Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Op-ed: Bangladeshi Workers Need Freed Markets
"Pro-sweatshop" is not a libertarian position. See why here.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
To Be Governed . . .
“I sure want to do some governing.” --Barack Obama
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." --P.-J. Proudhon
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Barack Obama,
government,
Proudhon
Nakba Day
Today is Nakba Day, the day of remembrance of the catastrophe that befell Palestinians during the aggression-based and unlawful establishment of the Jewish State of Israel 65 years ago. Over 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages, and many massacred, in an ethnic-cleansing operation that should shock the conscience. The Arabs who remained in the Israeli state that was imposed on them by Zionist military forces have been second-class citizens from that time. Don't expect much notice of this in the mass media.
The best short introduction to this shameful series of events is Jeremy Hammond's The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination. See also Hammond's "The Myth of the UN Creation of Israel."
Other good reading on this matter: David Hirst's The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East, Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Gilad Atzmon's The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics, and Jack Ross's Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism.
UPDATE: This has just come to my attention (HT: Mondoweiss): Amjad Alqasis's "The Ongoing Nakba: The continuous forcible displacement of the Palestinian people."
Labels:
Israel,
nakba,
Palestine,
Palestinians,
Zionism
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Op-ed: A Modest Gun-Safety Proposal
The problem with the gun-safety lobby is that it doesn't think big enough. See my modest proposal for gun safety.
Labels:
gun control
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Concealed Carry
I wrote this letter to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette after reading that the University of Central Arkansas had decided to forbid faculty members and students from carrying concealed handguns. It was published today.
I see the University of Central Arkansas has chosen to prohibit concealed-carry of handguns.
Why would the school want to make the campus safe for the criminally minded? Nothing is more potentially dangerous than a gun-free zone.
Labels:
concealed carry,
gun control,
handguns
The Essence of Production
There are two ways to produce any good: directly, i.e., by transforming inputs into the more useful form you want; and indirectly, i.e., by transforming inputs into a more useful form that someone else wants and exchanging it for the good you want. Both processes consist in transforming inputs, and hence are two variations on the same theme.
P.S. Money doesn't change the essence of what I've described. It's just roundabout barter, to use a thought from Bastiat.
P.P.S. There are no "exports" and "imports." There are only what I produce and what everyone else produces.
P.S. Money doesn't change the essence of what I've described. It's just roundabout barter, to use a thought from Bastiat.
P.P.S. There are no "exports" and "imports." There are only what I produce and what everyone else produces.
Labels:
free exchange,
production
Friday, May 03, 2013
TGIF : Criminal Government
TGIF: Criminal Government. Why do they get away with torture?
Labels:
torture,
war on terror
Monday, April 29, 2013
Just Wondering
I'm betting the one who radicalized the Tsarnaevs lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Has the FBI paid a visit?
Labels:
Boston Marathon bombing
Scott Horton Show
I was on the Scott Horton show last week. You can listen to the conversation here.
Labels:
Boston Marathon bombing,
terrorism,
war on terror
Interview
Joseph S. Diedrich interviewed me recently. Here are the results.
Labels:
Left-libertarianism,
libertarianism
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