The Quiz
Disputants would be far better off if they could choose among competing arbitration agencies and thereby reap the benefits of competition and specialization.
Szasz and Leary often chose somewhat different public issues to speak out on, but both displayed an unwavering commitment to human liberty.
Mathematics quite often bamboozles people into accepting very silly arguments.
Why the sudden pressure against drug prohibition? It is a burden on taxpayers. It is a burden on government budgets. It is a burden on the criminal-justice system. It is a burden on the healthcare system. The economic crisis has intensified the pain from all these burdens.
As Mike Riggs noted
on Thursday night, the Justice Department’s new medical
marijuana memo (PDF)
confirms that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are
reneging
on their promises to respect state law. Under the policy described
by…
And his credibility, says Charles Davis
Now that’s a laugh, says Scott Hill
It’s the beginning of the end, says Justin Raimondo
Tom Engelhardt on the Great American Unraveling
The Jury is out after 2 long days of trial; the second day running all the way to 10PM on Thursday June 30th. John Kurtz has been convicted of resisting arrest without violence. John’s sentence, 30 days in a concrete cage, 7 days already served and 1 year probation.
The evidence … the cops word … several cops on the stand all with different stories .. each having changed their tune several times throughout the whole process.
Pretty much how undercover cop stings work haha. Replace this with the FBI trying to drum up some terrorism charges and it is a pretty accurate portrayal…
An eerie photoblog.
Down the road of credulously submitting to ideas purportedly motivated by a desire to protect children, without at least pausing for critical thought, lies great danger indeed.
I’m all for bartering and free trade, even more so if some consider it undermining the credit system of the Federal Reserve… My goal is to help build a free market and through non-violent means, put the credit system and governments out of business. So I’m trading up also.
In today’s backwards business world, it is not uncommon to find that the people who are most willing to misrepresent themselves are the people who find the greatest success.
This reflection on George Orwell – published in 1984, for obvious reasons – remains as fresh today as it was written nearly thirty years ago. If anything, it is truer today, if only because the conditions of our age, ably captured by McWilliams’s assessment of Orwell, resemble ever more the prophetic fears of each man.
Throughout history, privileged classes have extracted rents—with help from the state—by monopolizing the media of exchange and credit. When people can create their own money and credit in encrypted darknet economies, bypassing the state and the banksters, they can cut off the flow of tribute to the renter classes.
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