The political process as a means to liberty has been about as effective as socialism as a means to prosperity. If your goal is liberty, electoral politics is the last path you should consider. There is a far more exciting, fulfilling, enriching, and – most importantly – effective path to ...read more

A growing army of bureaucrats and regulations threaten to reduce the pace of new medical technologies right when we on the verge of mind-boggling lifesaving breakthroughs. Enormous advances are being made in treating disease at the genetic and molecular levels, and they show unbelievable promise in treating cancer, cardiovascular disease ...read more

An oft repeated meme, at least here in the USA, is the notion that rich people should "give back" to the community. If they don't choose to do so, instead opting to keep all of the wealth they "derived from the community", they are painted as selfish and greedy. Nothing ...read more

"In this exclusive Whiskey and Gunpowder video we'll explore the value of U.S. coins - past and present - and show you why nickels are a solid investment. Most U.S. coins are worth nothing in melt value. The nickel is the one coin left in circulation that is worth more ...read more

Nineteen years ago, just outside Waco, Texas, the FBI demonstrated once again that the state at its core is a killing machine. Monarchy, democracy, or republic – any government as conventionally defined is a legal monopoly on violence. The state is always inclined toward oppression, division, conquest, and bloodshed, because ...read more

Time and again I read Austrian School economists dissing Peak Oil Theory. They likely do this because they have not taken the time to fully understand the theory behind peak oil. Instead, they get caught up in the doom and gloom predictions made by many proponents of Peak Oil Theory ...read more

Gary Gibson, Introduction... Inflation is a tax. It's just a very sneaky one. The fine folks over at Economic Collapse Blog explained it so well that we thought we'd share it with you... "It is a continual tax on every single dollar that you own. As your money sits in the bank, it ...read more

Let's be honest, quite a few Americans love a good war, especially those Americans who have never had to bear witness to one first hand. War is the ultimate tribally vicarious experience. Anyone, even pudgy armchair generals with deep-seated feelings of personal inadequacy, can revel in the victories and actions ...read more

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian ...read more

War, war and more war seem to be the primary objective of the U.S. government and its military. Of course, the corporations dependent on these merchants of death for their booty are also salivating for more foreign carnage by this nefarious government. After all, so long as foreigners and the ...read more