December 2011
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution to our problems on the...
– John Maynard Keynes, ten days before he died
So if Nozick’s doubts later in life spawned such fervor this summer (see here, here, here, and here), then what can be understood of Keynes’ reconsiderations? Particularly since Keynes was infinitely more influential to his eponymous statist economics...
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom...
– Ludwig von Mises (via blistexfan)
For all the Occupiers out there calling for greater government intervention in the economy.
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself....
– Thomas Jefferson (via fuckyeahlibertarian)
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Yet another liberal supports Ron Paul →
Having met and visited with Congressman Ron Paul and followed him for the last five years or so, I found this description of him so eloquently accurate. I could not have described Ron Paul’s persona any better than how Andrew Sullivan puts it.
And I see in Paul none of the resentment that burns in Gingrich or the fakeness that defines Romney or the fascistic strains in Perry’s buffoonery....
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I don’t know. If I don’t know, I don’t believe.
– Penn Jillette - what makes me an atheist. (via travors)
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That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage...
– George Orwell (via fuckyeahemergence)
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Afghanistan Opens Bids To Western Investors for... →
What it’s all about folks. What imperialism has always been about.
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The libertarian creators of “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and their new Broadway musical “The Book of Morman”
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Unschooling …
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role...
– Thomas Sowell (via laliberty)
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