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Dictators in free and open source software
Posted by: schestowitz 4 weeks agoSome people seem to challenge the idea that most (if not all) free software projects need a benevolent dictator— that is, somebody who has ...
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A Million Terrorists?
Posted by: populist 4 weeks agoLike the rest of the domestic War on Terror, the "Terrorism Watch List" supposedly targets terrorists while actually preying on innocent Americans. It penalizes people ...
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The Dangerous Question
Posted by: populist 4 weeks agoThe hegemonic powers that be hate, above all else, the following question: "Why?" And we the people are more than happy to avoid asking it ...
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If Men Were Angels
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 6 days agoThe Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government
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Bob Barr: The Constitution as a Limit on Executive Power
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 5 days agoThe Constitution employs several techniques to preserve our liberties and privacy. One is to limit federal authority to enumerated powers. Another is to explicitly restrict ...
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Interventionism: A Scourge
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 5 days agoThe government wants to interfere in order to force businessmen to conduct their affairs in a different way than they would have chosen if they ...
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One Little, Two Little, Three Little Eichmanns
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 5 days agoIn Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt wrote, “The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither ...
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Why is Habeas Corpus Such a Threat to those in Power?
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 3 days agoWhy is the Supreme Court's decision to uphold habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees so scary that Senator Lindsey Graham, with the support ...
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A Public Menace: The War on Drugs
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 2 days agoDrug laws promote arbitrary confiscation of peoples’ cars, homes, and bank accounts. Drug laws condone violent, middle-of-the-night raids on people’s homes by SWAT teams ...
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Petty Police State
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 2 days agoCould the most important thing one does for one’s community be to send a pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution to local politicians ...
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Respected Academic Denied Entry into U.S.
Posted by: populist 2 weeks, 6 days agoOur government finds it necessary to protect Americans from academics who disagree with Bush.
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Is China a Model for U.S. Conservatives?
Posted by: populist 2 weeks, 5 days agoDid you ever think you’d see the day when the U.S. government and the Chinese communist government would be moving in the same ...
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Public Service, Public Servants, and Mass Death
Posted by: populist 2 weeks, 5 days agoNo one becomes a public servant in order to serve one's country, but to serve oneself. It is pure fantasy to intimate that some ...
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I Guess This Is It: Police State America
Posted by: populist 2 weeks, 2 days agoAll I can say is Adolph and Uncle Joe would be proud of these guys, and of the United States, whose government abandoned their Constitution ...
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The Republic, Slip-Sliding Away
Posted by: populist 2 weeks, 2 days agoWe seem to be following the familiar path of history where republics slide into empire and eventually a fascist dictatorship. Too bad that freedom, like ...
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