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Proposition 8 Struck Down
By: Barry Belmont

Take that bigots of the world. And that people-who-think-you-can-vote-away-other-people’s-rights. Go get those criminals…oh wait…that’s if I saw them two days ago… Silly me, I thought rights (you know, like the basic fundamental cogs that turn with every action such as voluntary interaction) were now and forever…

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Why Don’t the Rich Kill?
By: Barry Belmont

By this I mean the down and dirty version, namely, why is there currently a distinct correlation between income level and and homicide? My originally, off-the-top-of-my-head answer was that there were simply less rich people than there the-not-so-rich and hence of course we would tend to see more of the not-so-rich getting themselves into homicidal [...]

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When Governments Fail: The Right to Die
By: Barry Belmont

A French high court has just decided that a 52 year-old disfigured woman (seen at right) who has suffered unimaginable physical and psychological pain due to a rare disease is not allowed to have her qualified (and willing) doctor administer a lethal dose of drugs to end her suffering and kill her. Law should exist only insofar as it [...]

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A Society Without a State
By: Barry Belmont

This is an article written by Murray N. Rothbard. How one could fail to join the anarchist side of the debate after listening to him is beyond me. Please do enjoy. A Society Without a State In attempting to outline how a “society without a state” – that is, an anarchist society – might function [...]

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This is about self-reference and law (which in addition to being stated several times in the article is also the title).
By: Barry Belmont

Indeed, the question to be asked is “How can any system, such as God or the author or constitutional amending powers, which is to be omnipotent, irrevocably limit itself?”

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