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John Markley's blog on current politics and political philosophy, from a libertarian perspective. Has commentary on economics, war and peace, the nanny state, law enforcement, and the nature of statism.
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Race and police misconduct
I’ve been following the case of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates with some interest. (Here's a quick bit of background, in case you've spent the last few weeks living in a sensory deprivation tank or on some sort of eremitic desert religious retrea...
Palin 2012: Somewhat Less Godawfulness You Can Believe In
I’m actually a little sad to see Sarah Palin go. I was no fan, but of the four candidates and running mates during the election- McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden- I found her the least objectionable. I admit that my opinion may be shaded by my reflexi...
Unintended consequences
Writing about the problems that arise when the government intertwines itself with an area of the private economy, in this case medicine, Roderick Long writes: When so much of the health care system has been unnaturally sucked into the federal embrac...
Sheep's clothing
As the old Vulcan proverb says, only Nixon could go to China. His reputation as a devoted Cold Warrior meant no one could plausibly accuse him of being soft on Communism for opening relations with China, whereas a dove who attempted it would have be...
Sarah Palin thoughts
Well, by now everyone knows that John McCain has selected Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. It’s a relief for me; there used to be a bit of speculation (or perhaps just neocon wishful thinking) that he would pick Joseph Lieberman as...
Barbarism
Today is the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, where the United States government immolated tens of thousands of innocent people and sentenced tens of thousands more to slower but no less awful deaths by radiation sickness and ca...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, probably the most famous anti-Communist writer of the 20th Century, is dead at 89. His death should be an occasion for self-reflection and shame in the West. Faced with the most monstrous evil in human history, how did the l...
Ron Paul is a stupidhead and his mom dresses him funny!
My middle name is "Drew," and for most of my childhood that's what everyone called me. (And before you become the quadrillionth person to ask: No, it's not short for Andrew.) I'm still called this within my family to prevent confusion, due to the fac...
Shut up and enjoy your freedom of speech!
Robert Murphy at Crash Landing comments on the following phenomenon:It always amazes me when someone will complain about the government on some issue, and then some blowhard comes back with, "You're lucky you live in a country where you have the righ...
Great moments in American democracy
You know, there’s political stupidity, and then there’s… Well, this guy:SOUTH BEND, Ind. (April 23) - A congressional candidate is defending his speech to a group celebrating the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth, saying he appeared simply be...
The mother of invention
Faced with an unending flood of nonsense and partisan hackery from Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb, Julian Sanchez has contrived an ingenious labor-saving device: Goldfarb’s hackiest post of the day will be henceforth recognized with a lin...
Injustice and its non-celebrity victims
Over at Hit and Run, Michael Moynihan has a post about Mumia Abu-Jamal that got me thinking. Why did Mumia Abu-Jamal become such a prominent cause, as opposed to any of the myriad other people imprisoned in this country, many under circumstances far...
Thoughts on William F. Buckley
Much has been said, both good and bad, about William F. Buckley since his death. While I don’t mean to minimize his very real and serious faults, I would like to talk about the positive effect he had on me, personally.When I was a young conservati...
Statists distort libertarianism, Episode 4,367
Excellent post by Will Wilkinson on this embarrassing screed about libertarianism in The Weekly Standard. The Weekly Standard article is a useful reminder of how little neocons have strayed from their roots- neoconservatism is still liberalism’s ...
