Gun Rights, the Black Panthers, and ‘the South’ in the United States
From a report by Aaron Lake Smith in Vice: The Dallas New Black Panthers have been carrying guns for years. In an effort to ratchet up their organizing efforts, they formed the Huey P. Newton Gun Club,...
View ArticleIslamic Murders in Paris
Twelve people have been confirmed dead in a shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical publication. Armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the gunmen forced their...
View ArticleThe burden of imperialism, the virtues of immigration, and the importance of...
One thing I have noticed about the terrorist attacks in Paris is the relatively little that imperialism is brought up. The Muslims of France hail from parts of the world that were once a part of the...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo: Todos, nadie, uno.
La primera reacción pública frente al atentando a los integrantes de la redacción de la publicación satírica Charlie Hebdo fue acudir a la identificación con la víctima: “Je suis Charlie Hebdo”. En...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Jr Day and Civil Rights: A (True?) Libertarian’s Lazy...
History professor and fellow Notewriter Jonathan Bean has an op-ed out in the Daily Caller titled “Civil Rights Are Too Important To Be Left To Special-Interest Advocates.” From the opening paragraph:...
View ArticleGuantanamo: A Conservative Moral Blind Spot
A current Guantanamo detainee, Mohamedou Slahi, just published a book about his ordeal. The book is redacted of course but it still tells an arresting story. M. Slahi was captured in 2000. He has been...
View ArticleHow the Left Failed France’s Muslims: A Libertarian Response
Walden Bello, a sociologist in the Philippines, has a piece up over at the far-Left Nation titled “How the Left Failed France’s Muslims.” As with everything Leftist, it was packed with mostly nonsense...
View ArticleWrestling with the Non-Aggression Principle
There is a story, likely apocryphal, concerning the great rabbi Hillel. When Hillel was learning in his academy, a gentile came to him and demanded that he teach him the entirety of the Torah. To make...
View ArticleFifty Years of Voting
I cast my first vote in 1964, shortly after turning 21, the legal voting age in those days. I voted for Barry Goldwater who, although he described himself as a conservative, didn’t fit that category by...
View ArticleLe émeutes de Baltimore en blanc et noir
A Baltimore, un homme de vingt-cinq ans interpellé par la police en sort la colonne vertébrale brisée. Il en meure après quelques jours. L’interpellation elle-même était probablement illégale. (Aux...
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