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Why Whiskey & Gunpowder… And Why Now?

Aug 13th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Taxes
As soon as the noose was around his neck, Guy Fawkes broke free from the hangman and leaped off the scaffolding — guaranteeing a quick drop with a stop sharp enough to break his neck cleanly... It seems like an odd result for a man to be in such a hurry ...read more

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Two Attitudes Toward The State

Jul 24th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
[Address delivered at FreedomFest, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 14, 2012] I expect the worst of the economic, the political turmoil we are all going to have to deal with will hit in 2013 or, perhaps, the last months of this year. I expect the hard times to last for at least ...read more

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Cypher’s Choice

Jul 23rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
In the original Matrix movie, there's a character named Cypher who decides that life is more comfortable for him within the confines of the false-reality programming that is the Matrix. He betrays his comrades, in return for being plugged back into the Matrix – back into his comfortable (though illusory) ...read more

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Slipping the Noose: Americans Are Learning to Resist the Feds Quietly

Jul 16th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
Americans are learning how to beat the system, cheat the system, and outfox the system. As the bureaucrats tighten their many nooses, Americans are finding ways to slip the noose. An article in Forbes offers examples. They are everywhere. Businesses are just ignoring the rules. They hire lawyers to help them ...read more

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Your Privacy Is Yours

Jun 27th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
"I Lived. I Died. Now Mind Your Own Business." That's how I want my tombstone to read. What do I have to hide? Everything! Which is to say, every piece of personal information someone or something demands to know is something I don't want to tell because no one has the ...read more

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The Best: Tracking You and Your Family Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

Jun 25th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
"When your life and all you love are on the line" -Verichip It's been hailed as the ultimate in personal identification and human tracking technology, and now it's going mainstream. The VeriMed system, formerly known as the Verichip, is a passive RFID microchip measuring about the size of a grain of rice ...read more

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Going Deep

Jun 13th, 2012 | By | Category: Collectivism, Featured, Personal Liberties, Property, School, Taxes
Some friends have been actively talking about their Exit Plans – about getting out of this country before the curtain goes down. While there is still time. They believe the situation to be hopeless. That despite the upwelling of liberty-mindedness among some, the vast majority of Americans are not liberty-minded. That ...read more

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Hayekian Moments in Life

Jun 7th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
I never tire of looking out the windows of airplanes. For all of human history until just about the day before yesterday, no living person saw the world like this. People could climb up to the top of mountains and see the valleys below. But to see that whole view ...read more

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Defiance: A Lost Virtue?

Jun 6th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
It was August 19th, 1920. A military detachment of Red Army soldiers led by Bolshevik authorities steamrolled into the Russian town of Khitrovo to implement a policy known as "Prodrazvyorstka"; resource allocation in the name of national security which led to the confiscation of vital grain supplies and the starvation ...read more

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Conspiracies and How to Defeat Them

May 31st, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population. People participate in the hope of making our lives better, or at least curbing the ...read more

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