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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The Chinese government is creating a parallel virtual world in which the participants of social media seem to be interacting in the usual facebook and twitter world, but in fact they are operating in a replica that prevents criticism of the government.

THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Neither natural rights nor the second amendment requires Microsoft to allow users of its services to access virtual weapons. That's a matter of property rights. But let's turn this around. Do natural rights and the second amendment protect the right of the people to virtual, i.e. hacking, weapons? This is an interesting question because hacking tools are more like tools for breaking and entering. But there's also a roll for using those tools in self-defense.

REGULATION:

Regulations make it more profitable for both employers and workers to work on a contract basis instead of employers hiring workers as employees. A new business would be foolish to hire employees.

POLICE STATE:

Police coerce false confessions. Duh. The crazy thing exposed in this article is that the ex-cop seems surprised.

"Trainum says he and his fellow investigators repeatedly ignored evidence that pointed away from the suspect who confessed."It's like you're on this speeding train going down the track and it's extremely difficult to get that train to stop," Trainum says. "While you're on that train, you might be getting other leads coming in, other clues about the killer, but because we're so fixated on the suspect, often times those clues go undocumented.""

I love this rationalization of the standard mentality of cops.

" "When the police officer enters the interrogation room, they've already presumed that the suspect is guilty based on evidence that has been gathered in the course of the investigation. Often times, it's based on little more than a hunch," Drizin says. "

Imagine that. It's like they're overly aggressive human beings amped up on steroids or something.

WAR:

The Iraqi government is under duress and might fall. A couple of years ago I would looked at this as proof that US troops should have stayed in Iraq. Now I see it as proof that the US government was controlling a proxy government in Iraq through force. That means that no matter how long the US troops stayed there and promoted that government through violence, it was doomed to collapse when our troops left and that Iraqis will hate us more because our government used violence against them than if we had left well enough along.

POLITICS:

I agree that Ron Paul's support has reached a point where slanderous attacks on him work in his favor.

Gingrich calls out Romney for being a moderate and calling himself a progressive. Which is it? Is he moderate or progressive? I believe Romney when he says he's a progressive because that's what his record proves. This is good for Ron Paul.

MISC:

Anti-whaling group tracks whaling ship with drone.

Criticism of George Washington for transforming the liberty-minded American army into the European model.

The difference between society and the state.

Entrepreneurship in Vegas.