Wars on Everything
posted 03/11/2014, 4:11 AM (Anthony Gregory)
[Category: Commentary]
This year marks half a century since Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty. The rhetoric of war harkened back to Franklin Roosevelt's declaration of war against the Great Depression, in which he demanded all the executive power the president would have against a foreign foe. Johnson's Great Society inaugurated many billions of dollars worth of social infrastructure. Neighborhoods were torn down and rebuilt. People were forced out of their homes by eminent domain. Trillions of dollars have been spent, mostly on bureaucracies staffed by middle class employees. A fortune has been diverted to favored corporate interests. And crushing poverty persists, inequality has increased, the war on poverty has not succeeded.
This year marks a century since the federal government first got significantly involved in prohibiting drugs. It targeted heroin and cocaine in the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914. Under the Nixon and Reagan administrations, federal drug policy became a war on drugs. This domestic war has not been metaphorical. Militarized police break down doors every day. The government has taken prisoner millions of people, people who have not committed violence against person or property, and the US now boasts the largest incarceration rate in the world. Prohibition has corrupted police departments, clogged the courts, and fueled most gang violence in the United States. Tens of thousands have died on the Mexican border, and the US can't even keep drugs out of its prisons. If the goal was to curb addiction, the war on drugs has failed.
This year marks half a decade since Obama first declared that the war on terror was over--but most of the policies have remained. This US government has invaded and occupied two countries and bombed several more. It has institutionalized torture and detentions without due process and created a mass ... (more) |
Stefan Molyneux Interviewed on The Alex Jones Show
posted 03/06/2014, 11:15 PM (YouTube)
[Category: Commentary]
[Interview starts at 48:00]
On today's show, Alex welcomes the founder and host of Freedomain Radio, Stefan Molyneux, to discuss the future of human freedom, the global awakening to tyranny thanks in large part to independent and alternative media sources, and what the future holds in store for true libertarians. |
Home of the Slave, Land of the Fee
posted 03/06/2014, 11:15 PM (Strike The Root)
[Category: Commentary]
My Fourth Edition of Black’s Law dictionary defines “slave” thusly: “a person who is wholly subject to the will of another.” The phrase “will of another” sounded familiar. I checked the same dictionary for “statute,” and found it defined as the “written will of the legislature.” You might come to suspect that a person subject to the legislators’ will—i.e. the “law”--is a slave of the legislators. Ah, no! That couldn’t be, in the Land of the Free!... (more) |
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Wednesday March 5th, 2014
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Propaganda Rules The News
posted 03/05/2014, 3:06 PM (Paul Craig Roberts)
[Category: Commentary]
Gerald Celente calls the Western media "presstitutes," an ingenuous term that I often use. Presstitutes sell themselves to Washington for access and government sources and to keep their jobs. Ever since the corrupt Clinton regime permitted the concentration of the US media, there has been no journalistic independence in the United States except for some Internet sites.
Glenn Greenwald points out the independence that RT, a Russian media organization, permits Abby Martin who deno... (more) |
Private vs. Government Data Collection
posted 03/05/2014, 12:08 AM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: Commentary]
When referring to the massive, super-secret NSA surveillance scheme over the American people (and the people of the world), commentators oftentimes conflate data collection by the government with data collection by private entities, especially those on the Internet. The notion is that it's all sort of the same thing and that since people are willing to let Google, Yahoo, Amazon, retailers, and physicians know so much about them, they really shouldn't have any reservations about letting the gover... (more) |
Where's their nerve? Today's comics mock poop, not the powerful
posted 03/03/2014, 12:46 AM (New York Post)
[Category: Commentary]
As Chevy Chase might have put it on “Saturday Night Live,” Harold Ramis is still dead. And with him has gone the finest era of comedy: The ’70s kind.... (more) Superb article. The absolute worst comedy movie in modern times has to be "Grandma's Boy," a film in which every joke revolves around laughing at the socially-awkward and disenfranchised. It's the exact opposite of a movie like "Revenge of the Nerds." - Chris |
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Thursday February 27th, 2014
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Is the Drug-War Worth This?
posted 02/27/2014, 1:52 PM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: Commentary]
For the past several days, the mainstream media has been agog over the arrest of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, much as they've gone agog over every other big drug bust for the past 50 years or so. The hoopla surrounding these much-ballyhooed drug busts is to ensure that the citizenry, who have become increasingly disenchanted with the drug war, don't lose faith and that they continue to support the drug war for another 50 years.
Yesterday, in a surprising turn... (more) |
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Wednesday February 26th, 2014
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Tom DiLorenzo: "Jon Stewart is Very, Very Afraid"
posted 02/26/2014, 1:00 PM (Thomas DiLorenzo)
[Category: Commentary]
Of us, apparently. Several emailers have written to inform me that Stewart did a hit/smear job on Judge Napolitano on “The Daily Show” last night. The “hit” was apparently about how the Judge wrote in one of his publications (or said on his former television show) that the U.S. probably could have ended slavery the same way that New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and all the other Northern states did, as well as the British empire, Spanish... (more) |
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Tuesday February 25th, 2014
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Yawn. Another Big Drug Bust
posted 02/25/2014, 12:38 PM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: Commentary]
U.S. officials and the mainstream press are going gaga over the latest drug kingpin to go down. This one's name is Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka El Chapo, described by the New York Times in a front-page story today as "the world's most wanted man -- the chief executive of what experts describe as the world's most sophisticated narcotics enterprise, the Sinaloa cartel... (more) |
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Friday February 21st, 2014
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Support Your Local Slave Patrol
posted 02/21/2014, 12:03 PM (William Norman Grigg)
[Category: Commentary]
 Phyllis Bear, a convenience store clerk from Arizona, called the police after a customer threatened her. The disgruntled patron, seeking to purchase a money order, handed Bear several bills that were rejected by the store’s automated safe. Suspecting that the cash was counterfeit, Bear told him to come back later to speak with a manager.
The man had left by the time the cops arrived, and Bea... (more) |
Obama, Let Them Eat Food Stamps
posted 02/21/2014, 12:03 PM (The Dollar Vigilante)
[Category: Commentary]
 Early immigrants fled Europe to America because the New World offered a glistening promise: the classless society. It was not a society without rich and poor because freedom always produces an inequality of results. It was a society in which people were equal under fair laws and they could move fluidly from one class to another. The North American dream said people could rise by merit and hard work into economic independence and become the rulers of their own lives.
My ancestors a... (more) |
To Collectivists, Lenin And Mussolini Defined "Liberty"
posted 02/21/2014, 12:03 PM ( Will Grigg)
[Category: Commentary]
A character played by John Wayne once dismissed an irritating fellow as someone who was merely spitting out words in order to watch them splatter. In similar fashion, the leftist publication Salon continues to emit anti-libertarian screeds in the hope of attracting internet traffic. It isn’t interested in examining ideas.
Salon’s most recent effort focuses on a proposed measure in Kansas that would recognize the right of business owners not to accept patronage from homosexual ... (more) |
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Wednesday February 19th, 2014
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Sunday February 16th, 2014
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Don't Get Out the Vote
posted 02/16/2014, 3:17 PM (Sheldon Richman)
[Category: Commentary]
A seminar student once became upset with me for suggesting that instead of running get-out-the-vote campaigns, the government should keep the dates of elections and the locations of polling places secret so that only people with enough initiative and interest to ferret out the information could vote.
It was not a serious suggestion, but the college-aged young woman didn't catch that, and she thought my idea was horrible. My point, of course, was that making it easy and even social... (more) |
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Friday February 14th, 2014
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Thursday February 13th, 2014
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The U.S. Government Makes a Mockery of the Principal-Agent Relationship
posted 02/13/2014, 6:18 AM (Robert Higgs)
[Category: Commentary]
The philosophical and legal foundation of the U.S. government (and some other governments) is that government officials are the agents of the citizens—in the familiar phrase, those who govern have the “consent of the governed.” An agent, of course, is someone I authorize to act on my behalf. For a host of reasons, this doctrine has always been more or less absurd, but its absurdity has been placed in stark relief recently by the government’s mass spying, which violates the Constitution, various ... (more) |
The State is a Parasite on Society
posted 02/13/2014, 6:18 AM (Paul Joseph Watson)
[Category: Commentary]
The state forbids murder, yet organizes murder on a colossal scale.
The state punishes theft, yet engages in the rampant looting of society's productivity through taxation at the barrel of a gun.
The state is not necessary for the survival of society, the state is a parasite on society.
The state is the ultimate anti-social, anti-society entity ever ... (more) Sounds like Paul Joseph Watson has made the leap to Ancap! There is simply no denying the logical consistency! |
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Wednesday February 12th, 2014
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The Path To Dictatorship Is Paved With Obama Intentions
posted 02/12/2014, 7:15 AM (The Dollar Vigilante)
[Category: Commentary]
 What do you call a President who can choose which laws to enforce and how, a leader who can create new laws with the stroke of a pen? A dictator. Some would say a king.
Obama has denied both claims. In 2013, he told CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin, “I am not a dictator, I’m the president.” By this he meant he could not bypass Congress to unilaterally impose his will. In a 2013 interview with the Hispanic network Univision, Obama explained his immigration policy ... (more) |
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Tuesday February 11th, 2014
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Why Socialized Law – like Socialized Anything – Is a Bad Idea
posted 02/11/2014, 6:06 AM (Logan Albright)
[Category: Commentary]
In order for a legal system to be just, it must treat everyone equally and fairly, giving special treatment neither to the rich nor the powerful, and protecting the rights of all individuals wherever they are being violated. Justice, as they say, should be blind. It's a noble goal, but one that proves difficult in practice. We have all experienced frustration at the Justin Biebers and Paris Hiltons of the world receiving slaps on the wrist while the young, impoverished and disadvantaged members ... (more) |
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Wednesday February 5th, 2014
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Who Is Really Crazy
posted 02/05/2014, 1:46 AM (James E. Miller)
[Category: Commentary]
 On the surface, Cass Sunstein seems like a put-together guy. A former Obama administration official, he currently holds a prestigious teaching position at Harvard Law School. Throughout his career, he has been awarded a litany of accolades from academic institutions of high regard. University of Chicago, Columbia, Harvard – Sunstein has seen the inside of all these ivory towers.
But, methinks, this seemingly calm lifestyle is all a ruse. Sunstein fancies himself an intellectual an... (more) |
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Tuesday February 4th, 2014
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Could Different Drug Policies Have Saved Philip Seymour Hoffman?
posted 02/04/2014, 12:21 AM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Commentary]
The tragic death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman yesterday has prompted expressions of grief and of praise for his talent. It also, naturally, has prompted discussions of addiction, the impact of pain pill prescriptions on the addicted, even of pain pill restrictions causing more people to turn to heroin.
While the latter raises the question about whether different drug policies could make things safer or less damaging or risky for heroin addicts, I haven't heard that question dir... (more) |
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Wednesday January 29th, 2014
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Friday January 24th, 2014
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The Competitive Provision of Security
posted 01/24/2014, 4:13 PM (The Daily Bell)
[Category: Commentary]
The discussion of how the free market would provide security from aggression by criminals or an invading group has deep and venerable roots.
The Belgian-born classical liberal, Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912), respected the free market so deeply that colleagues called him "the law of supply and demand made into man." Although he was highly praised in his day, Molinari has fallen into comparative obscurity. His legacy should be retrieved because he raised a question that deserves s... (more) |
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Thursday January 23rd, 2014
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Is Life So Dear?
posted 01/23/2014, 3:41 PM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: Commentary]
There really isn’t anything shameful about being a serf. What is shameful is the willingness to accept one’s serfdom for the sake of being kept safe and secure.
That’s the trade that unfortunately all too many Americans have made, with respect to both the warfare state and the welfare state.... (more) |
You Are a Slave
posted 01/23/2014, 3:40 PM (Daily Anarchist)
[Category: Commentary]
To those unfamiliar with the libertarian-anarchist world, this is probably a jarring headline. I’m not a slave, you may think, I don’t have a master. I don’t work for free. I don’t get whipped. I own property. I am free. Libertarians and anarchists take heat for using the word “slave.” It’s not a light word to throw around, either. I agree. Slavery is very serious. To clarify, though, I’m not talking about chattel slavery. Chattel slavery is a horrific blight on the human race. It’s reasonable t... (more) |
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Wednesday January 22nd, 2014
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Whatever Happened to Peace Officers?
posted 01/22/2014, 12:11 PM (Mises Institute)
[Category: Commentary]
 Today when we use the term peace officer, it sounds antiquated and outdated. I'm sure most people in the room under 40 have never heard the term actually used by anyone; we might as well be talking about buggy whips or floppy disks. But in the 1800s and really through the 1960s, the term was used widely in America to refer generally to lawmen, whether sheriffs, constables, troopers, or marshals. Today the old moniker of peace officer has been almost eliminated in popular usage, replaced by "pol... (more) |
Anarchy and Lawlessness
posted 01/22/2014, 12:11 PM (James E. Miller)
[Category: Commentary]
 The etymology of the word "anarchy" is interesting. In Greek, "an" signifies an antonym, and stands for "without." The second root word "arkhe" means ruler and/or kingdom. Put together, that defines anarchy as "without rulers." For politics, no other word has come to be more dangerous. Anarchy as a concept threatens the very existence of politics as we know it. If there are no rulers, then there is certainly no governing authority by which to commandeer. This is why the term is still largely pai... (more) |
The Surveillance State Lives
posted 01/22/2014, 12:08 PM (Sheldon Richman)
[Category: Commentary]
President Obama has some nerve. He opened his speech on NSA spying by likening his surveillance regime to Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty. How insulting! They were helping people resist government tyranny, and the British spied on them to put down the coming rebellion.<... (more) |
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Tuesday January 21st, 2014
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Obama's Lies, NSA Spies, and the Sons of Liberty: Will You Choose Dangerous Freedom or Peaceful Slavery?
posted 01/21/2014, 11:53 AM (John W. Whitehead)
[Category: Commentary]
“All governments are run by liars.”—Independent journalist I.F. “Izzy” Stone President Obama has managed, with singular assistance from Congress and the courts, to mangle the Constitution through repeated abuses, attacks and evasions.
This is nothing new, as I’ve documented in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. However, with his recent speech on the National Security Agency—a heady cocktail of lies, obfuscations, contr... (more) |
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Monday January 20th, 2014
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They Don't Mean Well
posted 01/20/2014, 8:31 AM (Sheldon Richman)
[Category: Commentary]
 Americans have a strange need to believe that their "leaders" mean well. Nowhere is this more true than in foreign policy. Even when the horror of some government operation is revealed (usually after being kept from the American people), solemn pundits and elder statesmen will drone on about unintended consequences and the fog of war, while admonishing against "pointless" recriminations. Typically, the harshest accusation leveled against those responsible for a calamity is incompetence, and even... (more) |
Mussolinism in the 21st Century
posted 01/20/2014, 8:29 AM (Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)
[Category: Commentary]
We know about the transformation of the American police, with their paramilitary equipment, their SWAT team raids, and incentive to terrorize people over drug offenses rather than pursue crimes against person and property. We know about the National Security Agency, which can access every American's e-mails, phone calls, or text messages. And yet too many average Americans have greeted all this with indifference.
This indifference, I suggest, derives from the widespread public acc... (more) |
Edward Snowden vs. the USSA
posted 01/20/2014, 8:29 AM (Will Grigg)
[Category: Commentary]
Some of Edward Snowden’s detractors criticized the NSA whistleblower for fleeing into exile, rather than facing trial for disclosing the agency’s illegal activities. One persistent theme in such criticism is that Snowden should have worked through established channels, rather than going public.
Several previous NSA whistleblowers had attempted to do so, and were either ignored or threatened with prosecution. There was no institutional recourse in a system that punishes whistle... (more) |
Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public
posted 01/20/2014, 8:29 AM (Glenn Greenwald)
[Category: Commentary]
In response to political scandal and public outrage, official Washington repeatedly uses the same well-worn tactic. It is the one that has been hauled out over decades in response to many of America's most significant political scandals. Predictably, it is the same one that shaped President Obama's much-heralded Friday speech to announce his proposals for "reforming" the National Security Agency in the wake of seven months of intense worldwide controversy.... (more) |
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Thursday January 16th, 2014
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Don't Like My Article? I Will Sue!
posted 01/16/2014, 8:59 AM (The Dollar Vigilante)
[Category: Commentary]
Does everyone in America have a lawyer on speed dial?
McDonald's is being sued again by a California woman who claims she was scalded by their hot coffee. In 1990, a New Mexico woman was awarded $2.9 million in a hot-coffee lawsuit against McDonald's; the award was later reduced to about $500,000. Meanwhile, a continent away, a New Jersey woman is suing a real estate developer for not disclosing the presence of a 'bad' neighbor when she purchased a house.
In any oth... (more) Especially relevant if you read the entirety of the Salem News article above this one. |
The Cynicism And Futility Of Imprisonment
posted 01/16/2014, 8:59 AM (C4SS.org)
[Category: Commentary]
A new report from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service claims that 46 percent of Sweden's inmates are mentally ill, that 70 percent have severe drug problems and that these problems mostly have their origins in early life. As elsewhere, Sweden's prison population is made up of the most disenfranchised, poorest and most vulnerable elements ... (more) |
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Wednesday January 15th, 2014
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You Can't Have a War Without Soldiers
posted 01/15/2014, 10:46 AM (Laurence M. Vance)
[Category: Commentary]
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." ~ Voltaire
Critics of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and of U.S. military escapades in general are often inconsistent. Although they may denounce warmongering politicians, senseless foreign wars, the warfare state, the military-industrial complex, U.S. foreign policy, foreign military bases, and the destruction of civil liberties during wartime, they us... (more) |
Failure, Failure Everywhere
posted 01/15/2014, 10:46 AM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: Commentary]
Those of us living today have been accorded the opportunity to witness the manifest failure of the America’s welfare-warfare state, as evidenced by three of the most important welfare-warfare programs of the federal government: the “war on poverty,” the “war on drugs,” and military empire and foreign interventionism.... (more) |
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Tuesday January 14th, 2014
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Without Government, Who Will Block The Roads?
posted 01/14/2014, 7:40 AM (C4SS.org)
[Category: Commentary]
 One question that libertarians and anarchists never stop hearing is "without government, who will build the roads?" Given Bridge-Gate — an intentionally manufactured traffic jam on New Jersey's George Washington Bridge — one might ask "without government, who will block the roads?"
The scandal emerged after four grueling days of inexplicably awful traffic turned out to be the deliberate doing of G... (more) |
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Monday January 13th, 2014
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Remembering Aaron
posted 01/13/2014, 1:27 PM (EFF.org)
[Category: Commentary]
One year ago, we lost Aaron Swartz, a dear friend and a leader in the fight for a free and open Internet. The shock was, and remains, a profound one. It's a testament to the power of his commitments and ideals that both in life and in death he has inspired millions around the world, including all of us at EFF, to redouble our own efforts to advance the causes that he believed in, and to untangle the twisted and brutal comp... (more) |
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Friday January 10th, 2014
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To Be Governed Is to Be Controlled
posted 01/10/2014, 8:45 AM (Cop Block)
[Category: Commentary]
 "To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon articulated that in 1851. Would he be surprised at just how far-reaching the surveillance state and prison-industrial complex now reaches, a century and a half later? I doubt it. Even ... (more) |
Privatizing Diplomacy, Dennis Rodman Style
posted 01/10/2014, 8:44 AM (Chad Nelson)
[Category: Commentary]
The verdict is in: All civilized people must hate Dennis Rodman. Politicians from John McCain to John Kerry and pundits from Bill O'Reilly to Chris Matthews are outraged that an American would visit the third member of the Axis of Evil. Earlier this week Rodman, along with six fellow former NBA players, arrived in Pyongyang, playing an exhibition basketball game against a team of North Koreans. The game took place as part of Kim Jong Un's birthday celebration. The politicians and pundits are ag... (more) |
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Thursday January 9th, 2014
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The Fall of the Republic
posted 01/09/2014, 4:21 AM (The Freeman)
[Category: Commentary]
 For nearly five centuries, Res Publica Romana—the Roman Republic—bestowed upon the world a previously unseen degree of respect for individual rights and the rule of law. When the republic expired, the world would not see those wondrous achievements again on a comparable scale for a thousand years.
In print and from the podium, I have addressed the calamitous economic policies that ate away the vitals of Roman society. I’ve emphasized that no people who lost their chara... (more) |
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Wednesday January 8th, 2014
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Pat Buchanan, Drugs, and Conservative Love for Big Government
posted 01/08/2014, 5:50 AM (Ryan McMaken)
[Category: Commentary]
A few decades hence, when drug prohibition is, like alcohol prohibition, an amusing byword for destructive, overweening, and failed government policy, we’ll look back and see the War on Drugs as just another socialistic disaster of the twentieth century, which Ralph Raico calls “the century of statism.”
The War on Drugs and drug prohibition is of course an artifact of the 20th century with all its totalitarianism, central planning, socialism, and wars, both metaphorical and litera... (more) |
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Tuesday January 7th, 2014
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Total Privacy = Total Destruction Of The State
posted 01/07/2014, 7:18 AM (Libertarian News)
[Category: Commentary]
The state cannot exist without invasions of privacy. Without invasions of privacy, taxes could not be imposed. If all transactions and accounting records were private, incomes and revenues could not be verified. Tax evasion could not be prosecuted because no proof of incomes could be obtained.
Further, state currencies could not be imposed. If all transactions were private, the state would have no way of knowing what unit of account its subjects may have used to conduct their ... (more) |
Scorsese's Pump and Dump
posted 01/07/2014, 7:17 AM (Doug French)
[Category: Commentary]
 Former prosecutor Joel Cohen tells the Wall Street Journal the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" should not have been made. Mr. Cohen believes the mere fact Hollywood megastar Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed the penny stock hustler glamorizes a criminal who, while very charming, woke up everyday wondering how he could break the law.
One would think any movie that annoys the ex-government prosecutor who took down Jordan Belfort and his firm Stratton Oakmont that much must be worth seeing... (more) |
On Deschooling (1971)
posted 01/06/2014, 6:05 AM (The Freeman)
[Category: Commentary]
Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to acc... (more) |
The Street Keynesians
posted 01/06/2014, 5:57 AM (Taki's Magazine)
[Category: Commentary]
According to a poll carried out by the Figaro newspaper, only 17% of the French believe that 2014 will be a good year, but in fact it started very well for France. Only 1,064 cars were burned by youths in the banlieues this New Year’s Eve--about a hundred fewer than last year. Who says that there is no progress? The French Minister of the Interior congratulated the 57,000 policemen throughout the country who were on duty that night for their preventive work (one fewer cars1 burned per 570 polic... (more) |
How the Drug War Makes Drugs Less Safe
posted 01/03/2014, 5:05 AM (Mises Institute)
[Category: Commentary]
Desomorphine, a grotesque new drug known on the street as krokodil, has been making news for its increasing popularity as a cheap substitute for heroin, albeit with a devastating range of ill effects of its own. Reports allege that it originated in Siberia in 2002 and has become common in Russia and other Eastern European countries.
The name itself s... (more) |
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Thursday January 2nd, 2014
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Why I'm Leaving
posted 01/02/2014, 1:23 AM (The Dollar Vigilante)
[Category: Commentary]
 This will be the fourth consecutive emigration of the last three generations of my immediate family. My grandparents emigrated from Portugal to Mozambique during the 1940s and 50s in search of a better life. The massive and undeveloped colony seemed like the land of milk and honey for those willing to get their hands dirty. A few decades later my parents-to-be immigrated to South Africa as Mozambique headed towards what would become a 10-year war for independence. Then when I was just 4 years ol... (more) |
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