More Lynch footage from Reason

Reason has some exclusive footage from the aborted sentencing yesterday. Meanwhile, if you are a reader who is not entirely familiar with the timeline and details of the Charlie Lynch case, I strongly recommend this excellent Reason summary. To read my various posts on the case, click here.

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Yeah, right

Apparently there is something called World Homoeopathy day. A function was held in [Kanpur] to observe the World Homeopathy Day. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Anil Katiyar, a noted homeopath said, “The good aspect is that homeopathy is capable of curing a person completely and there are no side-effects from this mode of treatment.” I [...]

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Bjorn Lomborg on global warming

Set aside 30 minutes today to watch this wonderful presentation by Bjorn Lomborg on global warming. Lomborg is no libertarian — he is a liberal who favours a welfare state and strong redistribution through taxation — and  indeed, there is no mention of any intrinsic value of freedom and property rights in his presentation. His [...]

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The libertarian moment?

The latest issue of Reason magazine has a long op-ed titled “The Libertarian moment.” Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie make the case that we are at the threshold of a new age of freedom. They cite as evidence relaxing social norms, increased permissiveness and the `soft libertarianism’ that the internet age has spawned. I would [...]

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The libertarian vice

I came across this old post by Tyler Cowen today: The libertarian vice is to assume that the quality of government is fixed.  The libertarian also argues that the quality of government is typically low, and this is usually the bone of contention, but that is not the point I wish to consider.  Often that [...]

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Britain wants to make it illegal to pay for sex

Britain, where prostitution is now legal, wants to turn back the clock and criminalize it again. And like the Swedish, they have taken a bizarre but politically correct position — it will now be illegal to pay for sex but legal to sell it. As Home Secretary Jacqui Smith put it: Basically, if it means [...]

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How far will smoking bans go?

The city of Belmont, California, recently passed a law that bans you from smoking in your own house if it shares a floor or ceiling with another apartment. So how far will smoking bans go, and how harmful really is second-hand smoke? Watch this great documentary by the folks at Reason magazine where they take [...]

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Ideological echo chambers

In an article published at Newsweek and Slate, Jacob Weisberg says the current crisis proves that “[libertarianism] makes no sense”. In fact he goes further than that: Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world’s failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong. Their heroic view of capitalism makes it [...]

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Charlie Lynch update

Here’s a video of the October 6 protest: Lynch appears in court for sentencing on November 24. He could theoretically be sent to prison for 100 years. If you are new to my blog, or unfamiliar with the story of Charlie Lynch, please go through my old posts on the subject. Or better still, watch [...]

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John Stagliano on Reason TV

I highly recommend the two part interview, embedded below, of pornographer John Stagliano with Reason TV. Stagliano, who has been mentioned previously in this blog, faces obscenity charges that could send him to prison for the rest of his life. He is a libertarian and a contributer to Reason Foundation.

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Where reason fails

“It’s impossible to reason people out of something they have never been reasoned into.” –Jonathan Swift

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Can’t disbelieve it away

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick

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Smoking pot is like child rape?

Another hard hitting article about the insane war on drugs by Jacob Sullum at Reason Hit and Run.

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Your health is my business

One of the dangers of publicly funded healthcare is that it increases the likelihood of the government micromanaging your health and other private affairs. Jacob Sullum wrote an excellent article in Reason last year about the totalitarian implications of public health. The Japanese government is the latest to prove him right. Under a national law [...]

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Two mommys, one daddy (and us)

After landing in Columbus, the [Hillary Clinton] campaign entourage headed by motorcade to Zanesville, a town of about twenty-five thousand, sixty miles away, for what was billed as an economic “summit.” When one speaker offered encomiums to Clinton rather than economic prescriptions, she gently reprimanded her, saying, “We’re going to put a moratorium on compliments.” [...]

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