Thanks to those readers who sent emails of support on my articles dealing with the issue of gun control and the benefit to society that comes from permitting citizens to carry concealed firearms. Since the articles have been popular, I thought I would link to them here (as folks on Wikipedia and some internet […]

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Earlier this month, environmentalist groups on behalf of the Winnemucca Indian Colony succeeded in having Divine Strake postponed until at least June 23rd by filing a lawsuit against the Pentagon (see my original article on Operation Divine Strake here). And USA Today reports: “A number of small, rural protests have been held, and organizers […]

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In an article entitled “Christian Virgins Are Overrated”, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford makes a series of good observations about the conservative approach to sexuality, particularly as it relates to sex before marriage and a recent development in American evangelical circles, a ceremony known as a Purity Ball. He summarises it thus: […]

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“Early morning, and the city comes alive. And what is immediately clear is the parameters of a global war between nature and the car. By a little after sunrise, it is clear that it is the car that is winning.”
So says the BBC’s Malachi O’Doherty in a report for Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. […]

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What are you going to do with the illegal immigrants when you find them, Joe? “I’m going to put them in tents.”
What if you run out of tents? “Tents are cheap. I’ll put more up.”
Aren’t you worried about the lawsuits from Hispanic immigration advocacy groups?“I get sued when I go […]

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Dear Mr Tran,
Thank you for your article on Bush’s nomination of Michael Hayden for CIA Chief. It struck a chord. In your profile, it says that your interests include “US politics, environmental policy and corporate social responsibility”. Remarkable! I’d never have expected the Guardian to employ a journalist with a passion […]

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What makes the Libertarian Reason Blog unusual is that we don’t run up an endless array of short posts merely pointing to other articles and listing other blogs to visit for the “real” content. This blog has provided, from its inception in 2003, a completely original, eminently reasonable viewpoint on current affairs from a […]

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On John Prescott’s affair:Blair has the right idea here, in allowing Prescott to keep his job. What “Randy Old Sod” does with his pecker is entirely up to him. There are those who believe that people in government should be held to a higher standard in such matters. But that would be […]

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