Okay, maybe not quite. But read this and this. (The first article, of course, confuses natural-rights Lockeanism with legal positivism. But then, this is a debate in which nearly all the parties are confused about something.)
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Cover Girl
I’m glad that this 1972 Wonder Woman cover (conical hat tip to Comics Should Be Good) is labeled “SPECIAL! WOMEN’S LIB ISSUE” right up at the top, because otherwise it might not have been obvious.
Diary Interrupted
The Motorhome Diarists (a crew of itinerant libertarian documentarists/bloggers/interviewers) have been arrested. (What for? Insufficient deference to blue gang colours, as far as I can make out; further details should be forthcoming.)
Brad Spangler suggests helping them out via their donations page.
The Doctor Is In (Or Near, Anyway)
Rand Paul (Ron Paul’s son – not named after Ayn as far as I know) just announced his – well, not his candidacy, exactly, but his exploratory committee-hood-ness, on Rachel Maddow’s show.
I took a look at his website to see whether there were any issues where he disagreed significantly with his father, but I didn’t notice any. (But the website covers a fairly narrow range of issues; there’s nothing listed, for example, on drugs, immigration, abortion, or gay rights. I reckon he’s trying to avoid alienating either libertarians or conservatives.) My overall reaction to the website was … well, boredom. Still, I wish him well in his combat with modal Republicans.
Steal These Underpants!
Kevin Carson’s latest C4SS paper is titled “Intellectual Property”: A Libertarian Critique.
Good stuff! Tolle, lege.
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 4: No Pictures, Please
Just saw Jonathan Turley on Maddow’s show, talking about the latest torture cover-up, and saying “This administration is turning out to be the greatest bait-and-switch in history; Obama is morphing into his predecessor” – with Maddow nodding gloomily.
While I think “greatest bait-and-switch in history” is hyperbole (the Russian Revolution surely edges it out by a bit), I’m glad to see that not all of Obama’s supporters (cough, Olbermann, cough) have signed away all their civil-liberties principles upon the accession of the President Incarnate.