At the Mises Institute conference in Auburn in March, Laurence Vance kindly gave me a copy of his latest book, The Free Society. Laurence is one of the hardest working writers I know, and this is his 27th book. Laurence is also the editor of the Classic Reprints series and the director of the Francis Wayland […]
Archive | July, 2018
July 4 Lesson: Fighting for Freedom is Winning
The lines above were inspired by this 1995 New York Times headline (which I clipped at the time & posted on my office wall) – As I wrote on this blog a year ago: On Independence Day, I salute all those folks who have fought and are fighting for liberty and refusing to submit to […]
My July 4, 1996 Hell-Raising Libertarian Convention Speech
On July 4 twenty-two years ago, I riled up folks at the Libertarian National Convention. I talked about the EEOC’s war on Hooters, House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s pig paranoia, zoning idiocy, and other boondoggles. Commenting on a recent idiotic asset forfeiture decision, I noted, “The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court did not explain the equivalency of piracy […]
MP3 FBI’s Latest Outrages on Scott Horton Show
My old friend Scott Horton and I had fun jibing the FBI for its recent pratfalls, outrages, and cover-ups on his show. These are hard times for J. Edgar Hoover’s boys and it will likely get worse. We talked about the Inspector General report on the FBI misconduct & other mysteries in the Clinton email […]