“It is universally deemed one of the tasks of legislation and government to protect the individual from himself.” –Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition, p. 30
The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, has become one news topic that my friends
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Subjective Value versus Positivism: An Application of Methodological Issues to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
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The Humanitarian War Fallacy
Many of today’s social theorists are utilitarians. Broadly speaking, a utilitarian is someone who believes justice can be arrived at through a cost-benefit analysis. For example, a utilitarian economist would tell you that, before considering a new
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Leakers and Dead Afghans
Antiwar reported these two statistics a few days ago.
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/09/un-record-civilian-deaths-in-2010-afghanistan/
http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Obama_Files_More_Anti_Leaker_Cases_in_2_Years_than_all_Presidents_in_Last_40_Years_110309
I wonder how closely they are related.
Mark is an amateur student of history and libertarianism from Ottawa, Canada. He is currently travelling in Spain. He hopes to be able to sustain himself
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Truth and the CRTC
What is truth? Pontius Pilate is famously portrayed asking that question in the New Testament. Unbeknownst to many, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications (CRTC) is also mandated to answer that question if called upon — though, thankfully, it hasn’t yet.
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End the Government’s Monopoly on Gambling
Super Bowl weekend is upon us and that means people will be gambling like no other time of the year. About US$100 million will be bet on Sunday’s game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. But that’s
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Going too far with Law and Order
In no policy area has Stephen Harper’s government been more successful in passing legislation than criminal justice. With some exceptions, the opposition parties have dared not oppose the Prime Minister’s law and order agenda lest they come off appearing soft
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The Case of Algeria
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 by posted in Capitalism, Civil Liberties, Economics, Foreign Policy, Politics, Trade.
Having been totally unaware of the socio-economic strife occurring in two North African countries since the end of 2010, I was surprised to hear an NPR broadcast concerning this topic on January 11th. What I wasn’t surprised about was the
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The Entrepreneur Who Sparked a Revolution
A couple of days ago, this blog noted the low levels of economic freedom among the Arab countries lately rocked by upheaval and protests. But this lack of freedom has manifested itself more vividly at the individual level. His name
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The Right to Self-Defense
The story of government over the last century is largely the story of how it has abused its monopoly over legal coercion and extended it to regulate areas of our lives outside its legitimate purview. Much of this incursion has
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Canadian Broadcasting in Dire Straits
You may or you may not agree with the recent Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) “ban” on “Money for Nothing,” a Dire Straits hit from 1985, but we can probably all agree that this event has sparked an intense debate
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