I happen to be a serious poker player, online and live. I don’t play all the time, but enough to know the online world and its place in the larger poker scene very well. This action by the Feds is stunning to those of us who play in a number of ways that should be [...]
One might think that a libertarian would be more hysterical about ‘health care reform’ than the Republicans and its direct-action cadres, the Neo-Con-Gelicals of the Tea Party, 9/12 groups and other self-styled ‘activist’ organizations. It’s true that I do believe the agenda of the Progressives is hopelessly misguided and destructive to the fabric of liberty [...]
I watched some of the speechifying from the Tea Party convention this weekend (as much as I could stomach) which showed that it is the new home (and probably only the temporary one) of the ‘moral majority’ types from the Republican party. You know, the big C Conservatives, who are mostly Christian evangelicals, mostly white [...]
I’m amazed by the hysteria emerging from the Left on the Supreme Court decision this week, recognizing the unconstitutionality of restrictions on free speech imposed by McCain Feingold. There are lots of problems with corporations as legal entities in our society. In my estimation, they all stem from the limited liability that a corporation enjoys, [...]
See this from Downsizer Dispatch D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Congress passed fewer laws in 2009, but they were nearly three times as large! Please send Congress a letter telling them to stop bundling unrelated legislation by passing DownsizeDC.org’s One Subject At [...]
Ambivalence is a word that is usually misused, and its proper definition aptly describes my current sentiment. I feel strongly about throwing the Democrats out of office and also am repulsed by Republicans, how about you? The triumphalism of the right-wing chattering classes over the Brown-Coakley race, exchanging knowing, insider comments about what this means [...]
Bernanke gave a speech this morning in which he called for more regulation to prevent prevent ‘bubbles’ from occurring. He went on to say that he didn’t believe that the Fed’s monetary policies were the cause of the recent housing bubble. For those of you who have been keeping track of this, I imagine you [...]
I’ve seen the ranting on right-wing sites about Obama’s executive order granting immunities and privileges to Interpol. The line of thinking is this is just another step in subjugating the U.S. to international law, and that the “police officers” of the Interpol will be free to operate with impugnity, in the U.S. , out of [...]
The Collectivist-Utopians (my new name for Progressives) lament the current economic environment as something that the government must ‘fix’, we must ‘do stimulus’ (a statement that only breathless policy wonks who haven’t had a real job in their lives can say) or we must prevent economic contractions at all costs. The Libertarians (me, for example) [...]
I’ve spent years trying to understand the case for Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) and the substantial criticisms of it. I’m a skeptic, so I’ve listened to the criticisms, hoping to find the truth and while I’ve seen valid criticism by the likes of Roy Spencer, Patrick Michaels and Richard Lindzen (to name but a few [...]
