Nobody asked but … I am not ready to condemn Donald Sterling myself. I have severe reservations about depriving a man of the use of his property without due process. Although I have no personal curiosity about the situation of why the taping of his remarks happened, I do have questions about the use of…
Category: Nobody Asked, But
Logic Fallacy
Nobody asked but … My alter ego, Verbal Vol, is in the midst of penning a series on logic fallacy in his bi-weekly columns, Finding the Challenges. But today I ran across an excellent article by Max Borders, Effectively Irrational: 30 common fallacies used against libertarians. These will give you excellent examples of how logic…
Billboards
Nobody asked but … I passed two billboards on the way to work this morning. I have been passing one of them for maybe a year now, and it asks “Heaven or Hell?” Today there was another one, a recruiting billboard for the US Marine Corps. The new one (USMC) headlines the bold word “COMMITTMENT,”…
Driver’s License
Nobody asked but … I have been stalked by the state for every day of my life. I had to refer to my driver’s license this morning to fill out some medical paperwork. And I began to study it (I have had this one for almost 4 years, but I have had some driver’s license…
The Informant
Nobody asked but … Please see this movie — The Informant. If for nothing else, see it to be amazed by Matt Damon. See it to be spellbound by Scott Bakula. Watch this movie, and revel in the fact that individualism so rules the world that all the governments in history cannot change it. Understand…
Like a Highwayman
Nobody asked but … It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all others who are parties to the…
Economics is a Science!
Nobody asked but … Economics is a science! It is a science that comports with natural law. It is just that none of the economists can isolate factors long enough to get a repeatable observation. It is open-ended like climatology and cosmology. Kilgore
Re: A Modest Evaluation
Nobody asked but … Let us be sure that we understand how these observations are verifications of natural law, not as statists would have us believe, demonstrations of how voluntaryism does not work. Both Detroit and Somalia are wreckage left by the failures of statism. Voluntaryism works everywhere that statism does not intervene. People are…
A Modest Evaluation
Nobody asked but … Detroit is proof that humans will foul their nests. That the population of Detroit is in freefall is proof that humans can respond. Somalia is proof that humans will foul their nests. That the four horseman of the apocalypse are thinning the ranks in Somalia is proof that nature can respond.…
Re: Mother Nature
Nobody asked but … Mother Nature’s laws are all reducible to principles. They do not need go-betweens. They do not need councils of elders in black robes. They do not need a priesthood. One is free to tinker with these laws, but the consequences are swift and direct. One can vainly substitute artificial legislation, but…