An interesting visual overview of the drone policy in Pakistan .

Noam Chomsky speaks on anarchism and his gripes with libertarians. A sample: It’s better to be able to make your own decisions than to have someone else make decisions and force you to observe them.  I mean, I don’t think you really need an argument for that. …
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The great Robert Higgs writes: Yesterday I posted on my Facebook page several horrifying photos related to the actions of the U.S. foreign legions in recent decades. Some of my FB friends objected that these posts merely appealed to emotion and failed to provide factual…
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Now Canada has a journal dedicated to Austrian economics: the new Journal of Prices & Markets , published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada and edited by David Howden. Dave is a Canadian, and currently the head of the economics department at the Madrid campus of St. Louis University. Dave is top notch: knowledgeable,…
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Donald Trump is considering another run for president. Nonstop presidential elections, featuring (at best) annoying egomaniacs — that’s 21st-century America. (Thanks to Travis.)

Every month I give away free signed copies of one of my books to each of ten subscribers to the free Tom Woods Letter . Here are May’s winners: Zachary Fisk Cindy Levredge Tracy Kinkead Yishmeray Yehudah Chris Casey Corey McPhee Carl Seira J. Watson Matthew Powers Sid…
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My kids are too young to have email, so they sometimes write to me via my Contact page . In case you see this, kids, thanks for your cute messages!

Bob Murphy at The American Conservative : So there you have it, folks: When European “austerity” leads to a rising unemployment, a double dip in GDP, and a collapsing budget situation, Krugman says he told us so; austerity is stupid. And when US “austerity” leads to falling unemployment,…
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This from the people who spoke of winning the war on cancer by 1977.