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Happy birthday, Mark Twain!

Our nation's greatest writer would have been 177 today.

Koontz case to protect property rights

My and Ilya Shapiro's article about PLF's new Supreme Court property rights case is in the Washington Times today.

My review of David Shipler's Rights At Risk

The December issue of California Lawyer features my review of David Shipler's Rights At Risk. I reviewed the first volume of this two-volume study last year.

Marilyn and Ella

Here's something I never knew before: how Marilyn Monroe took a powerful stand against segregation. As Aristophanes knew, beautiful women are the cure for everything.

Cut out the catastrophism

Diana Hsieh explains why the doom-and-gloom about Obama's reelection is really not justified.

America the banana republic

Whenever I see a story like this, I think of Hitchens' great article, "America The Banana Republic."

Ariz. Gov. Brewer refuses to set up Obamacare "exchange"

Goldwater Institute attorney Christina Sandefur explains here.

Who's afraid of commercial speech?

Why the distinction between commercial and non-commercial speech makes no sense.

New review of The Right to Earn A Living

The new issue of Reason Papers contains a review of my book by David Wagner of Regent University. It's mostly positive, but...I follow Mencken's advice of not arguing with reviews, but only pointing out factual inaccuracies, so of this review I will say only that Wagner falsely refers to me as a "conservative" and a "positivist," when in fact I am a libertarian and a believer in natural rights--things I cannot believe are left unclear in the book.

Friday foto

Guess there's a museum for everything!