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Specter and the Rule of Law

After Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D – Pa.) switch to the Democratic Party yesterday, I decided to check out a piece he wrote for The...

Connecting Liberty and Equality

For an allegedly "grotesque" (but, thankfully, "innocuous") confusion, Sam Barr's equation of liberty and equally is pretty well-founded empirically. Think about the history of...

Tough Week for Republicans

But then, every week lately is a tough week for Republicans.  First the Republicans became the semi-official Torture Party. Then, while the Republicans are...

Gay Marriage and Neutral Principles

With all this talk about gay marriage, we eventually have to come to the question: Who decides? Who gets to say whether we will...

Yes, Virginia, this is Socialism

GM has come forward this morning and announced that the only way they will survive is to be nationalized.  That's right, they are voluntarily...

"Never On the Planning Committee"

I know that Daniel is only trying to soften his blows, but really, I don't think my argument can be "innocuous" and "unfortunate" at...

On Blah: A Theory of Blah: And South Africa!

To begin with, the confusion is grotesque, not the inestimable Samuel Barr - I must post if only to stress that. Said grotesquerie is...

Furrin Affairs

When the Secretary of State does things like visit Lebanon to express her not-so-subtly-veiled hope that Hezbollah will not win the elections, I'm not...

Re: Liberty, Equality, Blah Blah Blah

Danny B, who thankfully is the first person ever to accuse me of "grotesque confusion" (in those exact terms at least), takes the true...

Liberty, Equality, Tradition, and Marriage: a modest title

Marriage isn't really one of my issues, and as HPR's libertarian-in-residence (though I'd proudly call myself an American reactionary) the entire gay marriage debacle...