This week in a 5-4 decision the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that the detainees, some of whom have been held for six years, had rights under habeas corpus, a long-standing legal principle by which people can challenge their imprisonment.
While criticizing the decision John McCain made the following remarks: 
The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision [...]

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Anyone who thinks that voting for either of the major party candidates will lead us towards more freedom must remember that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia (Two Minute Hate to Follow).
Old Thinkers believe in the slavery of the individual over one’s own self. They called this “freedom,” as though a [...]

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For the second consecutive year, Dr. Paul spoke at the Future of Freedom Foundation.  The theme of the conference was “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties.”

The video is online on C-SPAN’s website.
(Last year’s video can be found here.)

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Yesterday was fight prohibition day for me.
Over on StogieGuys.com I published a commentary on Baltimore’s proposed ban on selling individual cigars that cost less than two dollars each:
Like most prohibitions – last time I checked drugs were also illegal in Baltimore, but readily available – this ban is destined to fail. Enterprising individuals will be able to [...]

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The first reunions began today as parents of more than 450 children, stolen from them by the dismal Child Protective Services (CPS) of Texas, started picking up their kids. In the end, as it was described in the 3rd Court of Appeals decision, the state offered no evidence of physical or sexual abuse in [...]

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Tonight’s 60 Minutes had a feature on the Army’s Ray Gun.  
The Army put on a demonstration for CBS’s news magazine.  Following an Army spokesman speaking about the weapon’s usefulness against enemies and terrorists, Sixty Minutes cut to a demonstration of the weapon.  
The targets of the demonstration were soldiers who were dressed up as [...]

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Yes I’m about a week late on this, but I was thinking the other day about how one of the odder things about the Libertarian Party convention in Denver was the fact that Jim Pinkerton was selected to moderate the C-SPAN televised debate.
Pinkerton was most recently a “senior advisor” to Mike Huckabee’s campaign. Huckabee, [...]

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When you criticize the war on drugs, the drug warriors will come after you.
That’s what happened to to the distributor of a movie about the malicious prosecution of Tommy Chong (of Cheech and Chong fame).  Thousands of copies of the DVD were seized under the guise of being “drug paraphernalia.” (Here are items that could [...]

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