Police Statism

Reporters Warned By TSA Not To Report On Scanner Failures

by Manuel Lora March 9, 2012

The agency that is “tasked” with keeping flights “safe” is warning reporters not to report on scanner failures. You see, if terrorists were to find out these weaknesses it could jeopardize the security of passengers and indeed national security. Via Slashdot: “When anti-TSA activist Jonathan Corbett exposed a severe weakness in TSA’s body scanners, one would [...]

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Is an involuntary samaritan good? And can libertarians support a “good samaritan” law?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 22, 2012

This post is a slightly revised version of two comments I left on the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog in response to Matt Zwolinski’s post “What We Can Learn from Drowning Children.” In his post, Zwolinski takes Bryan Caplan to task for arguing that there is not much we are morally required to do for a [...]

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FBI arrest man in terrorist plot organized by the FBI

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 18, 2012

That’s a more accurate title for this news story: “FBI arrests Virginia man suspected of plotting attack on Capitol.” What the FBI is doing is called entrapment. No, worse, it’s like finding a virgin not previously interested in having sex with a prostitute, seducing him, teaching him how to have sex, getting him all horny, [...]

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Fears of Decentralization

by Robert Wicks February 8, 2012

Many libertarians, perhaps most notably Thomas E. Woods, support the decentralization of power from the federal government, including the power of nullification. Many people fear and denounce this power, often because they like the immense power of the central state and are supporters of big government. There are, however, some very real concerns by people [...]

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US No-Fly List Doubles in One Year

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 3, 2012

According to this AP report. Before long we will all be grounded except for privileged members of the Republicrat National Socialist Party, who will also have special Party stores that carry Eastern goods not available to mundanes. Is this the change we were told we hoped for? Do you really expect the next Republican president to [...]

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Kinsella on FreeTalkLive re SOPA and IP

by Stephan Kinsella January 23, 2012

Last night I appeared for two hours on FreeTalkLive (1-22-12 show), with hosts Mark Edge and Stephanie. We discussed intellectual property and SOPA. (Audio)

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TLS Podcast Picks: Stealth of Nations; SOPA

by Stephan Kinsella January 19, 2012

Recommended podcasts: “The Global Rise of the Informal Economy,” Slate’s The Afterword (Dec. 31, 2011): an interview with Robert Neuwirth, author of Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy, who argues that “one-half the world’s workers—close to 1.8 billion people—are involved in the informal economy in jobs that are ‘neither registered nor [...]

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