Just over a month after the United States Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, the man who brought that case is suing the District again over it’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling:
The man who successfully challenged the D.C. handgun ban before the U.S. Supreme Court filed a second federal lawsuit […]
From The Liberty Papers
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
One of the key ideas that I find myself discussing in any election cycle is the desire of Americans to elect a savior. Not gonna happen. The system is bigger than the players, and the system is flawed.
But that doesn’t stop the average voter from trying to elect someone who will “run the […]
From The Liberty Papers
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
I’m not overly sentimental for relics from the past. When it comes to the history of a place, my view is less sentimental and more “what have you done for me lately?”
But the last thing I want to do is use the force of government to stop other people from enjoying such […]
From The Liberty Papers
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
I came across this statistic here, stating that there will be 22,000 journalists at the Beijing Olympics next week. The local bars will be doing a roaring trade, one hopes. Jesus….
From Samizdata.net
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
It is unfair to expect writers to be consistent in their views from week to week. Consistency is the "hobgoblin of little minds" and all that. I am sure that if I wanted to, I could trawl back through this site and find something that jarred with what I write today, and I would not be at all surprised if that were to happen in the future. Even so, it does make me wonder when…
From Samizdata.net
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
This week end I got caught up in re-reading a book which I come back to at intervals: L. Neil Smith's, 'The Probability Broach'. Even if you have read the full novel and the numerous sequels about that parallel universe where there is real freedom, I strongly recommend you try the graphic novel treatment by Scott Bieser. It is great fun and a pleasant read and re-read and re-re-read. Smith explains libertarianism by showing you…
From Samizdata.net
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
My comment the other day about a rather imperfect - if interesting - article about the late F.A. Hayek suddenly turned into a comment thread argument about whether religious parents have the right to have the genitalia of their children adjusted (as in the Jewish, Muslim, Christian, etc cultures). Now, I am not all that interested in the specific health or medical arguments here, although I would be interested if those with actual medical knowledge…
From Samizdata.net
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
When I made my last post about the small piece of incompetence I had encountered from the Home Office upon attempting to apply for a passport immediately upon becoming a naturalised British citizen, I wrote the sentence Theoretically, when I became a citizen, one thing I gained was the right not to suffer the petty humiliations and bureaucratic hassles and incompetence from the Home Office that a non-citizen goes through just to live here. One…
From Samizdata.net
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
Lady Chatterley's Lover, and D. H. Lawrence's own explanation, the "Propos", do reveal how the consumptive both embraced and escaped his country. Lawrence encapsulated a rootless contempt for his background and his people, the coalmining communities of the midlands. His last novel, rewritten three times, rails against the perceived deadened inauthenticity of English life; the mannered abstraction of a scientific worldview denying the consummate union of man and wife in a real marriage. Thus, science,…
From Samizdata.net
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
Janet Daley writes what I think is a wrong-headed article on how, if the Labour government gets rid of Gordon Brown and elects some younger, more "Blairite" leader claiming to support reform of public services, that this will put pressure on the Tories and may even convince enough gullible UK voters to stick with Labour. I am sorry, but the problem with this thesis, which alas reflects how even an astute observer like Janet Daley…
From Samizdata.net
Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom
Proudly powered by Wordpress
