UPDATE: There appears to be a reliable meta-index. The results, and more top-10 lists, are located here In my bleeding heart libertarians post, I made the claim that I’d like to, as an interim step, move towards a Scandinavian and Swiss-style state. It surprised me that more than one person responded by suggesting that those [...]
Category Archives: Association
When terrorist sympathizers investigate terrorism
Posted by M.J. Sheppard on March 9, 2011 3 comments
I’ve long been suspicious of legislatures using their subpoena powers to investigate matters not directly related to the functioning of the government. The only intellectual and legal basis the United States Congress has to engage in jock-sniffing exercises such as investigating steroid use in baseball is that Major League Baseball enjoys an exemption from federal [...]
You should have stayed at home
Posted by Mike Brock on February 26, 2011 22 comments
CBC’s The Fifth Estate gives what is, in my estimation, one of the most balanced reports on what happened during the G20 in Toronto that I have seen in the mainstream media. And you can watch the whole thing here: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
The Landowner: “Crackdown on Liberty Seminar”
Posted by Peter Jaworski on November 17, 2010 4 comments
The Landowner is the official magazine of the Ontario Landowners Association. About a month and a half ago, I wrote a story summarizing what has come to be called the “Clarington saga.” That saga is the story of this year’s Liberty Summer Seminar, and the decision by the Municipality of Clarington’s bylaw department to charge [...]
Bylaw cracks down on 91-year-old man who just wanted to build a house
Posted by Peter Jaworski on November 16, 2010 21 comments
“I thought this was a free country, that we had liberties and freedoms like we used to have, but I was sadly mistaken,” said Craig Morrison to a reporter for the Telegraph-Journal in New Brunswick. The story of Morrison, a 91-year-old man who built his own house overlooking the Bay of Fundy, is replete with [...]