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26 Aug 2012, 3:31 pm
(Ilya Somin) In this recent column, political analyst Sean Trende explains why the current state of the economy is likely to lead to a very close election in November. [read post]
6 May 2010, 10:00 am
(Ilya Somin) In recent years, the Supreme Court has addressed many cases on property rights issues. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 11:00 am
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger Jonathan Adler has posted Charles Koch’s recent statement on the Cato vs. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 7:15 am
(Ilya Somin) New York Times polling expert Nate Silver (who is no libertarian himself) summarizes some recent data suggesting that the public is becoming more libertarian:Libertarianism has been touted as the wave of America’s political future for many years, generally with more enthusiasm than evidence. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 2:28 pm
(Ilya Somin) This otherwise reasonable CNN article about recently deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il claims that he was “revered at home” by his people, despite a negative reputation abroad: Regarded as one of the world’s most-repressive leaders, Kim Jong Il always cut a slightly bizarre figure. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 9:18 pm
., my colleague Ilya Somin at VC) have made the point that they are not impressed with the data the Chief has mustered in favor the assertion that the quality of the federal bench is likely to suffer as the gap between judicial pay and pay in private practice widens (or that a shift in composition of the federal bench towards fewer lawyers from private practice is a demonstrably bad thing, much less constitutional crisis). [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 7:24 pm
(Ilya Somin) As part of his plan to address California’s fiscal crisis, liberal Democratic Governor Jerry Brown has proposed abolishing California’s 400 local “redevelopment agencies,” which would save the state some $1.7 billion per year, an important step towards closing the state’s $25 billion annual deficit. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 8:47 pm
(Ilya Somin) Here are a few thoughts on today’s federal district court ruling striking down the constitutionality of the Obamacare individual mandate. [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 11:59 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Metafilter site has an interesting thread consisting of comments by foreigners about what they think is most distinctive about the US [HT: Tyler Cowen]. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 12:44 am
(Ilya Somin) I have several times criticized Western observers who naively assume that pro-government statements by people who live under repressive regimes necessarily reflect their true opinions (see here and here). [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 11:42 pm
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger David Bernstein links to a New York Times column by Thomas Chatterton Williams which argues that “[m]ixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black — and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 4:15 pm
(Ilya Somin) Today’s oral argument was a good day for the anti-mandate plaintiffs and a troubling one for the law’s defenders. [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 4:42 pm
(Ilya Somin) It’s no secret that the potential GOP presidential candidates with the greatest appeal for libertarians either stayed out of the race or haven’t done very well. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 12:03 pm
(Ilya Somin) Passover is perhaps the ultimate holiday for people like me who celebrate the freedom-enhancing potential of voting with your feet. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 3:52 pm
(Ilya Somin) Today’s 2–1 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandate is undeniably a setback for mandate opponents. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 5:33 pm
(Ilya Somin) As I write this post, it looks like the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi is about to fall. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 7:50 am
(Ilya Somin) Virginia was one of several states that enacted a strong eminent domain reform law after the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. [read post]
2 May 2012, 8:41 pm
(Ilya Somin) “Bleeding heart libertarian” political philosophers Kevin Vallier and Matt Zwolinski have written responses to my post expressing some reservations about some BHLers embrace of the idea of “social justice. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 2:42 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Independent has an article summarizing a new study of Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong’s mass murders that concludes that he killed even more people than previously thought: Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday. ....Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that… [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 11:05 pm
(Ilya Somin) A bipartisan group of ten members of the House of Representatives recently filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the US military action in Libya. [read post]
