actually, Mike Godwin's original comment was more nuanced than Godwin's Law has become today. Wikipedia has a nice summary.) Granted, there's way too much of that going … [Read more...] about Don’t Let Godwin’s Law Protect Totalitarians

I have an actual specific plan for how just a few hundred people can turn the tide of freedom in this country. Details in my latest post at Nobody's Business. … [Read more...] about How To Win the Fight For Freedom in America