The coming showdown between the United States of America and the State of Arizona over the jurisdiction and authority of each with respect to enforcement of immigration law actually signifies not one but two kinds of constitutional crises.
The more obvious of these is over the governing document of our republic. Specifically, the meaning and implications [...]
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Everything in this ad from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation appears to be factually accurate. But look a bit more carefully at that $100,000 bill. Notice two, important things about it. First, it is a United States Note, i.e., issued by the Treasury of the United States. Not a Federal Reserve Note, i.e., issued by [...]
The duopoly stranglehold on the electoral process has led a few libertarian activists (i.e., those who wish to move beyond providing a symbolic, None-of-the-Above, ballot alternative) to run as a candidate of one of the old parties.
The chances of a principled individual surviving the the natural selection of the primary vetting process, a Darwinian exercise [...]
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
but in ourselves that we are underlings.”
– Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II
If Cassius was right, then what is it about April 19th? If not some peculiar alignment in the heavens, why is it that this particular calendar date is so strongly correlated with defiant — usually [...]
Describe the illustration on this vase, then click on it to discover the answer.
There’s a classic libertarian bumper sticker that says: “Don’t steal. The government hates the competition.” If it’s ever made into a poster, Bernie Madoff could be the poster boy.
Otto Vin Bismark’s most famous contribution to the compendium of quotable quotes has undoubtedly been the observation that “There are two things you don’t want to see being made — sausage and legislation.”
Here is the story of how the Libertarian Party of Michigan finally managed to get onerous, state ballot access requirements for minor parties [...]
Approximately 700,000 vehicles were purchased and destroyed in the $3 billion “Cash for Clunkers” program
A “clunker” that gets 15mpg and travels 12,000 miles per year, consumes 800 gallons of gasoline per year
A new “fuel-efficient” replacement vehicle that gets 25mpg and travels 12,000 miles per year, consumes 480 gallons of gasoline per year
Replacing a clunker thereby [...]
Atlanta. The National Centers for Disease Control has issued a warning that a debilitating social disease will very likely strike the entire country later this year. Although similar to other social diseases in being propagated exclusively by behavior, Gonorrhea Lectim is electorally rather than sexually transmitted. It comes from maintaining mind-bogglingly faithful relationships with elephants [...]


