January 2012
“History would be worthless to us if it did not teach us to keep on our guard...”
– Will & Ariel Durant
December 2011
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“Credit expansion cannot increase the supply of real goods. It merely brings...”
– Ludwig von Mises
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If you have a cupcake you are a security threat →
packlite:
Well… at least according to the TSA
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things...”
– H.L. Mencken
“True liberty cannot exist apart from the full rights of property, for property...”
– Auberon Herbert
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Wow
I leave the blog on queue for a few days and a Ron Paul war erupts on #politics.
Way to be the custodians of quality, guys.
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Man at bar ribs cop, 'Aw, you suck at darts'; cop... →
anarchyagogo:
A man at a bar in Murrieta, California ribbed an off-duty cop that he ‘suck[ed] at darts,’ the cop, 42-year-old Dayle Long, reportedly responded by pulling out a gun and executing him in front of a shocked crowd in an incident one man described as ‘the most horrific scene I’ve seen in my entire life.’ Patch.com reports:
Chris Hull, a 39-year-old Temecula resident, said he...
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful...”
– Aldous Huxley
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Cops Tied 62-Year-Old Man to a Chair, Gagged Him,... →
…the horrifying story of Nick Christie, a 62-year-old Ohio man who was detained by the Lee County (FL) Sheriff’s Office for being publicly intoxicated. While Christie’s wife asked that he be taken to the hospital, Lee County cops decided instead to strip Christie naked, tie him to a chair, cover his face, and then pepper spray him repeatedly, until he died.
Naturally, none...
“He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and...”
– Benjamin Tucker
“The market process is thus seen to be a leveling process. In a market economy a...”
– Ludwig M. Lachmann
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Are Guns & Ammo the New Gold?
Note: my stance on gold as money is clear. This is not suggesting, or at least I am not suggesting, that guns and ammo will actually be currency.
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On Responding to Crass Fallacies
I don’t actually know of which post you speak, but the absolute falsity of such charges are obvious to anyone not blinded by an ideological desire to baselessly smear the opposition.
Sometimes, the best response is rolling like Buddha and letting that nonsense bounce off your belly like a grain of rice tossed by a child. Because when philosophical and intellectual rivals must resort to...
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Controlling Guns = Controlling People →
On the racist origins of gun control legislation.
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It Ain't Easy Being a Green Boondoggle Supporter →
If you’ve been revolted by the fact that every $40,000 electric Chevy Volt sold by Government Motors enjoys a $7,500 rebate at the expense of taxpayers, then better have some Dramamine before you read any further. James Hohman of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy has calculated that the total subsidies—direct and indirect, federal and state—poured into this white elephant could add up to $3...
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Statist Family Feud
Democrats portray Republicans as evil, selfish dolts who engage in class warfare, foster groupthink, and are willing to destroy society for the sake of their corrupt ideology.
Meanwhile, Republicans portray Democrats as evil, selfish dolts who engage in class warfare, foster groupthink, and are willing to destroy society for the sake of their corrupt ideology.
Come on, guys. There’s no...
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"Just roll over and take it. Submit." →
[H]ere’s a ruling from the D.C. Court of Appeals demonstrating just how powerless citizens are when accosted by police officers—even when the cops themselves are clearly in the wrong….
The appellant is Terrance Crossland, who is asking the court to overturn his conviction on two counts of assaulting a police officer. Last April, Crossland and his cousin were approached by two D.C. Metro...
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We Killed Your Daughter; You're Under Arrest →
Daniel Hiler ran out of gas during an evening motorcycle ride in Oildale, California on December 16. While walking his bike to a gas station, the twenty-year-old father of two ran into a family friend named Chrystal Jolley. The pair was crossing a street at a widely-recognized intersection when they were fatally blindsided by a vehicle traveling at a speed well in excess of the posted speed...
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My wife loves me...
She just gifted me duck bacon, lamb bacon, and bacon crack… for Hanukkah.
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“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to...”
– Joseph Sobran. (via anarchyagogo)
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think-progress:
Shorter Ron Paul: Everything is unconstitutional.
Re: Medicare, income taxes, and even the dollar bill.
It’s hard to believe, I know, but anything that’s not actually in the Constitution is - wait for it - unconstitutional. See: Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
Of course, technically income taxes are, unfortunately, constitutional per the 16th Amendment. Though it,...
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anarchyagogo asked: Now, every time I see copious amounts of bacon, I think of you./
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What is it good for?
So if you don’t want to get into the fact that the military spending in the United States exceeds the spending of nearly all other countries on planet earth combined… That it is built to maximize costs… That political engineering ensures those costs almost never come down… That our foreign meddling tends to produce more enemies than it eliminates… That you...
I’m in Ohio right now, and no one I’ve talked to so far has any idea who Nate Kelly is…
Hmmm…
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“I want to express my solidarity to all those who struggle for a free life in...”
– Vaclav Havel
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PPP: Paul 23%, Romney 20%, Gingrich 14% →
Newt Gingrich’s campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa. He’s at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each for Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry, 4% for Jon Huntsman, and 2% for Gary Johnson.
Dear Fidel,
Kim misses your bedtime stories already.
Come on down…
conza:
“I think the argument against regulation is extremely hurt by the recent economic collapse.”
Begs the question, why is it hurt by the economic collapse? That completely ignores all the regulations, that of which there are more than ever.
Shouldn’t we listen to the only school of thought that predicted it as early as 2002? The Austrian School of Economics has a proper methodology which...
Vaclav Havel's death is significantly more...
coeus:
Significantly.
I disagree.
Havel’s life was more important, certainly. I’ve been quoting him all day. But Jong-Il’s death presents a significant glimmer of hope for millions of North Koreans.
“Out of gifted and sovereign people, the [communist] regime made us little screws...”
– Vaclav Havel
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Princeton Study: Democracy Requires An Ignorant... →
Here, we use theory and experiment to demonstrate that, for a wide range of conditions, a strongly opinionated minority can dictate group choice, but the presence of uninformed individuals spontaneously inhibits this process, returning control to the numerical majority. Our results emphasize the role of uninformed individuals in achieving democratic consensus amid internal group conflict and...
“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred.”
– Vaclav Havel
“Though my heart be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic...”
– Vaclav Havel
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Ron Paul's NDAA Non-Vote
It is absolutely fair to criticize Ron Paul for not being present for the NDAA vote after repeatedly and vociferously railing against it (not that his vote would have made a difference, unfortunately, with a final tally of 283-186). Members of Congress aren’t expected to be present for every vote, though that is their duty. The word is that he knew the votes weren’t there and decided...
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libertarians asked: From the #politics tag: "For many, their biggest issue with Paul has to do with his Blame America First foreign policy positions. According to Paul, we were responsible for the jihadists crashing planes..." You would assume that at least people who get their news on the internet would realize the reality of blowback. How does reallyronpaul get promoted to that page?
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anticapitalist asked: What is your opinion of mutualism?
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f-m-a-c asked: Someone should re-name that comic "if housepets were statists," and have them ranting about how animals could never survive in the wild.
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“From a public choice perspective, the political process externalises costs...”
– Mark Pennington
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Wore my “End the Fed” shirt to the bank…
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ryking:
“If Housepets Were Libertarians.”
If your worldview requires you to see the relationship between the citizen and the state as that of a small domesticated animal and its master, then I can get why you would find it funny to mock the seeming ungratefulness and smug selfishness of us wards of our governmental superiors. Truly, I can almost understand why you would consider acquiescence...
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Three myths about the detention bill →
This is a must read for all those who are clamoring to defend Obama for changing some language in the bill to remove its dangerous teeth.
Condemnation of President Obama is intense, and growing, as a result of his announced intent to sign into law the indefinite detention bill embedded in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). These denunciations come not only from the nation’s...
“Note that once constitutional barriers have been lowered during a crisis, a...”
– Robert Higgs
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Is Ron Paul Wrong about Iran? →
What is more likely? Circa 2003:
That Iraq has WMDs and poses a great threat to the United States?
Or what Ron Paul said—that America was overreacting and we would find ourselves in a quagmire?
In 2003, everyone said Ron Paul was wrong. In 2011, most Americans agree that Paul was right.
What is more likely? Circa 2011:
That Iran might have a WMD and poses a great threat to the United...