May 2012
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But That Would Be Anarchy
anarchei:
Note: The following article was originally posted on Lost Liberty Cafe however the site is no longer available.
Nathan McKaskle:
Several months prior to the election I met a young lady at a local pub – a tall, attractive and spunky political science major. She was talking to some friends about the upcoming election, offering her opinion on who to vote for. When it comes to political...
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Is Evil Necessary?
anarchei:
Note: The following article was originally posted on Lost Liberty Cafe however the site is no longer available.
Joey Carlisle:
One of the most fascinating, and disturbing, concepts I have come across is the term necessary evil. I would like to demonstrate in this essay that the concept of necessary evil is not what we mean to say in common usage, an oxymoron, but rather a...
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Caging The Beasts
anarchei:
Note: An audio version of this article is available. This article was followed by These Cages Are Only For Beasts
Stefan Molyneux:
How can violent criminals be dealt with in the absence of a centralized government?
This is a challenging question, which can be answered in three parts. The first is to examine how such criminals are dealt with at present; the second is to divide...
These Cages Are Only For Beasts
anarchei:
Note: An audio version of this article is available. This article was preceded by Caging The Beasts.
Stefan Molyneux:
“Caging the Beasts” described the measures that private Dispute Resolution Organizations (DROs) could take against violent criminals – measures many readers found more soul-crushing and repressive than life under the current government!
I am always eager to improve...
Do you understand boilerplate FA Hayek? Why market...
whakatikatika:
Here is part of an excellent article by Steven Horwitz on Hayek:
Disagreement is the basis of tolerance and progress…
Hayek puts it in volume two of his trilogy Law, Legislation, and Liberty, “A free society is a pluralistic society without a common hierarchy of particular ends.” He means that the market, like other social institutions (such as language), is an...
gross →
whakatikatika:
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libertarians-and-stoya:
Intentions =/= results. Banning the selling of kidneys doesn’t stop the selling of kidneys nor does it help those who could really use the money (not to mention those who fucking need kidneys).
So get off your high horse and explain to me how prohibiting self-ownership and the freedom of bodily choice plus creating a prohibition...
No Gods or Kings. Only Stoya.: On Selling Organs →
georgeoughttohelp:
http://squashedcomments.tumblr.com/post/24017581722/no-gods-or-kings-only-stoya-on-selling-organs
So what’s the harm? We’re talking about the commodification of the human body. Currently, you just own your body. Nobody can take it away from you. As soon as people start selling things, all your organs become assets. Alienable. Suddenly somebody else can own a chunk of your...
“You know what destroys the sanctity of marriage? Government issued marriage...”
– Yep. (via whakatikatika)
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BBC Uses a 2003 Picture from Iraq to Incite War... →
When it is time to justify the invasion of a country that is of no threat to Allied forces, mass media deception kicks into high gear to sway public opinion. Only a few years after the “Watch-out-Saddam-is-gonna-nuke-us-all-with-weapons-of-mass-destruction” fabrication, mass media is now being flooded with horrible stories from Syria to incite people in Western countries to think “I hope we go...
Price Fixing in the Massachusetts Theocracy →
baseballlibertarian:
Price fixing never worked in 1633 and it doesn’t work now.
by Murray Rothbard
From the first, the Massachusetts oligarchy, seeing that in the New World land was peculiarly abundant in relation to labor, tried by law to push down the wage rates that they had to pay as merchants or landowners. Maximum-wage controls were persistently imposed. John Winthrop set the tone in...
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Peace Revolution episode 057: How the Past Affects...
Conza: Central Planning Chaos →
conza:
“But the uniqueness and the crucial importance of Mises’s challenge to socialism is that it was totally unrelated to the well-known incentive problem. Mises in effect said: All right, suppose that the socialists have been able to create a mighty army of citizens all eager to do the bidding of…
Robert Higgs on war →
baseballlibertarian:
This says everything anyone needs to know about war. Please explain to me why “small government” conservatives love war?
The real hero is the true anti-war activists who cherishes freedom and liberty.
PCR: From your extensive research into previous U.S. wars, have you drawn any conclusions that shape your thinking about the present situation? RH: One conclusion stands...
“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that…it gives...”
– Milton Friedman (via whakatikatika)
L.A. Liberty: What to Remember on Memorial Day →
laliberty:
When news outlets and social media share photos of tearful mothers, fathers, wives, and children mourning their lost loved ones, my heart breaks at the senseless death and unnecessary sorrow. The state claimed a life, and then marked its claim by adorning the casket in its symbolism. And too few…
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual...”
– Ayn Rand (via float-on-okay)
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“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that...”
– United States Marine Corps Major General Smedley D. Butler
*Of course, such destruction could only ever be profitable if its losses were borne by others: funded by force (taxation and inflation) and funneled by favor (cronyism and corruption). (via laliberty)
Watchstarfissure:
Um. YES.
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L.A. Liberty: Minimum Wage, a Synopsis →
laliberty:
After receiving a few messages today regarding the minimum wage, I thought it worthwhile to offer a brief summary of the argument. (For a bit more detail, please see my post Repeal the Minimum Wage.)
The premise can be understood in one sentence: you set a price floor for anything, you…
“There’s a reason that normal people think politics is dirty. It is dirty.”
– Lew Rockwell (via laliberty)
