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Marissa Alexander seems to have a solid "stand your ground" defense against the assault charge she was convicted of. Instead, the court applied the old, superseded "duty to retreat" rule. Why was she even prosecuted?

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Separation of Art and State
art state government David_Boaz
25 days ago

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We Japanese Americans must not forget our wartime internment
Japanese_Americans internment World_War_II history government George_Takei
27 days ago

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A Bribery Ban Backfires: Until 1977, there was no country that criminalized the practice of bribery abroad.

Blame the governments that demand bribes, not the businesses that are extorted.

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28 days ago

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How Big Government Is Killing California: When you've lost the entrepreneurs, free-spirits, and dreamers, you've lost the Golden State.
California population progressivism entrepreneurs Steven_Greenhut
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You Can Tell Romney Is a Radical Because He Says He Believes In Freedom
E.J._Dionne Mitt_Romney radical Peter_Suderman
4 weeks ago

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Does UK Double-Dip Prove that Austerity Doesn’t Work?
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Seniors get the TSA runaround, lose $300
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Is Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism Evil?

Don't miss Todd Seavey's and David Friedman's comments.

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4 weeks ago

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Hysterity! Global Panic about "Austere" 9 Percent Spending Hike
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4 weeks ago

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Detroit's Leaders Borrow a Page From Government Motors and Chrysler

Detroit is now lobbying for a bailout from Washington, D.C. Is it paying for this with the bailout money it received from the state of Michigan?

Detroit bailouts Shikha_Dalmia
4 weeks ago

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20 Years for Standing Her Ground Against a Violent Husband
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4 weeks ago

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TARP Made a Profit - If by Profit, You Mean Loss.
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4 weeks ago

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Obama Tries to Rewrite His History of Promising Forbearance for Medical Marijuana Suppliers
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4 weeks ago

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Democracy's Debt Dilemma

Democracy has a structural flaw which leads to massive sovereign debt.

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4 weeks ago

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Conquering the Terrorist Threat by Terrorizing Little Girls
TSA airport security children Jacob_Sullum
4 weeks ago

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Self-Defense Under Attack: Critics of Florida's "stand your ground" law refuse to retreat, regardless of the evidence.
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4 weeks ago

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Helping Mortgage Borrowers, Revisited
mortgages bailouts Arnold_Kling
4 weeks ago

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Voluntary Taxes and the Relevant Margin
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4 weeks ago

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Why Are Donations to Government So Small?
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5 weeks ago

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Joining Washington’s one percenters takes more than the U.S. average
Washington_D.C. government power wealth
5 weeks ago

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Let's Be Blunt: It's Time to End the Drug War

I agree that the people who use illicit drugs now have fairly inelastic demand, but the marginal drug consumer, post-prohibition, would not be the same sort of person.

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5 weeks ago

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Are We Sliding Toward a Police State? Law enforcement officials should not behave like an invading army.
police government Steven_Greenhut
5 weeks ago

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Are Democrats Wrong to Blame Teachers Unions?

The root problem of bad public schools isn't the teachers' unions; it's government-enforced territorial monopolies.

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5 weeks ago

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4 Ways to Use Cross Training to Increase Strength and Endurance
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We’re All Branch Davidians Now
Waco government power Anthony_Gregory
5 weeks ago

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Let’s Occupy the Irony
Occupy_Wall_Street California police unions Radley_Balko
5 weeks ago

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Does the 'Backlash' Against 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Make Sense?
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Science of Cycling: Bicycle Physics & History
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Michigan Teacher Peeved She Can't Retire at 47
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iTextEditors - iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools compared
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5 weeks ago

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Debtor’s Prison for Failure to Pay for Your Own Trial
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5 weeks ago

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Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity

Poor urban neighborhoods have more grocery stores, supermarkets, and fast food restaurants than affluent neighborhoods have. There is no relationship between neighborhood food and obesity.

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CPR: Less Effective Than You Might Think
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Taxation, American Style: The U.S. tax code is more progressive and European than you think.
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5 weeks ago

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The Real Reason for the Tragedy of the Titanic: The disaster is often seen as a tale of hubris, social stratification and capitalist excess. The truth is considerably more sobering.

Regulatory failure contributed to the loss of lives aboard Titanic.

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Bye Bye BlackBerry. How Long Will Apple Last?
smartphones monopoly antitrust creative_destruction BlackBerry Nokia Adam_Thierer
6 weeks ago

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The Curse of the Secret Question

"Secret questions": a weaker barrier for an attacker who wants access to your account.

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6 weeks ago

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The Minimum Wage Mirage: It would be nice if every worker were worth $9.80 an hour. But not all workers are.
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6 weeks ago

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W(h)ither Classical Liberalism (or libertarianism, or liberal-tarianism)?
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6 weeks ago

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April, 2012: Where Next? The Past, Present, and Future of Classical Liberalism
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6 weeks ago

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Bad Apples: The myth of the highly skilled public-service elite
pay government education comparison Tim_Cavanaugh
6 weeks ago

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The Hong Kong Experiment: Looking Backward and Forward
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6 weeks ago

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The Cure for Humanity's Natural State of Abject Poverty

Ronald Bailey reviews Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty; by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, and Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History; by Douglass North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry Weingast.

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6 weeks ago

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Defending Fiscal Insanity
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7 weeks ago

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Tidequistadors In Search of Sound Money: A laundry soap has developed as much legitimacy as the dollar to serve as currency. What's going on?
Tide laundry_detergent dollar money inflation Anthony_Randazzo
7 weeks ago

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GOP "Social Darwinism" Quantified! Spend 50 Percent More than Clinton, Pennies Less Than Obama!
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7 weeks ago

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The Exploitation of Trayvon Martin
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7 weeks ago

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"Necessary Force"
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7 weeks ago

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George Will: Drug Prohibition Is an Awful Flop. We Like It.
drugs prohibition George_Will addiction Jacob_Sullum
7 weeks ago

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7 Rules for Recording Police: Courts are expanding rights but cops are cracking down. Find out how to keep your footage, and yourself, out of trouble.
police recording photography wiretapping civil_disobedience Steve_Silverman
7 weeks ago

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Let’s Give the Fed Some Competition: The Federal Reserve prints so much money that since it opened its doors in 1914, the dollar has lost more than 90 percent of its value.
Federal_Reserve money competition John_Stossel
7 weeks ago

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Detroit’s death spiral: Time for the least bad option: Letting the city go into bankruptcy
Detroit government debt bankruptcy Shikha_Dalmia
7 weeks ago

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Are We Oppressed by Technology?
technology oppression innovation Jeffrey_Tucker
7 weeks ago

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Socialism and Social Darwinism

No one is a social Darwinist but to some on the left, the term refers to anyone who wants to increase government spending more slowly they would like.

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7 weeks ago

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How Property Rights Solve Problems
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7 weeks ago

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Can Apple give police a key to your encrypted iPhone data? Ars investigates

Probably not, but they may be able to make the police's job easier. Not that a 4-digit PIN is difficult to crack.

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7 weeks ago

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