reason.com: Video of the Minneapolis ICE Shooting Does Not Resolve the Issue of Whether It Was Legally Justified -- -- The crucial question is whether the agent reasonably believed the driver he killed posed a threat, even if she was not actually trying to run him over. #liberty #news
mises.org: Environmentalism is Anti-Humanism -- -- Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet” from you. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Future of Europe: An Italian View -- -- Since we were not able to have a new economic era in reality, we insisted on having it in appearance. So we raised nominal wages and incomes; but we paid them in a fictitious money... #liberty #news
reason.com: New Federal Guidelines for Booze Got It Right -- -- Instead of trying to tell people how much to drink, the new dietary guidelines take a better, more nuanced approach: consume less alcohol for better health. #liberty #news
reason.com: Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1933 to 1945 -- -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt did his best to defend presidential removal power at will notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s lawless decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. #liberty #news
mises.org: Bernie Sanders’s Clumsy and Dangerous Melody -- -- As government control expands, the space for individual freedom contracts. This is not a historical accident, but the result of decades of planning and social engineering, where the autonomy of the average citizen is sacrificed on the altar of an omnipresent state. #liberty #news
mises.org: The UK Is in Economic and Social Freefall -- -- Whatever advances Great Britain made during the Margaret Thatcher years have long been reversed as the UK finds itself in decline of its economy and social fabric. Big government, once again, is the culprit. #liberty #news
mises.org: Why The Monroe Doctrine Cannot be Reestablished -- -- With American intervention in Venezuela, some are claiming that the Trump administration is simply invoking the Monroe Doctrine, or its corollary, the “Donroe” Doctrine. In reality, neither doctrine is an appropriate reason for US military intervention in Latin America. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Minnesota ICE Videos and "They Saw A Protest" -- -- One explanation for the different reactions. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Minnesota Fraud Scandal Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg -- -- Medicaid fraud has been endemic at the state and federal levels for decades. Focusing on a single official or state misses a deeper lesson. #liberty #news