April 2012
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libertarians:
people: bro wutever obama’s gonna veto the cispa me: remember when he was going to veto the ndaa lol me: remember when he wanted to leave iraq lol me: remember when he didn’t like the patriot act lol people: bro wutever obama skateboarded across stage me: remember due process lol people: and then he surfed across stage
Obama’s got swag. Your argument is...
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“They’re passing bills forcing women to get ultrasounds even when they don’t want...”
– Barack Obama.
Change “women” to “people” and “ultrasounds” to anything else, and you have the libertarian philosophy against government.
(via libertarians)
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Airport terminal closed down after TSA neglects to... →
Do you really think this bureaucratic idiocy makes us safe?
[T]he breach occurred after a metal detector went off as the mother, carrying the baby in her arms, went through the device. The mother handed the baby to the father, who had already been screened, and then walked through again. Once the woman was cleared… the family left the checkpoint and headed to their gate.
At which point,...
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Robert Wenzel's Epic Speech at The NY Fed →
Wenzel pulled no punches. The entire thing is worth reading, but here’s a sampling:
I suspect my views are so different from those of you here today that my comments will be a complete failure in convincing you to do what I believe should be done, which is to close down the entire Federal Reserve System
My views, I suspect, differ from beginning to end. From the proper methodology to be...
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[On Inflation]
letterstomycountry:
Under Austrian orthodoxy, the money supply works in extraordinarily predictable ways: namely, if you increase it, inflation follows. Austrians have always defined inflation solely as an increase in the money supply.
A quick point: yes indeed “Austrians have always defined inflation solely as an increase in the money supply.” But then again, so did everyone...
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To all you "The Constitution is a Living Document"...
CISPA is for you.
You’ve set the stage for individual rights to be subject to the “changing times.”
As you’ve argued, the Constitution (which includes the “Bill of Rights”) is a “living document.” It’s malleable. There was no internet in the 1770’s! They couldn’t know the dangers of cyber-attacks and the interconnectivity of...
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Portland Tries to Outlaw Groupon
barticles:
… at least when it comes to rides to the airport:
In 2009, the city passed a law requiring a $50 minimum fare for limousine and sedan rides to or from Portland International Airport. The law imposes a city-wide minimum fare that requires limos and sedans to charge at least 35 percent more than what taxis would charge for the same route and imposes a minimum wait time of at least...
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Cerebral Palsy-Stricken 7-Year Old Cutie-Patootie,...
letterstomycountry:
Apparently the TSA Can’t Decide:
A 7-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was targeted by the TSA this week when her crutches and leg braces set off the airport screeners at JFK. Dina Frank’s parents claim the screening agents were particularly aggressive during an initial patdown of their daughter. They say the TSA then caused the family to miss their flight by requiring...
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Obama (Double) Speaks on Medical Marijuana →
Finally, President Obama has spoken about his aggressive stance toward medical marijuana. Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, his statements are underwhelming, inaccurate and do nothing to address medical marijuana as a public health issue. In response to a question from Rolling Stone on why his administration is conducting more medical marijuana raids than the Bush administration, President...
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“At present, doggies are not only furry, friendly and cute as the dickens, but...”
– Simple Justice
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Anonymous asked: Do you believe in free will?
“The smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively,...”
– Anthony de Jasay
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Diabetic Defies State-Approved Diet; State... →
The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle….
When he was hospitalized with diabetes in February 2009, he decided to avoid the fate of his grandmother, who eventually died of the disease. He embraced the low-carb, high-protein Paleo diet, also known as...
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antigovernmentextremist:
We start the “Keynesian Revolution” today in econ.
Below is what I anticipate class will be like:
Bring in a children’s picture book and hand it to the professor. When he/she asks what it is for, say “We’re covering animal spirits, magical multipliers, growth through inflation and protectionism, and that employment and an economy can be...
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“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that...”
– Adlai Stevenson
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“Prohibition is a textbook example of a policy with negative unintended...”
– Art Carden
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How the Fed Favors The 1% →
The relentless expansion of credit by the Fed creates artificial disparities based on political privilege and economic power. …
The Fed doesn’t expand the money supply by uniformly dropping cash from helicopters over the hapless masses. Rather, it directs capital transfers to the largest banks (whether by overpaying them for their financial assets or by lending to them on the...
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President Obama Lashes Out at the Bogeyman →
Earlier this week President Obama announced his Administration’s redoubled efforts to crack down on oil speculators. The only problem is, he failed to explain a single thing that these people are doing wrong. The President’s pronouncement is impossible to analyze, since it was devoid of content.
Successful speculation in the commodities markets serves a useful role in reducing price volatility...
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“California, like many states, has a “Police Officer Bill of Rights,” a set of...”
– Let’s Occupy the Irony | The Agitator
Balko notes that the pepper-spraying UC-Davis cop is still on the job, as it’s impossible to fire him, thanks to public service union protections rendered sacrosanct by the movement he pepper-sprayed.
(via jeffmiller)
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“Ron Paul has been a victim of the media deciding he’s not going to win. This guy...”
– Rep. Tim Johnson
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“Last week, President Obama made some rather shocking comments at a press...”
– Ron Paul
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Corruption Government Responsible for 80% of... →
statehate:
awesome-everyday:
And so Americans continue to have a small number of expensive, poor quality cell phone providers. And how much does this cost you? Take your phone bill, and cut it by 80%. That’s how much you should be paying. You see, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, people in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Finland pay on average less than...
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Man Sentenced To Half a Month In Jail For A Sign... →
A judge in the Town of Lockport has sentenced a local businessman to jail for violating the local ordinance on electronic displays.
In Lockport, the law dictates electronic signs can’t change more than once every ten minutes. In 2009, business owner David Mongielo was first found in violation.
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“The first truth to be discovered about human action is that it can be undertaken...”
– Murray Rothbard (Man, Economy, & State)
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
– Stanisław Jerzy Lec
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On "Texts from Drone"
hipsterlibertarian:
After much thinking about textsfromdrone (and not a little bit of lost sleep):
I’ve come to the conclusion that I, at least, won’t participate in it and will be deleting several posts. …
Once pictures of bloody victims were included - and once it incorporated comments of killing mothers, wives, and children - it ceased to be effective commentary and satire and...
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More on Wage Labor and Mutualism
Following up on a post I responded to this weekend, fellow blogger logicallypositive (whom I will be responding to directly and is heretofore referred to as “you”) posted:
that C4SS article I reblogged yesterday talking about the conditionally exploitative nature of wage labor basically made the point i’ve been tryign to make all along. wage labor is not exploitative as long as you...
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“At school, they told us that if we ever see drugs, [we should] call 911 because...”
– Nine year-old Darrin Davis, quoted in Lost Rights, by James Bovard, p. 208. (via letterstomycountry)
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The True Nature of Taxation →
The initiation of violence is the act of an aggressor against you or against your property. This can be done through actual violence or through intimidation, because the mere threat of violence is an act of violence in itself. A good example would be a thief that points a gun at you to get your wallet without actually pulling the trigger. Another less obvious example is the way the government...
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“Taxes are never, at no level of taxation, consistent with individual freedom and...”
– Hans-Hermann Hoppe on Taxes
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“You don’t pay taxes; they take taxes.”
– Chris Rock
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One extreme is expensive and tyrannical and...
shortformblog:
“One extreme can be to put all users in prison. On the other extreme, legalization. In the middle there may be more practical policies, such as decriminalizing consumption but putting all the efforts into interdiction.”
— President Obama • Speaking at the Summit Of The Americas in Colombia today. Obama sought, as he often does, to play the mindful pragmatist, seeking centrist...
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“I watched on September 11th as a group of people felt driven to hijack airplanes...”
– Tarek Mehanna, Personal Statement at Sentencing Hearing, April 12, 2012. (via letterstomycountry)
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hatredismymuse asked: 1. Why would "freed market" necessarily be mutualist? Do you think we're living under a free market right now? 2. Why would something being from C4SS "confirm" it being mutualist? Last I checked, the vast majority of the posters there are left-Rothbardian agorists.
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Free the Market, Abolish the Wage System
stans-advocate:
Economic exploitation is possible only when competition from the possibility of self-employment is closed off and wage employment is the only game in town. Just as the British state colluded with employers in the Enclosures to obstruct access to natural opportunities, modern employers under corporate capitalism use the state to enclose natural opportunities as a source of rent....
