by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2013 | Blogs
Government officials do some really crazy things in the name of law enforcement. I recently wrote about an armed raid on an animal shelter in order to execute a baby deer. That was paramilitary overkill (pun intended), though it probably didn’t waste as many tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve
Two of my favorite things in life are the Laffer Curve and the Georgia Bulldogs. So you know I’m going to approve when an economics professor from the University of Georgia writes a column about the power of the Laffer Curve. And since I’m a libertarian and the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2011 | Blogs, Constitution, Crime, Society
As a grumpy libertarian, I routinely get agitated about taxes, spending, and regulation. As far as I’m concerned, much of government is a racket that uses coercion to reward interest groups with unearned wealth. But there are degrees of evil. So if you asked me to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2011 | Blogs, Economics
We have another great video from Reason TV, which mocks Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for stating that drug legalization is a bad idea because “there is just too much money in it.” The video explains that government-imposed prohibition is what makes the drug...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 23, 2010 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Nullification occurs when jurors refuse to find a defendant guilty because the underlying law is unjust (visit the Fully Informed Jury Association if you want more details). And if I ever wind up on a jury and the government was trying to throw someone in jail for a...
