The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts [tariffs] and Excises…. —U.S. Constituton, Article I, Section 8 Referring to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...
Justice
“Few and Defined,” Really?
The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution places a limit (just compensation) on an implied power (eminent domain) that is not listed in Article I, Section 8. Thus, James Madison was less than candid when he said the national government’s powers...
TGIF: Immigration and Culture
I pay no attention to the Super Bowl, even less to the overhyped halftime show. But I do pay some attention to the reaction to the show's headliners when they're announced and afterward. So I know that some people did not like that Bad Bunny (whom I knew nothing about...
Latest Interview
I was a guest on a recent episode of "Don't Tread on Anyone" with Keith Knight.
TGIF: Immigration vs. Settler Colonialism
The people performing those mind-boggling contortions to justify, on libertarian grounds, state violence against migrants without papers—restrictatarians, I call them—cite a 1994 article by Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) in support of their double-jointed acrobatics....
TGIF: The Right to Move
If people individually own themselves and have a right to be free of aggressive force, then they have a right to change their location in ways consistent with other people's rights. Whether you call this moving around relocating, emigrating, or immigrating, doesn't...
Recent Writing in Defense of Free Immigration
"The Trumpian Ice Age: The Frigidity of Collectivism" "Immigration Policy in an Nth-Best World" "Free Movement Increases Wealth" "Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate" "More on Immigration and Public Property" "Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law"...
Report Card
What's the problem? So far the Trump administration has been Pretti Good.
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