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Thomas Szasz: Champion of Freedom
Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and…
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TGIF: Why Isn't Antifa Marching for Apple?
Antitrust is fascistic
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Israel, Zionism, Jews, and Anti-Semitism
"In some quarters anger at Israel's brutal occupation has undoubtedly spilled over to an animus toward Jews generally. But however lamentable, it's…
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TGIF: Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate
Rookie error.
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Why I Pick on Israel
People close to me ask why I criticize Israel while ignoring the other bad governments in the world. (I guess they don't count the U.S. government as…
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Israel Gives Cover to Anti-Semites
Israel identifies itself as the Jewish state and claims to represent "the Jewish people" everywhere, not only Jewish Israelis. Thus Israel's atrocious…
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March 2024

TGIF: Israel Humiliated
To more fully understand the ferocity of Israel's massacre of the people of the Gaza Strip, it's perhaps worth considering that on October 7, 2023, the…
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Ban "Ethnic Cleansing"
I propose that we defenders of individual rights stop using the term ethnic cleansing. Why? Because it is the sort of euphemism bad people would use to…
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But Hamas...
When Israel's defenders bring up Hamas's execrable anti-Semitic and genocidal charter, they should be reminded that for decades before the 1948…
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Beware: The Government Is People
Who else?
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TGIF: Leave TikTok Alone
The "cure" is worse than the "disease."
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How Dare You Vote!
If you have not mastered Frédéric Bastiat's "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen," how dare you vote! How arrogant of you to presume to set rules for…
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