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The Constitution and Beto’s Question: A Libertarian Answer

The Constitution and Beto’s Question: A Libertarian Answer

A while ago, renowned Democrat and former Texas congressman, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, questioned the validity and relevance of the a document “set down 230-plus years ago.” That document was the Constitution of the United States. He was criticized for questioning the Constitution, the values, and principles on which the country was founded.

The question was, with the size of the American…

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State Intervention + Good Intentions = Organized Crime

"We can all agree that contemporaneously, drug utilization is at an all time high and that the War on Drugs is a general disaster. The numbers are so staggering that if the global drug industry were a nation, then it would be one of the top 20 economies in the world, worth more than $320 billion! " Writes Baruti Libre.

One of the laws of physics is that causality doesn’t implicate correlation which supposedly debunks the Post hoc ergo propter hoc phrase (a Latin term that translates to after this, therefore because of this). In my studies of the various phenomena that catalyze to the rise of criminality, I’ve noticed that the general causes of organized crime defy the laws of physics! Governmental regulations…

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The Government Made You Fat

"Instead of blaming the business owners, whose ultimate goal is not to trick the consumer but to maintain the price of their product, maybe we should look at how the 15 government agencies that currently administer regulations on our food?" asks guest author Luke Henderson. Want to write for Being Libertarian? CLICK HERE: www.beinglibertarian.com/contribute/

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that 36.5% of adults in the United States are obese, according to data gathered from 2011-2014. This statistic has been steadily increasing since 1999 and many media outlets have claimed that the United States is in an obesity crisis. So, what can we do to prevent this crisis? Robert Paarlberg from The Chicago Tribune claims that “in the United…

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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, by Lisa McGirr @ NYJB

The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, by Lisa McGirr @ NYJB

“The War on Alcohol by Lisa McGirr retells the story of Prohibition with a cocktail of case studies, legal analysis, and a broad scope.”

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Al Capone and America's Noble Experiment

Al Capone and America’s Noble Experiment

My father and another man owned a small meat packing business in Freeport, Wisconsin during the 1920s and the Great Depression.  They, like so many small businesses, went bankrupt during the depression.

Freeport lies 133 miles northwest of Chicago.  My father delivered meat to various stores, etc., in and around Freeport and all the way to Chicago.  Some of Al Capone’s speakeasies in Chicago were…

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The Twenty-First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on December 5, 1933. This amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, which had established prohibition.

This political cartoon by Clifford Berryman from 1932 portrays the opposing views of the Republican and Democratic parties on the the issue of prohibition.

"Oh So Tempting" by Clifford Berryman (6012119), 6/10/193, U.S. Senate Collection

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List of Facts

People will always: Smoke pot Drink Own Weapons (guns) Get abortions Be Gay

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From The New Yorker:

"Eighty years ago today, Jimmy Walker, then the Mayor of New York City, organized a daylong “Beer for Taxation” parade (later known as the “We Want Beer” parade) in objection to the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages."