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Provide No Quarter: An Argument Against War Taxes

June 23, 2008

The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, like the Second Amendment preceding it, the “necessary and proper” clause, etc., left too much room for error interpretation and future abuses. I used to fancy myself a constitutionalist, whatever that means. Of course, I don’t see myself that way any longer, but from time to time it’s [...]

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Manufacturing Broken Windows, One Tank at a Time

June 19, 2008

A peculiar sort of tragedy of the commons is the not in my backyard argument, used to forestall or prevent certain “undesirable” developments (like airports, Wal-Marts, nuclear reactors, or oil derricks). On the one hand, the tragedy of commons asserts that when property rights are not clearly defined, the property in question will be [...]

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Comments on Comments #16

May 20, 2008

Responding to The Rebellion of the Dead, frequent commenter Francois Tremblay says:
That’s a horrible passage. I can’t believe you like it. Instead of showing how even fatalism cannot fade the vitality of the human spirit, they just give into it. If I knew the day of my death, I wouldn’t try to give into [...]

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War, or “The War”?

April 16, 2008

Are you against “the war” in Iraq? Maybe in public, you have one of those kitschy bumper stickers that says something like, “End this THIS war!”
Or are you against war.
It’s entirely possible for you to be against “the war” without being against war. Are there circumstances under which you are, or might consider [...]

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