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Should “Corner Crossing” be Legal?
The owner of a Wyoming ranch is appealing a judge’s ruling that “corner crossing” is legal. Corner crossing is the practice of going from one parcel of “public” land to another via privately owned land. The plaintiffs in the case relied on the Unlawful Inclosure Act of 1885, which prevents a private landowner from blocking…
Individual Rights and Government Wrongs
This post is the sixth in a series. In the early 1990s, I wrote a paper titled “Government Without Taxation.” In the paper, I examined various ways to finance government without coercive taxation. At the time, I thought that this would be a good topic for a book and made several futile attempts to write…
The Two Sides of the Censorship Coin
Sen. Ted Cruz has long been a critic of social media, claiming that they censor conservative content on their platforms. He has suggested using the anti-trust laws to stop companies like Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube from operating their businesses as they choose. Forcing companies to allow content is the flip side of prohibiting them…
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States cross the nation have enacted laws that allow property owners to designate their property lines by painting purple lines on trees, fence posts, and various other things. The purple lines are intended to take the place of “No Trespassing” signs. While I have no problem with a property owner explicitly stating that others are…
The Importance of Real Alternatives, Part 2
In Part 1, we briefly examined the prevalence of false alternatives in controversial political issues. But how do we know when false alternatives are being presented? How do we know that there are other alternatives? The clearest indication is when we actually know of real alternatives. If we are aware of an alternative that isn’t…