July 2011
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Six Lifeguards Never Noticed Dead Body In... →
Oh, I’m sorry… did I say “for-profit”? I meant government-run pool that was visited by two separate city inspectors while the dead body was in the pool.
[Marie] Joseph’s body was finally found Tuesday night when some kids broke into the pool area.
State regulations say the water at public pools has to be checked for [clarity] and bacteria every hour, but the water at the...
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“Let us consider a stark example: Suppose a society which fervently considers all...”
– Murray Rothbard
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Liberty Haiku #3
Vices Are Not Crimes
We Must All Be Free to Do
Anything Peaceful
June 2011
Let Them Eat... Whatever The State Allows
Holland May Ban Kosher and Halal Meat
California to Ban Shark Fin Soup
China is Considering Banning Dog Meat
The Unintended Consequences of the U.S. Horse Meat Processing Ban
Raw Milk: Public Enemy #1
U.S. Congress Moves to Ban Genetically Altered Salmon, Despite Scientific Consensus That It Is Safe
Cicada Ice Cream Banned in Tennessee - Simply for Not Having Been Previously Explicitly Not...
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“The biggest difference between mainstream liberals and [mainstream]...”
– Jack Hunter
Actually, this is only true of their rhetoric - they seem to both not mind big government at home or abroad. Republicans didn’t mind Medicare Part D and No Child Left Behind when they called the shots, and Democrats have expanded Bush’s wars and even added new ones now that...
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The Circle Isn’t a Square →
A company that squeezes maximum possible profits from its workers does not refuse to promote women simply because of their sex. Such refusals would leave money on the table by keeping many employees in lower-rank positions even though those employees would add more to the company’s bottom line by being promoted to higher-rank positions. Conversely, a company that indulges its taste for bigotry...
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More redundant redundancy...
The exact same video is featured three times in two days. Certainly it is deserving of promotion… once, like anything else deserving promotion. Truth is, redundant posts aren’t a new thing. Even if the libertarian editors didn’t regularly get insinuations and even outright accusations of impropriety, the editors in general must be better curators of content with regards to...
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“I am an anarchist because I believe there’s no natural right to rule …...”
– Gary Chartier
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Dayton police "mistook" a mentally handicapped... →
(via evilteabagger)
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Why the Left Fears Libertarianism →
The government grows bigger every day and every year, no matter how you measure it. There are more laws, more police, and more prisoners than ever. The empire and presidential power have been on the rise for decades. Spending has increased at all levels. New bureaucracies, edicts, social programs, and prohibitions crop up continually. Almost no regulations are ever repealed – yes, back in the...
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kohenari asked: Just out of curiosity, who dug up your post from January in order to feature it in the Politics tag today?
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Liberty Haiku #2
The State is Not Us
Government is Violence
Be Your Own Master
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“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign...”
– Barack Obama (March 16, 2006)
McDonald's as the Paradigm of Progress →
Let’s be clear here. It’s not the case that the management of this company has an unusually high devotion to the well-being of humanity. The management is following the pricing signals and making entrepreneurial judgments all in the service of the consuming public. It is a great competitor, relentlessly reinventing itself in an effort to win the affections of the eating-out public.
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Liberty Haiku #10
Un-coerced Giving
Only This Is Charity
Everything Else: Theft
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“I want to legalize freedom. What’s so bad about that?”
– Ron Paul
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letthetruthlaugh replied to your post: Liberty Haiku #1
haikus have to be about nature its not about the syllable count or format thats just a poem with a rigid structure not a haiku
Although this is nowhere near my wheelhouse, I believe that’s a misconception. While they traditionally have seasonal themes, they are not necessarily definitionally so. It has to do with a specific list of...
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Liberty Haiku #1
Only I Own Me
Never Initiate Force
Libertarian
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“When our current government-managed economy experiences problems, there is huge...”
– Kel Kelly
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Ron Paul's Keys to Economic Growth →
The steps to encouraging capital investment and creating new jobs in America are simple, though not easy:
First and foremost, we must create a sound U.S. currency backed by gold or some other commodity respected by the market. No nation in history with a rapidly depreciating currency has attracted private capital. Unless and until we prohibit the Treasury and Federal Reserve from essentially...
Seeing the Light →
For those who do not immediately “see the light” [that all government action is violent action], you can pick any government action and walk them through that reasoning process through dialectic:
You: Suppose that I do not wish to participate in Medicare and withhold only that percentage of my payroll taxes that would otherwise go to fund it. In return, I agree not to make use of any of the...
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“Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than...”
– Justice Antonin Scalia, emphasis his, writing the opinion of the court in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn., which, in a 7-2 decision, struck down a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors. (via sonicbloom11)
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Should TSA Change Its Policy? →
News that Transportation Security Administration officers required a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper for search lit up the social media this weekend. It’s reminiscent of the recent story where a 6-year-old girl got the pat-down because she didn’t hold still in the strip-search machine. TSA administrator John Pistole testified to a Senate hearing that the agency would change...
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Michelle Bachmann is a dolt. →
She claims to favor the 10th Amendment… while supporting a constitutional amendment federally defining marriage.
In related news, I’ve spent the last few days with family in New York - and the general public seem very pleased with their state government restoring liberty to its citizens. It’s all over local media and its oft-discussed on sidewalks and subways. This feeling of...
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“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who...”
– Albert Einstein (via coeus)
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The Medical Marketplace, Free and Unfree →
[G]overnment intervention, not market failure, is responsible for today’s out-of-control healthcare costs. … If we returned purchasing power to patients — in effect, restored consumer sovereignty — healthcare spending would decline dramatically.
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Ranking Freedom in the 50 States →
California is #48. After yesterday, New York may have pushed us down to #49 (though they’re really bad, so probably not).
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“Our true object [in creating this new government] is to give full efficacy to...”
– Richard Henry Lee, aka The Federal Farmer.
If the founders knew what kind of abject failure their new government would turn out to be, I’m sure many of them (probably not Hamilton) would not have pushed for anything beyond the Articles of Confederation. Some of them perhaps may have even said...
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Impeach Obama Now Or Forever Hold Up Peace →
Twenty years ago after U.S. forces had driven the Iraqi military out of Kuwait and back into Iraq, President George H.W. Bush as Commander in Chief ordered the U.S. military to cease-fire on February 28, 1991. Years later in his 1998 memoir “A World Transformed”, Bush admitted that the reason he chose to order the cease-fire was because he understood that advancing further into Iraq, a ...
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keepingitsocialist:
cliffordcorrupt:
laliberty:
By Joe’s (STFUConservatives) asinine logic, my support of gays and pot-smokers peacefully living as they wish is illegitimate because I am neither?
What a lonely, divided world it would be if acceptance and tolerance are inefficacious concepts, and unity can only be attained through unconditional fellowship and absolute alignment of values...
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The War on (Some) Drugs Is Racist →
The drug war is a violent campaign against black men and by extension the black family, among many others (not all of them black, by the way); it has been so since it started. Furthermore, almost every prohibition of substances consumed in the United States of America has had as its raison d’être the subjugation of one group (generally some “minority” group – whatever group...
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By Joe’s (STFUConservatives) asinine logic, my support of gays and pot-smokers peacefully living as they wish is illegitimate because I am neither?
What a lonely, divided world it would be if acceptance and tolerance are inefficacious concepts, and unity can only be attained through unconditional fellowship and absolute alignment of values and beliefs.
(h/t coeus)
Price Gouging Laws Hurt Storm Victims →
How many people see natural disasters like the tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Joplin, Missouri and say “we should be working to impede the recovery and make life harder for storm victims?” Probably no one. How many people see prices rise after natural disasters like the tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Joplin Missouri and say “we should prosecute ‘price gougers!’”? Probably a lot....
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Why should some New Yorkers - or anyone else -...
How individuals wish to live their lives should not be subject to majority opinion.
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“Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the...”
– Michael Rivero (via bulletinmypocket)
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jlucasgreensae replied to your post: On Taxes and Priorities
You are ruining libertarianism for me. Please stop with this utopian ideal and return to the world we inhabit. Taxes are a part of our social contract, so work with the paradigm of reforming them rather than pretending they are violations of rights.
I didn’t “enter a contract” just for being born. Much less one that demands my...
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Afghanistan troop withdrawal won't bring us back...
shortformblog:
65k number of US troops in Afghanistan once the withdrawal is complete (September 2012)
33k number of US troops in Afghanistan when Barack Obama took office (January 2009) source
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On Taxes and Priorities
If you could choose to send your taxes to a different entity, would you?
Is there even a single dollar that you would re-route to a different purpose?
A charity or non-profit that specifically supports something important to you: Red Cross, World Wildlife Fund, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Environmental Defense Fund, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Autism...
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