Saturday, January 30, 2010

TGIF: The State of Obama's Union

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Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Barack Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. He’s pushing go...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

About that Spending Freeze

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"Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years." --Barack Obama All spending? What about the mil...

Howard Zinn, RIP

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The revisionist historian -- best known for A People’s History of the United States (1980) -- and antiwar activist died yesterday at age 87...

The State of the Union Address

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Sorry. I don't do theater reviews.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Funny Thing

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Everyone understands the phrase "crony capitalism." But try using "crony free market" and watch the facial expressions.

"Capitalism" versus Communism

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Stephen Kinzer provides a good reason not to use "capitalism" to mean "free market": Visiting unhappy Cuba is especiall...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

The "Pro-Capitalist" Mentality

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You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you...
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Scott Horton, Lysander Spooner, and Me

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Scott Horton interviewed me on Antiwar Radio the other day. The subject: Lysander Spooner and his relevance to our times. Here it is.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Happy Birthday, Lysander Spooner

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Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) One of my heroes. "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain-- th...
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Remembering Murray

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Apparently I forgot to post a link to last week's TGIF, "Murray Rothbard." Read it here .
Friday, January 15, 2010

Libertarians Against Capitalism

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I've started a group by that name on Facebook . Thomas Hodgskin , mentor to Herbert Spencer, is the inspiration. Here's the official...
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Happy Birthday

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ! Free association . . . the only true form of society. To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, direc...
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Friday, January 08, 2010

TGIF: Opaque By Design

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The phrase “transparent government” is just this side of a logical contradiction. A really transparent government would barely qualify as a ...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Have We Won?

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Cheryl found this sign (click to enlarge) at a store called Intellectual Property in downtown Austin. She couldn't resist. The sign says...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Ben Franklin on Patents

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Governor Thomas was so pleased with the construction of this stove . . . that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them fo...
Friday, January 01, 2010

TGIF: What Next?

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Liberty always walks uphill. Read the rest here .

Happy New Year!

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May it be one in which we make notable progress toward peace, freedom, and prosperity for everyone. Oh, and statelessness too. Success to th...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

German Physicists Reject Greenhouse Effect

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I'm not a climate scientist. I don't even play one on TV. There do seem to be serious problems with the catastrophic anthropogenic g...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Hoist by His Own Petard

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Tibor Machan takes John Stossel to task for not espousing the pure libertarian position during his recent Fox Business Network show on the ...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Kindle DRM Cracked

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A blow for freedom... From BBC News : Hacker cracks Kindle's copyright ...
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