Statism

Dollar Got the Blues: The Official Song of Dollar-Haters

September 8, 2010 @ 12:01 am

The song was written in 1971 by Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, a long-time resident of Slidell, Louisiana. Live 04/16/83 in Hamburg, Germany: Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (guitar/vocals), Homer Brown (tenorsax), Bill Samuell (tenorsax), Joe Sunseri (baritonesax), Craig Wroten (piano), Miles Wright (bass), Robert Shipley (drums). HT Dick Clark for bringing this to my attention. ~*~ Cross-posted at [...]

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Boston Legal's Alan Shore on Americans

September 7, 2010 @ 12:01 am

In a recent post at The Libertarian Standard, Akiva claimed that people (in general) get the government they deserve. The US is an imperial-warfare state and a growing surveillance-police state, not to mention a nanny-welfare state. Boston Legal’s left-liberal attorney Alan Shore echoes Akiva’s sentiments in a closing argument in defense of, oddly enough, a [...]

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Should Parents Need a License to Procreate? A Moron Says Yes.

September 6, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

Hugh LaFollette, “Licensing Parents Revisited,” Journal of Applied Philosophy. The premise of his article is that the legitimacy of professional licensing is well-established and the practice should be expanded to parents. While one could argue that it doesn’t follow from professional licensing being applied to various professions that it should be expanded to parents, this [...]

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Imperial Doublespeak About Iraq

September 1, 2010 @ 1:18 pm

In a series of Orwellian twists, the United States is pulling out (prematurely some say) “all” “combat” troops from Iraq but doubling down (for starters) on mercenaries. The Obama Administration gets away with “fulfilling” Obama’s promise to end US combat operations in Iraq by removing the last (officially-labeled) combat brigade from the country, yet 50,000 troops [...]

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Pundits: Play Whack-A-Mole with WikiLeaks. Oh wait…

August 14, 2010 @ 12:40 am

In How to Mirror a Censored WordPress Blog, I discussed how the Mises Institute open-sourcing all of Mises.org and putting its entire literature and media library online as a set of torrents will help ensure the continued existence of this treasure trove of liberty in the event of a natural disaster or a future crackdown [...]

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CrunchGear vs. the Tea Party on Net Neutrality

August 13, 2010 @ 4:54 pm

Yesterday, in All Your Tubes Are Belong to Googlizon, I blogged about the Google-Verizon proposal for regulating the internet and why libertarians should oppose both it and any net neutrality laws and regulations. Today, I came across a post on CrunchGear, a tech and gadgets site, by Nicholas Deleon, that criticizes the Tea Party for [...]

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All Your Tubes Are Belong to Googlizon

August 12, 2010 @ 8:49 am

What you say!!! There has been a lot wailing and gnashing of teeth recently over a joint announcement by Google and Verizon of a legislative-framework proposal they’ve been working on. Now, I’ve seen this variously referred to as a backroom deal or pact, a secret treaty, or a set of regulations Google and Verizon are [...]

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Behind the Scenes of Atlas Shrugged

July 31, 2010 @ 11:04 pm

About a month and a half ago, in Atlas Shrugged movie finally filming?!, Jacob Huebert updated us on the Atlas Shrugged movie. Now, thanks to Reason Magazine and Reason.tv, we are privileged to see behind-the-scenes footage and interviews. I’ll admit I was leery of the current iteration of the project, but I am somewhat reassured [...]

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