A Badge Of Honor

David Brooks writes about the rise of “vehement libertarianism”. I’ll wear that badge with pride. It would also be a good blog name. As always, he’s grossly incoherent and totally divorced from facts. There’s so much idiocy crammed into so few words. Time to break out the machete of reason and cut this down. (Brooks [...]

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Sources of homosexuality: What does the science say?

Ryan Sorba’s bigoted comments at CPAC have prompted some bloggers to again raise the question of whether homosexuality is a choice.  Is it something behavioral, or predetermined by genetics? Bryan Caplan points to some evidence that sexual orientation is highly influenced by genes.  As I understand it, it’s not determined by genetic factors, but it’s [...]

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CPAC Just Got Real!

And it was fascinating. Here’s the story. Alexander McCobin, founder of Students for Liberty, spoke yesterday at CPAC about activism and liberty. In the name of freedom, I would like to thank the American Conservative Union for welcoming GOProud [a coalition of gay republicans] as a co-sponsor of this event, not for any political reason [...]

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Oh hey, a blog post

Apologies for the light-to-non-existent posting during the holiday season.  Life gets in the way of all good things. I was struck by this post from Prof. Bourdeaux, on the cost-free signaling aspects of polls and elections, and how this relates to an ongoing argument in our comments on the rationality or credibility of the electorate.  [...]

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Bush, The Wall and Dragos

Paul Hollander writes an excellent piece in the Washington Post about the momentous events of November 1989.  Hollander escaped the communist hegemony in 1956, and he writes about the oppression and murder committed by the statist regimes of the last century. While greatly concerned with communism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Americans — [...]

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Roles of the Judiciary

Reason‘s Damon Root reviews a new book by NYU Law Prof. Barry Friedman. In other words, despite howls of “judicial supremacy” and “legislating from the bench” that have come from the left and the right, “the people” basically get their say in the end, either by tacitly endorsing a particular decision or by raising such [...]

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Billy Corgan Was Almost Right

One of the joys of growing older (which like the Silversun Pickups say, is getting old) is hearing old songs, once loved and now forgotten.  Like running into an ex without any baggage or judgment.  I recently rediscovered Smashing Pumpkins and they took me back to a great time of overblown emotions and wildly inflated [...]

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