Angelo M. Codevilla wrote an article, America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution, that received quite a bit of positive attention. For example Robert Higgs, Charles Burris, and Gary North all wrote glowing reviews of Mr. Codevilla’s essay. Mr. Codevilla’s piece basically says that the progressive movement has become the ruling class in [...]

H.L. Mencken On The Morality Of Voting “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” Emma Goldman On The Practicality Of Voting “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” A Campaign Sign Inspired By Art Hoppe Vote for Nobody Nobody Will Stop the Wars Nobody Will Eliminate Taxes Nobody Will [...]

I tended to dismiss Joe Sobran because of his National Review connection. Just by happenstance, the day before Sobran died, I listened to an audio of an interview Sobran did with Scott Horton. Joe Sobran had come a long way from his unthinking National Review conservatism. The following is from my ever fallible memory: “If [...]

Paul Craig Roberts announces that the US is a police state. Mr. Roberts points out that the recent raids on anti-war activists portend future prosecutions for anyone who opposes the empire. Mr. Roberts stance is well justified. Picking out communists, and other politically unpopular targets, is standard operating procedure. If you can establish that the [...]

Calls for a military draft in the United States continue. * Congressman Charlie Rangel has been pushing a bill for years that would re-institute a draft. Congressman Rangel thinks that the Iraq war would have never happened if there had been a draft at the time. * Peace activist Cindy Sheehan has proposed a draft [...]

John Stossel, in his program broadcast 9/2/2010 on the Fox Business Channel, covered the issue Good Intentions Gone Wrong on the Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA). As usual, Mr. Stossel does a good job explicating the unfortunate effects of a government program, the ADA. As is typical of Mr. Stossel, he makes the assumption Congress passed [...]

Last year, independent truckers were protesting plans by the Port of Los Angeles that would put them out of business due to the high costs of complying with pollution abatement. The latest news, reported here and here, has about 12 thousand of the 19 thousand truckers out of business. Another 3 thousand support jobs have [...]

Bruce Schneier writes about how people are wrongfully convicted in Misidentification and the Court System. The Slate article that Mr. Schneier references is well worth reading. The article describes how about half of the district attorneys and detectives that are presented with incontrovertible evidence of the innocence of someone they have convicted will stoutly defend [...]

In the article In the Tea Party Era, Which Way Should Libertarians Lean?, three writers provide advice to libertarians. The article is a summary and discussion of the views presented in the Reason article, Where Do Libertarians Belong?. The discussion has a number of comical elements. The idea that libertarians need to lean in any [...]

In the Cato Unbound article Surveillance of Our Enemies During Wartime? I’m Shocked!, John Eastman responds to an article, The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous, by Glenn Greenwald. Eastman provides all sorts of historical and legal precedents for surveillance. Eastman accuses Greenwald of ignoring the fact that “we are at war”. In his [...]