From LRC 2005 The Iraqi Bill of Rights is Here!! Posted by Stephan Kinsella on July 8, 2005 12:39 AM Thank God! The draft of the Iraqi Bill of Rights just shows America is helping to spawn liberty in the mid-east. For example, the neo-con pro-Israeli hawks will no doubt love these provision: “Any individual […]
From LRC 2008: The “deeply dishonest” opponents of the President… Posted by Stephan Kinsella on July 9, 2008 03:13 PM According to Lincoln idolizing, Bush-voting, Iraq war armchair general, and soi-disant libertarian Tim Sandefur: Christopher Hitchens has a review here of Douglas Feith’s book War And Decision, which I’m currently reading. It is an outstanding […]
From LRC 2007 Update: See KOL250 | International Law Through a Libertarian Lens (PFS 2018) International Law, Libertarian Principles, and the Russia-Ukraine War On the UN, the Birchers, and International Law The UN, International Law, and Nuclear Weapons Nukes and International Law Neocons Hate International Law Posted by Stephan Kinsella on September 6, 2007 02:58 […]
Some spam I received a while back had this quote in it: “Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?” –George Wallace
While scanning files a while back in the process of going paperless, I came across a one-page Reading List, “Suggested by C. H. Murphy, Jr., to El Dorado High School students during National Library Week, April, 1964. I can’t remember where I got it, but reviewing it, we can see the times certainly have changed. […]
In a previous post, I noted the arbitrariness of copyright law in prohibiting editing a DVD to take out objectionable scenes, when presumably it would be legal to accomplish the same thing by other means–e.g., as I pointed out in a legal forum, by providing instructions to users to use to program a special DVD […]
Propaganda cartoon produced by Harding University, Searcy, Arkansas, 1948, warning of the dangers of socialism–which is refers to obliquely as “isms”. It’s a bizarre combination of pretty explicit anti-communist, anti-statist messages, plus a decent–if airbrushed–promotion of an idealized version of American capitalism, mixed in with endorsement of maionstream welfarism (unions, right to strike, etc.). (Google […]
Recently Walter Block was on a TV show run by black power advocates. He thought they were going to discuss the Katrina hurricane disaster in New Orleans, but the discussion ended up focusing on racism and a variety of other issues. Video; audio only. It is one of the most surreal and fascinating viewing experiences […]
At the recent CES, Intel gave a demo of its vision of a future smartphone. This reminded me of my 2004 LRC post, The future of technology, about an NTT DoCoMo video forecasting the future of mobile communications. I’ve updated the links in that post; it’s interesting to see the forecast for the 2010s made […]
On today’s Slate Political Gabfest, the liberal hosts Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are explicitly in favor of privacy-invading body-scanner technology. Consider this appalling interchange: Emily Bazelon: I’m all for these body scanners. I don’t care at all about the privacy violations associated with them. … Will Saletan <laugh> wrote a great piece that had […]
