Posted on September 13th, 2008 by Kip
As is so often the case with Religion of Peace posts, not much commenting is required: The most senior judge in Saudi Arabia has said it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV channels which broadcast immoral programmes. Sheikh Salih Ibn al-Luhaydan said some "evil" entertainment programmes aired by the channels promoted debauchery. [...]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Kip
… and putting a fence on it doesn't help: While John Jay Park itself may be a bit of a thorn in my libertarian side, a fence around the park is not, nor is this sign. Perfectly reasonable in my opinion. But when does my opinion ever count? I tease, of course: the sign was [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Kip
Ezra Klein does what he does best: be wrong — As [Jacob] Sullum says, "If customers really were clamoring for conspicuous calorie counts, restaurants would provide them voluntarily." That sentence competes for space with a poll showing 84 percent of Californians support caloric labeling requirements, and the basic reality the article is responding to: Democratically [...]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Kip
More 20/20 hindsight, from the blawger who inspired this recent post, regarding the subprime sutuation — Now that the recent housing bubble has burst, it seems obvious that too many people who shouldn't have tried to buy houses were approved to take out mortgage loans. One take on the problem, therefore, is that these people [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Kip
"If people were cool, this would not be an issue." And what is the issue over which people are being un-cool? James Hetfield, co-founder of the legendary heavy metal band Metallica, has erected a barbed-wire fence on his property near San Rafael, cutting off a fire trail that has been open to public use for [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Kip
A repeat offender at this blog: "private censorship" — An advocacy group seeking to curtail the proliferation of nuclear weapons is crying foul after an ad aimed at presumptive GOP nominee John McCain was ordered removed from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The group, the Union of Concerned Scientists, took out ads in the Denver and [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Kip
To review: The only incursion upon property rights worse than private-for-private eminent domain (such as that shamefully sanctioned by Kelo v. New London) is landmarks preservation. At least with eminent domain, a soon-to-be-former property owner receives "just compensation" for the incursion upon his rights by the majoritarian mob. With historic preservation, however, the mob doesn't [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Kip
…but you can't make him drown: Governor David A. Paterson today signed into law a critical subprime lending reform bill which directly addresses the mortgage crisis in New York State. … The new law will immediately help protect people from losing their homes and mandates reforms to help avoid a similar crisis in the future. [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Kip
Ezra Klein once again unleashes his remarkably adolescent intellect upon the blogosphere: This is getting a little crazy. Responding to the South Los Angeles's new ordinance imposing a one-year moratorium on the construction of new fast food restaurants, William Saletan says, "We're not talking anymore about preaching diet and exercise, disclosing calorie counts, or restricting [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Kip
To review: Even before District v. Heller was handed down, finding an individual right to keep and bear arms, some jurisdictions not only allowed private citizens to bear arms, but actually went out of their way to trample property rights by requiring private property owners to allow, against their will, people to bring guns onto [...]
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