• Yes, the Second Amendment really means what it says… and that means you too Chicago

    Updated: 2010-06-30 10:04:18
    This past Monday, Samuel Alito, writing for the majority (with separate concurring opinions from Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia) in the case McDonald vs. City of Chicago and Village of Morton Grove; handed down what in 30 years will I believe, be held as one of (or perhaps half of a pair of, or the [...]

  • The Finance Reform Bill

    Updated: 2010-06-30 05:15:02
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  • The Ownership Society

    Updated: 2010-06-30 00:51:41
    One of Bush’s central themes — when he wasn’t talking about the War on Tara — was the “ownership society”. As we all know, it was a pretty universal failure. NCLB didn’t get parents any closer to owning control over their childrens’ education. Medicare Part D gave the government more control over [...]

  • Misguided moderates

    Updated: 2010-06-29 21:27:23
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  • Innovation in government

    Updated: 2010-06-29 18:48:03
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  • Country, not State -- Government responsibility, not government power

    Updated: 2010-06-29 16:52:43
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  • Hayek on Urban Life

    Updated: 2010-06-29 02:39:51
    It’s not by mistake that you’ll hear talk of property rights more in the country than in the city, since it’s clearer who owns what in the wide open range. I’ve thought about this a few times but the brilliant economist Frederich Hayek thought about it more intensively in his work The Constitution of Liberty: [...]

  • Quote Of The Day

    Updated: 2010-06-29 00:53:09
    Ezra Klein: For those of you who don’t click on the link, the conclusions, based off a raft of numbers that the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget worked up for me, are that you’ll never get deficits under control if you don’t get growth back on track; you’ll never get deficits under control if you [...]

  • A politicized Supreme Court

    Updated: 2010-06-28 21:27:09
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  • 5 year timeline for Afghanistan

    Updated: 2010-06-27 04:42:44
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  • WaPo screwed up a good idea

    Updated: 2010-06-26 21:49:04
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  • Eclectic Gang upset at own medicine

    Updated: 2010-06-26 21:42:41
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  • Financial command and control

    Updated: 2010-06-26 02:44:02
    I won't comment much on the content of the financial reform because it's misleading. The problem is the new powers granted to government to control the finance industry. We'll see what happens, but remember -- I told you so. This is flying under the radar due to society's misdirected anger at Wall Street. This will not turn out well for the public. At this point, all we can do is sit and watch, but there will come a time for action, and it better be soon.

  • North Korea’s Mysterious Soccer Team

    Updated: 2010-06-25 19:47:34
    The intelligence digest Stratfor has a really thought provoking article up about the mystery surrounding North Korea’s soccer team: North Korea is the most mysterious of all the teams to compete in the 2010 World Cup. As in soccer, so it is in geopolitics. Before the tournament started, no one outside North Korea knew what to [...]

  • Quote Of The Day

    Updated: 2010-06-24 00:03:48
    Supreme Court justice William Douglas, in the 1954 ruling Berman v. Parker (a precursor to Kelo, which “celebrates” its 5-year anniversary today): The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive. The values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to [...]

  • Kelo, Five Years Later

    Updated: 2010-06-23 19:13:25
    It was five years ago today, that the Supreme Court issued it’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London In 1998 the pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced plans to build a giant new research and development center in New London, Connecticut. As part of the deal, city officials agreed to clear out neighboring property owners via [...]

  • CounterPoint: Yes, Virginia, States Really Do Have Rights

    Updated: 2010-06-22 12:30:21
    This is a segment in The Liberty Papers’ continuing “Point/Counterpoint” series. This post is the rebuttal to my co-contributor Michael Powell’s post here, making the point that “states’ rights” are an antiquated and poisoned concept. When I saw Michael’s post this morning, I was a little bit surprised. I was expecting him to make [...]

  • Point: “State’s Rights” A Misnomer

    Updated: 2010-06-21 17:18:34
    This is a post in our continuing “Point/Counterpoint” series, where TLP contributors and/or guest posters debate a topic. In this installment, Michael Powell argues against the existence of “states’ rights”. Tomorrow, Brad Warbiany will defend states’ rights, and his post can now be found here. During the twentieth century, there were several confrontations between [...]

  • This Week In Linguistic Gymnastics

    Updated: 2010-06-17 07:37:50
    I’m not the first person to notice how important a role linguistics play in politics – George Orwell’s classic 1984 provided keen observations into the role that minimization of language plays in closing political discourse. In his essay “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell stated, “All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a [...]

  • Supreme Court Opposes Nazis 90% Of Time — Kevin Drum Labels Them Ideologues

    Updated: 2010-06-16 23:39:17
    Kevin Drum, on the Supreme Court’s pro-business stance: (original linked article from Constitutional Accountability Center) A good guidepost to these rulings is the position taken by the United States Chamber of Commerce, which bills itself as the “voice of business.” Roberts’s record? In the past five years he’s sided with the Chamber 70% of the time. In [...]

  • Jon Stewart Slams Obama For Breaking Promises On Civil Liberties

    Updated: 2010-06-16 01:44:27
    This clip from The Daily Show is absolutely devastating: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

  • This BLOG is Moving

    Updated: 2010-06-16 00:23:37
    In an effort to more fully incorporate this blog with the official LPColorado website and to also make it more of a multi-user blog site, this blog is shutting down and new posts will be posted at: http://www.lpcolorado.org/blog If you...

  • Welcome, but insufficient to the needs of the day

    Updated: 2010-06-15 20:52:12
    David Cameron today apologized for the  British Armies conduct on Bloody Sunday. Great… now do something of substance. Either treat the north as a real part of the rest of the damn country, or get the hell out. The UK is firmly wedded to a lot of government involvement in industry, in finance, in development… fine. [...]

  • Hayek Sales Skyrocket

    Updated: 2010-06-15 02:46:34
    Today I got this message from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation: I hope your summer is off to a great start! If, like me, you’re a fan of free-market economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek, whose book The Road to Serfdom just hit #1 on Amazon, this has been an exciting week. It’s true! The Cato Institute has been [...]

  • Comment Of The Day

    Updated: 2010-06-14 19:09:06
    This is actually a comment at Hit & Run, but I hadn’t seen this juxtaposition before. The other thing I always find hilarious is how so many anti-immigration Republicans are so anti-union, when they use the same arguments against immigrants that unions use against non-union workers. In both cases, the impetus is the same: “I’ve already got [...]

  • Hero arrested for saving girl and upstaging police in the process

    Updated: 2010-06-14 00:45:44
    Alan Snodgrass a rafting guide with Arkansas Valley Adventures Rafting saves a 13 year girl, while the police and other rescuers are still trying to organize their plan, get their equipment together, etc., this would make him a hero right?...

  • Ritter vetoes bill to ease restrictions on traditional Phone service and ban future regulations on VOIP products

    Updated: 2010-06-12 23:17:34
    Gov. Bill Ritter’s veto earlier this week of a measure exempting Internet phone service from state regulation–and easing up as well on regulation of traditional phone service –ignores the realities of today’s telecommunications market, a sponsor of the bill said....

  • New Colorado Liberty Newsletter online

    Updated: 2010-06-12 15:05:54
    If you do not receive the Colorado Liberty Newsletter via email, the latest edition is now online. http://lpcolorado.org/coloradoliberty/HTML/colib039-06.html

  • Low-Income Telephone Assistance Program mired in waste and incompetence

    Updated: 2010-06-09 23:53:03
    The Low-Income Telephone Assistance Program for years has doled out $16.50 in monthly telephone subsidies to nearly 10,000 people who didn't qualify for it, state auditors said. Program oversight was so lax that no one — not the Public Utilities...

  • Denver cops try to find better way to deal with dogs

    Updated: 2010-06-09 00:21:56
    The Denver Police Department is re-examining its training for how officers are taught to react when they encounter potentially aggressive dogs following a recent legal settlement between the city and a man whose German Shepard was shot in the head...

  • Sorry for the limited postings recently

    Updated: 2010-06-08 23:03:07
    I have been out of town, in New York City without access to the internet in my Hotel so I have not posted recently. While I was away Christine Smith got even more press coverage, she requested I share with...

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