Thoughts, essays, and writings on Liberty. Written by the heirs of Patrick Henry.

August 25, 2008

Libertarians Who Don’t Respect Property Rights

A blogger at Lew Rockwell.com decries the notion that private organizations have the right to make their own rules: Homeowners’ associations can be filled with hordes of power mongering, petty, little tyrants who love to play Big Bureaucrat and run the lives of everyone else. In Texas – of all places – there is an [...]

Posted By: Doug Mataconis @ 7:06 pm || Permalink || Comments (15) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Individual Rights,Property Rights
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August 14, 2008

Government Reefer Madness Update: Lynch Receives 100 Year Sentence

This is an update to a post I wrote in late June. Maybe its time to propose some sort of “fully informed jury” legislation and demand a return to federalism?

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August 13, 2008

Barr Weighs in on No-Knock Raids

I didn’t see the press release from the Bob Barr campaign when I wrote yesterday’s post so I thought I would pass along some of his thoughts on the issue today. The case Barr is specifically referring to is the recent raid in Berwyn Heights, Maryland. Here are a few excerpts: “Absent exigent circumstances, not [...]

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July 26, 2008

The Time for Liberty is Now

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July 23, 2008

Cali Going “Green” — Raising House Prices By Restricting Supply

California, in an attempt to fix the housing mess* by making houses less affordable by making you buy features you wouldn’t otherwise**, has announced new statewide building restrictions to go “green”. From the Governator on down, nanny statists in California are more than willing to use force to make your life more expensive, and are [...]

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July 16, 2008

What is Your Life Worth?

No, I didn’t ask you about your net worth but what dollar value would you say that your life is worth to you. Most of us would not be able to come up with a figure or might say that putting an exact dollar amount on one individual’s life (especially one’s own) is impossible to [...]

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Banned!

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June 23, 2008

Government Reefer Madness

Its stories like these that make my blood boil. Here we have a young man who has found relief from serious pain with marijuana. I have yet to read a story where anyone has overdosed and died from smoking too much cannabis but for some reason, our federal government sees a need to prosecute those [...]

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June 22, 2008

Obama & McCain Call For Renewed Laws Against Witchcraft and Those Who Make Infernal Pacts With the Devil

In barbaric cultures, when people find themselves facing unpleasant changes, like the failure of crops or natural disasters, they look for scapegoats to blame. In the Europe and early colonial America, all to often the quest for a scapegoat took the form of a persecuting old women, who were charged with having used magic to [...]

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June 21, 2008

Remember Kelo

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is no force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist.”- John Adams Monday is third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s [...]

Posted By: Jason Pye @ 2:53 pm || Permalink || Comments (2) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Constitution,Property Rights
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June 4, 2008

You can’t own property in California

Property rights took a hit in California yesterday: Voters in California yesterday overwhelmingly supported Proposition 99, a ballot measure that will significantly empower state and local officials to seize private property via eminent domain, and rejected Proposition 98, which would have protected property rights and ended rent control. As legal scholar Ilya Somin noted in [...]

Posted By: Jason Pye @ 9:29 am || Permalink || Comments (14) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Property Rights
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May 29, 2008

States Rights — Petty Oppression Better Than Widespread Oppression?

I’ve long said that I only support democracy so much as democracy improves individual rights. Likewise, I only support federalism and states rights so much as they improve individual rights. Federalism is a means, and liberty is an end. And as this story shows, local government doesn’t always lead to more libertarian ends than we [...]

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May 22, 2008

Third Police Officer Sentenced in Kathryn Johnston Case

(WSB Radio) A Fulton county judge came down hard on Atlanta police officer Arthur Tesler, giving him near the maximum for his role in the killing of Kathryn Johnston. Judge Michael Johnson sentenced Tesler to 4 1/2 years in prison for lying to investigators. Tesler was part of the cover up of the botched drug [...]

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May 5, 2008

The Next Phase of the Kathryn Johnston Saga Begins

(WSB Radio) Opening arguments begin today in the trial of an Atlanta police officer charged in connection with killing of Kathryn Johnston. Arthur Tesler is the only cop to go on trial for the shooting of the 92 year old woman in her Atlanta home. Tesler did not fire a shot during the November 2006 [...]

Posted By: Stephen Littau @ 9:34 am || Permalink || Comments Off || TrackBack URI || Categories: Constitution,Crime and Punishment,Individual Rights,Legal,Police Watch,Privacy,Property Rights,The War on Drugs
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May 1, 2008

Hey, At Least They’re Honest!

I found this little gem on reason.tv. On April 16, 2008 a group called Ad Hoc National Network to Stop Evictions and Foreclosures held a protest in Washington D.C. What were they protesting? As the name of the organization suggests, Ad Hoc was advocating a freeze on all evictions in the U.S. Many of the [...]

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April 14, 2008

Bob Barr’s Missed Opportunity

When I learned that Bob Barr was going to be a guest on Hannity and Comes, I was excited to see a rare opportunity for a Libertarian candidate to explain the Libertarian philosophy to an audience which is largely unfamiliar with what the Libertarian Party is all about: personal liberty. To my dismay, Barr instead [...]

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April 11, 2008

Should Libertarians be Concerned About “Small” Abuses by the Government?

In my most recent post, I listed the names of the top 5 “porkers” in the House and the Senate according to CAGW’s 2008 edition of the Pig Book. I also listed the amount of pork the three leading candidates for president supported and named the ten members of the House which supported no pork [...]

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February 27, 2008

I Don’t Smoke — But ‘My Character’ Does!

Bars in Minnesota are finding interesting and creative ways to get around the state smoking ban: What started as a quirky idea to get around the statewide smoking ban appears to be spreading like wildfire. Dozens of bars are expected to stage “theater nights” this weekend in which patrons are dubbed actors. The law, which [...]

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February 21, 2008

More on Obama’s Doublespeak

Last week I wrote a post about how Barack Obama was trying to have it both ways on the Second Amendment. Ken Blackwell at Townhall.com, however, believes that Obama’s doublespeak about the Second Amendment (among some of Obama’s other statements) reveals a disturbing pattern in his attitudes about individual rights and a host of other [...]

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February 19, 2008

Today In History — FDR Signs Executive Order 9066

A dark chapter in American history begins with the signing of an Executive Order: United States Executive Order 9066 was a presidential executive order issued during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, using his authority as Commander-in-Chief to exercise war powers to send ethnic groups to internment camps. This [...]

Posted By: Doug Mataconis @ 7:53 am || Permalink || Comments (8) || TrackBack URI || Categories: History,Individual Rights,Property Rights,The Surveillance State
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