While I was fact checking today's Mises Daily article, I checked some correlation coefficients of my own so I didn't have to rely on Volokh's numbers as my only source. I approached the data a little differently than Volokh did and instead of using a subjective...
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How Qualified Immunity Became Absolute Immunity for Police Officers
When Israel Leija, Jr. was picking up food at a drive-through in 2010, police officers approached his car to arrest him. Leija was guilty of violating his probation, and when the officers informed him that he was under arrest, he sped away. For the next twenty...
Ron Paul on Fed Interest Rate Cut
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul issued the following statement regarding the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will be reducing interest rates for the first time in a decade: “The Federal Reserve’s reduction of its benchmark interest rate from 2.25% to 2%...
Today’s Federal Reserve Rate Cut Marks The Start Of A New Financial Era
Today before the open you know that the Federal Reserve is going to do an interest rate cut today, because this has been the most anticipated and talked about Federal Reserve rate cut perhaps in our lifetime. The last Federal Reserve rate cut happened in 2008. That...
‘Paperz Pleaze!’ – How the Immigration Crackdown is Expanding the Police State
A common trope in American-made, Nazi propaganda movies, was that in their police state, at any moment and for no reason, you could be stopped and forced to show your “papers.” Well, maybe not forced but if you didn’t the implications were obvious. You might be “black...
Milton Friedman: The Forgotten History of the Godfather of Conservative Libertarianism
“I would like to say to Milton and Anna [co-author of A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960]: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,...
Tulsi Gabbard’s Chance to Make the Race About the Wars
Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Representative from Hawaii, is running for president. She’s one of the only Democrats in the race who says anything meaningful or interesting about foreign policy. Unlike the rest of them, she’s decided to make it the center of her campaign....
The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order
Enough already. Enough with the distractions. Enough with the partisan jousting. Enough with the sniping and name-calling and mud-slinging that do nothing to make this country safer or freer or more just. We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power...
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