Adverse Possession
I’m of two minds on this story: Kenneth Robinson lives on Waterford Drive in Flower Mound, Texas, but he doesn’t own or rent the home he claims he has a right to live in....
Author: Jason Kuznicki
Not the Murray Rothbard Book Club
I’ve been turning over something RTod wrote in his mostly excellent post below: [I]f libertarianism ever comes to power in this country it is not going to be because 400 million Americans started reading...
It’s Only a Positive Externality if the Government Does It
A positive externality happens when the “good” of a product or service can’t be contained to the people who paid for it. Others benefit too, even if they don’t pay. As a result, goods...
Oakeshott’s Conservatism
Downblog, Tim Kowal writes: [T]here is an impression—mistaken, in my view—that people who advocate to maintain existing policies are “conservatives,” and people who advocate to change them are “liberals.” […] This approach, however, renders...
Occasional Notes: Allaying Fears Edition
Leitmotif: I never do anything I don’t want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. — Robert A. Heinlein Marriage: Rob at WakingUpNow defuses one of...
At My Real Job: Expert Forecasting
At Cato Unbound, Dan Gardner and Philip Tetlock observe that expert predictions often miss the mark: In the most comprehensive analysis of expert prediction ever conducted, Philip Tetlock assembled a group of some 280...
The Most Important Sentence You Will Read about the Casey Anthony Trial
It comes from Radley Balko: Even as DNA testing continues to exonerate wrongly convicted people, including people who were nearly executed, it’s this rare case — in which a jury recognized that there was...
Nozick and Process-Defective Fundamental Explanations
You want some real criticism of Robert Nozick? Here, let me show you how it’s done.
Same-Sex Marriage in New York
It seems appropriate to have a thread. To kick things off on an appropriately contentious note, I’ll repeat that I’m more of a pessimist than most on the pro-SSM side. Law is a powerful...
Forgiveness
As of right now, I’m willing to forgive Ron Paul a heck of a lot. Barney Frank too. Their bill to legalize marijuana would do a whole lot of good both for our country...
Market Anticonservatism
I see Elias Isquith just read F. A. Hayek’s “Why I Am Not a Conservative.” This essay had a formative influence on me, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Isquith asks: I know...
Our Poisoned Language
Commenter Barry got me to thinking — We’ve all heard that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. It’s strange to me, however, that this phrase when used in political debate actually means precisely...
At My Real Job: Targeted Killing and the Rule of Law
This month’s Cato Unbound features a lead essay by Ryan Alford of Ave Maria School of Law. It asks a very important question: When can the executive, acting alone, lawfully kill a citizen? The...
Where are the incumbents?
It’s incredible to me how many former officials support ending the Drug War. Why, it’s almost as if holding elected office made you… biased or something: The Global Commission on Drug Policy, which includes...
The Percentage Sign as a Signaling Device
As you know, politics is the mind-killer. A fully rational politics would rank the weight of all conceivable policy choices, considering their basic fairness, the costs and benefits they are expected to produce, and...
