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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 Tagged as 'First Amendment - Speech'

A Quick "Matthew Shepard Act" Observation

June 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

As the bill slogs its way through Congress, keep in mind that there are two alternative reasons to oppose it.

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Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Law · Libertarianism · Politics · Society, Religion, Culture Wars

We Must Be Winning the War on Terror…

March 9th, 2009 · Comments Off

…because the government is crafting a new excuse to shred our online privacy rights.

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Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues · Terror v. Civil Liberties

Linkfest: Two Curious Defamation Issues

March 6th, 2009 · Comments Off

Long-time readers know that, besides my unsurprising interest in constitutional law and gay rights issues, my first true love in law school was Torts. And I find the reputational torts to be among the most intriguing of all.

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Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Gay Rights and Issues · Torts

On the "Abort Obama" Incident

March 1st, 2009 · Comments Off

There was a bit of blogospheric buzz over whether "abort" is synonymous with "assassinate" (it's not), but that debate misses the point.

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Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues

CRS Recommendation: Campaign Finance Cases

January 15th, 2009 · Comments Off

The schizophrenic holding of Buckley v. Valeo has resulted in over thirty years of litigation.

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Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Law · Politics · Rent-Seeking

California Bigots Unveil Their Latest Hypocrisy

January 10th, 2009 · Comments Off

Guess who's asking "activist judges" to thwart "the will of the people"!

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Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Gay Rights and Issues · Law · Privacy Issues · Society, Religion, Culture Wars · Updates

On the Castro Confrontation Incident

November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

First, the video:


Two observations:
1. If these soulless cretins went into an insular Hasidic community in Brooklyn and tried to tell the residents — who had been minding their own business — that they were sinners, that Jesus is the only way to Heaven and that God abhors their "lifestyle choices," [...]

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Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Gay Rights and Issues · Society, Religion, Culture Wars

Corky Scalia's Inadvertent Libertarianism

November 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Attributed to Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments for Pleasant Grove City v. Summum:
"You can't run a museum if you have to accept everything, right?"
Right — Which is exactly why the government should not be running museums in the first place.
As for the outcome of this bizarre case, I think Chief Corky Roberts summed it [...]

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Tags: First Amendment - Religion · First Amendment - Speech · Libertarianism · Public Goods v. Private Goods · Updates

On Calls to Revoke LDS' Tax-Exempt Status

November 9th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Consider the following correction in Sunday's Washington Post:
Because of an editing error, the Nov. 7 op-ed column "Vows That Can't Be Voted Down" incorrectly suggested that the Mormon Church had contributed funds to efforts to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. The op-ed should have said "members of the [...]

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Tags: First Amendment - Religion · First Amendment - Speech · Gay Rights and Issues · Law · Society, Religion, Culture Wars · Taxation & Fiscal Policy

Bringing McCain-Feingold to the Music Business?

October 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

(Or: "Bringing Kelo to Copyright?")
Two law professors suggest exactly that:
After vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin finished her big speech at the Republican National Convention, the 1977 song "Barracuda," by the band Heart, blared out over the roar of the crowd. Convention organizers chose the music to highlight Palin's high school basketball-team nickname, "Sarah Barracuda." But [...]

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Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Law · Politics · Property Rights