February 2012
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“No number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can...”
– Lysander Spooner
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$25 parking
$5 cover
$17 gin & tonic
10 minutes into my night and I’m already out almost $50.
Effing Hollywood the night before the Oscars…
I feel like Murtaugh: I’m too old for this…
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Damn your low fat diet: How a reformed vegan... →
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
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Re: Gas Prices and Rail Infrastructure
RottenCapital wrote in response to photo post:
Isn’t the major problem the poor infrastructure of the US compared to other countries? It favors the rich who can afford cards and high gasoline prices or just simply live in the city centers, wheres poor people suffer the most ffrom it. http://bit.ly/wXnaAO
In short, no. At least not insofar as it relates to transportation as your link...
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It's not a revenue problem
huskerred:
squashed:
huskerred:
Raising taxes on certain categories of people to pay for our egregious spending habits in Washington only passes the buck to future generations.
Technically raising revenue pays for the spending we’re doing now—which eliminates the need to pass the buck to future generations. Any budget has two sides. Money in. Money out. Taxes are low now. A more...
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“There’s no way to keep governments limited to what Constitutions say. …...”
– Thomas Woods
Related: Lysander Spooner - No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
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“”I’ve tried the moral argument [against war and empire], [and]...”
– Ron Paul - CNN Arizona Debate (link to video of Ron Paul Debate Highlights) (h/t Ricardo)
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How Government Hurts The Poor
Just a few quick examples, as to elaborate on this question:
Minimum wage laws ostensibly exist to offer poorer workers better pay, but tend to leave the lower-skilled workers unemployed instead. 1
Tariffs and tough anti-immigration laws purportedly protect American citizens - poor, lower-skilled individuals in particular - from the “unfair” competition of cheap foreigners. Instead,...
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“Between stimulus and response lies man’s greatest power: the power to choose.”
– Viktor Frankl
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The Meaning of War
conza:
A suggestion from Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), signer of the Declaration of Independence and pioneer psychiatrist.
Signs of War
In order more deeply to affect the minds of the citizens of the United States with the blessings of peace, by contrasting them with the evils of war, let the following inscriptions be painted upon the sign, which is placed over the door of the War...
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"The only appropriate celebrations of President's... →
“As far as government interference itself is concerned, one should never forget...”
– L. Albert Hahn
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“To desire freedom is an instinct. To secure it requires intelligence. It must be...”
– E.C. Riegel, The New Approach to Freedom (New York, 1949)
Great quote.
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Emergent Coiffing
I’m finally going to have a weekend off after many consecutive days at work.
As a result of 14-hour days/seven days a week, I haven’t cut my hair or shaved in a while. I look like a Cuban Frederick Douglass with a Proudhon-esque beard.
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“Libertarianism is ‘cultish,’ say the sophisticates. Of course, there’s nothing...”
– Tom Woods
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Keynesians Jump the Gun on Inflation →
baseballlibertarian:
Advocates of government stimulus are running victory laps on recent developments that appear to vindicate their strategy. In particular, Paul Krugman compares the sluggish growth in Europe to the somewhat-less-sluggish growth in the US to prove that stimulus was more effective than austerity. Other...
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New #Politics Editors
A much-needed shake-up of Tumblr #Politics editors has taken place today, less than a day after I post this documenting another editor’s (Ryking) penchant for vile behavior (and echoing Jeff Miller’s offer to resign if Ryking would do the same), and a petition to remove the same editor was circulated (and received thousands of signatures in only a matter of hours).
Clearly, the...
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Documenting Ryking's Vileness
“If you don’t like being insulted, then stop hurling insults at others. Or stop hypocritically complaining about it. But I guess asking you to stop being a hypocrite is like asking you to stop breathing.”
- Ryking, un-ironically
In another post, he claims: “for the most part I have never provoked any of the fights I’ve been in on Tumblr or anywhere else.”
Let’s...
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Anti-gun Group to Boycott Starbucks on St.... →
statehate:
enemyofthestatist:
Coffee anyone?
The Starbucks I went to this morning was packed. I asked three separate employees if they’d noticed a drop-off due to the boycott and none had any idea that there even was a boycott. In fact, one of them said it was the busiest morning since he started working there last April.
And this is the Starbucks on Sunset and Gower. Pretty...
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Anonymous asked: How are politics editors picked? I read there's an algorithm that picks popular blogs who make popular posts.
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“A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its...”
– Mark Twain. (via ahistoryofquotes)
“We can suppose no other object to be placed before ourselves but happiness… We...”
– Auberon Herbert
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Why a high fat diet may be the most healthy →
Even yesterday as I sat in the local Gluten free meeting I attended, I heard reference made to fat as if it were the evil ingredient that is making most Americans obese. If this were true, I don’t think I would have lost 30 lbs last year because my diet was roughly 70% fat. Not only did I lose weight, but my lab values became normalized and my blood sugar was stabilized. Most of my symptoms of...
January 2012
“Just as freedom of the press does not exist for the sake of that tiny minority...”
– Thomas Sowell
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The greatest threat to America is [the federal... →
[T]he threat of an economic collapse has been in [The Pentagon’s] sights since the crash of ’08. The most recent threat assessment points to “economic instability” as our rulers’ chief worry. The Army recently conducted a year-long war game dubbed “Unified Quest 2011,” centered around how to deal with a “large scale economic breakdown” in this country.
The “threats”...
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“I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think maybe we should send some...”
– Ron Paul
“The gravest crimes in the State’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of...”
– Murray Rothbard
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Two Kinds of Government Failure →
One is inefficiency (which often leads to corruption), the other is ignorance (which often leads to error). Either way, there’s no shortage of failure in government.