mises.org: Praxeology and Robert Malone’s "Surveillance Capitalism" -- https://tinyurl.com/2czqnbgq -- How do we guard against misinformation when business firms join with government to promote things that simply are false? As Murray Rothbard noted, people still have reason and the free will to make decisions for themselves. #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: September 2, 1819 -- https://tinyurl.com/2bbnogon -- 9/2/1819: James Madison writes letter to Judge Spencer Roane criticizing McCulloch v. Maryland. #liberty #news
reason.com: Massachusetts Switchblade Ban Overturned on Second Amendment Grounds -- https://tinyurl.com/2587llbr -- The Second Amendment doesn’t protect guns; it protects the human right to self-defense. #liberty #news
reason.com: Help Workers By Breaking Down Barriers to Labor Mobility -- https://tinyurl.com/26sct4mv -- Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration. #liberty #news
reason.com: 2+ Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Threateningly Vandalize Homes of Journalists -- https://tinyurl.com/253l5lgt -- The Boston Herald (Flint McColgan) reports: One of the four men charged in a conspiracy to harass and intimidate a New Hampshire journalist for negative coverage of the founder of a mental health and addiction treatment center was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani sentenced Tucker… #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: September 1, 1823 -- https://tinyurl.com/25xh3knw -- 9/1/1823: Justice Smith Thompson takes judicial oath. #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: August 31, 1995 -- https://tinyurl.com/25bw93kk -- 8/31/1995: Students at Santa Fe Independent School District voted to allow a student to say a prayer at football games. In Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe (2000), the Supreme Court declared this prayer unconstitutional. #liberty #news
mises.org: Ireland, Authenticity, and the European Union -- https://tinyurl.com/2yj3tpg7 -- While recent European Parliament elections have raised questions about Ireland’s role in the EU, the truth is that Ireland’s historical role in civilizing Europe reminds us that Ireland is more European than the EU itself. #liberty #news
reason.com: California To Bend Last-Call Law for Elite Clippers Fans -- https://tinyurl.com/25gbzwpp -- If you want to drink alcohol in California after 2 a.m., it helps to be the billionaire owner of the L.A. Clippers. #liberty #news
reason.com: Private Universities That Reject First Amendment Principles Put Themselves At Legal Risk -- https://tinyurl.com/2xvlas55 -- Conforming speech policies to the First Amendment would serve private universities well, legally and otherwise. #liberty #news
reason.com: First-Ever Commercial Space Walk Delayed After Overcautious FAA Grounds SpaceX Rocket -- https://tinyurl.com/26tmyhoy -- The Federal Aviation Administration has called an unnecessary halt on launches following the Falcon 9 mishap on August 28. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Dark Spectacle of Maduro: Elon Musk, Lula, and Electoral Fraud -- https://tinyurl.com/2yaexzn2 -- Socialist regimes tend to follow the same playbook: promise much, deliver little, and, in the end, blame capitalism. Venezuela is the latest socialist entity to enter the Failed State Hall of Fame. #liberty #news
mises.org: ESG Undermines Social Welfare -- https://tinyurl.com/23jst9vd -- Politicians and hedge funds that push “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) scores and investing do so with the notion of improving social welfare. What they fail to realize is that these concerns are accounted for in human action already. #liberty #news
reason.com: Massachusetts Ex-Cop Charged With Strangling Pregnant Woman and Staging Her Death as a Suicide -- https://tinyurl.com/26najygp -- Matthew Farwell allegedly murdered a 23-year-old woman who was pregnant with his child. Their relationship is said to have began when she was 15. He was 27. #liberty #news
mises.org: Why Military Conscription Is Worse Than Slavery -- https://tinyurl.com/27b3x7w8 -- If the government can conscript you into its army, can cause your death or mutilation in some war that has nothing to do with national defense, and can execute you if you resist, then it can do anything to you at any time, for any reason — or without bothering to give a reason. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Wisdom of Herbert Butterfield -- https://tinyurl.com/28oct43k -- Herbert Butterfield, who taught history at Cambridge, had many insights on the sea changes brought about by World War I and the collapse of the Old World Order. The new order that followed, he realized, was not an improvement over what previously existed. #liberty #news
reason.com: Hair-Braiding Business Denied Permission To Operate Over Fears of Competition -- https://tinyurl.com/26gwlh53 -- Since when do government officials get to decide that a market is “oversaturated”? #liberty #news
mises.org: The Euro Is a Frankenstein-Currency -- https://tinyurl.com/29p89xd4 -- It may not have been manufactured in the lab of a mad scientist, but the euro is still a manufactured, cobbled-together currency made from a number of national monetary units. Indeed, it is the perfect Frankenstein currency. #liberty #news
mises.org: Federal Jobs Report Slices Total Jobs in New Revision -- https://tinyurl.com/2yjbxfca -- We already knew recent jobs report—as far as the establishment survey is concerned, were based largely on made up numbers. #liberty #news
mises.org: Why the Crony Class Loves Artificially-Low Interest Rates—And Why You Shouldn’t -- https://tinyurl.com/22vpjlbn -- A few years ago, the leftist publication The Intercept claimed that inflation only hurts the “one percent,” but is “good” for everyone else. The truth is much different, as the Fed’s inflationary policies have benefited the politically-connected crony class. #liberty #news