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Epicurus

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Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm.

Dec 12, Winter War

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On December 12, 1939, Finnish forces defeated those of the Soviet Union in the first major victory of what became known as the Winter War, the Battle of Tolvajärvi. December 12th birthdays include: * Erasmus Darwin (1731) – English physician, slave trade abolitionist, inventor and poet * John Jay (1745)…

Dec 12, Winter War

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: December 12, 2014

On December 12, 1939, Finnish forces defeated those of the Soviet Union in the first major victory of what became known as the Winter War, the Battle of Tolvajärvi. December 12th birthdays include: * Erasmus Darwin (1731) – English physician, slave trade abolitionist, inventor and poet * John Jay (1745)…

Baruch Spinoza

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Benedict de Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus (1667), Chapter Five, as liberally rendered in A Natural History of Peace (1996) by Thomas Gregor.

John Hancock

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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Not Above the Law

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Should government officials be free to violate the rights of others so long as they are doing their job at the time? With impunity? That’s the question that the Institute for Justice is arguing before the Supreme Court in Brownback v. King. The case concerns James King, whom officers of…

Frédéric Bastiat

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Is Law to enforce rigorous Justice, or to be the instrument of Spoliation, organized with more or less adroitness? Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (1850).

Again Allowed

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Retired engineer Wayne Nutt wants to be able to speak freely about engineering problems. North Carolina, in the form of its Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, disagrees. The Board sought to prohibit his speech unless he obtained a professional license, and it threatened him with sanctions. As Institute…

Thieves Caught, Return Loot

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Lyndon McLellan, a convenience store owner, was robbed. The marauders took $107,000 of his honestly earned money. We don’t need the police to find out who did it (and no, the police themselves are not the culprit, not this time). The IRS took the money, suspecting that he “structured” his…

Candid Camera

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Support for criminal justice reform, especially the common sense use of body cameras for police, marks a bright spot for the Obama Administration. Or so I thought. The president has called on local police to don the video devices. He has even offered $75 million of his own hard-earned money…