I wrote the following in May, 2009, titled, ObamaCorps vs. the Voluntarism of Free Markets, and wanted to repost it today, with no changes. President Obama’s revival of President Clinton’s AmeriCorps program, the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, now called the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, aims at America’s youth. Now a voluntary [...]
Michael Rozeff: Observations and Opinions on the Libyan War
Tzo on obedience to authority Isabel Paterson: Humanitarianism with the Guillotine (1943) Gary North: Why Economists Love the Federal Reserve Economic Collapse Blog: 19 reasons Why the Federal Reserve Is at the Heart of Our Economic Problems Robert Wenzel: The Fed Explains Why It Is Great Glenn Greenwald: Obama and American exceptionalism Walter Williams: Department [...]
Dana Visalli: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Afghanistan — But Forgot to Ask
Karen De Coster on the State’s abduction of children as its property to destroy George Friedman: What Happened to the American Declaration of War? Eric Margolis: Syria Coming to a Boil Glenn Greenwald: Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers and Foxes and Internet henhouses Thomas Sowell: Voting With Their Feet Ralph Raico: Neither the Wars [...]
The New York Times now has its paywall in effect. It is extremely doubtful that it will last that long, as the newspaper with All the Fabrications that Fit on One Page has been such a propaganda rag for the State at a time when the State’s corruption and ineptitude is getting much exposure these [...]
The blogosphere is spastic with this raging argument between neocon talk show host Mark Levin and economic historian Thomas Woods (author of Rollback, Nullification, and Meltdown, among several other works), regarding the existence of a U.S. president’s Constitutional authorization to start a non-defensive war without Congressional approval. As usual, warmonger Levin apparently believes in unquestioned [...]
The Daily Bell interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe …Daily Bell: If democracy has failed, what would you put in its place? What is the ideal society? Anarcho-capitalism? Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe: I prefer the term “private law society.” In a private law society every individual and institution is subject to one and the same set of laws. No [...]
Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket, died on Sandra Day O’Connor’s 81st birthday. O’Connor was the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, representing another major achievement for women in America. Also, just the day before Ferraro died, Rep. Michele Bachmann announced her “exploratory committee,” i.e. campaign for the presidency. A [...]
Washington’s Blog has this post on Standing Up to Evil, in which failure to stand up to evil enables more destructive acts. This includes how people have rationalized their failure to stand up to evil, as well as rationalizing evil acts (especially the evil done by governments) themselves. Washington’s Blog details the acts of going [...]
An article by Michael Kleen asks, Do Sweatshops Belong in a Free Market? and makes several interesting points and has good points in the comments sections as well. Here is my response. Whether one wants to consider a “sweatshop” as being a place of “force” against the workers or not, I do not believe that [...]
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) reports that the Nazi federal government in Washington that owns our lives plans to study new anti-”terrorism” technologies (frankly, I’m terrified of this damn Nazi out-of-control criminal organization in Washington and what they’re doing to our Liberty, or what’s left of it! It is THEY who are the terrorists!), [...]