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Happy Birthday Thomas Sowell !! http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Bothwell20050630.shtml

How the power to tax destroys http://www.mises.org/story/1853

Social security choice plan – Pat Toomey Under the DeMint-Ryan plan, instead of just gobbling up the Social Security surplus, the government would, in effect, rebate each worker’s share of the surplus in the form of voluntary personal accounts invested in U.S. Treasury bonds. Workers would be sure that their retirement money is safe because it would be stored away in an account that they would own — a true “lockbox” of solid construction, containing assets beyond the reach of politicians. http://www.socialsecuritychoice.org/archives/2005/06/good_policy_goo.php

Irish debaters and the 4^th of  July You cannot legislate the proclamation of liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof because there are just too damn many ways to get around the law. However, there are no ways to get around a good heart and the personal belief that all people are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Once you believe that, the only thing you really need laws for is to tell you which side of the street to drive on. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8408470/site/newsweek/

Stupid Lawyer Tricks – by Mona Charen http://www.townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/mc20050701.shtml

(Editor’s note:  As a lawyer myself, I have to point out it’s not the lawyers making these stupid decisions; it’s the juries.)

Hail Seizers!  The New York Times cheers on the land grabbers.  The collectivist logic here is worthy of a Soviet central planner: The government decides what "the public interest" is and allocates resources accordingly, without regard to the private plans of the individuals who happen to own those resources. It's OK if people are hurt in the process, because on balance, the welfare of the group will improve. …The nonchalance of the Times regarding eminent domain abuse is of a piece with its derogation of property rights, which it sees as inferior to so-called human rights. (Try to imagine the Times running a celebratory editorial on "The Limits of Human Rights.") Yet property rights are human rights: Your ownership of your house stems from your ownership of your body and the fruits of your labor. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/js20050701.shtml

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