Freemen of the Land: A Barrister Writes

Note: I do not think the Freemen of the Land should be dismissed out of hand. They are the only semi-libertarians around prepared to gather and make a fuss. Even so, their legal arguments are, to put it mildly, in need of development. Here is a comment on an earlier posting about the FotL. I think everyone will agree that it is important enough to move to the front page. SIG

Keith Preston on Strategy

by Keith Preston
http://attackthesystem.com/?p=11857

Hat tip to MRDA. Dain is an old acquaintance of mine from the U.S. libertarian milieu.

Economic Law vs. Occupy Wall Street

by Eric Phillips
http://mises.org/daily/5807/Economic-Law-vs-Occupy-Wall-Street

In their 1995 book, Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, David Card and Alan Krueger argued that increases in the minimum wage in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the early 1990s not only did not lead to unemployment, as classical economic theory would predict, but actually coincided with an increase in employment.

The final end of Scottish Toryism

by D.J. Webb

Oh dear! That sigh of deflated resignation is my response to the news that the new “leader” of the Scottish conservatives is a 32-year-old lesbian kickboxer and former member of the Territorial Army. Lesbians do not match my mind’s eye of what women ought to be: homemakers, carers, demure supporters of their husbands. Leaving aside the questions of whether it is right for people as young as 32 to be aspiring to lead countries; whether women should do kickboxing, or behave in a ladylike fashion (carpet-munchers preferably included); and whether women should join the TA, I am left with a sense of contempt for a party whose desperation to gain a few seats in the Scottish Parliament is such that it selects its leaders, not on the basis of ability, but in order to strike “modernizing” poses.