Periodically I check out what the VisLupiEstGrex kids are up to and periodically I am disappointed. Recently they blogged about some rule being violated (sound familiar?) and how this is…important? or meaningful? or…something. What they were complaining about this time is that the personal information of a few College of Liberal Art potential-fillers-of-the-empty-seat students had [...]
By: Barry Belmont
22Apr09
The Package and the Lesson
By: Barry Belmont
For those of you attending the University of Nevada, Reno. If you haven’t already heard, the president of the ASUN,* Eli Reilly, has proposed a “stimulus package” for UNR. The idea is for $200,000 to be spent over two years that “will create 50 new student jobs on campus.” If this isn’t the definition of [...]
By: Barry Belmont
About two weeks ago the local paper The Nevada Sagebrush had an article criticizing my Anarcho-Capitalism lecture entitled “Libertarianism: Rearing its Ugly Head with Faith in ‘Free Market.’” Figuring this deserved a response, I wrote one and it was published in the Sagebrush. It can be read at the above link as well as below. [...]
14Mar09
Justifiable Homicide in Nevada
By: Barry Belmont
For all the locals: Assemblyman Harry Mortenson (D-42) has introduced the long anticipated “Castle Doctrine” self-defense measure in Nevada. Assembly Bill 288 would allow a person to use deadly force against an aggressor so long as the person using deadly force “(a) is not the aggressor; (b) has a right to be present at the [...]
