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Newt has raised Cold War-style paranoia to an art form

Here’s a somewhat funny article from Gizmodo that points out Newt’s misplaced fear of a EMP attack from Iran, North Korea or some other member of the Axis of Evil. (Saudi Arabia, the brutal Islamist...

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Many Americans don’t pay income tax. Is this a bad thing?

Last week, the Heritage Foundation published commentary on the number of Americans who pay income tax, and decried the fact that 49.5 percent of Americans are “not represented on a taxable return.” The...

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Speak English or Else

In spite of global economic woes and sovereign debt crises and the run up to World War III in southwest Asia, there are some who still manage to find the time to call for English-only laws in...

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It’s Rothbard contra the conservatives this summer in Denver

If you happen to be a University of Colorado student, or if you’d like to shell out lots of bucks as a non-degree student, join me this summer at the Denver campus for an upper-division, 3-credit-hour...

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The myth of high Muslim fertility rates, and the threat they pose

Important to the anti-Muslim narrative is the idea that Muslims reproduce at prodigious rates, and that this poses an existential threat to the West. Specifically, Muslims are reproducing so quickly,...

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‘Hispanic’ vs. ‘White’

As a Hispanic, watching the media’s use of terms like “white” and “Hispanic” and “Latino” in the Zimmerman-Martin case has been an occasion for much eye-rolling. The way the press uses these terms...

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Government stats now eyed with suspicion

Another one of the positive side effects of the current economic crisis is that even the government’s statistics, once accepted uncritically by the media, are now faced with some skepticism. As someone...

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Wildfires: Government praised for ‘solving’ problem it started

As the wildfires raged, apologists for government thought they had a trump card against libertarians and triumphantly concluded this was the latest proof that the government and its firefighters remain...

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“We Now Have Our Smallest Government in 45 Years”

That’s the absurd title to a blog post over at The Atlantic today. The writer claims that the U.S. government is now the smallest it’s been since LBJ was president. The article is making the rounds...

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Two New Books on Pop Culture by Libertarians

In the past two weeks, both Paul Cantor and I have released new books on television, literature and film.My new book, Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre is now...

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