property rights

Below is a lightly-edited transcript of my presentation of the same title to the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Youtube embedded below. For the podcast, related links, and associated powerpoint slides, see KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019). I expect to publish a version of […]

A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. Although tragic, the above news reads like a routine item from occupied Palestine, where shooting and killing unarmed protesters is part […]

“How ‘secure’ do our homes remain if police, armed with no warrant, can pound on doors at will and … foricibly enter?” — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the lone dissenter in Kentucky v. King Americans are not safe in their homes. Not anymore, at least. This present menace comes from the government and […]

Tom Bethell, a British expat with one of the most graceful writing styles in Washington, passed away last month at the age of 84.  For going on 40 years, Tom was a columnist for the American Spectator.  I wrote for the Spectator in the mid-late 1990s, and Tom was always one of my fav folks […]
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Property rights are basic to human civilization, but TN has said for years that Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy, is a front to take away property rights and grab the land for the "global commons". This article from Oxfam is just recognizing this problem.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 311. This is my appearance on the Nate the Voluntaryist Livestream #194, from Jan. 5, 2021 (Nate’s Bitchute channel). We discussed intellectual property, section 230 of the CDA and the DMCA, argumentation ethics, and Q&A from the audience. Youtube: Nate’s streaming audio:

After a farmer was authorized to grow wheat by 2 other federal agencies, the US Army Corps of Engineers informed him that, under the Clean Water Act, he needed a permit to farm his property and now faces severe penalties.

Kanye West was addressing the homeless crisis on his own 300-acre plot of land, on his own dime, at zero cost to the the government. Yet, the government required him to either get a new set of permits or tear down the structures.

Illinois has the highest property tax in the nation, with an average of 2.67%, and as high as 5% in some areas, yet the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago proposed an additional 1% rate hike to cover the state's underfunded pension problem. The revenue would help only five state pensions, while 650 county and city pension funds remain to be 'fixed'. [God help property owners in Illinois.] [...]

A NJ housing developer issued a notice to its renters advising them that “No one will be permitted to store, or carry a gun or rifle, or any other type of firearm of any kind in the building, or on the grounds.” If a firearm is discovered, they say they will evict.