Gee, I can’t imagine why.  You mean someone might not trust Hank Paulson on the economy?  Only sheer perversity can account for this!  Slate’s Jacob Weisberg is appalled that Americans won’t just shut up and do as their overlords tell them.  Here’s my reply .

C-SPAN2 will air a recent speech I gave on nullification this Saturday at 8am, Sunday at 7am and again Sunday at 2pm (all times Eastern).  The program will also feature a Q&A session for which I was joined by former U.S. congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr.  Please spread…
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I’ll be speaking on what the heck happened to the U.S. economy and what the  Austrian School of economics has to say about it at Indiana University this Tuesday night.  See you there !

Nice plug for Nullification .  (See the discussion starting around 3:10 .) Thanks, Pat!

Constitution Day: (n.) Observed on September 17, the day on which federally funded American educational institutions, themselves unconstitutional, are unconstitutionally required to teach about the Constitution.

A panel of neoconservatives was asked to choose the top American conservative books of all time.  Left completely off the entire list is anything by Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, or Robert Nisbet.  Instead, we get either the most predictable and perfunctory answers (e.g., The Federalist (Papers) and Democracy in America ) or biographies…
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City councilman Steve Isom is a bigger booster of my book Nullification than I myself, if this video is any indication.  Here Governor Mark Sanford and other South Carolina officials are presented with signed copies.  Steve is insistent about getting them to read it and having…
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Opponents of the War on Drugs sometimes argue that the artificially elevated profits — because of artificially elevated drug prices — that drug dealers enjoy thanks to criminalization have caused all kinds of havoc, particularly in minority neighborhoods.  Young kids get the wrong kind of…
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This Saturday I’ll be speaking in Fargo, North Dakota, alongside Barry Goldwater, Jr., former U.S. Congressman and son of the legendary senator.  Students can attend free.  Details here .

Here I discuss my book (co-edited with Murray Polner) We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now .  So many of us will say the government is incompetent and even sinister, but make an exception for this particular government program.  Time for some fresh thinking.