American Economic Rap Battle: Who Wins?

I stole this from a fantastic fellow Free Market Blogger over at the Patriotic Discourse… Vote for who will win the battle for America’s economy? Continue reading →

The Marijuana Paradox: The cost of regulation

Ron Paul on the War on Drugs In 1919, the new Progressive United States was going to put an end to drunken fathers coming home and physically abusing their family and their wives. The goal was to end alcoholics from wasting away their income and their lives on a substance that took them from reality. In truth, … Continue reading →

Economic Time Machine: Europe, a window into the Economic Future

Sorry its been so long since my last post…school caught up with me. But anyways, I’m continuing my blog series on Debt and why it matters. In the last post I wrote about how the financial system collapsed in 2008. As with anything, the origins of the financial disaster went way beyond 2008. The same … Continue reading →

Lincoln v. Pierce: Laws Higher than the Constitution

Franklin Pierce: the 14th President of the United States. I bet that’s all you know about him…if that. In case you didn’t know, Franklin Pierce is New Hampshire’s only President…he has a few things named after him here and there (my law school used to be for instance), and he has this nice statue (above) … Continue reading →

Happy Festivus! (For the Rest of Us)

History Channel’s Depiction of the History of Festivus After a series of rants and tirades on my blog of my political leanings, I thought I’d back off a little and write something a little funnier. Anyways, last December (2010) the great Holiday of Festivus made its way in the halls of legaldom. A convicted drug … Continue reading →

Why I can’t support Newt Gingrich

To fully understand the question he is answering, which is unfortunately not in this video, Fox’s Megyn Kelly asked Newt, “You have proposed a plan to subpoena Judges to testify before Congress about controversial decisions that they make, in certain cases you advocate impeaching judges or abolishing courts altogether, two conservative former Attorneys General have criticized your … Continue reading →

A View from the 99%

I usually don’t stray from legal subjects for my blog, but I found this post to be too good not to re-post. This article is written by my hard-working friend Ned, he like myself, is a part of the so-called 99%. I think Ned accurately writes the mindset of the majority of Americans and why … Continue reading →

Laws Do Not Govern the Soul (but Moral Laws do)

“The Moral Law isn’t any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts. (…) The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up … Continue reading →

Keeping in Check our Natural Tendency

The problem with authority is that we naturally rebel against it, good or bad. Why? We don’t like to have someone tell us what to do, its easy. When we are kids we don’t like it when our parents forbid us from watching a movie we want to see, good or bad for us. When we … Continue reading →

The Morals of Choice and Murder: What Would You Do?

This video is a Harvard discussion of the very same scenario that my law school discussed in my criminal law class; very much an interesting question begging for a deeper meaning, watch at least the first 10 minutes, not as easy as you think. Leave a comment, let me know your thought… Continue reading →