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The Constitution & Gun Rights: It's bigger than the 2nd aloneThis is an ongoing project, some of this material is old and some is new. It began as a series of emails on the Cypherpunks mailing list during a large part of the 1990's. It is intended to demonstrate that when the Constitution as a whole is applied to sensitive issues it in fact provides clear ...
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Investigating Government Today -- Commentary on Healthcare ReformWhile it is certainly true that an argument for universal health care can be made, and probably should be, there is the question of just how far it should go? Many people who advocate it refer to it as a right, and this has certain merit as well. But what are the boundaries on that right? There ...
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Forfeiture Laws, the War of Drugs, and Alvarez v. SmithToday, the Supreme Court hears Alvarez v. Smith, an important case that will affect the constitutional property rights of many people around the country but has failed to attract the attention it deserves.
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Geert Wilders greeted with "Islam Will Dominate the World", "Freedom Go to Hell", "Shariah for The Netherlands"Brandishing banners saying 'Sharia is the true solution, freedom go to hell', Muslim protesters met Mr Wilders outside the Houses of Parliament
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FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court RecordsWhen 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz decided last fall to help an open-government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d end up with an FBI agent trying to stake out his house.
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WWID?"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,..." begins The Constitution, clearly indicating this is a living document for a living country. It also indicates it is not perfect and that it is up to us and our posterity to build it into something that any generation ...
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The Red MassAmerica is a country that is based on the belief that the conflicts between people are a source of strength in a community. The abiding boundary on that belief is a separation between individual action on a belief and the actions as a representative of the community. One of the most fundamental ...
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Feds Probe Hanged Census Worker With 'Fed' Scrawled on ChestMANCHESTER, Ky. — When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drawing on years of experience warned: "Be careful." The 51-year-old Sparkman was found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky ...
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Schumpeterian economic dynamics as a quantifiable minimum model of evolutionWe propose a simple quantitative model of Schumpeterian economic dynamics. New goods and services are endogenously produced through combinations of existing goods. As soon as new goods enter the market they may compete against already existing goods, in other words new products can have ...
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The Shield that Never Was: Societies with Single-Peaked Preferences are More Open to Manipulation and ControlMuch work has been devoted, during the past twenty years, to using complexity to protect elections from manipulation and control. Many results have been obtained showing NP-hardness shields, and recently there has been much focus on whether such worst-case hardness protections can be bypassed by ...
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