Monthly Archives: July 2009

AP IP

31st
Jul. × ’09
By Roderick

Kevin Carson: A business model based on suing online news sources (not to mention search engines!) for linking to your stories makes New Coke look like a work of genius. Read la enchilada entera.

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Welcome to the Jungle

31st
Jul. × ’09
By Roderick

Commenting on the Gates arrest, Boston police officer Justin Barrett explains his attitude toward the civilians who pay his salary: His [= Gates’] first priority of effort should be to get off the phone and comply with police, for if I was the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have [...]

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The Saga Continues

29th
Jul. × ’09
By Roderick

So, first my bank tells me there’s a tax levy on my bank account – which I believed, since the Alabama tax dept. has been after me in any case. Then it turns out to be some alleged credit card debt from years ago. Now tonight, on returning home, just as I was beginning to [...]

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Rothbard on Aptheker on Slavery

28th
Jul. × ’09
By Roderick

At the Mises Institute today I was looking through the library and noticed Murray Rothbard’s copy of American Negro Slave Revolts, the 1943 study by Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker. One passage stood out because Rothbard had marked it with heavy lightning-bolt squiggles and marginal comments like “Right,” “Good,” “Great.” Aptheker, discussing the claim that “cruelty [...]

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Best Defense

25th
Jul. × ’09
By Roderick

It’s interesting how so many defenders of the Cambridge Police Department are arguing that there’s nothing wrong with the officer’s conduct because he would have arrested Gates even if he hadn’t been black. I think we’re entitled to doubt whether he really would have been as ready to arrest a non-black Gates – but OK, [...]

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Side Order

25th
Jul. × ’09
By Roderick

Today’s paper contains a great quote attributed to Jascha Heifetz: No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. But according to Heifetz’s official website, the actual quote is: No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you [...]

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