Understanding Your Ground
Mar 22Lawrence O’Donnell, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, et hoc genus omne are desperately trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, they want it to be the case that George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin was unlawful, so that they can blame the authorities for not arresting and prosecuting him. On the other hand, [...]
Way Long Gone, Part 3
Jul 09I got back from my voyages on Monday (I announce belatedly). PorcFest was anarchy in miniature: people were smoking weed, packing heat, selling unlicensed food and alcohol, and generally behaving in a peacefully unauthorised fashion. There were pistol safety classes, gay dance parties, and sessions on everything from polyamory, transhumanism, and cop avoidance to alternative [...]
Cory Maye To Be Freed
Jul 01Cory Maye, about whose case I’ve blogged previously (here, here, here, and here), is finally due to be released. (CHT Sheldon.) It falls short of what he deserves – he was required to plead guilty to manslaughter for exercising his right to defend himself and his family, and he’s being offered no compensation for the [...]
Non Sub Homine?
May 28The President is above the law. The police are above the law. So what’s the point of having laws, again?
Cognitive Dissonance in Tucson
Jan 12Pundits are reacting with gross (but predictable) inconsistency to the Tucson shooting: denouncing all calls for violence – even purely metaphorical ones – only to issue their own calls for violence of a decidedly non-metaphorical sort, in the form of restrictions on free speech or gun ownership or equal protection or whatever. So far is [...]
Alongside Machete
Sep 24Okay, Machete isn’t Hitchcock or anything; but it’s a fun movie. It also has some interesting libertarian aspects: It’s explicitly in favour of open borders. It’s implicitly in favour of the right to bear arms. It dramatises countereconomic resistance to government (“the Network”). It also dramatises the “Baptists and bootleggers” dynamic, as [...]
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