[Editor’s note: In this article, originally published in October 1984, Murray Rothbard critiques a problem with the economics of Republicans and conservatives. Namely, its proponents think they can have it both ways by cutting tax rates and increasing government spending, while somehow not running up huge deficits. Much of this is based on the so-called […]
Making America Healthy Again, one Big Mac at a time: First it was the Kamala Harris claim that she worked at McDonald’s, a probably true but not totally proven story about a job she took back in college, told to try to make her seem middle-class and relatable. Then it was Donald Trump’s shift at a […]
When I first announced that I was moving to Indonesia in late 2007, one friend looked puzzled. “Indonesia…is that in Bali?” he asked. Interestingly, living in Jakarta is a lot like Houston, without the Cajun food. I stepped off the plane onto the tarmax on 14 February 2008, having boarded on a crisp winter’s monring […]
From Wednesday’s decision by District Judge Cogan (E.D.N.Y.) in Coward v. Nat’l Railroad Passenger Corp.: The lack of knowledge of the membership of a limited liability company or limited partnership has at times caused an enormous waste of judicial and party resources when a party purports to invoke diversity jurisdiction and it turns out later […]
Sedition and Prior Restraint “Clear and Present Danger” Schenck v. United States (1919) Debs v. United States (1919) Abrams v. United States (1919) Gitlow v. People of the State of New York (1925) Stromberg v. California (1931) When Is Conduct Speech? United States v. O’Brien (1968) Texas v. Johnson (1989) R.A.V. v. City of St. […]
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Western NGOs have sent the Georgian opposition political parties that they finance into the streets to protest the Georgian Dream Party’s sweep of the legislative elections. The Georgian Dream Party favors pragmatic relations with Russia, whereas the collection of small parties financed by the West want to create another Maidan Revolution to open a second […]
Social Security is very popular with Americans. Large majorities of Democrats and Republican like the program and want it to continue with no cuts in benefits, no increase in costs to taxpayers, and no real reforms of any kind. Unfortunately, Social Security is and always has been a scam that is rapidly approaching collapse. Economists […]
From Fagan v. Faulkner, decided Thursday by the Mississippi Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Josiah Coleman, joined by Justices James Maxwell, Dawn Beam, Robert Chamberlin, and Kenneth Griffis: The issues before the Court arose from a dispute between [Judy] Faulkner and [Dr. Bryan] Fagan at North Mississippi Surgery Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. The […]
Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference. The Lancer conference is being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. The CAPA conference is now being held online. There is also another excellent JFK conference on the same weekend sponsored by the JFK Historical Group. All three of them are […]