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The Efficient Destruction of Flyover Country
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The Efficient Destruction of Flyover Country

Ideologues tend to place a great value on economic laws.  I started out my undergraduate career hoping for a double major in political science and economics.  My goal was to administer a breadline and to understand why it was necessary.  I was doing very well in political philosophy and public administration, but lagging a bit...

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The Illinois Negro Code

Most people believe the history of race relations in the United States is neatly divided by geography. Those states north of the Mason-Dixon Line were paragons of equality and liberty, where race was not an issue and diversity flourished in all its glory. ...

The War on Blight
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The War on Blight

If you live in an older section of town, this may already have happened to you.  You wake up in a cold sweat.  For the past 15 years, you and your husband have lovingly restored an old Victorian house.  It was pretty decrepit when you started; now, it is an object of pride and beauty. ...

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

In Iraq, as of this writing, the death toll for U.S. soldiers has reached 100—in the month of October alone.  So far, 2,813 members of the U.S. Armed Forces have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.  At least another 21,266 have been wounded, as reported by the Pentagon.  This...

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Bringing to Light Eminent Domain

The Kelo v. City of New London Supreme Court decision has brought the abuse of eminent domain to the forefront of the public’s awareness.  In Florida, private-sector developers and their allies in municipal-planning and economic-development departments are moving ahead on a number of projects that will force hundreds of retired mobile-home dwellers, and residents in...

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The Illinois Negro Code

Most people believe the history of race relations in the United States is neatly divided by geography.  Those states north of the Mason-Dixon Line were paragons of equality and liberty, where race was not an issue and diversity flourished in all its glory.  In the benighted states to their south, however, the entire social structure...

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Buy Local

There seems to be a common theme in modern libertarian thought that stresses the merits of giant corporate enterprises, claiming that they are infinitely superior to smaller, less capitalized, local businesses.  One article that I read extolled the virtues of chain bookstores versus their benighted independent “competition.”  My interest here is personal: I work part-time...