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A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on law, economics, politics, culture and other current events
by an average, everyday lawyer & investment banker and part-time pop scholar.


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Entries from September 2009

Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-29

September 30th, 2009 · Comments Off

Bounty the Dog Hunter: NatGeo whores itself out by celebrating (staged) lawless vigilantism. http://is.gd/3MB4z #fb 09:08:50
Could you imagine if YOUR insurance company demanded that YOU prepay all your premiums through 2012? http://is.gd/3MFuV #tlot #fb 10:03:37
I guess Obama would file the FDIC's accounting trickery under "keeping insurance companies honest." Ahem… #tlot #fb 10:05:01

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Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-28

September 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Honduras takes a class at the Bush-Cheney School of Government: "Constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties? Meh. " http://is.gd/3KpDG #fb 08:04:27
Maybe Roman Polanski can hire Andrew Sullivan's lawyer. "Justice for thee but not for me," etc. #fb 10:14:56

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Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-27

September 28th, 2009 · Comments Off

RT @smilerz91: I'm sure that 50% unemployment for young workers has nothing to do with raising the minimum wage http://icio.us/3c4ez1 #fb 14:53:49
The neat-o nagger against nincompoops, RIP. http://is.gd/3Jk8D #fb 16:14:40
I haven't watched Law & Order in a long time, but I'll be watching tonight. http://is.gd/3JmLQ #tlot #fb 16:51:27
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Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-26

September 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

The world's top goatherder would like to remind you that most of the world's goatherders are still ignorant barbarians. http://is.gd/3GXN7 09:23:53
Newspapers ("too whatever to fail!") want tax-loss carryforwards to become tax-loss hurlbackwards (but only for them): http://is.gd/3H0v1 09:56:10
For the Star Wars nerds: Look at the beautiful pudu! http://is.gd/3HJCu 20:46:37

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Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-25

September 26th, 2009 · Comments Off

One more time: "Democracy is not community. … [It] is mob rule. " http://is.gd/3FaVS #tlot #fb 10:07:17
Remember all that "economic development" that was supposed to justify nullifying the Public Use Clause in Kelo? Ahem… http://is.gd/3FekQ 10:44:50
RT @smilerz91: Tuscon schools to discipline blacks & Hispanics differently from whites. "Separate but equal is [...]

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Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-24

September 25th, 2009 · Comments Off

Death panels? That's just silly talk. P.S. "savings can only come from changing the way the system treats dying people" http://is.gd/3D9To 08:59:17
What, no taser? http://is.gd/3Di8l #tlot #fb 10:34:06
What the Deuce? http://is.gd/3EefE #tlot #fb 23:58:51

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Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-23

September 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Testing Tweetdeck. http://pic.gd/563c3a http://is.gd/3B0O3 08:06:48
Still testing Tweetdeck. http://twitpic.com/itbh0 08:10:12
Krugman on Maddow: "There was not a single banking crisis from FDR through Reagan." Um, S&L crisis? (Caused by government, btw.) #tlot #fb 23:30:40
Soulforce Equality Ride, one of my fav charities, seeks frequent flier mile donations to send riders to training: http://is.gd/3CoJb #fb 00:23:55

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Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-22

September 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

New Blog Post: In Defense of Full Corporate Rights http://digs.by/NoX #tlot 10:45:34
Thought of the Day: "When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it…" http://digs.by/NpA 11:08:37
The only legitimate function of the Census is to enumerate individuals – not married couples, gay or otherwise. http://digs.by/NpD #tlot #fb 11:11:02
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In Defense of Full Corporate Rights

September 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

It is absurd in the extreme to suggest that two free individuals acting jointly can somehow have "less rights" than those two same free individuals would have acting individually.

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Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-21

September 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off

RT @Popehat: Kalona, Iowa cops stop cars on highway to ask them to shop in town. http://tinyurl.com/l784k3 What Fourth Amendment? #tl … 04:02:07
"If you put something in the Internal Revenue Code, & you tell the IRS to collect it, I think that's a tax…" http://digs.by/NYY #tlot #fb 17:39:12

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