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Speaking of election tactics…
Jacob Sullum has a devastating column on the president’s slimy attack on the supposed horrors of “foreign money.” Great line from the column: “Deploying ‘foreign’ as a term of opprobrium…
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Rand Paul, self ownership and the freedom of association
Reason online has published an excellent article by Jacob Sullum explaining how the same libertarian principles that lead to the abolition of slavery and Jim Crow laws also explain Rand…
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Another vote for non-compliance
Reason Magazine’s Jacob Sullum says in this column that the mandate for everyone to buy health insurance is unconstitutional and that people shouldn’t comply. He discusses at some length the…
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Jacob Sullum on the Citizens United case
Reason’s Jacob Sullum has a sharp column on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Citizens United case, protecting the First Amendment against constant erosion by governmental censors. It’s almost…
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Free speech fights for life
The First Amendment has been under attack ever since the passage of federal “election reform” in 1974. The Supreme Court is about to revisit the issue of free speech when…
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Will the First Amendment die the death of a thousand cuts?
The language of the First Amendment is clear, but that hasn’t stopped politicians from passing laws that whittle away at it — always in the name of some “compelling governmental…
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Terrific column
Jacob Sullum’s column today is terrific. He takes a close look at the deceptive blather about the Obama budget. You’ll especially enjoy his discussion of Obama’s notion that the slight…
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Obama is acting like Bush
So argues Jacob Sullum here.
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Depend upon it, whatever happens with gasoline prices, it’s always bad news
Over the past month, the fluctuating price of gasoline has provided a good example of Jacob Sullum’s observation that economic conventional wisdom tends to find the negative side of anything…
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Everything bad is good again….
Reason magazine’s Jacob Sullum explains economic science as presented by the NYT and the mainstream media here. Rising prices are bad, and so are falling prices. As recently as mid-August,…
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Obama’s job fetish
Jacob Sullum pens a great column under that title today. If someone sent Obama a copy of Economics in One Lesson, would he read it?
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How Libertarians are voting
Reason Magazine polled “policy wonks, journalists, thinkers, and other public figures in the reason universe.” John McCain is highly unpopular among them. Some highlights: Drew Carey: “Anybody but McCain/Palin. Seriously.…