Lo, yet another case of cops assaulting the person they had supposedly come to to help – in this case, because a person they knew was deaf was unable to understand their verbal commands.
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The Atrocity of Hope, Part 22: President Joker
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 38: Your Character, Sire, Is a Constitution of Liberty
Jesse Walker has a nice discussion of the Farrant/McPhail/Berger paper on Hayek and Pinochet.
Less In Vegas
Here’s a fun, brief speech from Less Antman at the LP convention.
Some favourite bits:
As someone who joined the Libertarian Party more than 32 years ago, when our party and platform already was committed to marriage equality, while the rest of the country, including Democrats, were still debating gay imprisonment, I can tell you the first 27 years were the hardest.
Antiwar is the health of the antistate movement.
[Obama] holds the record for the most children killed by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
(I have my doubts about the last statistic, though; remember that Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat, and Mikhail Gorbachev were all winners as well. Admittedly most of their killings were committed before rather than after winning the prize, but Kissinger still got a good score in afterward, though admittedly as an advisor rather than a direct commander.)
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 21: Dronespeak
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Banana Republican
Read the Wikipedia page on the United Fruit Company, with particular attention to the sections titled “History in Central America” and “Banana massacre.”
Now read this article about the United Fruit Company on Reason.com. (CHT Sheldon.)
You may notice a certain … incompleteness in the latter’s account.