mises.org: Brazil’s Social Function Trap: When Property Becomes Conditional, Markets Become Political -- https://tinyurl.com/29cd8k5x -- While Brazil calls itself a constitutional democracy that has a market economy, private property and markets themselves are subject to conditions set by the government itself. #liberty #news
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reason.com: Open Thread -- -- What’s on your mind? #liberty #news
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reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: February 7, 1870 --
-- 2/7/1870: Hepburn v. Griswold decided.The post Today in Supreme Court History: February 7, 1870 appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news

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Today in Supreme Court History: February 7, 1870
2/7/1870: Hepburn v. Griswold decided.
reason.com: "Any Business in America Would Rather Not Have Their Internal Documents out in the Public" -- -- But that does not mean that litigants have a right to hide them from the public once they are implicated in court proceedings. #liberty #news
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mises.org: History Is Not a Mathematical Calculation -- https://tinyurl.com/25e2zw8k -- Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made history, their motives, and their goals. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Giffen Good -- -- Silver isn’t a “Giffen good.” It’s a case of shifting demand, not broken economics. #liberty #news
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reason.com: Do Republicans Want To Control Elections? --
-- Plus: assessing Trump’s first year, the dysfunction of Washington, D.C., and the politics of the Super Bowl. (Recorded live in Washington, D.C.) #liberty #news

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Do Republicans want to control elections?
Plus: assessing Trump’s first year, the dysfunction of Washington, D.C., and the politics of the Super Bowl. (Recorded live in Washington, D.C.)
mises.org: Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work -- -- Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty. #liberty #news
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reason.com: Once Again, a Federal Judge Orders ICE To Stop Unlawful Warrantless Arrests --
-- Another judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to follow federal law, even as the Trump administration argues it has broad authority to conduct warrantless immigration arrests. #liberty #news

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Once again, a federal judge orders ice to stop unlawful warrantless arrests
Another judge has ordered DHS to follow federal law, even as the Trump administration argues it has broad authority to conduct warrantless immigrat...
reason.com: Militarized Policing Is at the Root of the Minneapolis Mayhem --
-- Thanks to a lack of hiring standards, purposeful federal policy, poor training, and a lack of accountability for bad behavior, ICE is eroding safety and liberty for all Americans. #liberty #news

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Militarized policing is at the root of the Minneapolis mayhem
Due to a lack of hiring standards, federal policy, poor training, and no accountability for bad behavior, ICE is eroding liberty for all Americans.
mises.org: Does Acts Show Early Christian Communism? -- https://tinyurl.com/27fr2u7b -- Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seem to suggest the ideal of Christian communal property ownership, or communism, rather than private property, but this is mistaken and the evidence is within Acts itself. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the US Government -- https://tinyurl.com/26hvglqe -- From time to time, the American people need to be reminded who is the boss. The boss is the US government. The citizenry are the serfs, the servants, the subordinates. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Trump Administration Has a Conflicted Relationship with the Second Amendment --
-- The right to bear arms is inherently anti-authoritarian at a time when Trump wields authority. #liberty #news

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The Trump administration has a conflicted relationship with the Second Amendment
This administration is deeply uncomfortable with the challenge to government posed by individuals exercising their natural right to keep and bear a...
mises.org: Trump’s Credit Card Rate Cap Would Hurt the Poor -- https://tinyurl.com/28pysw5x -- If card-issuers are blocked from charging interest rates higher than 10 percent for consumers with a poor credit history, these consumers will find out that they have fewer borrowing options. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Epstein Files Are Becoming a Witch Hunt --
-- This type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt, warned Clay Higgins. #liberty #news

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The Epstein files are becoming a witch hunt
"This type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt," warne...
reason.com: How Thousands of Randos Like Me Landed in the Epstein Files --
-- To make sense of the Justice Department’s latest documents, you have to understand what they actually are. #liberty #news

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How thousands of randos like me landed in the Epstein files
To make sense of the Justice Department’s latest documents related to the late sex-trafficker, you have to understand what they actually are.
reason.com: Wealth Taxes Are Proven Failures. Will California Take Note? --
-- Across advanced economies, they have repeatedly been narrowed or even repealed after delivering disappointing revenue, tax avoidance, capital flight, and costly administrative battles. #liberty #news

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Wealth taxes are proven failures. Will California take note?
They have repeatedly been narrowed or repealed after disappointing revenue, tax avoidance, capital flight, and costly administrative battles.
mises.org: The Idiocracy that Is California Politics -- -- If California voters and politicians do not understand the current crisis, we will see the continuous march to perdition as California politicians refuse to acknowledge that they are killing the geese laying the golden eggs. #liberty #news
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mises.org: The Idiocracy that Is California Politics -- -- If California voters and politicians do not understand the current crisis, we will see the continuous march to perdition as California politicians refuse to acknowledge that they are killing the geese laying the golden eggs. #liberty #news
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reason.com: This California Family Is Suing for the Right To Drill for Oil on Their Own Property --
-- “We’re standing up not just for ourselves, but for the principle that government must respect property rights.” #liberty #news

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This California family is suing for the right to drill for oil on their own property
A lawsuit is underway in California, which could reshape energy production and property rights in the Golden State.