Longtime readers will know I often refer to “the 3×5 card of approved opinion” that defines the narrow range of permissible debate in American society. When someone strays from that 3×5 card, he will be smeared as an extremist. His views will not be refuted.… Read More
Archives for January 2013
Nassim Taleb: Centralization a Negative, Not a Positive
Plenarchist writes: You might find this talk Nassim Taleb gave at Google interesting. He explains antifragility (from his latest book , which I haven’t read). His theory with respect to societies argues in favor of small government to reduce societal fragility. It is an argument in favor of… Read More
NullificationFAQ.com
Just bought NullificationFAQ.com , and I’m already using it. This way, I can refer people more easily to what I think is the best non-book-length treatment of nullification I’ve written.
Can the DEA Hide Surveillance Cameras on Your Land?
Last fall, a U.S. district court judge in Wisconsin ruled that it was all right for the DEA to install warrantless cameras on a family’s property in order to monitor and eventually arrest them for growing marijuana. The family faces $10 million in fines and… Read More
Guatemala President: Call Off War on Drugs
“I believe western countries fail to understand the reality that countries such as Guatemala and those of Central America have to live in,” said Otto Pérez Molina in a recent interview. “There has been plenty of talk, but no effective response. I believe, ultimately, that this is due to a lack… Read More
Shock: ‘The Progressive Professor’ Opposes Nullification
A very predictable progressive, I might add. Once in a while a progressive, like Jeff Taylor at Jacksonville State, realizes that gigantic, unresponsive bureaucracies that bomb foreign populations at the drop of a hat, just might — might! — not be so progressive. And that… Read More
Marijuana Arrests Exceed Violent Crime Arrests
“In 2011, marijuana possession arrests totaled 663,032 — more than arrests for all violent crimes combined,” says a new report .
Alaska House Speaker Calls for Nullification
And a local reporter condemns him with the same old fourth-grade arguments . He gives us the Supremacy Clause (which he evidently thinks Thomas Jefferson didn’t know about), which he takes to mean that any old federal law trumps all state law, an interpretation that would have come as a… Read More
Opinion Police Out in Force Against Nullification
The thought controllers over at the Daily Beast are unhappy that Rand Paul has used the word “nullify.” Nullification does not appear on the 3×5 card of allowable opinion, so he is to be condemned without being refuted — the usual procedure for dealing with… Read More
West Point Think Tank: Beware ‘Anti-Federalists’
Another of the laws of the universe, c. 2013, is that we are to be subjected from now until the end of time to reports by government think-tanks warning us that people who believe in minimal government violence are themselves dangerous and violent. Thus the… Read More