FBI agent, Samuel Hicks, was killed this week in Pittsburghwhile serving an arrest warrant in a botched drug raid. He was 33. After the agent knocked on the suspect’s door and announced his intention, the suspect apparently proceeded to flush his stash of cocaine down the toilet. After the suspect didn’t answer, they were shot [...]
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FBI Agent Dead After Following Preferred Libertarian Arrest Procedures
Posted in libertarians, Politics, Politics, Current Events, and Culture, tagged Arrest Warrants, Balko, Cato Institute, civil liberties, Constitution, drug war, fbi, libertarianism, libertarians, No Knock Warrants, Police, RKBA, Samuel Hicks, Search Warrants, SWAT, War on Drugs on 23 Nov 2008 | 80 Comments »
Perpetual Fight: Conservatives and Libertarians
Posted in Politics, Current Events, and Culture, tagged Conservatism, Contract With America, David Frum, Election, Gingrich, Immigration, libertarianism, obama, Republican Party, strategy on 12 Nov 2008 | 5 Comments »
Bush adopted his “compassionate conservative” agenda on the theory that the harsh rhetoric and self-consciously anti-government conservatism of Gingrich’s “Contract with America” was unpopular and unlikely to win. There may be some truth to this. But, at the same time, Bush downplayed conservative positions on everything from abortion to affirmative action. He instead emphasized his [...]
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Calhoun, Neoconservatives, and Liberty
Posted in Iraq, Neoconservatives, Politics, tagged , 1848, anarchy, Bush, Calhoun, Cheney, Commentary, Confederacy, despotism, freedom, Iraq, Lawrence Auster, libertarianism, Liberty, napoleon, Nation Building, Neoconservatives, Paleoconservatives, Philosophy, Podhoretz, Slavery, South, Southern on 28 Sep 2007 | 3 Comments »
Lawrence Auster has an interesting post today that notes that one of the prime engines of neoconservative folly is this idea that everyone “deserves” liberty and that we, therefore, having the ability, owe it to strange peoples to “give them freedom.” His post reminded me of something I read long ago in the Liberty Fund’s [...]
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