Posts Tagged ‘ state ’

How To Debate Paul Krugman

May 2nd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Paul Krugman is the high priest of Keynesianism and modern interventionism, of economic improvement through inflation and budget deficits. As such he is bête noir among us libertarians and Austrian School economists. What makes him so annoying is his unquestioning, reflexive and almost childlike enthusiasm for state intervention, even in the ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Macro Economics | 6 comments


The State Can’t Stop At Night Watchman

Apr 10th, 2012 | By | Category: Politics
Yesterday in his insightful and wonderfully rendered article Dr. North wrote: "A state that does not claim the ability to heal, the legal right to heal, and the moral responsibility to heal is a night-watchman state. It does not make comprehensive claims for delivering men, so it does not make comprehensive ...read more

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The Evils of the Drug War

Jan 21st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Most everyone is familiar with the disastrous consequences of the war on drugs: drug gangs, drug lords, drug suppliers, gang wars, muggings, robberies, thefts, corruption of judges, prosecutors, and law-enforcement officials, murders, assassinations, overcrowded jails, asset forfeiture, and on and on. The fact is that nothing good is produced by ...read more

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The Changing Role of the Nation-State

Jan 8th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Looking at the bigger picture, the U.S. has its troubles. But the U.S. also has many unique economic, cultural and historical strengths — if the national leadership can keep its eye on the ball. Thing is, we’re in for some tough innings. The world is experiencing what some commentators call “the ...read more

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The Social Non-Contract: Governments Have No Right

Jan 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
I'm going to start with a most controversial proposition: No government has the right to exist. First, I must specify what I mean by a right. We can define a right in many different ways, but the one thing that all conceptions have in common is that they are, ultimately, a justification ...read more

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A Few Nations Under God: Race and National Socialism in America

Jan 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
In a few days the offspring of the sexual congress between an African black (who really and truly was from an actual nation in Africa) and an American white of European descent will be sworn in as president of the United States. I don’t think this amounts to much at ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics | 27 comments