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Privacy and IP (Intellectual Property)

In the “office hours” for my online class on private law & defense today, one of the students asked, “What if there were a satellite that could record everything that happened inside people’s houses?” His question was, what recourse (if any) would the homeowners have legally? Could they sue the company that owned the satellite? […]

Callahan Adds to the PhD Glut

It’s official. I can still remember my huge sigh of relief when Mario Rizzo said, “Congratulations Dr. Murphy!” (To me, not to Gene. That wouldn’t have made any sense.)

A Suggestion for the Black Americans Who Don’t Like Beck’s Rally

A lot of folks are accusing Glenn Beck of trying to “hijack” the legacy of Martin Luther King. (E.g. try this.) But they’re going for the tired old cards of calling him a racist, a divider, etc. Instead they should just say this: We understand that black Americans don’t “own” the legacy of Dr. King. […]

Separation of School and State

[Editor’s Note: This begins a series of short blog posts that I am writing as part of an ad campaign to bolster interest in the Mises Academy among homeschoolers. Regular Free Advice readers will see that these posts–which will run over the next three weeks–are aimed at a much broader audience.] Today my wife and […]

Rand Paul Fundraiser Outside Nashville!

A guy I know (I think his house is in Franklin, TN–it took me about 30 minutes or so from Bellevue when I went there earlier this year) is having Rand Paul at his house to raise money for his campaign. I am not going to be in town then, but I told him I’d […]

The Policeman Is Not Your Friend, Denver Edition

[UPDATE below.] [Second UPDATE below.] [Third UPDATE below.] Ryan McMaken over at the LRC blog has another “good” one. To give this some context, apparently a guy got ejected from a bar for using the woman’s bathroom. (Presumably he was obnoxious on top of it.) So the cops are arresting this guy, while his buddy […]

Gene Callahan’s New Website?

Sent by reader Benjamin Burkley.

Gene Callahan Goes Too Far (Again)

I am actually very sympathetic to Gene’s arguments in the comments on this thread, but I think he goes too far. If we accept his argument below, watch what we are able to do afterward. So here’s Gene, responding to someone who thinks taxes are theft: [Othyem wrote:] “The requirement that we pay taxes presupposes […]