For me, reason.tv is the new Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. I love it. Last week, its showcase - The Drew Carey Project - produced the 7+ minute video: Mexicans and Machines: Why it’s time to lay off NAFTA.
For those with less than 7 minutes to spare, Carey pushes the protectionist credo (against NAFTA, “cheap labor” [...]
The second NoFx song in my NLADP series (first one here), this one arguing against marijuana prohibition via the principles of self-ownership and personal autonomy. Lyrical excerpt below:
Why be sad when happiness can be bought for a little more then free
Modern day prohibition
Are we men? Are we children?
At what age can I choose how to [...]
Fifteen years ago yesterday–on April 19th, 1993–a 51-day standoff between the feds and the Branch Davidians ended in an appalling, totally-avoidable tragedy. The Waco Massacre, the fault of a stupid, brute-ridden federal government unable to respect both the 1st and 2nd Amendments, resulted in an incineration of 76 civilians, including 21 children. [...]
Less than a year after being released from prison, Dr. Jack Kevorkian is running for Congress in Michigan’s 9th District as an independent.
If elected, the right-to-die advocate will (predictably) focus on changing the Ninth Amendment to allow for assisted-suicide; he has also expressed opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq. I’m ignorant to the rest [...]
Virginia Postrel, author of The Future and Its Enemies–one of my favorite pieces of political nonfiction–is featured in reason.tv’s latest video entitled Organ Transplants: Kidneys for Sale (I had a blog post with the same subtitle here).
‘What’d she do–donate her kidney?’
Why yes she did! In order to save an ally’s life. In order to [...]
Great visual representation of paternalism, of the state making sure the individual tows-the-line.
I would love to find something in the same artistic style but expressing the opposite message, a rejection of government paternalism for personal autonomy.
It would make a sweet tee-shirt.
Observe:
Fidel transfers power to his brother and, thereby, saves the Cuban people from the indignity of electoral choice. Congressman Serrano’s (D-NY) first instinct is to publicly congratulate the dictator.
Bruce Raynor, president of the union UNITE HERE!, urges legislators to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act (a misnomer of monumental proportions), and thereby, spare potential [...]
I’m not sure how the story has gone this long without appearing on the blog — especially when my own co-worker, Izzy Santa, has been quoted in relation to it — but, in any case: “Pig roaster’s citations from Wheeling have Filipino consulate, ACLU, libertarians crying foul”.
For those link averse, a man from Wheeling [...]
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