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Proudly delegitimizing the state since 2005

"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

Friday, March 17, 2023

TGIF: Beware of All Tribalism

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Tribalism is bad. Sensible people will know what I mean by tribe . It's not a club based on some common preference like stamp collecting...

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Crime

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Of course there's crime in the streets. What would you expect? The streets are controlled by a coercive monopoly: the government.

Friday, March 10, 2023

TGIF: Hear, O Israel, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

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An older generation of Americans, including Jewish Americans, admire the colonists who resisted the British king and parliament in the late ...

Sunday, March 05, 2023

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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How to talk to a tomboy: First: "Stop! Girls don't do that!" Then: "You're fine. Girls can do that too." Now: &q...

Friday, March 03, 2023

TGIF: Which Way -- Capitalism or Socialism or Something Else?

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Big questions are being thrashed out these days. One of the biggest is this: do we want capitalism or socialism? Unfortunately, the online d...

Thursday, March 02, 2023

Crime and Poverty

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“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as t...

Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Don't Be Silent

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We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purpose...

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Sheldon Richman: Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."

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