Three time presidential candidate, and 12 term congressman Ron Paul, appeared on the Jay Leno show last night. He discussed, Obamacare, social security, gun control, Rand Paul, highway safety, education, and more. He once again confirmed, for all those who hadn’t been listening all the other times he said it, that he believes in voluntarism…....
For a long time I called myself agnostic, because it was my perception that atheists claimed to know something they couldn’t actually know. More specifically, that they were sure there was no “god”. I can say with a good degree of certainty that to the extent the term “god” refers to the monster described by…...
How many times have you heard this? It makes me grind my teeth every single time. The self righteousness of it alone annoys me, but the factual inaccuracy is what really sets me off. I hear this all the time, whether it’s about the discussion of force, use of foul language, extreme examples, or whatever…...
Larken Rose recently released a video entitled “How They See You”. If you don’t have 15 minutes to spare to watch the video, let me save you some time. They see you as livestock, which is why they treat you as slaves, and they’ll stop doing so, only when doing so becomes so dangerous that they…...
People often ask how this or that function of society would work in the absence of the State. Of course, each of those questions has its own answers, but there are some underlying core ideas that can help you come to your own conclusions, and which would become rather repetitive if I outlined them every…...
Yesterday, the NYPD opened fire on an unarmed suspect in Times Square. Luckily for the suspect, the NYPD has terrible aim. Not so lucky, were the two innocent bystanders struck by taxpayer funded bullets flying indiscriminately through the polluted urban air. This all started because the NYPD allegedly saw the man stumbling around on 8th Avenue…....
Since when is violence considered intellectual? Since when does one person own the thoughts of another? Since about 400 years ago, as it turns out. I really like this subject because it was one of the last aspects of statism that I clung to before embracing the far clearer moral compass of voluntarism. If we…...
Libertarian Infighting is a Good Thing. I recently posted a message requesting suggestions for my next article, and a reader posted about libertarian infighting… “How division among various freedom groups will be our undoing unless we work together”. So I decided to write the exact opposite. But I’m not just doing this to be…...
Never shying from controversy, I’ve been meaning to tear down some of the fundamental constructs of libertarianism. Or at least, point out how foolishly some people try to apply them. It was suggested to me by a reader to address this use of the term “collectivism” by libertarians, and especially after Larken Rose addressed the…...
In the comments below, someone please try and tell me how many wars the United States Government is fighting, because I’m having a hard time keeping track. Maybe it’s just because there are so many new words for war now. In Afghanistan they called it the “War on Terror”, OK, not sure how you fight…...