April 2011
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Minarchy vs Anarchy →
For Minarchists and Classical Liberals the leap from Small Government to No Government can be a leap too far. They like what we have — that is, Government — but want less of it. They justify the coercion of taxation as being utilitarian and what must be paid to have a fair and safe society. Minarchists like Democracy. They may even support Conscription in some circumstances.
Anarcho-Capitalists...
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How to become an anarchist →
Anarchism does not stand for chaos, as many would believe; it stands for a world without rulers — not without rules — that allows for each individual to formulate voluntary contracts with other willing parties. …
As anarcho-capitalists, we’re also voluntaryists, meaning that anyone in our stateless society can form a commune if they decide, so long as they don’t impede on our preference...
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It's a Girl!
My wife is a paragon of grace and strength, and my TWO beautiful daughters are perfection.
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“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the...”
– Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (via statehate)
March 2011
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Why my toddler is a Democrat
stfuhypocrisy:
stfufauxminists:
laliberty:
She’s dependent on other people for everything.
She doesn’t understand the consequences of her actions.
She has no real responsibilities.
She sometimes throws temper tantrums when she doesn’t get exactly what she wants.
She’s into baby animals and finger painting.
She’s driven by her feelings.
She’s bad at math and logic.
At least she’ll grow...
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Why my toddler is a Democrat
She’s dependent on other people for everything.
She doesn’t understand the consequences of her actions.
She has no real responsibilities.
She sometimes throws temper tantrums when she doesn’t get exactly what she wants.
She’s into baby animals and finger painting.
She’s driven by her feelings.
She’s bad at math and logic.
At least she’ll grow out...
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“Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
– H.L. Mencken
“Every human being who is not devoid of feeling and common sense is inclined to...”
– Alexander Berkman
“Democratic politics relies on deception. Without deception of the voters on a...”
– Gary North
“Any fool can and will live DOWN to the standards of socialism. Our challenge is...”
– Lawrence Reed (via jessarmentrout)
“A man who walks down the centre line of a road risks getting hit from both...”
– Alexander Ziatanovic
“As Americans have come to accept the notion that the government must take from...”
– Statism: The Acceptance of Theft by Government Proxy Erodes Liberty | Public Transcripts (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
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Free Trade Can Be Fair Trade →
dumbassfils:
coeus:
Free trade can be fair, but agreements that open some markets to powerful producers where they can use their market power, while keeping others closed and uncompetitive, are neither free nor fair. The little guy (the consumer, the small producer, the poor farmer, the developing country) gets hurt.
When nobody has special treatment and the field is truly level, then free...
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“The mind is below truth, not above it, and it is bound not to descant on it, but...”
– John Henry Newman
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“I teach separation of powers and constitutional law. This is something I know....”
– Joe Biden, 2007
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“Why don’t we say what’s on the mind of many legal experts; that the Obama...”
– Rep Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio (via bushranger)
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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
– Walter Bagehot (via ahistoryofquotes)
Government Doesn’t Work, and That’s the Way They... →
Governments love to interfere and get involved in people’s lives. They find ways to make themselves “needed”. Governments regulate and seek to control to bring about an end they deem to be desirable, or at least politically and electorally popular. Promises of hand-outs, regulations, subsidies, Commissions, and Authorities, buy votes. They use other people’s money to favour their chosen groups...
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“The libertarian is also eminently realistic because he alone understands fully...”
– Murray Rothbard
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Why Cops Lie →
In response to a scandal involving fabricated and unconstitutional drug searches by plainclothes San Francisco police officers, Golden Gate University law professor Peter Keane explains “Why Cops Lie”:
Police officer perjury in court to justify illegal dope searches is commonplace. One of the dirty little not-so-secret secrets of the criminal justice system is undercover narcotics...
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Man Denies Medical Treatment, Cops Tase Him Six... →
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Miami Cops "Like to Hunt" →
The video, shot with a hand-held camera, shows brawny Miami police officers breaking down doors and hauling handcuffed African-American suspects off some of the city’s toughest streets. “We hunt,” one officer says in the five-and-a-half-minute clip. “I like to hunt.”
But it was not a source of embarrassment for Miami’s police chief, Miguel A. Exposito. The video was part of a reality television...
“The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.”
– Walter Williams on Keynesians and their broken windows
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WatchThe Daily Show on Libya
More Jon Stewart here.
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself....”
– Thomas Jefferson (via statehate)
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What Ever Happened to the Antiwar Movement? →
About 100 antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, were arrested Saturday outside the White House in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. It’s a far cry from the Bush years, when hundreds of thousands or millions marched against the war, and the New York Times declared “world public opinion” against the war a second superpower....
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California Cap-and-Trade Put On Hold - At Least... →
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So I guess Rand Paul during WWII would have been... →
goodreasonnews:
doubtingmarcus replied to your post: Here’s another issue with libertarianism
I just heard Rand Paul say on CNN that he can’t think of any situation in which he would approve of military intervention to stop a genocide… That is an embarrassment to humanity.
So then you would condone the following:
Government: “Oh no. Those people over there are in trouble!”
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“If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness,...”
– Ludwig von Mises
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Millard Fillmore had the best porn name of all the presidents.
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“It is not strange… to mistake change for progress.”
– Millard Fillmore (via ahistoryofquotes)
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The Fed Is Wrecking the Dollar →
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“Congress should debate a declaration of war over intervening in Libya. But the...”
– Washington Times (via evilteabagger)
“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally...”
– Barack Obama, 2007
(via jeffmiller, evilteabagger)
3 Essential Facts About the Current Moment: We're... →
So, are we broke-broke, or just screwed-broke? Call it what you want, but pretending that the mismatch between government revenues and government expenditures at every level isn’t a major issue is delusional. Or that the past decade’s massive growth in spending didn’t happen. Or that we simply can’t return to early levels of government expenditures without being reduced...
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Another Obama War →
Is it possible to both oppose Gaddafi and oppose a war on Gaddafi? Absolutely. This is a position that all Americans should adopt. In the same way, it is possible to oppose the Obama administration but also oppose having a foreign army oust him in order to liberate us.
In the early days of the protests in Libya against Gaddafi, the protesters held up signs opposing any foreign intervention....
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“Whatever the state saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche 