Stupid Austrians, y u no liek invest rite!? Tom Woods recently addressed the criticism Matt Yglesias put forth regarding the inability of entrepreneurs to account for Fed policy. A quick summary is: if Austrian theory is correct, then why don’t producers simply take into account the effects of expansionary monetary policy, i.e., credit expansion? Yglesias [...]
How often have libertarians been called hypocrites for doing things like driving on roads, collecting social security, and even promoting libertarian legal systems, i.e., “forcing” the non-aggression principle on people? Too often to count. But on the balance, because they have more choices and opportunities to do so, liberals are the actual hypocrites when it [...]
Don’t Be a Lazy Libertarian Lately there seems to be a brouhaha regarding conspiracy theorists in the ranks of the liberty movement. Many of my personal friends and fellow Skeptical Libertarian contributors have opined it is downright detrimental to getting anywhere. For my own part, I’m much more concerned about libertarians going out and getting [...]
Atheism Hooray! While I do not subscribe to any particular religion or faith, I do not share some of my colleagues’ belief that atheism, rather than religion, is a more fertile soil for growing libertarian ideas in someone’s mind. Simply put, there are plenty of hardcore, statist atheists, and they’re just as bent toward social [...]
Any day now the calls for resistance to Obamacare are going to engender an onslaught of liberal media stupidity. It will include: Elementary school civics lessons; Unprincipled, incoherent criticisms of their political frenemies (the GOP); and, Stock liberal insults. The problem with liberals isn’t that they’re stupid, it’s that they can’t pull it off with [...]
This year marked my third Porcupine Freedom Festival in New Hampshire. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a little place where people can live just a little bit (or perhaps a lot) freer than when confined to the normal, i.e., violent and coercive, world of the state. Surely I’m being bombastic with such imagery! People [...]
So long, old friend. Libertarians hate you. I, Roads But, who would take care of the roads! Or the airports! Or the [insert state-monopolized capital asset here]! And that’s where someone asks you a question that is impossible to answer. The Statist Roads Argument (SRA) rears its silly head. If someone asks you how a pencil [...]
The Young Activitists New ideas, by their very nature, find root in the fertile soil of young minds. Liberals are no longer the bearers of new ideas. Conservatives are still ridiculous. Both groups are hoping enough interested people are out there who prefer their brand of statism and phony philosophies, both of which have been [...]
Stop Messing with Democracy! Doug Wead, a presidential historian, powerful public speaker, and adviser to the Ron Paul 2012 campaign, stopped by Rachel Maddow’s show last week to help her “break” the story that the straw polls at presidential caucuses in Iowa, Minnesota, and most recently Maine, are more like beauty pageants than actual parts [...]
We Report (some of the story), You Decide If you haven’t heard about Senator Rand Paul’s recent run in with the TSA, you’re most likely what’s wrong with the United States. However, if you have, you know that there’s more to the story than what Dana Bash reported on January 23rd. Here is a link [...]
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