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Afghanistan: Karzai says airstrike killed civilians
Posted 1 hours ago
Posted by R. Lee Wrights
“NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes in this month’s parliamentary elections. NATO said its airstrike on a car in northern Takhar province’s normally quiet Rustaq district killed or wounded as many as 12 insurgents, including [...]

Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in gun battle near border
2 hours ago
Posted by R. Lee Wrights
“A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug cartel members in northeastern Mexico left 25 purported gunmen dead Thursday, the military said. A reconnaissance flight over Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas state spotted several gunmen in front of a property, according to a statement from Mexico’s Defense Department.” (09/02/10)

Israelis, Palestinians resume direct peace talks
2 hours ago
Posted by R. Lee Wrights
“Seeking to broker a Mideast peace agreement that has eluded U.S. presidents for decades, the Obama administration is overseeing the first direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in nearly two years. After a day and evening in White House talks with President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [...]

MO: Clerk pulls gun, scares off robbers
3 hours ago
Posted by Mary Lou Seymour
“A gas station clerk scared off two would-be robbers early Wednesday morning when he pulled a gun of his own, police said. Police said two men walked into the Shell gas station on Bannister Road near Interstate 435 about 6 a.m., pulled guns on the clerk and demanded money. Authorities said the clerk turned the [...]

NY: Israeli army veterans in US train up for self-defense
3 hours ago
Posted by Mary Lou Seymour
“While politicians are working on peace in the Middle East, a Jewish group in the US is preparing itself for the worst. Thinking they may be attacked, they train intensively in military skills and survival methods. Three men are taking part in a military exercise similar to those in the Jewish state of Israel on [...]

NY: Suspect shot by elderly vet charged
3 hours ago
Posted by Mary Lou Seymour
“Police filed charges Tuesday against the man shot twice by a homeowner while allegedly burglarizing a residence in the town of Pulteney in late August. He is also a suspect in a string of other recent burglaries in the Bath area. … The Pulteney homeowner, Stephen Boyechko — an 80-year-old who fought with the Ukrainian [...]

Offshore oil platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico, but no leak found
7 hours ago
Posted by Thomas L. Knapp
“An explosion on an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico early today ignited a fire that caused workers to evacuate into the water, but the U.S. Coast Guard said that all the workers survived and there are no oil leaks reported near the platform. The cause of the explosion is not yet known, [...]

Afghanistan: Two US troops killed
7 hours ago
Posted by Thomas L. Knapp
“Two American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday hours before Defense Secretary Roberts Gates arrived in Kabul for talks with President Hamid Karzai and the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, U.S. General David Petraeus. The marines, serving as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed in separate militant attacks in [...]

CA: FAA resolves ?stolen plane? mistake; police chief apologizes to pilots
9 hours ago
Posted by Thomas L. Knapp
“FAA officials have resolved the lingering issue of listing a Cessna 172S leased to John and Martha King, owners of King Schools, as stolen. The listing caused Santa Barbara police to remove the couple from the aircraft at gunpoint Aug. 28. The N number was once used by a Cessna 150 that remains missing after [...]

OH: Dems accuse Fox News of illegal campaign contribution
9 hours ago
Posted by Thomas L. Knapp
“The Democratic Governors Association is accusing Fox News of making an illegal campaign contribution to a Republican gubernatorial candidate, the Huffington Post reports. The DGA reportedly filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission accusing Fox of giving Ohio candidate John Kasich free political advertising. When Kasich appeared on Fox News earlier this month, the [...]

MA: Patrick won?t commit to sales tax rollback
10 hours ago
Posted by Steve Trinward
“Governor Deval Patrick declined to say yesterday whether he would implement a tax rollback if the voters mandate it in November, pitting him against all three of his campaign rivals, who say they would abide by the referendum. During a morning radio appearance, Patrick answered a question by saying he wanted to persuade the electorate [...]

Why most Palestinian Arabs don?t support talks
10 hours ago
Posted by Steve Trinward
“While Washington might be abuzz with the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks today after a nearly two-year hiatus, only 1 in 3 Palestinians support the negotiations according to a late August poll by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion. Though the 17-year-old peace process has yielded trappings of self-rule amid Israel’s military occupation, Palestinians have [...]

AMA opposes ABA tax changes
10 hours ago
Posted by Steve Trinward
“As the Treasury Department considers a tax policy change that would allow trial lawyers to deduct their litigation expenses in contingency-fee cases, the American Medical Association and 90 medical organizations are urging Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to drop the proposal like a bad habit. ‘Changing the tax policy to allow trial attorneys to deduct court [...]

Journal calls Meridia a ?flawed diet pill?
10 hours ago
Posted by Steve Trinward
“Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia ‘another flawed diet pill’ and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems. The strongly worded editorial comes two weeks before government advisers review the prescription drug, which has [...]

AZ: US DoJ sues El Caudillo de Maricopa
10 hours ago
Posted by Thomas L. Knapp
“The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced it had sued Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, for failing to turn over documents in a probe of whether his aggressive operations against illegal immigrants had violated civil rights.” (09/02/10)

Number of illegal immigrants [sic] in US now declining
2 Sep 2010 at 12:20am
Posted by R. Lee Wrights
“The number of illegal immigrants [sic] living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades — decreasing by 8 percent since 2007, a new study finds. The reasons range from the sour economy to Mexican violence and increased U.S. enforcement that has made it harder to sneak across the border. Much [...]

North Korea: Regime forges trade docs to dodge sanctions
2 Sep 2010 at 12:19am
Posted by R. Lee Wrights
“North Korea has changed the names of its trading companies and falsified trade documents to avoid international sanctions and continue exporting weapons, a news report and an intelligence official said Wednesday. The U.N. Security Council slapped tough sanctions on North Korea last year over its launch of a long-range rocket and a subsequent nuclear test, [...]

Iraq: Ten killed, 22 wounded
2 Sep 2010 at 12:18am
Posted by Thomas L. Knapp
“In Mosul, a bomb killed two people and wounded six others in the Wadi Hajar area. Gunmen killed a woman. Two policemen were killed in a raid. In Baghdad, a sticky bomb in Baladiyat killed one civilian and wounded three others. A policeman was killed and two others were wounded in a Kadhimiya blast. … [...]

Afghanistan: Two occupation troops, several Afghans killed
2 Sep 2010 at 12:17am
Posted by Thomas L. Knapp
“Two troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in separate insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, ISAF said. … An official for religious affairs was killed by a bomb blast as he entered a government building in Kandahar …. Afghan and ISAF forces shot and killed one civilian and wounded [...]

Pakistan: Three bombs kill 25 during Shiite procession in Lahore
2 Sep 2010 at 12:16am
Posted by R. Lee Wrights
“Three bombs ripped through a Shiite Muslim religious procession in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing 25 people and wounding about 150 others, officials said. The explosions appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by Sunni extremists against the minority Shiites they consider infidels. Allied with al-Qaida and the [...]

Sir Thomas Smith: Mercantilist for Sound Money
16 hours ago
Posted by Murray N. Rothbard
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The Critics of Marxism
1 Sep 2010 at 9:26am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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Albert Jay Nock (1870?1945)
31 Aug 2010 at 10:07am
Posted by Jeff Riggenbach
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An Essay on Economic Theory
27 Aug 2010 at 4:33pm
Posted by Mark Thornton
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The Limits of Property Rights and the Problems of External Costs and External...
27 Aug 2010 at 9:54am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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Introduction to 'Strictly Confidential'
27 Aug 2010 at 9:52am
Posted by David Gordon
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Tudor and Stuart Absolutism
26 Aug 2010 at 9:22am
Posted by Murray N. Rothbard
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Ideas and Interests
25 Aug 2010 at 9:28am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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16. Present-Day Trends and the Future
25 Aug 2010 at 1:00am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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15. Philosophical Interpretations of History
25 Aug 2010 at 12:56am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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14. The Epistemological Features of History
25 Aug 2010 at 12:53am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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13. Meaning and Use of the Study of History
25 Aug 2010 at 12:49am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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12. Psychology and Thymology
25 Aug 2010 at 12:46am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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11. The Challenge of Scientism
25 Aug 2010 at 12:43am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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10. Historicism
25 Aug 2010 at 12:39am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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The Milgram Experiment
24 Aug 2010 at 10:58am
Posted by Jeff Riggenbach
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Impassioned, Funny, Learned, Brilliant, Unfoolable, Relentless
23 Aug 2010 at 9:32am
Posted by Brian Doherty
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Market Data: Power, War, and Man
20 Aug 2010 at 9:26am
Posted by Ludwig von Mises
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The 'Ground-Zero Mosque' and Grand Staircase Escalante
23 hours ago
Regarding the media frenzy about the "Ground-Zero Mosque," Ryan Long asks: if the land surrounding the World Trade Center is so sacrosanct for some Americans, why haven't they purchased it themselves?


Sir Thomas Smith: Mercantilist for Sound Money
23 hours ago
Rothbard shows that Gresham's law was introduced not by Sir Thomas Gresham but by the "arrogant, boorish, and feisty" Sir Thomas Smith the Elder (1513?1577), a bitter critic of debasement who was exiled from the court in 1549. He fought back with a book.


Habemus Economistem: Some Economics of Papal Deaths and Successions
23 hours ago
What happens to the price of hotels in Rome when the Pope dies? The market experiences shock that, in macroeconomic terms, would seem to destabilize the system. Still, with careful planning, the market manages just fine.


The State's "Inception" Fails
1 Sep 2010 at 3:36am
Lew Rockwell explains that government-planned prosperity was only a dream. Massive unemployment and failing industries are the reality. Stimulus is just hitting the snooze button.


How the Stock Market and Economy Really Work
1 Sep 2010 at 3:36am
The stock market does not work the way most people think, writes Kel Kelly. One commonly held belief is that a stock-market boom is the reflection of a progressing economy. Not so: it mostly reflects money creation.