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News of the Week: You Call this a War?

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. Anthony Gregory asks, “You call this a war? I’ll show you a war.” He contends that we are prone to ...

News of the Week: The Government Wants Your Internets!

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. RawStory reports that ISPs based in the United States will begin reporting your internet usage to the Feds as early ...

News of the Week: Did Pat Robertson just spurn the drug war?

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. From the “Did this just happen?” Department: televangelist and 700 Club leader Pat Robertson now says that marijuana should be ...

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. From the nanny-state department… The Feds have now mandated that all new cars must be built with rear-view cameras by ...

News of the Week: The Great Gibson Guitar Raid

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. Last week I mentioned that I would be defending my PhD Thesis in Chemical Engineering. Well, I passed! The DOCTOR ...

News of the Week: Fiat Money Proves Useful After All

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. Needy in Hungary? (Pun intended.) How about burning your fiat currency to stay warm? I just knew there had to ...

News of the Week: Iran concerned about United States obtaining its 8500th Nuke

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. Tom Woods posted a fun article this week concerning 26 Things Non-Paul Voters are Basically Saying. Sadly, Judge Andrew Napolitano’s ...

News of the Week: War, books, and Romans

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. Economist, Mises Institute scholar, and friend Bob Murphy gives his perspective on Romans 13, pehaps the first of several posts ...

News of the Week: On Secular Theocracy and Sentencing.

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Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. David Theroux at the Independent Institute has written an excellent article called Secular Theocracy. You will see many references to ...

News of the Week, January 15-21, 2012

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Today we restart the traditional News of the Week posts, where we highlight a few significant, interesting, and amusing stories each week. David Neff at Christianity Today wonders if an ...

Is there still a Bill of Rights?

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Today is the 220th anniversary of the Bill of Rights being passed. Cato-at-Liberty surveys the current state of these safeguards, and it is not particularly pleasant to consider how pathetic ...

“Is Saul also among the prophets?” or, the Rush Limbaugh flip-flop

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In another bizarre twist that characterizes American politics, Rush Limbaugh has endorsed Ron Paul’s new budget plan (reported yesterday on LCC), including his cuts to foreign wars. Really, I’m not ...

There are no more Churches in Afghanistan

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If I were to tell you that the condition of the Body of Christ in Afghanistan is dire, would you believe me? If I told you that the United States ...

The “Extensive Failure” of Full Body Scanners and the Politics Behind It

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I posted this article at another website that I help manage, StopAustinScanners.org. The recent meeting of the Austin Airport Advisory Commission to discuss the upcoming installation of “Advanced Imaging Technology” ...

Freakonomics on the Ten Commandments of The American Religion, and more.

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More from the “blog posts you should read” department… The gentlemen at the Freakonomics blog had some excellent things to say about the Ten Commandments of The American Religion. Some ...

Don’t be duped by this dope, errr, Pope.

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According to Pope Benedict, “The economy cannot be measured by the maximum profit but by the common good.” I’m still waiting for him, or anyone else, to explain exactly how ...

Lighter fare for today

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And now for something completely different… Ok not completely different, but some lighter fare for today because it’s a nice summer day and we’ve been tackling some really heavy stuff ...

80% of Americans should write a check to the U.S. Treasury then SHUT UP.

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President Obama says the public is “sold” on tax increases in the debt-ceiling deal. In fact, he even says that 80 percent of Americans support the higher taxes he offers. ...

Mother arrested for not wanting her daughter sexually assaulted by the TSA

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I’m just going to let Kathryn Muratore at the LRC blog spell this one out for us… The details on this story are very sparse, and the phrasing of the ...

Breaking: Ron Paul will not run for Congress again

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Lew Rockwell reports that Ron will not run for Congress in 2012, and will completely focus on the presidential campaign. Ron Paul, the amazing and principled politician, is not running ...

The final push against the TSA in Texas

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I have been at the forefront of fighting the TSA’s “enhanced security” theater in Texas for some time. We have gained so much momentum in the last month that now ...

Texas House passes legislation banning Security-Theatre Patdowns

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David Simpson, the heroic Texas representative who is taking a serious lead in fighting back against the TSA and more in the Texas House. I think he is the Ron ...

Should I be thanking God that Bin Laden is dead?

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After a brutal week of nature-induced devastation in the deep South and continuation of military-induced devastation in Libya, America began this week with President Obama announcing to the world that ...

Action Alert: Support measures to criminalize TSA abuses TODAY

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I do not normally post stuff this intensely “legislative” on LCC, but today is an exception.  StopAustinScanners.org calls to action all supporters of civil liberties today! There are two bills ...

News of the Week: Potpourri of Sorts

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Recapping the interesting and noteworthy happenings of the last week. Dilbert author Scott Adams finally explains how to get a real education. ExxonMobil’s Perspectives Blog tells the truth about government ...

News of the Week: Saved from Doom!!!

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Highlighting the interesting and notable events of the past week… I love this post by my dear friend Anthony Gregory at the Independent Institute: “Saved from the Precipice of Doom!” ...

Libertarians call for permanent government shutdown

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The Libertarian Party issued the following press release this afternoon. It’s pretty good, with one particular flaw but enjoyable nonetheless. Gotta love Wes Benedict, who is a good friend of ...

Another war?

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Jon Stewart tells it like it is. Pardon the colorful language (it is bleeped out), but this is great.

The Bleeding Heart Conversation

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I couldn’t be more excited about the conversation going on at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog. The BHL blog is an ongoing conversation between libertarians who share many of the same ...

News of the Week: Austrian Scholars Conference 2011

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Recapping and highlighting the interesting news this week. I have been in Auburn, Alabama this week attending the Austrian Scholars Conference at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. What a wonderful ...

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