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Neurosurgeon-turned-Presidential candidate Ben Carson has been under attack this week by our

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Statistically, alcohol abuse causes far more death, violence, injury, and disease than guns do. And yet, further limiting access to alcohol is off the table while gun restrictions are fair game. In the gun debate, the double standards are plentiful.

Mises Daily Friday 

How should we define equality? The state won't define it, and a definition doesn't really matter because "equality" isn't really about helping anyone but the state and its agents. It's about some people exercising power over other people.

To support free markets is to invite criticism on virtually every policy issue.

Mises Daily Thursday: Adapted from his Dallas-Ft.

Everywhere we look, governments are trying to enhance and extend their own power. So why are so many of those same governments eager to sign on to "free trade" agreements. It's because such agreements have nothing to do with free trade.

Mises Daily Wednesday: Ferghane

The Trans Pacific Partnership is just the latest assault on free trade, although, like previous assaults before it, such as the North American Free