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The IRS vs Bitcoin

by Jim Harper | Nov 20, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles

The Internal Revenue Service has filed a “John Doe” summons seeking to require U.S. Bitcoin exchange Coinbase to turn over records about every transaction of every user from 2013 to 2015. That demand is shocking in sweep, and it includes: “complete user profile,...

Bonds Are Taxes

by Chris Edwards | Nov 4, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles

On Nov. 8, voters where I live in Fairfax, Va., will be asked to approve general obligation bonds to finance subway maintenance, park renovations, and other run-of-the-mill local spending. There will be hundreds of similar questions on ballots across the country to...

01/04/04 – Gene Healy – The Scott Horton Show

by Scott Horton | Jan 4, 2004 | The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews Gene Healy, the Senior Editor at the Cato Institute about his studies: There Goes the Neighborhood: The Bush-Ashcroft Plan to 'Help' Localities Fight Gun Crime, Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton...

05/09/03 – Tim Lynch – The Scott Horton Show

by Scott Horton | May 9, 2003 | The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews Tim Lynch, Director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice, and their house expert on the USA Patriot Act, about his study, Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Preserving Our Liberties While Fighting Terrorism....

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USC Bows Down to Pro-Israel Terrorists, Cancels Muslim-American’s Valedictorian Speech

No one hates Americans' sacred right of free speech more than Israel's American fifth column. No one is a bigger group of cowards than the USC Trojans. Always have been a bunch of sniveling little weaklings.

A War of Unyielding Horror

That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.

Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom

The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...

More on Immigration and Public Property

Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...

The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...

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 dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system...

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