It now looks like California voters will have the chance to vote on whether or not the state ought to be split up into three pieces. The Los AngelesTimes reports : If a majority of voters who cast ballots agree, a long and contentious process would begin for three...
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Yountville Shootings Another Cost of War
Last Friday, an Afghanistan War veteran suffering from PTSD took hostages at a Northern California veterans home, ultimately killing three female employees and himself. And so, the senseless and endless US intervention in Afghanistan has claimed four more lives, right...
Time for a New Works Progress Administration
My fellow libertarians will become hysterical with this commentary and send me to the intellectual gulag. Conservatives and liberals will join hands with them. Why? Because they won’t like my alternative to Trump’s plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure. Instead...
News Roundup 10/4/17
The Trump administration is finalizing a plan for a $29 billion disaster relief bill. [Link] A Dallas police officer has been given nine months probation for shooting and killing a man. The shooting occurred after a high-speed chase. The man killed did not fire a...
Solve the Sanctuary-City Conflict by Granting Statehood to Cities
The battle over sanctuary cities is not just a matter of pitting some cities against federal policy. The conflict is also pitting cities against state governments. More than 30 states have moved with varying degrees of success to rein in so-called sanctuary cities...
The Right to Try to Live
The Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need by Darcy Olsen (HarperCollins, 2015); 311 pages. The highly acclaimed 2013 movie Dallas Buyers Club told the story of Ron Woodroof, who tried desperately...
NFL Announces Raiders Move to North Korea
Scottsdale, Ariz. - National Football League bigshots, meeting here to drive drunk and get in fights in Old Town nightclubs, in the longstanding tradition of college and professional football players who visit this resort city, announced today that they had voted...
Libertarian Movie Panned by Left and Right
“The Free State of Jones” is a movie with a strong libertarian theme that was released in 2016. Unsurprisingly, the libertarian theme was beyond the comprehension of critics and the public. I recently picked up the film at the library and watched it at home without...
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