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Peddling the Corruption of Liberty
Peddling the Corruption of Liberty Liberty’s Detractors Ever since the idea of individual liberty has achieved some measure of credibility over the world, those who would be unseated by its limited triumph had to find some way to discredit it or trump it somehow. One way was to re-christen servitude, to make it appear like […]
Freedom And Central Planning Can Never Coexist
Freedom And Central Planning Can Never Coexist The average person is a statist, whether he realizes it or not. It is important that liberty activists recognize and accept this fact because the truth of our limitations as a movement determines the kinds of solutions into which we should ultimately put our time and energy. The […]
What you “Owe to Society”
What you “Owe to Society” The “Club Dues” Theory of Taxation Sadly this is an ancient thesis that’s being revived now in a country that was founded on denying it. The idea is well expressed in a recent book by Professor William E. Hudson, titled, The Libertarian Illusion: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Assault on the […]
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents”
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents” This post is a follow up to a piece I published in June titled: New Thousand Page Pentagon War Manual Potentially Lumps Journalists in with “Unprivileged Belligerents.” Here’s an excerpt: A 1,176 page Pentagon war manual was recently released that hasn’t received the attention it deserves. The book […]
German Journalists Investigated For Treason After Publishing Surveillance Leaks
German Journalists Investigated For Treason After Publishing Surveillance Leaks Two journalists at the prominent German news website Netzpolitik are under investigation for treason after publishing details about the planned expansion of the German Secret Service’s Internet surveillance program. On Wednesday, the organization received a letter from the Federal Attorney General of Germany confirming ongoing investigations against reporters Markus Beckedahl, […]
Liberty Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny
Liberty Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny The great lesson from history that each consecutive generations seems to forget is that the tools of tyranny used outward will inevitably be turned inward. That is to say, the laws and weapons governments devise for supposed enemies abroad will ALWAYS and eventually be used against […]
Happy Birthday Magna Carta
Happy Birthday Magna Carta Monday, June 15, 2015, is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. In his book, Magna Carta, J.C. Holt, professor of medieval history, University of Cambridge, notes that three of the chapters of this ancient document still stand on the English Stature Book and that so much of what survives of the Great […]
Crisis and the Politics of Possibility
Crisis and the Politics of Possibility The Marketplace Belongs Only to Those Who Can Pay For It Following in the tradition of his father and Bill Clinton before him, in 2003 George W. Bush launched a ‘liberal’ war to, in the words of the agreed upon rationales; protect the ‘homeland’ from attack and remove a […]
10 Pictures That Show How America Is Becoming A Lot Like Nazi Germany
10 Pictures That Show How America Is Becoming A Lot Like Nazi Germany The history books tell us about how evil and wicked the Nazis were, so why aren’t we more alarmed that the United States is becoming more like Nazi Germany with each passing day? More than three years ago, I wrote an article […]
UK Prime Minister David Cameron Proclaims – It’s Not Enough to Follow the Law, You Must Love Big Brother
UK Prime Minister David Cameron Proclaims – It’s Not Enough to Follow the Law, You Must Love Big Brother It’s not just those domestic extremists and crazy “conspiracy theory” kooks who took serious issue with UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent overtly fascist language when it comes to freedom of expression in Great Britain. For example, […]
The Self-Employed Middle Class Hardly Exists Anymore
The Self-Employed Middle Class Hardly Exists Anymore Why owning your own income is more important than ever now Many people rightly aspire to improve their household’s state of resilience through actions such as storing emergency supplies, starting a vegetable garden, and learning basic readiness/maintenance skills, etc. In general, resilience boils down to self-reliance. But like […]
How to Change the World Overnight
How to Change the World Overnight Making a Difference Mark Twain said: If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it. In other words, if the government is not trying to stop something, it must not be very important. On the flip side of the coin, the great historian Howard Zinn noted: Protest always looks futile at […]
