“Well, What Do You Expect?”

In an essay titled “The Criminality of the State,” appearing in the March 1939 issue of The American Mercury, Albert Jay Nock lists many of the nations that consolidated power to a central authority, became corrupt, and tyrannized their own citizens, seeking to...

My Lost Causes in D.C.

When I was a child I would sometimes hear someone say: “Pray to St. Jude.” [the patron saint of lost causes] when the subject came up about some perceived lost cause or another. I have a few lost causes to add to that neverending prayer list: my state of Iowa’s...

What If the Founding Fathers Win. Again?

cross-posted from the Iowa Tenth Amendment Center Ian Millhiser, writing for the Center for American Progress, poses an interesting question: “What if the Tea Party wins?” It turns out that this question is the only interesting thing among the standard progressive...

Reality Check for the Commerce Clause

From the Wall Street Journal: MISSOULA, Mont.—“With a homemade .22-caliber rifle he calls the Montana Buckaroo, Gary Marbut dreams of taking down the federal regulatory state. Montana passed a law that tries to exempt the state from federal gun regulation. But the law...

The Big Laws

Joe Blow down the street doesn’t pay his taxes and he gets fined. Tim Geithner (or pick from an array of politicians or bureaucrats) doesn’t pay his taxes and he becomes the U.S. Treasury Secretary. Get it? If you’re an Ivy Leaguer (preferably Harvard or Yale), and if...

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