An Invitation From Mark Skousen
I’m writing to invite you to join me in “the greatest libertarian show on earth” — FreedomFest — set for July 7-11 at Bally’s Events Center in Las Vegas.
I’m writing to invite you to join me in “the greatest libertarian show on earth” — FreedomFest — set for July 7-11 at Bally’s Events Center in Las Vegas.
Experience shows that a very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed; since all cities which have a reputation for good government have a limit of population. We may argue on grounds of reason, and the same result will follow: for law is order, and good law is good order; but a very great multitude cannot be orderly.
Sometimes secret combinations aren’t so well hidden.
Notwithstanding regular reports of dishonest businessmen in the daily news, businessmen deserve more respect for their honesty than they receive.
San Jose State economics professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel tells all his students that the easiest way to understand the Federal Reserve is to think of it as a giant, legalized counterfeiter.
The Cato Institute has the evidence.
A great interview with Mormon economist and liberty-lover Mark Skousen was just published.
Opium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.
It is a weak and immature faith that finds a threat in science.
Bin Laden proclaimed his grand strategy in the 1990’s. He would oust the modern “Crusaders’ by luring the US and its allies into a series of small, debilitating, hugely expensive wars to bleed and slowly bankrupt the US economy, which he called America’s Achilles’ heel.
American drones dropped in Pakistan kill at least 10 times as many civilians as terrorists and/or Taliban (Pakistani and/or Afghan), according to a July Brookings report.
I want to do the following in this paper: First to present the theses that constitute the hard core of the Marxist theory of history. I claim that all of them are essentially correct. Then I will show how these true theses are derived in Marxism from a false starting point. Finally, I will demonstrate how Austrianism in the Mises-Rothbard tradition can give a correct but categorically different explanation of their validity.
A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
Stephen Kinsella posts a list of questions from a high school student seeking answers regarding the legitimacy of intellectual property “rights”, as well as his answers. They provide a good introduction to the anti-IP position.
A Facebook friend of mine posted his response to a poll: “Would the world be better without religion?” two days ago, generating, to date, 3,627 comments—by far the most I’ve ever seen for any single Facebook posting, and remarkable for one with 481 “Friends.”
In the dead of night on December 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States.
“We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.”
An interesting new website was just launched titled “Mormon Scholars Testify”.
I’m glad the health-care bill passed. The federal government is already bankrupt. Anything that will help push it over the edge, such as this and the new stimulus bill, will be a blessing in disguise, don’t you think? Or am I off-base? Let’s here your thoughts in the comments!
The “conservative/liberal” division – although thought of in America today as the two alternative, relevant “sides” of political opinion – is no such thing.