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...
View ArticleMany 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...
View ArticleSpeak 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...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleGovernment 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...
View ArticleWildfires: 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleTwo 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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