I know a thousand people must have commented on this already (I think Amy has), but the rhetoric of “tax giveaways” is really starting to piss me off. The tax cuts may be a bad idea, given that the current strategy seems to be to fund them with debt, but deciding not to take the […]

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Costa Rica’s Otto Guevara may be the world’s most successful libertarian politician. My interview with him is up at Reason.

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Today is International Left-Handers Day. Come, o my brethren, and celebrate!

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I’m starting to see a new variant on the infamous Nigerian email spam. In this version, the author is an African attorney who was planning to divert the assets of his late clients to his own account, contrary to their expressed desire to have their money sent to various Christian causes. But, upon having seen […]

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You’ve probably already heard of Jesus Castillo (interviewed here): He’s the man who was recently denied an appeal by the Supremes after being convicted of selling a clearly marked adult comic book… to an adult. The key argument, apparently bought by jurors who knew nothing about contemporary comic book markets, was that all comics are […]

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So, about 2 weeks ago, I had a complete lapse of sanity and agreed to take a pair of 8 month old cats from an acquaintance who was moving and had to find a new home for them. It took about 24 hours for it to occur to me that I have less than no […]

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Radley has a hilarious account of his journey into the lions den and an evening with MoDoCon.

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A new Web site appeared to let visitors send gun scholar John Lott their questions, but as CNS news reported, the site was a parody… a parody the original Lott characterizes, not entirely unreasonably, as identity theft. (Until the recent addition of a disclaimer, a casual browser might have mistaken it for authentic.) The site […]

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I’ve got a new piece on AmeriCorps up at Reason.

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My last big project for Cato before I left was to edit and “Americanize” Johan Norberg’s excellent book In Defense of Global Capitalism. I’ve just gotten my grubby little hands on a copy of the new edition, which means it should be ready to order soon. Now, I swear I’m not just saying this because […]

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