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  • Dec 8, 2004

    Russian Feudal Capitalism, American Feudal Growth Mgt & China

    by Liberty and Power

    The Moscow Times has an interesting piece on the development of what might be called Feudal Capitalism in Russia. Rather than the gangs of several years ago, it is now increasingly Putin's bureaucracy that runs the show. Moscow Times

    In America property owners in Oregon are fighting back at the Growth Management bureaucrats who, getting rid of notions of strict liability, attempted to control land u
  • Dec 7, 2004

    Interesting Debate on Thursday

    by Liberty and Power

    This Thursday evening the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is sponsoring"Conservatism and Libertarianism: A Debate" between Doug Bandow of CATO and Peter Lawler of Berry College. It promises to be a lively exchange. The one occasion I heard Bandow speak, I thought he spoke very well. And it seems that Lawler is well thought of by his students. The debate will take place at 7 PM on Thursday, December 9, in Room 108 of the Intercultural Center on the main Georgetown University campus i
  • Dec 7, 2004

    Centennial of Teddy's Corollary

    by Liberty and Power

    A HNN article by L and P blogger, William Marina, and myself marking the centennial of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and exploring parallels to the current Bush doctrine, has appeared. Enjoy.

  • Dec 7, 2004

    The Hosni Mubarak Rule

    by Liberty and Power

    Matthew Yglesias hits 'em where it hurts here:

    it's worth noting how far we've gone toward lowering the goalposts for "success" in Iraq. If you'd said before the war that over a year (and 1,000 U.S. fatalities) after the fall of Baghdad, U.S. forces would still be taking large numbers of casualties in an effort to create a government dominated by Shii

  • Dec 7, 2004

    A World without Borders

    by Liberty and Power


    Max Borders announced his temporary retirement from blogging today, returning the title of "coolest name in the blogsphere" to L&P's Aeon Skoble.
  • Dec 7, 2004

    Maximizing our borders

    by Liberty and Power

    I’m still wondering if Max Borders is a birth name or a name taken later in life. Max More of the Extropian movement, which emerged out of an extremely pro-technology, future-oriented strain of individualistic anarchism, changed his name to his current one to reflect his beliefs. Borders is a Hobbesian and believes that rights do not exist in the state of nature, which includes uncivilized parts of the modern world. If we want a better life for the uncivilized, are Americans to MAXimize our B
  • Dec 7, 2004

    Hold On! I thought Outsourcing was Stealing Americans' Jobs

    by Liberty and Power

    The Associated Press reports that hospitals are increasingly turning to radiologists in India when people need CT scans analyzed overnight. Is this taking jobs from higher-paid Americans? No! There's"a shortage of U.S. radiologists." There aren't enough to pull overnight shifts. And the hospitals pay the Indians just as much as they pay Americans. So much for the scare that outsourcing professional jobs
  • Dec 7, 2004

    New Terror Alert Levels

    by Liberty and Power

    I wish I could find this darn cartoon on the web, but at the very least, I did clip it from the NY Times this past Sunday. It was reproduced in the"Week in Review" section from Newsday. The cartoonist Walt Handelsman depicts a guy who sees a newspaper heading:"Bernard Kerik, NYPD Vet." The guy says:"They Hired a New Yorker to Run Homeland Security." On the guy's TV set, the"New Terror Alert Codes" are posted, replacing Tom Ridge's color alerts:

    1. Fuhgeddaboudit...

    2.

  • Dec 6, 2004

    Max Borders

    by Liberty and Power


    Is Max Borders’ name real, or is it a pseudonym? Is it the name given to him at birth, as Ma and Pa Sense gave to me, or does it suggest something more?
  • Dec 6, 2004

    What Next?

    by Liberty and Power

    I've been thinking a bit lately about where the war on terrorism is heading.  As things stand now, I suspect that we're going to start drawing down troops in Iraq rather soon after the elections, and that our extremely dangerousfixation on fighting the drug war in Afghanistan could well push that country back into a state that presents a threat to U.S. national se

  • Dec 6, 2004

    A Fine Start

    by Liberty and Power

    For a lesson in how not to do foreign policy see the inaugural blog from Richard Posner. Yes, the Richard Posner. Behold rationalism and scientism run amok in the most dangerous of areas: the making of war.
  • Dec 6, 2004

    Introduction

    by Liberty and Power

    I’d like to thank Prof. Beito for graciously inviting me to guest blog here at Liberty and Power. I’ve long found L&P to be a breath of fresh air, and I feel privileged to be included with its resident bloggers. I have my own blog at http://justinlogan.typepad.com; many of my posts here will be cross-posted at that site. By way of introduction:

    I’m a research assistant in Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, th
  • Dec 6, 2004

    Jeremy Hinzman

    by Liberty and Power

    Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board is hearing Jeremy Hinzman's case today. Hinzman is the AWOL American soldier who is seeking refugee status in Canada rather than serve in Iraq. He is a test case.

    Hinzman's lawyer is making an interesting argument."Canada has not granted refugee status to American citizens in the past, but Hinzman's supporters are counting on a precedent in international

  • Dec 5, 2004

    More on Canada's BushWhacking

    by Liberty and Power

    I received an interesting email from R.W. who followed up on my blog entry Bush-whacked in Canada in which I commented upon the U.S.'s clear intentions to bull through a"joint" anti-missile shield with Canada: joint in name only, of course. America would be in full charge of everything except, perhaps, of footing the bill.

    He writes, Michel Chussudovsky at Global Research has

  • Dec 4, 2004

    Interview about Albert Jay Nock

    by Liberty and Power

    Here is an interview I did with Bill Steigerwald of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about the importance of Albert Jay Nock. Enjoy!
  • Dec 3, 2004

    Happy Birthday, Rose Wilder Lane

    by Liberty and Power

    This Sunday, December 5, I plan to open a special bottle of wine. It’s the birthday of Rose Wilder Lane, the writer who is usually mentioned, along with Isabel Paterson and Ayn Rand, as one of the three intellectual founders of the libertarian movement in America.

    Lane was born in 1886 (in a cabin in Dakota Territory), so this birthday is her 118th. Soon we will be marking the 100th anniversary of Rand’s birth, and the 119th of Paterson’s. These numbers seem enormously high, “Dak