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While the Associated Press blames the disaster in the Gulf on the lack of regulatory oversight, the White House's call for increasing the liability cap on oil companies belies the real culprit in this mess. Previous legislation capped oil company liability at 75 million. What reason could there possibly...
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Man, Meaning, and Freedom
by
William Green
on
Thu, May 13 2010
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Filed under: government, libertarianism, litigation, BP, law, oil spill, environment, justice
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(Originally posted at damienmanier.com) The way we punish criminals and restore justice is very important to our overall crime prevention strategy. It is important to establish a punitive system that will exact the right amount of punishment while also bringing about justice and restitution to the victim...
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The growing use of tasers by the police and the invention of novel non-lethal weapons have led to calls to ban or restrict their use. The two sides of the debate are usually identified as the "civil libertarian" left/liberals versus the "law and order" right/conservatives. The liberals...