What's Wrong With Woodrow Wilson? Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-10-11). A: He was a fucking fascist, that’s what’s wrong. (Linked Monday 2010-10-11.)

Modesto Police Shoot Francisco Moran and Rita Elias. Modesto Anarcho!'s MySpace Blog (2010-10-04). On Friday night, Rita Elias, 31, died after off-duty sheriff’s detective Kari Abbey, shot and killed her after an hour long argument. Kari Abbey, a 6 year veteran to the force, and a detective of four… (Linked Monday 2010-10-11.)

Under Surveillance America. Darian Worden, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-09-16). Federal Bureau of Investigation files indicate that Ernest Withers, prominent photographer of 1960s Civil Rights activism, was also a federal informant. According to the Washington Post, he provided photographs, scheduling information and biographical sketches on Civil Rights leaders to the FBI. Whether Withers was trying to cash in on information… (Linked Tuesday 2010-10-12.)

Nothing new under the sun. John Markley, The Superfluous Man (2010-10-06). Contemporary American politics makes a great deal more sense in light of the realization that Barack Obama’s most devoted fans and fiercest critics are united by a shared delusion: the belief that Obama is really, really interesting.How this manifests among his supporters is apparent enough in the starry-eyed adulation he… (Linked Tuesday 2010-10-12.)

Homesteading in Haiti: Very Adverse Possession. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-10-12). Emily Troutman reports from the hills near Port-au-Prince: Six months ago, this land was nothing but crickets in the grass. Now, it's Haiti's new frontier, a landscape of squatters whose greatest hope is a home of their own. Gray and blue shacks and shanties extend for miles. Small gardens and… (Linked Tuesday 2010-10-12.)

Event: The Prospects and Ethics of Political Reform. justino, DFW Alliance of the Libertarian Left (2010-09-27). What: As we near election time, candidates for office will inevitably present themselves as an alternative to the status quo that plagues us. But what types of reform in practice, if any, are consistent with a libertarian political philosophy? The first article we will study is Ron Paul's "My Plan… (Linked Tuesday 2010-10-12.)

Event: !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;For the Bible Tells Me So' Movie. justino, DFW Alliance of the Libertarian Left (2010-09-22). What: 1919 Hemphill, a local DIY collective, is hosting a screening of the documentary For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) as part of its long-time movie series Conscientious Projector. A recipient of numerous international awards, the film documents the turmoil Christian families with a gay child face and "sometimes… (Linked Tuesday 2010-10-12.)

Grieving Student Suspected of Using Marijuana Reinstated. DFW Alliance of the Libertarian Left (2010-10-12). Narco-Statism Vs. Compassion and Human Decency (Cont’d) (Linked Tuesday 2010-10-12.)

Getting Away With Murder. Center for a Stateless Society (2010-10-12). Cops are here to keep us safe. (Cont’d) (Linked Tuesday 2010-10-12.)

Is this "Libertarian?" (Hint: NO.) drunkenatheist, Drunkenatheist (2010-09-27). Related links- Jaysays.com: Stupid Things People Say About Gays: Libertarian Party Board Member Says DADT Should Remain Update (with Norm Olsen's weaksauce "apology")- Norm Olsen: Still an idiot. Source: The private "LNC discussion" email list. No, I do not have access to the list; this email was publicized by a… (Linked Monday 2010-09-27.)

Some Replies on Markets, Languages, and Law. James C. Scott, Cato Unbound (2010-09-27). I have been struck by both the quality and breadth of the responses to my essay and, it's clear, to the argument in Seeing Like a State that lies behind it. In some cases, I am somewhat at a loss to reply inasmuch as I am not an economist, not… (Linked Monday 2010-09-27.)

like you, i love the culture of standardized testing. like you, Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2010-09-07). like you, i love the culture of standardized testing. like you, i believe in accountability, and i believe simultaneously that accountability is itself the only goal, so that there is nothing one should be accountable for other than accountability itself, in an endless loop in which all is assessment and… (Linked Monday 2010-09-27.)

The Obama Age of No Federal DEA Raids on State Medical Marijuana Clinics Leads to More Federal Raids on Medical Marijuana Clinics in Las Vegas. Brian Doherty, Brian Doherty: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-09-09). And why? The records are sealed, so, who knows, though the Feds have given themselves the loophole of being able to step in when medical marijuana distributors are also violating state law (though why the Feds should be so goddamn concerned with such state law violations in this age of… (Linked Monday 2010-09-27.)

FBI Raiding Antiwar Activists in Terror Investigation. Brian Doherty, Brian Doherty: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-09-24). Details from the Minneapolis St. Paul Pioneer Press: The FBI raided the homes of six political activists in Minneapolis this morning in connection to a terrorism investigation. The warrants were "seeking evidence related to an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into activities concerning the material support of terrorism," said… (Linked Monday 2010-09-27.)

Unarmed Pregnant Woman Shot During Drug Raid. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-09-27). In Spokane, Washington: A pregnant, unarmed woman was shot during a drug raid in Spokane on Friday morning and she remained hospitalized late last night as investigators pieced together what happened in the county's third officer-involved shooting in four weeks. A Washington State Patrol detective sergeant shot the woman, who… (Linked Monday 2010-09-27.)

Maryland Judge Tosses the Felony Wiretapping Charges Against Anthony Graber. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-09-27). Graber is the Maryland motorcyclist who had his home raided, was arrested, jailed, and charged with two felonies for recording his traffic stop and posting it to the Internet. Here's Harford County, Maryland Circuit Court Judge Emory A Pitt Jr.: "Those of us who are public officials and are entrusted… (Linked Monday 2010-09-27.)

The Desktop Revolution in Worker Protection. Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-06-25). Sometimes anarchists are asked, without a government, who will stop employers from treating their workers badly? The answer is, we will. Conventional unions have been in decline for years, and labor laws — such as they are — are generally notable for their lack of enforcement. But if employers laugh… (Linked Wednesday 2010-09-29.)

On the Town with Bad Decision Dinosaur. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-09-24). (Linked Friday 2010-09-24.)

Food deserts and zoning. Stephen Smith, Market Urbanism (2010-09-13). by Stephen Smith The other day I put up a post detailing the restrictions that small-scale restaurants and food carts face, but I should mention that grocery stores and supermarkets also face similar restrictions.  Like restrictions on restaurants, they end hitting poor, urban, black neighborhoods the hardest, creating the phenomenon… (Linked Friday 2010-09-24.)

Apparently, starvation blockades are bad for the economy. Who knew? John Markley, The Superfluous Man (2010-09-06). David Brooks has a column in The New York Times entitled “Nation Building Works,” in which he attempts to vindicate the US government’s past seven years in Iraq. From the article (via Cheryl Cline at der Blaustrumpf):"Iraq has made substantial progress since 2003," the International Monetary Fund reports. Inflation is… (Linked Friday 2010-09-24.)

Haystack vs How The Internet Works. Danny O’Brien, Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka (2010-09-14). There's been a lot of alarming but rather brief statements in the past few days about Haystack, the anti-censorship software connected with the Iranian Green Movement.  Austin Heap, the co-creator of Haystack and co-founder of parent non-profit, the Censorship Research Center, stated that the CRC had "halted ongoing testing of… (Linked Saturday 2010-09-25.)

Libertarian Review Archives Online. Brian Doherty, Brian Doherty: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-09-09). One of Reason's high-quality competitors from the 1970s-80s has a semi-complete archives now available online. It's a fabulous compendium of Carter-ish era libertarian historical fun. David Boaz explains the mag and what it accomplished, focusing on its amazing editor the late Roy Childs. (Linked Saturday 2010-09-25.)

Openness is a lot of work. jonoscript, Not The User's Fault (2010-09-24). You can't just make something "open" and expect magic to happen. Openness is a lot of work. This is true whether you're making an open-source software project, a website with user-generated content, a political movement, a charity, or any other kind of organization where you expect volunteers to show up… (Linked Saturday 2010-09-25.)

George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It's Okay. Michael, Binary Bonsai (2010-09-18). Foreword The creation of Star Wars is comprehensive mythology onto itself, populated by rarely documented anecdotes, the likes of "the Millennium Falcon was inspired by a hamburger, with the outrigger cockpit being an olive off to the side" (1) or "My original inspiration for Chewbacca was my dog Indiana." (2),… (Linked Sunday 2010-09-26.)

Of Hayek and Rubber Tomatoes. Timothy B. Lee, Cato Unbound (2010-09-24). Henry Farrell writes that "Hayek argues that markets are superior because they allow the !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess' to be aggregated in a useful way." He then faults Hayek for failing to acknowledge a key limitation of the price mechanism:… (Linked Sunday 2010-09-26.)

"I've Never Seen a Poor Person Give Anyone a Job" Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-09-16). "I've never seen a poor person give anyone a job."  The cliche is commonly repeated on the Right, in polemics against what they call "class warfare" — not that there's actually much of it being waged by Democrats, except when they're fighting on the same side as the Republicans.  See… (Linked Sunday 2010-09-26.)

I Am Detained By The Feds For Not Answering Questions. PKL, KNIFE TRICKS (2010-04-23). Sherman Oaks, CaliforniaI was detained last night by federal authorities at San Francisco International Airport for refusing to answer questions about why I had travelled outside the United States.The end result is that, after waiting for about half an hour and refusing to answer further questions, I was released –… (Linked Sunday 2010-09-26.)

10 Brief Responses To 700 Comments About Refusing To Answer Questions At Passport Control. PKL, KNIFE TRICKS (2010-09-11). Phuket Island, ThailandMy post about refusing to answer questions from Customs and Border Protection officers when re-entering the U.S. has resulted in a lot of debate. My thanks to everyone who joined the conversation, including the authors of the more than one hundred posts that called me a douchebag. Let… (Linked Sunday 2010-09-26.)

Deregulating food. Stephen Smith, Market Urbanism (2010-09-11). by Stephen Smith Urban planners like to discuss heavy things – roads, buildings, cars, trains. Food, though an integral part of humans' lives, generally doesn't enter into the equation as more than a footnote. This may be because food service is governed by different departments than buildings, streets, and vehicles,… (Linked Sunday 2010-09-26.)

feministhulk: SO MUCH HEGEMONY TO SMASH, SO LITTLE TIME! HULK OFTEN RELY HEAVILY ON DAY PLANNER, THOUGH TRY TO STAY FLEXIBLE. Twitter / feministhulk (2010-09-01). feministhulk: SO MUCH HEGEMONY TO SMASH, SO LITTLE TIME! HULK OFTEN RELY HEAVILY ON DAY PLANNER, THOUGH TRY TO STAY FLEXIBLE. (Linked Wednesday 2010-09-01.)

Concern About Police Secrecy = “Tilting at Windmills”? Radley Balko, Hit & Run (2010-09-01). My column this week was about the continuing secrecy of Virginia’s largest police departments and the way the state’s law enforcement community is opposing efforts to make the departments even marginally more transparent. The journalist sounding the alarm about all of this is Michael Pope, who writes for Northern Virginia’s… (Linked Wednesday 2010-09-01.)

Can Preschoolers Think? cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-09-02). As I've said before, the NYT often shows up The Onion in terms of laughs.  This week, the NYT featured an unintentionally funny article about preschool depression accompanied by even funnier photos: Kiran didn't seem like the type of kid parents should worry about. "He was the easy one," his… (Linked Thursday 2010-09-02.)

Social Individualism and Solidarity. Darian Worden, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-08-26). A functional libertarian political order will rise the strongest from fertile ground. To maximize individual liberty it is necessary to promote the best kind of individualism at all levels. Controversy over the building of various mosques and the Park 51 Islamic cultural center shows the influence of anti-Muslim sentiment on… (Linked Thursday 2010-09-02.)

New Anarchist Platformist archive. Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-08-24). Anarchism and the Platformist Tradition is a new archive with a nice collection of platformist texts, starting, naturally, with the 1926 Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft), but including both prior and subsequent contributions to the platformist tradition. Whether or not you ultimately agree with the approaches… (Linked Thursday 2010-09-02.)

Practical support for microenterprise. Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-08-24). I’ve been featuring the 500 Friends of Reading Frenzy! Kickstarter project in the sidebar here since it was launched. It’s now in its last week for funding, and 75% on its way to a goal of $5000. Reading Frenzy is a remarkable operation: a tiny shop which has been able… (Linked Thursday 2010-09-02.)

E. Armand, "The Gulf" Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-08-08). This short piece by Emile Armand appeared in Horace Traubel’s The Conservator in 1910. It’s an interesting piece to have appeared in a magazine dominated by the shadow of Walt Whitman—and an interesting example of Armand’s thought.THE GULFAll the societies of the vanguard—Social Democrats, revolutionaries of all shades, various communists—say… (Linked Thursday 2010-09-02.)

What is David Brooks for? der Blaustrumpf » What is David Brooks for? (2010-09-02). Vulture Economics (Cont’d): every mushroom cloud has a silver lining. (Linked Thursday 2010-09-02.)

Some Hard Facts on Copyright. Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-09-02). I've referred to Nina Paley quite a bit in recent columns.  Her song "Copying is Not Theft" and her Mimi and Eunice cartoons skewer the moral pretensions of the Copyright Nazis more effectively than just about anything I've seen. In a more serious vein, I just ran onto her interview… (Linked Thursday 2010-09-02.)

The Ruling Class. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-09-02). Few essays attracted as much attention from right-wing readers this summer as "America's Ruling Class—and the Perils of Revolution," an extended argument that an incestuous social set "rules uneasily over the majority of Americans." Written by Angelo Codevilla of the Claremont Institute and first published in The American Spectator, this… (Linked Friday 2010-09-03.)

Spinster aunt casts jaundiced eye at popular television show. Jill, I Blame The Patriarchy (2010-08-04). Hollywood has long been recognized by the Global Cabal of Spinster Aunts as Ground Zero for American misogyny. Like everything that gurgles forth from that foul city, this Mad Men sensation that's sweeping the nation has many sicko antifeminist repercussions. Never heard of Mad Men? It's a "critically acclaimed" —… (Linked Friday 2010-09-03.)

Revolutionary Letter #4 by Diane di Prima. editor@arthurmag.com, ARTHUR MAGAZINE (2010-08-29). Revolutionary Letter #4 by Diane di Prima Left to themselves people grow their hair. Left to themselves they take off their shoes. Left to themselves they make love sleep easily share blankets, dope & children they are not lazy or afraid they plant seeds, they smile, they speak to one… (Linked Friday 2010-09-03.)

"Eminent Domain Through the Back Door" – Reason Magazine. reason.com (2010-08-28). In which the city government’s Bulldozer Brigade in Montgomery, Alabama attacks “blight” — by which they mean black people’s houses. (Linked Saturday 2010-08-28.)

C4SS Appeal. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-08-28). Guest Blogs by Brad Spangler and Kevin Carson PLAN B: Okay, It's Time to Panic by Brad Spangler Dear Supporters of the Center for a Stateless Society, I blame myself. When we launched the month-plus long fundraising drive for combined July and August expenses two weeks ago, I tried to… (Linked Saturday 2010-08-28.)

Gandhi on the State. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-08-27). “The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” –Gandhi(HT: Shikha Dalmia)Atom (Linked Sunday 2010-08-29.)

True Economic Liberty: Not a Conservative Idea. Darian Worden, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-08-04). Alexander McCobin ("Considering a Conservative Plea for Libertarian Support," Students for Liberty, 08/04/10) makes an excellent rebuttal to the claim that libertarians are just a faction of conservatism. The label "libertarian" indicates someone who consistently supports the liberty of the individual — a standard that most conservatives just don't reach…. (Linked Sunday 2010-08-29.)

Unpaving is Progressive. Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-08-17). Rachel Maddow and Paul Krugman, among others, have been in a tizzy recently about the unpaving of roads. One result of Congress's refusal to renew counter-cyclical stimulus grants to state and local government is that fiscally strapped governments are cutting back on highway maintenance. Specifically, dozens of counties in several… (Linked Sunday 2010-08-29.)