The Skeptical Libertarian http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com Blog Thu, 23 May 2013 14:48:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 James Madison on Established Christianity: ‘Superstition, Bigotry, and Persecution’ http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/23/james-madison-on-established-christianity-superstition-bigotry-and-persecution/ http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/23/james-madison-on-established-christianity-superstition-bigotry-and-persecution/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 14:30:57 +0000 Daniel Bier http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/?p=3257 The Founding Fathers are always everyone’s top choice when looking to bolster their argument, and despite being a generally skeptical lot (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Paine, and Franklin were deists), they are frequently and inaccurately invoked by the religious to support the claim that “America was founded as a Christian nation.”

But despite so many [...]]]> http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/23/james-madison-on-established-christianity-superstition-bigotry-and-persecution/feed/ 0 Irwin Schiff’s 4 Bad Arguments Against the Income Tax http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/22/irwin-schiffs-4-bad-arguments-against-the-income-tax/ http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/22/irwin-schiffs-4-bad-arguments-against-the-income-tax/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 21:58:59 +0000 Cody Liddicoat http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/?p=3247
Tax protester Irwin Schiff, father of investor Peter Schiff, is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence for income tax evasion, preparation of false income tax returns, and aiding in the preparation of false income tax returns. Schiff has found himself in court [...]]]> http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/22/irwin-schiffs-4-bad-arguments-against-the-income-tax/feed/ 0 Immigration, IQ, and Inequality http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/22/immigration-racism-and-hayek-why-political-equality-shouldnt-depend-on-factual-equality/ http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/22/immigration-racism-and-hayek-why-political-equality-shouldnt-depend-on-factual-equality/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 14:14:23 +0000 David Bier http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/?p=3222 Jason Richwine, the former-Heritage Foundation analyst and co-author of its recent estimate of the costs of legalization for unauthorized immigrants, responded to critics of his 2009 Harvard dissertation yesterday. His controversial thesis—that the “average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population, and [...]]]> http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/22/immigration-racism-and-hayek-why-political-equality-shouldnt-depend-on-factual-equality/feed/ 0 The Most Awful Reactions to Disaster in Oklahoma http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/21/the-awful-reactions-to-disaster-in-oklahoma/ http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/21/the-awful-reactions-to-disaster-in-oklahoma/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 05:57:05 +0000 Daniel Bier http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/?p=3207

It was a bad day. And when it seemingly couldn’t get any worse, the nauseating politicization of the disaster began.

Yesterday, a massive tornado struck the suburbs of Oklahoma City. Early reports indicate at least 51 people are dead, including some 20 children, and the death toll is expected to rise. The devastation is near complete [...]]]> http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/21/the-awful-reactions-to-disaster-in-oklahoma/feed/ 0 Snapshot of Skeptics, Libertarians, and Us http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/20/snapshot-of-skeptics-libertarians-and-us/ http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/20/snapshot-of-skeptics-libertarians-and-us/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 22:37:59 +0000 admin http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/?p=3185 I thought it’d be interesting to see where skeptical libertarians fall among the libertarian and skeptic communities, by seeing how we compare to other blogs in these circles (in whose great company we’re rather intimidated).

SkepticalLibertarian.com currently has an Alexa ranking of 108,802 in the United States (meaning about 100,000 websites* [...]]]> http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/05/20/snapshot-of-skeptics-libertarians-and-us/feed/ 0