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Greedy-Bastard Economics

If your landlord or apartment manager hasn’t gotten around to fixing your garbage disposal for weeks, how carefully do you think about why? If you are like many people, you simply blame your landlord...

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We Don’t Need to Rush to Misjudgment

Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794) 2009 has seen massive expansions of government control over people’s lives, always justified as necessary because of a claimed crisis and demanding immediate federal...

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“Man alone is an end unto himself.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) November 7 marks the 1913 birth of Albert Camus, 1957 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for work that “illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”...

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Preventing the Prostitution of Freedom

In America today, for every problem, a national “solution” is proposed, regardless of how individual or local the issues are. Whether we consider housing, education, energy, transportation, finance,...

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Thinking Resolutions Through

Socrates argued that the unexamined life was not worth living. So, in a world short on serious reflection, New Year’s resolutions can lead to useful self-examination. But it is important that we think...

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Words and Politics

Whenever political correctness fades from the headlines, another example pops up. The latest installment comes from Washington State Senate President pro tem Rosa Franklin. She has proposed replacing...

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We Don’t Sing in the Rain

Having grown up near a rain forest on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, with friends I have visited during “monsoon seasons” in Florida and elsewhere, I’ve seen rain before, and even have some idea of...

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Our Founders’ Supreme Court Litmus Tests

Justice Stevens’ forthcoming retirement from the Supreme Court has triggered instant buzz and opposition research in Washington, beginning with the short list passed over for Sonia Sotomayor. But the...

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Remember Emerson’s Legacy of Liberty

May 25 marks Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birthday. “The Sage of Concord” was a major poet and influence on 19th century America and is considered as “the outstanding representative of romantic symbolism in...

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Remembering Longshoreman Philosophy

July 25 marks the 1902 birth of Eric Hoffer, known as the “longshoreman philosopher” for the manual labor he performed for most of his life. In eleven books, beginning with The True Believer, the...

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Using Jobs Against Workers

Sensitized by month after month of bogus claims of jobs “created or saved” by government stimulus, the vast mountain of misleading Labor Day bloviation about government and unions as the source of jobs...

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Celebrating Robert LeFevre’s Centennial

This year is the centennial of someone little known outside libertarian circles but very important within: Robert LeFevre. According to Damon Gross, “Robert LeFevre was a leading intellectual force in...

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Restrict government, not superstores

California has long been in the forefront of attempts by unions and their liberal allies to legally protect themselves against more efficient competitors, despite the inherent harm to consumers. One...

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Justice versus Social Justice

There was a time when people understood justice far better than we do today. Aristotle’s definition was “Justice is to give every man his own.” Cicero’s was almost identical. America’s Declaration of...

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Distinguishing Chaos from Incomprehensible Order

With the turning of a new year, many make resolutions intended to improve their lives. Most of them involve rectifying perceived errors, mistakes and failings in people’s personal lives. But making...

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Constitutional Law Is Supposed to Be Different

Constitutional law is supposed to be different from other types of law. But the Obamacare litigation headed to the Supreme Court shows that liberal interpreters of the Constitution have forgotten the...

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Screwtape Politics

If there is one thing the 2012 presidential campaign has already taught us, it is that past complainers that politics was negative and underhanded didn’t know how good they had it. Abetted by...

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Amoral markets versus immoral coercion

I am a believer in the power of liberty — voluntary relationships — to bring out the best in individuals and, therefore, society. But that well-founded belief makes it painful to see markets (willing...

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What should government do?

Toward the end of his State of the Union speech, President Obama said “I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by...

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Déjà vu on the greatest food stamp fraud

The Los Angeles Times has given me a case of déjà vu. It recently (February 6) ran an opinion piece titled "Food stamp fight," by history professors Lisa Levenstein and Jennifer Mittelstadt, that had...

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