If the FBI Says It, It Must Be True
Why do so many people who claim to be against big government believe everything the government says about foreign policy?
Nullification Works: Congress Ends Federal Ban on Medical Marijuana
The Police StateU.S. HistoryPrivate Property
Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.
Posner on Privacy
Blog12/10/2014David Gordon
At a recent conference on cybercrime, Judge Richard Posner, a well-known federal appeals court judge and one of the founders of the "law and economics" movement, said that the needs of national security trump a supposed right to privacy.
New in the Store: Suicide Pact by Andrew Napolitano
Suicide Pact by Andrew P. Napolitano.
Judge Napolitano Versus Forced Quarantines
HealthThe Police State
One can make the case that in a thoroughly decentralized and anarchistic society, persons may find themselves in a state of practical near-quarantine because private owners of airlines, airports, lodging facilities, and even communities with private security may refuse entry or passage to...
"Depenalizing" Marijuana Reduces Crime
A recent paper published in the prestigious Journal of Political Economy, "Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment," reports on experimental policing in the city of London. ...
Government "Security" Dictated by Prank-Calling Sadist in Walmart Shooting
The shooting death of John Crawford in an Ohio Walmart store well illustrates the difference between private security and monopoly government security which is the final judge of...
The American State and the Postal Service's Arsenal
The political scientist and sociologist Max Weber defined the state as any "human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." There are variations on this...
How Should a Patriot Act?
As Glenn Greenwald makes clear, Bush has applied his claim to be above the law far beyond the issue of wiretaps. Bush has acted on the belief that he may seize anyone, even an American citizen living within the United States, and hold him as he deems fit in a military prison, there to be subject...
Security Fashion
Blog01/13/2008Jeffrey A. Tucker
I can vaguely recall a time when the person who helped kids across the street was called a "crossing guard." It seems like not to long ago, the person parked and watched cars was called a "parking attendant." The people directing traffic at construction sites were just construction workers. The...
Andy Duncan
Andy Duncan is an expert on financial derivatives and lectures on the topic in New York, London, Dubai, and...