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Julian Sanchez is a libertarian writer living in Washington, DC. He first came to public attention in 2003 when he helped to expose gun control critic John Lott for defending himself in online forums using an assumed identity. Soon afterwards, Sanchez was hired as an assistant editor at Reason magazine where he is now a contributing editor. He also blogs for The Economist.

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It’s All in the Game

Via Radley—sometimes you forget just how many fantastic little moments they packed into this series. The really insane thing is that, just off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen other bits every bit as good as these hundred—and that’s after not ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Julian Sanchez,  17 Nov 2009

In Defense of Error-Laden Reporting

Tempted though I am to join the pile-on over the many inaccuracies in the data on the Recovery.gov stimulus reporting site—including claims of jobs created in non-existent congressional districts—I think the White House actually makes a good point here: ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Cato@Liberty,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Sunlight Foundation

The Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate

Ezra Klein defends an individual healthcare mandate against charges that it’s unconstitutional, and what’s striking to me is that the argument seems awfully wobbly even if you’re on board with a lot of the post–New Deal jurisprudence about the scope of ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Cato@Liberty,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress

A Handy PATRIOT Act Cheat Sheet

While there are a slew of USA PATRIOT Act reform bills buzzing about Capitol Hill, the focus in Congress is now on two chief contenders, reported out by the House and Senate judiciary committees respectively. The very very short version is that the ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Cato@Liberty,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Congress,  Electronic Frontier Foundation,  National Security Agency,  George W. Bush

The FISA Amendments: Behind the Scenes

I’ve been poring over the trove of documents the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained detailing the long process by which the FISA Amendments Act—which substantially expanded executive power to conduct sweeping surveillance with little oversight— ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Cato@Liberty,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  National Security Agency,  Electronic Frontier Foundation,  George W. Bush,  Russ Feingold

We’re Looking for a Few Good Geeks

The extremely competitive ten-week program comes with a $7,000 stipend, and is a chance to do serious policy work on issues like privacy and surveillance, telecommunications regulation, and other things you read about on Slashdot.   Applications are ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Cato@Liberty,  13 Nov 2009

I Guess That Could Be Why…

There is a reason the Pledge of Allegiance asks us to pledge to our country ”under God.” The best American tradition has never required people to surrender their first allegiance as a condition of citizenship. Well… that’s a fair guess, I suppose.  In ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Julian Sanchez,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Knights of Columbus

Who Reads the Readers?

Perhaps ironically, the targeting of Indymedia, which is about as far left as news sites get, may finally hep the populist right to the perils of the burgeoning surveillance state. It seems to have piqued Glenn Beck’s interest, and McCullagh went on ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Cato@Liberty,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  Lou Dobbs,  Barack Obama

Phoning It In

As the mourners walked away under a brilliant Texas sky, their mood did not match the weather. It’s embarrassing enough that he was contemplating a clichéd “their faces were as overcast as the sky” transition at all. But when the weather doesn’t ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Julian Sanchez,  11 Nov 2009

Dear FBI: Ahmed is Not a Terrorist. Pinky Swear. Love, Al Qaeda.

I’m going back over the transcripts from last week’s PATRIOT hearings and still a little gobsmacked by the shameless stupidity of the remarks from grown men who actually get to decide what the law will be.  Remember, this isn’t what they say to the ...

From JULIAN SANCHEZ, Julian Sanchez,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  C-SPAN,  Lamar S. Smith,  Jim Sensenbrenner

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