How we talk about the president: A quick exploration in Google Books. John Mark Ockerbloom, Everybody's Libraries (2010-06-20). On The Online Books Page, I've been indexing a collection of memorial sermons on President Abraham Lincoln, all published shortly after his assassination, and digitized by Emory University.  Looking through them, I was struck by how often Lincoln was referred to as "our Chief Magistrate".  That's a term you don't… (Linked Friday 2010-07-09.)

Nibbling Away. Daily Brickbats (2010-07-09). The War on the Informal Sector (Cont’d.): $2,000 to sell salsa. (Linked Friday 2010-07-09.)

Leave It to the Professionals. Daily Brickbats (2010-07-09). Government Vs. Public Safety and Human Decency (Linked Friday 2010-07-09.)

Unity and Fragmentation. Ranil Dissanayake, Aid Thoughts (2010-07-08). I was in Cape Town last week for the World Cup, and watched the Ghana – Uruguay quarterfinal in the FIFA Fan Fest there, together with several thousand supports from South Africa and abroad. For those who have missed it, Ghana lost in controversial circumstances, and the trend of blatant… (Linked Friday 2010-07-09.)

Ideas That Stick With You. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-10). Under the feudal system, rights to one's person were alienable (swearing fealty to a lord was irrevocable) while rights to land often weren't (a feudal lord couldn't sell his estate, as it belonged in perpetuity to his heirs) – the exact reverse of the rights system that most libertarians advocate…. (Linked Saturday 2010-07-10.)

{takebacktheland.org} ONE DC Liberates Land in Nation's Capital. Max Rameau, takebacktheland (2010-07-10). VIEW FULL STORY PICTURES AND NEWS CLIPS ON TAKEBACKTHELAND.ORG http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=162Metro DC police plan to evict community from Tent City on Monday July 12 Community organization ONE DC "liberated" a vacant lot in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC on the afternoon of Saturday, July 10, 2010. The contentious Parcel 42,… (Linked Saturday 2010-07-10.)

We agree it's WEIRD, but is it WEIRD enough? gregdowney, Neuroanthropology (2010-07-10). The most recent edition of Behavioral and Brain Sciences carries a remarkable review article by Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan, !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;The weirdest people in the world?' The article outlines two central propositions; first, that most behavioural science theory is built upon research that examines intensely a narrow… (Linked Saturday 2010-07-10.)

SISTERSONG, SPARK, and SisterLove Defeat SB 529. INCITE! Blog (2010-07-11). Victory in Georgia. (Linked Sunday 2010-07-11.)

the politics of apology. bfp, flip flopping joy (2010-07-09). i read this post by macha at VL, and just about threw up. i'm just sick, sick, watching those videos. (long story short, a woman was attacked by men for talking shit about men she slept with). the videos show the attacks on this woman—one is of men slapping her,… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-11.)

Seeing Like a State. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-03). I was just watching part of a Congressional presentation on C-Span honouring the slaves who built the u.s. capitol – not by making restitution to their heirs, of course, but by setting up some sort of plaque. What especially bugged me was the speakers' continual references to expressing "thanks" and… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

July 4 thoughts. Thoreau, Unqualified Offerings (2010-07-03). By Thoreau First, I should preface this by saying that I just went through a DUI checkpoint.  A dozen cops standing around at a low-traffic intersection, and I'll bet that a lot of them are collecting overtime for this.  Interestingly, he didn't ask me "Have  you had anything to drink… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

The America John Boehner Grew Up In. Matthew Yglesias (2010-07-04). Conservatism Vs. The Past (Cont’d.) (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

Homeland Security Works For Disney Now? Announces Shut Down Of Movie Sites At Disney. Mike Masnick, Techdirt (2010-06-30). Well, here we go. Remember how, a few months back, we noted how odd it was that the Justice Department (which, of course, employs many former RIAA/MPAA/BSA lawyers) was designating a special task force to fight copyright infringement? After all, copyright infringement is mostly a civil issue, between two private… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

Sumner Time Blues. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-04). William Graham Sumner said lots of things I like. (See, for example, his "Conquest of the United States by Spain.") The following (which I apparently transcribed a couple of decades ago and just came across today) isn't one of them: [H]ow are we to appreciate the work of the Constitution-makers?… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

feministhulk: HULK NOT DOWN WITH COMPLACENCY IN THE FACE OF HEGEMONY. IF THAT’S “JUST THE WAY IT IS,” LET’S FUCK IT UP! Twitter / feministhulk (2010-07-04). feministhulk: HULK NOT DOWN WITH COMPLACENCY IN THE FACE OF HEGEMONY. IF THAT’S “JUST THE WAY IT IS,” LET’S FUCK IT UP! (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

On Celebrating Your Freedom... Radley Balko, The Agitator (2010-07-04). Libertarian activists Pete Eyre and Adam Mueller have been arrested for filming police in Greenfield, Massachusetts. (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

More on Immigration. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-07-03). I’m sick of all the pro-immigration articles showing how good immigrants can be for us. It’s not that the arguments are wrong. They’re just not terribly relevant to the essential issue — the freedom of people to move without permission, unmolested by governments or private individuals. Emphasizing how good immigration… (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

The Political Animal. Cafe Hayek (2010-07-05). Here's a letter to DC news-radio station WTOP: In this morning's 6 am hour, your Capitol Hill reporter, Dave McConnell, excused Sen. Robert Byrd's long-ago active membership in the KKK as simply being "something that had to be done in West Virginia back then to get ahead in politics." No… (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

Blogs and peer review. Eric Crampton, Offsetting Behaviour (2010-06-30). I had coffee with Bryce Edwards over the weekend. His two year old is a week younger than ours; good times were had by all. But we both pondered what the New Zealand academic evaluation mechanism – the Performance Based Research Fund – will make of our blogging when we’re… (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

Let 560 Nations Bloom – Within the Boundaries of the U.S. flowidealism, Let A Thousand Nations Bloom (2010-07-02). This post by Michael Strong is part of Secession Week 2010: Federalism and Secession Arguably the simplist and most immediate path for "Letting a Thousand Nations Bloom" is to support tribal sovereignty movements around the world, especially in the Common Law nations of the Anglosphere like the U.S.  Other colonialist European… (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

Bye-Bye for IP. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-20). Another blast from the past, out of the same box: I believe this letter to the Durham-based Independent Weekly was published, in some form at any rate. 3 February 1995 To the Editor: The copyright hassles of Blaise Faint (Independent Weekly 2/1/95) [2010 note: alas, I no longer recall what… (Linked Saturday 2010-05-22.)

Uncle Grady Still Has a Gun. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-22). The following letter appeared in today's Opelika-Auburn News; it's a rejoinder to a recent reply to my "Uncle Grady" letter. To the Editor: Carol Robicheaux (May 15) accuses me of hubris, hypocrisy, and naivety for my preference for voluntary modes of social organization over coercive ones – as though personal… (Linked Saturday 2010-05-22.)

How Walter Williams Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-22). Walter Williams asks (CHT LRC): There are close to 7 billion people on our planet. I'd like to know how the libertarians answer this question: Does each individual on the planet have a natural or God-given right to live in the U.S.? ... I believe most people, even my open-borders… (Linked Saturday 2010-05-22.)

05/21/10 PHD comic: ‘If only’ PHD Comics (2010-05-23). Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "If only" – originally published 5/21/2010 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

Infrastructures. xkcd.com (2010-05-20). (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

I’m a criminal and so are you. Tennyson McCalla, Tennyson McCalla's Facebook Links (2010-05-21). I’m a criminal and so are youSource: www.cnn.comWho am I? How do I identify? Â  Â [H/T Jo Hastings. This is good stuff.]”Lately, I’ve been telling people that I’m a criminal. This shocks most people, since I don’t ‘look like’ one. I’m a fairly clean-cut, light-skinned black woman with fancy degrees from Vanderbilt… (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

Julian Heicklen's 2010-05-14 Progress Report. bile, blog of bile (2010-05-15). FIJA DISTRIBUTIONS MAY 10–14, 2010 1. FIJA Demonstration in Trenton, NJ, 5/10/10 Jim Babb, George Donnelly, and I arrived at the U. S. District Courthouse at 402 E. State Street in Trenton, NJ, at 11:40 am on Monday, May 10, 2010. It was a sunny, but chilly and mildly windy… (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

And they moved to Stars Hollow and lived happily ever after. Jill, I Blame The Patriarchy (2010-05-16). This post would have appeared earlier, but I only just now got the gore and debris cleaned up. I allude to the obstreperal lobe tissue dripping from the bunkhouse rafters. That's right, I blew another lobe, and no doubt you did, too, when you heard about the insane bill that… (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

Counter Culture. Neverfox, Anarchoblogs in English (2010-05-23). Allison Kilkenny writes: The free market can't provide solutions to many social problems. As Oliver Willis (sarcastically) put it, "instead of boycotting [the] bus, rosa parks should have been an entrepreneur and started her own bus service. let the market decide." Therein lies the problem with Libertarian [sic] philosophy. Social… (Linked Monday 2010-05-24.)

DarianWorden.com» Blog Archive » Against Borders Pamphlet. darianworden.com (2010-05-12). A new pamphlet, Against Borders, has been posted on libertyactivism.info. It includes a 1-page individualist anarchist view on state borders, my Center for a Stateless Society commentary Escalating the War on Freedom, a New Jersey Alliance of the Libertarian Left statement, and a Nation article by Jacqueline Stevens. Download, print,… (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-12.)

Serving Two Masters. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-13). According to the latest LP press release: Elena Kagan is another bad pick for the Supreme Court. If confirmed, it is likely that she will vote on cases with the intent of advancing political policy goals. Kagan will probably vote to advance liberal policy goals, just as some other justices… (Linked Thursday 2010-05-13.)

The Dialethic Right. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-04-28). Two things conservatives like to say: Our constitutional rights aren't granted to us by government. Our rights come from God, and the Constitution simply recognises them. Illegal immigrants and terrorist suspects don't have constitutional rights because they're not American citizens. (Linked Wednesday 2010-04-28.)

Remembering Corporate Liberalism. rechelon, Invisible Molotov (2010-04-24). "Remembering Corporate Liberalism" by Roderick T Long "During the first half of the 20th century, there was a widespread perception that big government and big business were fundamentally at odds. Free-market individualists generally regarded themselves as defenders of peaceful business interests against the rapacious state. Those on the left saw… (Linked Thursday 2010-04-29.)

XKCD “Hell” implemented in flash. Hacker News (2010-04-29). Comments (Linked Thursday 2010-04-29.)

Anarchism 101. You, Anarchoblogs (2010-04-16). I love how people who would barely pass an 11th-grade civics test like to taunt anarchists with the ever-so-damning, irrefutable line "But how would you prevent a warlord from rising to power, in Anarchy?" and then act as if that is such a complete and well-thought-out argument that it pre-empts… (Linked Thursday 2010-04-29.)

trying to find embeddable video, but rachel maddow – who, Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2010-04-15). trying to find embeddable video, but rachel maddow – who, actually, i like to watch – is incessantly touting her show on timothy mcveigh: it's all about the dangers of "anti-government violence." i guess really they focus-grouped the phrase "anti-gov" and now use it as a synonym for insanity. but… (Linked Thursday 2010-04-29.)

Insert “Won’t Get Fooled Again” Reference Here. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-04-29). Charlie Savage reports: The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The author, James Risen, who is a reporter for The… (Linked Thursday 2010-04-29.)