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Nebraska and Oklahoma think Colorado has entirely too much freedom, and they aim to put a stop to it in the federal courts. 

There's a new mini-reivew of Hoppe's new book at Target Liberty.

"What Michael did was the exception, not the rule. He didn't have to do this."

The George Stinney case: racism can explain why the jury would want to convict a black person, but only a deplorable pro-government bias explains why they so easily convicted this particular black person. 

US National Debt now exceeds $18 Trillion with no end in sight. Will we see national default on the debt or hyperinflation?

Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.

Since neither Left nor Right have a serious answer to police malfeasance, we asked the inimitable Bob Murphy to join us and make sense of how private defense agencies might work in an anarcho-capitalist society.

Mises Daily Tuesday by Frank Shostak:

The laws of physics can never be absolutely established. For some other law may prove more elegant or capable of explaining a wider range of facts. Hypotheses must be constantly tested. Economics is not like this.

Mises Daily Tuesday by Matt McCaffrey: "The Mises fellowship has been the single most important influence in my development as a scholar," writes Matt McCaffrey.

Are Rising Subprime Mortgages a Small Sign of Big Things to Come?