I’ve discussed my position on global warming many times on and off air and on this blog. But sometimes the dynamics of this debate concern me. The Academy Awards on Sunday night comprised a definitive point in this dialogue in America, with Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth) gaining star power within the powerful […]

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If any one justification for the abolition of the monarchy could prevail among those who love freedom, this is the best candidate. Prince Charles, in his incredible wisdom, on a tour of the United Arab Emirates, asked a nutritionist, “Have you got anywhere with McDonald’s, have you tried getting it banned? That’s the key.”
Charles, […]

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Now this is the kind of leading sentence I like in a news story: “It’s still going to be legal in Arizona for trucks to have splash guards with racist terms and silhouettes of naked women.” It seems that an Arizona state lawmaker wanted to make the use of popular mudflaps like the […]

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I’ve dragged this piece from Libertarian Reason archives, cleaned it up a bit, added some pictures and opened up comments on it for the first time. This was originally written as part of a response to a BBC broadcast back in September 2005. Now, I’ve noticed even some libertarians tending to prejudge and […]

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Of the few men who held libertarian ideals and governed a nation accordingly (and there are only a few), Thomas Jefferson was perhaps among the greatest. Why was he so great? For timeless quotations like this:
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, […]

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Typical. Something good comes along, and the government tries to destroy it. It’s a veritable cycle, affecting every good thing, and recently, that thing has been the iPod.
First, the French government makes a law prohibiting Apple from selling iPods with an output of greater than 100 decibels to protect its citizens from hearing […]

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The reason I love my wife is entirely selfish. And I’ve told her this, many times. Despite being told so often that only selfless love is valid, it’s what my wife does for me that causes me to love her (as, I’m reliably informed, is the reason she loves me back). The […]

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European governments are a bunch of fucks.
That is a pure, observable fact, clearly demonstrated in a multitude of ways. And there’s no better example to prove my point about European governments being a bunch of fucks than to describe the attitudes of France, Germany and Norway toward Apple Inc. in the past couple of […]

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I rarely read the Independent newspaper, and when I do it’s normally for the (unintentional) comedy value. For those of you who have never read it, imagine a secular version of the biblical Book of Revelation and you’re getting close to how it reads. The Independent’s columnists frequently come off with absurdities beyond reason which […]

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