February 2012
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“Violence here - liberal.
Violence abroad - conservative.
Violence against...”
– Joe Sobran
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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be...”
– John Lennon (via streetphilosophers)
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“Society is concerted action, cooperation. Society is the outcome of conscious...”
– Ludwig von Mises - “Human Action”, Chapter VIII (via proofsofleviathan)
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“I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply...”
– Etienne de La Boeite
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January 2012
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Official List of "Too Big To Fail" Banks →
Do you do business with any of these vampires? If you do, you are a part of the problem.
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America: With God on our Side →
So, whereas a single Chinese aircraft carrier poses a looming danger, a dozen American aircraft carriers make the U.S. Navy “a global force for good.” A brief Russian incursion into Georgia threatens peace; protracted wars resulting from the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan advance it.
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“If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right...”
– Tom G. Palmer
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“War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s...”
– Chaz Bufe (via hipsterlibertarian)
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Rothbard: My conversion to anarchism was a simple exercise in logic. I had engaged continually in friendly arguments about laissez-faire with liberal friends from graduate school. While condemning taxation, I had still felt that taxation was required for the provision of police and judicial protection and for that only. One night two friends and I had one of our usual lengthy discussions, seemingly unprofitable; but this time when they’d left, I felt that for once something vital had actually been said. As I thought back on the discussion, I realized that my friends, as liberals, had posed the following challenge to my laissez-faire position:
They: What is the legitimate basis for your laissez-faire government, for this political entity confined solely to defending person and property?
Rothbard: Well, the people get together and decide to establish such a government.
They: But if “the people” can do that, why can’t they do exactly the same thing and get together to choose a government that will build steel plants, dams, etc.?
Rothbard: I realized in a flash that their logic was impeccable, that laissez-faire was logically untenable, and that either I had to become a liberal, or move onward into anarchism. I became an anarchist.
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“I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as...”
– Lao Tsu (via laliberty)
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