This is fantastic: jurors in Missoula refused en masse to convict anyone of possessing trivial amounts of marijuana.  That’s a good start.  Now let’s start doing the same when it comes to lots of other issues.  Jury nullification is an essential tool of a free people, as a great many wise…
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Here’s my clip from the FOX Business Network the other day.

Political science professor Jeff Taylor, who says he identifies more with the left than the right, really digs Nullification , which he recently reviewed .  Had the left not degenerated into knee-jerk nationalism and thought control — now citizen, are you proposing something your betters have not approved…
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Tomorrow (Tuesday) night, a special episode of Freedom Watch on the FOX Business Network (8pm ET) will spend an hour on the evils of central banking.  I don’t know all of the guests, but three of them are Ron Paul, John Papola (of “Fear the Boom and Bust” fame), and me.  Tune…
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Here’s the video of the Glenn Beck program from Thursday.  My segment begins at 8:47, right after the interview with Ron Paul.

Media Matters, the left-wing thought-control site that received a $1 million donation from George Soros, is apparently up in arms that I said on Glenn Beck tonight that bankruptcy may turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to America.  I assumed sentient beings…
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A documentary based on my book Meltdown , which is an Austrian, free-market look at the financial crisis, is in the works.  See ThePanicOf2008.com . Here’s former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson in a short promo for the project:

Although my own degrees are in history, I get a lot of requests for advice from prospective graduate students in economics.  I always recommend three things.  First, Walter Block’s list of Austrian-sympathetic economics departments and faculty .  I then recommend this post and this post from Joe Salerno.  Hope you find them helpful.

Tomorrow (Thursday) night I’ll be speaking at Colorado State University.  The event will be broadcast live over the Internet. This Saturday I’m part of an online seminar on nullification.  (I can’t verify this for sure, but I am told all the cool people are attending.)  And thanks to a donor,…
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Under normal conditions I can get a decent night’s sleep.  But when I have to get up early the next morning I find it difficult if not impossible to sleep.  I begin worrying that if I don’t sleep, I’ll have real trouble doing whatever important…
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