Recent Libertarian Standard Posts 
- Is an involuntary samaritan good? And can libertarians support a “good samaritan” law? · February 22, 2012
This post is a slightly revised version of two comments I left on the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog in response to Matt Zwolinski’s post “What We Can Learn from Drowning Children.” ... - FBI arrest man in terrorist plot organized by the FBI · February 18, 2012
That’s a more accurate title for this news story: “FBI arrests Virginia man suspected of plotting attack on Capitol.”What the FBI is doing is called entrapment. No, worse, it’s ... - US No-Fly List Doubles in One Year · February 03, 2012
According to this AP report.Before long we will all be grounded except for privileged members of the Republicrat National Socialist Party, who will also have special Party stores that carry Eastern g ... - Read The Libertarian Standard in Google Currents · December 09, 2011
Google Currents is a just-released free news reader app for iOS and Android that is intended as a competitor for Flipboard and Yahoo! Livestand.Once you have installed the app on your phone or tablet, ... - Poli Sci 101, My Ass · December 07, 2011
Roger Ebert gives his two cents (for what that’s worth these days; thanks Fed!) on the Occupy Wall Street movement, if you care to subject yourself to the inane political views of a mainstream-l ...
Recent Mises Econ Blog Posts
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Admits the Space Shuttle Was Never About Science · July 23, 2011
Promoting science is a major reason often given in support of the space shuttle program and against ending it. But the space shuttle program was never about science, as astrophysicist and celebrity sc ... - Ecofascism in the Name of Fending Off Ecofascism · September 16, 2010
Micah White at The Guardian writes of the growing danger of ecofascism or environmental authoritarianism. Some environmentalists, like James Lovelock and Pentti Linkola, want to put democracy on hold ... - Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul Mentioned on NRO’s The Corner · June 19, 2007
Rothbard got a favorable mention on a National Review Online blog called The Corner. Ron Paul got a mention in the same post as well, in connection with Rothbard. About Rothbard, John Derbyshire wrote ... - The T3 Tax: Laying Down the Gauntlet · June 12, 2007
Economist Ross McKitrick, who along with Steve McIntyre played a major role in discrediting Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph, has an interesting proposal for a carbon emissions ta ... - Schoolhouse Rock: Pirates and Emperors (Or, Size Does Matter) · April 27, 2007
Here’s a fantastic video dramatizing the fact that pirates and emperors are really the same thing. Here’s a direct link to the video on YouTube. Find out more here Hat tip to Sunni for al ... - Ancient Chinese historian recognized the market as a beneficial spontaneous order · July 26, 2006
Reading Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright’s Culture and Enterprise, I was struck by the following percipient and eloquent observation by Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch’ien (c.145-86 BC), ov ...
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