December 2010
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Don't Shoot Messenger for Revealing Uncomfortable... →
WikiLeaks deserves protection, not threats and attacks In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said “only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government”. The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
Dec 29th
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The Problem is Empire, Not Islam →
Sheldon Richman and Jacob Hornberger predicting 9/11 in 1999 and 2000, respectively.
Dec 23rd
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Public policy must not be reduced to sound bites and knee-jerk responses to crises.
Dec 22nd
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Frisking the Founding Fathers →
Today’s angry Americans, then, ought to look in the mirror and see that they are responsible for electing interventionist presidents who are reducing domestic unity and liberty, and that the simple and correct antidote for that deterioration is to stop voting for interventionists who define America’s worth by interfering in foreign cultures they deem odious but do not understand.
Dec 22nd
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The War on Terror →
The “war on terror” is now in its tenth year.  What is it really all about?
Dec 20th
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“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a...”
– Adolf Hitler
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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The Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality →
The modern liberal’s idea of “good government” has divorced freedom from responsibility and created a false sense of morality. Good intentions have led to bad policy. The moral state of the union can be improved by following two simple rules: “Do no harm” and “Do good at your own expense.” Those rules are perfectly consistent in the private moral ...
Dec 12th
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Damned Dogmas →
Short. Humorous. Powerful.
Dec 11th
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“Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has...”
– Ludwig Von Mises (via igniteice) (via fuckyeahemergence)
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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“Values in a free society are accepted voluntarily, not through coercion, and...”
– Ron Paul
Dec 7th
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Man's Rights →
A beautiful essay by Ayn Rand.
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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“The ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and...”
– P. J. O’Rourke. Quoted in Speech Opening Cato Institution. (via volkstem)
Dec 3rd
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The absurdity of Keynesian economics in one minute.
Dec 2nd
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Here's Why the Fed Plan is Failing: We're All... →
It’s no accident that Austrian economics is newly popular. It provides the best explanation for the business cycle we just lived through.
Dec 2nd
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