Posts Tagged ‘ freedom ’

Implausibly, Freedom Gets a Boost

Jan 12th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Every once in a while, the Supreme Court takes notice of the Constitution and actually comes to the defense of that thing called freedom. True, it doesn't happen often, and hasn't happened much at all for, oh, 100 years or so. But it can and does happen. This time, the ...read more

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Fun with Customs and Border Guards in the U.S. and Canada

Jul 25th, 2011 | By | Category: International, Politics
"Sir, you can go ahead and button your shirt back up," said the TSA agent. We'd only been trying to help. We were passing through Houston on our way from Acapulco to the Agora Financial Symposium in Vancouver. We'd opted out of the Rapiscan irradiation machine and so had to be felt ...read more

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Freedom Naturally: A Review of Morris and Laura Tannehill’s “The Market for Liberty”

May 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
It is at times useful to imagine how a truly laissez-faire society, one entirely emancipated from the shackles of state coercion, might exist and operate. Morris and Linda Tannehill examine this very idea in, The Market for Liberty: Is Government Really Necessary? Market for Liberty imagines a totally free society; one ...read more

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How to Replace Austerity with Freedom, Independence and Prosperity

Jan 28th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
The Economic Collapse Blog has this list of examples of how European-style “austerity” is already hitting the U.S., including cities closing schools and fire stations, and states eliminating whole state agencies and raising taxes. That includes the state of Illinois whose legislature has passed a “temporary” 66% personal income tax ...read more

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The Eden Myth and the Ratification Con of 1789

May 12th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
It’s often said that America was once a free country, but that its freedom has been heavily damaged by a relentless growth in government. Some (like Aaron Russo in his documentary America: From Freedom to Fascism) date the decline from 1913, when the Federal Reserve was chartered and the Income ...read more

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Eliminate Public Schools

May 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
The following is a fictionalized scenario of what might result if the public schools were eliminated. At the moment this idea has a near-zero, if not zero, chance of happening, particularly in those states whose constitutions now contain or have been construed to contain provisions enshrining a “positive right” to ...read more

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Disobeying Civilly

Dec 31st, 2008 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but ...read more

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Ideal Governance Is The Lack Thereof

Dec 30th, 2008 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for ...read more

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The Liberty Equation

Jul 16th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
Today, I want to tell you a story about lost liberty. It begins not with heavy-handed cops, omni-present cameras, smoke-Nazis, meat-martyrs, or eco-fascists — nor Big Brother and the thought-police… But with a woman. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that women are antithetical to freedom (though that’s undeniably the ...read more

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