by Runaway Slave | Dec 12, 2004 | Economics, Essays & Articles, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Minimum Wage
Florida voters swung at a lot of pitches on Election Day. We hit a little dying-quail Texas leaguer for president, fouled off the bickering doctors and lawyers and hit the bullet train boondoggle into the center field stands. What really fooled us was the fat, hanging...
by Runaway Slave | Nov 22, 2004 | Essays & Articles, History, Identification, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Liberty
Turkey is a word plump with paradox for Americans. A turkey can be the culinary focus at a grateful celebration or a luckless loser. Turkey is an ambiguous word that draws powerful positive and negative images. Its origin is no less ambiguous, stemming from either the...
by Runaway Slave | Nov 16, 2004 | Essays & Articles, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Licensing, Politics
Like a drunk driver fleeing the scene of an accident, the Key West City Commission careens wildly toward its next inevitable collision with unintended consequences. The speeding City Government Hummer, drivers giddy on lawsuit fumes, the wreckage of the short-term...
by Runaway Slave | Sep 28, 2004 | Drugs, Essays & Articles, Jury, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon
You think I mean the war in Iraq, right? No, it’s not that. You have no real power over the wars our government wages against penniless peasants thousands of miles away. I mean the war here at home, the nasty war that destroys the lives of thousands of Americans each...
by Runaway Slave | Sep 15, 2004 | Essays & Articles, Guns & Gun Control, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." — Thomas Jefferson, in an early draft of the Virginia Constitution. In a stunning victory for common sense and the Bill of Rights, Congress, threatened by voters with having to find honest work, allowed...
by Runaway Slave | Aug 29, 2004 | Debt, Essays & Articles, Inflation, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Social Security
Alan “Bubbles” Greenspan made some unusually candid public remarks last week at a Federal Reserve clam bake in Jackson, Wyoming. The central bankers were there to talk about what the 77 million baby boomers can expect when we belly up to the public trough for our...
by Runaway Slave | Aug 10, 2004 | Essays & Articles, Freedom, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Liberty, Politics
The mighty U.S. eagle snatched up a couple minnows here in Key West this week, wielding freedom’s most powerful weaponagainst Communism, imprisonment. The minnows, otherwise peaceful, law-abiding Americans, face 15 years in the slammer, a sentence longer than most...
by Runaway Slave | Apr 4, 2004 | Drugs, Essays & Articles, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, War On Drugs (WOD)
Part III Business is Good Until the start of the War on Drugs in 1973 drug prohibition was a slapdash affair driven by paranoia, xenophobia, self-righteousness, bureaucratic self-interest and the demonstrated vote-getting power of being “hard on drugs.“ Empty...
