Would there be any fentanyl bought or sold if all recreational drugs were legal and had zero costs for smuggling? Evidence is that recreational drug users would not buy any fentanyl given the choice, but fentanyl is progressively pushed into …
HOW POLITICIANS IGNORED BASIC ECONOMICS TO CREATE THE FENTANYL OVERDOSE CRISIS Read more »
Radley Balko is one of these people who advocates a social process for discovering guilt or innocence rather than courts, and then wonders why innocent people are in prison. He might as soon wonder why people go hungry in socialist …
During oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, the US Supreme Court trashed state courts as incapable of anything but rubber-stamping the will of the executive branch in mock trials. The justices suggested state courts are totally incapable of measuring fact …
STATE COURTS ONLY COMPETENT TO KILL NEGROS (JUST DON’T TOUCH TRUMP OR JESUS) Read more »
Jailhouse informants recite news reporters’ own gossip back to them, leading them to conclude the prosecutor is doing a good job convicting people in the public interest. Notice in the story below about Brittanee Drexel, how the news channel is …
In 1974 Professor Henry G. Manne founded The Law and Economics Center. Manne studied at the University of Chicago when Thomas Sowell’s thesis adviser George Stigler was there. They inherited a tradition from Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman, that …
THE FATAL MISTAKE IN THE CRADLE – THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY AND STATES’ RIGHTS Read more »
On page 251 of “A Conflict of Visions”, Thomas Sowell suggests that judges need to be elected. The Foundation for Economic Education claims that the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 “was motivated by the spirit of Magna Carta”. Hillsdale College misrepresents …
THE RECENT AND MISPLACED EMPHASIS ON VOTER CHOICE IN REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY Read more »
Republicans lately claim that the most common form of decision making throughout history – tribal quorum – is actually some exceptional thing created by the US Constitution. And they claim that specialization and institutional knowledge production are evil, an un-American …
The Administrative State – Hillsdale College Packages Communism as “Constitutionalism” Read more »
Pretty much everyone prefers trials in the public square to jury trials. Libertarian Hannah Cox advocates every day that President Biden should pardon Edward Snowden. Hannah never advocates that a law should be changed to make what Snowden did legal. …
A recent post advertises a forum for discussion of the topic “Being Black in Florida”. I ask the question, what are the uses and consequences of white people in Florida? Are white people fit for citizenship in advanced societies, and …
It is interesting to compare the evidence of premeditation by Susan Lorincz who is out on bond, to Nathaniel Woods who was executed. They admit Woods didn’t pull the trigger, but they say he is a bad person in general. …
Susan Lorincz, Nathaniel Woods, and Premeditation Read more »