Recent content by beaven

I made my short list: 1. Defending rights. 2. Enforcing contracts. 3. Regulating negative 3rd party externalities; and 4. Providing or delegating for what can only exist by monopoly. Am I missing something? Got something wrong or that you don't agree with? I'm open to ideas.

This was the point of gay marriage. The question was never legalization. After Texas vs. Lawrence, nowhere in the US was gay marriage against the law. Nobody would be thrown in jail, fined, or otherwise coerced by the government for participating in a gay marriage. No, this was about...

The government "healthcare" website refuses to load on TOR: http://i.imgur.com/rVErMUR.jpg It seems they are trying to get more information than they are legally entitled to from those who use the website.

http://burnpit.us/2013/08/95-year-old-wwii-veteran-killed-after-being-tased-and-shot-police

Yes, but that doesn't take into account my argument. Is my argument valid?

Somewhere in the mud being slung, some Christie supporters noted NJ gets back only $0.60 for every dollar taxed to the federal government while Kentucky receives well over $1. I think those numbers are not accurate in projecting what is going on. Tell me, is this an accurate, reasonable...

Mission, KS wasn't always fascist. It is a first-ring suburb. When urban renewal began to happen, crime began to move to first-ring suburbs. To prevent the decay of their suburbs, many such suburbs begin to harass people whey identify as "not the type we want here." They become police states...

Mission, KS Police Arrest & Cavity Search Mom After Toddlers Drop Pebbles in Mail Slot http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/07/mission-ks-police-arrest-cavity-search-mom-after-toddlers-drop-pebbles-in-mail-slot Video on site along with additional information. Mission, KS is a suburb of Kansas City...

Thoughts on how this can be achieved?

http://www.kmbz.com/HAZMAT-crews-converge-on-Federal-Reserve/16693665 Kansas City firefighters and HAZMAT crews are responding to the Federal Reserve in Kansas City on reports of an "unknown substance." Employees in a cash processing area were taken out of the building. One person had a...

There is a huge hole in the ruling on DOMA: Government "creating" marriage still establishes a class of people for government benefits that it denies others. I wrote about it here: http://www.mattbeaven.com/2013/06/27/scotus-on-doma-the-huge-flaw-in-the-ruling/ The Supreme Court has struck...

The ruling has a gigantic hole in the argument. It states that the government cannot create a class of people to provide benefits that it denies to others. Not everyone is married and not every single person is single because they want to be. Single people are denied some government "benefits"...

I'd like to see what y'all feel are appropriate ways of handling local issues. Here are a few scenarios: 1. There exists an older neighborhood and the roads were not planned so one residential road is often used by non-locals as a through street and travel at very fast speeds. There are no...

Only if he runs as a Democrat. We don't need him polluting the Republican, Libertarian, or any respectable 3rd party or independent movement.

I like Rand. He moves us in the right direction. But misstatements like this only confirm my belief that our future is more in leaders like Amash.