LETTER TO GLENN BECK & COMPANY June 17, 2010
Gents –
I support your desire to keep youth baseball fully competitive in nature. May I suggest a procedure by which it can also be uniquely valuable to these kids as professional players of he future?
Every inning, rotate the defensive positions. In the first inning, a given kid pitches. In the second inning, he catches. In the third, he plays first base, and so on, through all nine positions. All the other kids rotate in the same order.
I thought of this idea because I got sick of watching “my” team, the …
LOOKING FOR BURKE June 9, 2010
The 1960s were bleak years for anyone interested in individual
freedom, although many of us in the libertarian movement got off to a
serious start in that decade of Lyndon Baines Johnson and his “Great
Society”.
One of the few bright spots in the dark and terrible wilderness of
television was a series of lectures given by an individual who seemed
to stand with one foot on the libertarian side of a divide that was
considerably narrower back then, and the other on the conservative
side.
His name was …
A DIFFICULT QUESTION June 2, 2010
As many of my readers are aware, I am fairly close to finishing my
second non-fiction book, to be called _Where We Stand_, a sort of
unprecedented manual, not of libertarian theory, but of libertarian
policy.
As might be expected, this little book has a rather long chapter
on the proper place for “law enforcement” in a free society. For those
who are familiar with my writing — especially a brace of essays
entitled “Toward A Police Reform Movement” — it should contain no
surprises.
As I prepared my police …