reason.com: New USDA Organic Rules Put Wine Importers in a Bind -- https://tinyurl.com/yrd46bdb -- Government incompetence strikes again, turning the wine industry upside down with red tape and confusion. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Regime Wants Appalachia To Suffer -- https://tinyurl.com/25x23hwp -- Would America’s federal government deliberately undermine recovery efforts to try to achieve its own desired political ends? Of course. #liberty #news
mises.org: A Major Contribution to Libertarian Social Thinking -- https://tinyurl.com/2448mkqw -- John Hasnas has written a new book outlining how societies operate with mutual cooperation and common law. According to David Gordon, it is a major contribution to libertarian social thought. #liberty #news
mises.org: A Major Contribution to Libertarian Social Thinking -- https://tinyurl.com/2bzfp8ta -- John Hasnas has written a new book outlining how societies operate with mutual cooperation and common law. According to David Gordon, it is a major contribution to libertarian social thought. #liberty #news
reason.com: Americans Grow Increasingly Dependent on Government Payments -- https://tinyurl.com/2xkfln4y -- Many citizens of the land of the free are hooked on government checks. #liberty #news
mises.org: Simple Counters to Simplistic Critiques of Austrian Economics -- https://tinyurl.com/24nac8ah -- Critics of Austrian Economics often claim that real economic events are too complex to be dealt with via free markets. However, because Austrian economics is based upon understanding human action, it better explains why economic intervention routinely fails. #liberty #news
mises.org: Is the Dockworkers Union a Corporate Tool? -- https://tinyurl.com/258hdwx9 -- The dockworkers strike will increase prices while generally acting in restraint of trade. This, we are told, is exactly what big corporations want. #liberty #news
reason.com: U.S.-Funded Armies Fight Each Other In Lebanon -- https://tinyurl.com/2ytlpb4p -- American taxpayers underwrite both the Israeli and Lebanese armies. Now they’re shooting at each other. #liberty #news
reason.com: Nashville Attorney Sues Federal Judges Over Gag Order Barring Him From Talking About a Notorious Prison -- https://tinyurl.com/24gd5g6o -- Daniel Horwitz often represents people illegally silenced by the government. This time he says a court violated his First Amendment rights when it gagged him from publicly speaking about a troubled state prison. #liberty #news
mises.org: Vance vs. Walz: Should the Government “Do Something”? -- https://tinyurl.com/2ygz6e5o -- Tuesday night’s Vice-Presidential Debate was remarkable not for what was said (which was forgettable), but for what was not asked: What should be the proper role of government in what purports to be a free society? Neither candidates nor the moderators were interested in that question. #liberty #news
reason.com: "[T]his Is a Matter of Law, Not of Wounded Feelings": Univ. of Maryland May Not Ban All Oct. 7 Demonstrations … -- https://tinyurl.com/23vaefgr -- as a means of stopping an anti-Israel vigil organized by the UMD chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. #liberty #news
reason.com: Judge Blocks California Law Restricting "Materially Deceptive" Election-Related Deepfakes -- https://tinyurl.com/265rs8wa -- The judge concluded that the law, AB 2839, likely violates the First Amendment, and therefore issued a preliminary injunction blocking it from going into effect. #liberty #news
reason.com: Walz and Vance Dodge the Question on Bombing Iran -- https://tinyurl.com/2bgp29vm -- The first debate question was a pitch for war with Iran. Tim Walz and J.D. Vance both dodged it. #liberty #news
mises.org: Does This Country Need More Efficient Government? -- https://tinyurl.com/2832kcjk -- Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to make the federal government more efficient. But if the true aim of our political system is not to solve the problems facing Americans but to transfer wealth to the government and politically-connected, the government is already very efficient. #liberty #news
mises.org: Understanding the Action Axiom: How It Shapes the Structure of Society -- https://tinyurl.com/2c6tst57 -- Central to the paradigm of Austrian Economics is the Action Axiom. People act, and they act purposefully. That knowledge alone permits us to construct an entire set of theories that explains economic life. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Cruises Will Be Spared -- https://tinyurl.com/2cleqxml -- Plus: Israeli troops cross into Lebanon, prayer illiteracy on full display, veeps joust, and more... #liberty #news
reason.com: The Firing of School Choice Advocate Corey DeAngelis Is Classic Cancel Culture -- https://tinyurl.com/26539ly7 -- Shame on the LGBT activists who falsely insinuated that school choice must be anti-gay—and shame on the conservatives who act like it is. #liberty #news
reason.com: Draft Chapters on Education and Corporate Law for the Forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism -- https://tinyurl.com/2bp9q5zm -- The education chapter is written byWilliamson Evers, and the corporate law chapter by Robert T. Miller. #liberty #news
reason.com: 8 Years After Legalizing Pot, California Will Finally Allow Cannabis Cafés -- https://tinyurl.com/276dyn2x -- The new law should help licensed retailers compete with the black market while mitigating the smell of marijuana that offends Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. #liberty #news
mises.org: Overtime Tax Exemption: Pros and Cons -- https://tinyurl.com/2yof7oev -- Pursuit of tax cuts without spending cuts leads to continuous debt accumulation, which is really just as bad as higher than necessary tax rates. #liberty #news