Nobody asked but … Sanford Ikeda deflates 18 of the anti-free-market balloons, here, here, and here. Here are some of the falsehoods he addresses: The free market creates scarcity and higher prices The free market encourages racism, homophobia, and other types of bigotry The free market is pro-war The free market is always efficient The…
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War, in Its Particulars
Nobody asked but … I got into a facebook discussion of the Selective Service Act of the FDR era, when suddenly it came to me, in a cohesive sense, that all acts of war are irrational, but connected. Oh, the things we do for war! If we want to talk about saving the planet —…
Re: Self-Interest II
Nobody asked but … Voluntaryists and libertarians put a value on being left in peace. This necessarily includes acceptance of the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) and of all responsibilities implied thereby. The assumption of this responsibility is the thing a libertarian has chosen to owe to others. The anti-libertarian believes that the libertarian will not observe…
Re: Self-Interest
Nobody asked but …I believe that libertarians put a value on being left alone. This necessarily includes self-ownership and self-determination and self-recognition of all responsibilities assumed. The assumption of responsibility is the thing a libertarian has chosen to owe to others. The anti-libertarian believes that the libertarian will evade those responsibilities. But then the anti-libertarian…
Happy No Presidents Day!
Nobody asked but … Let’s use future third Mondays in February as a target date for celebrating the removal of the Constitutional office of POTUS. So far we have had 44 failures out of 44 attempts (although Thomas Jefferson was a great man in most other respects, Calvin Coolidge spoke eloquently on the merits of…
Homeschooled
Nobody asked but … 25 Modern science, math and technology leaders who were homeschooled. Kilgore
Copaganda
Nobody asked but … Some Facebook friends and I were discussing a new cops and robbers (I repeat myself) teevee show, “Almost Human.” I joked that the show might be an example of “copaganda.” Surely I am not the first to coin that word. But J. Edgar Hoover (FBI) and William Parker (LAPD) invented the…
Farm-acide
Nobody asked but … The only thing, which family farms have grown successfully in the past 80 years, has been government. And why are we still stuck in the paradigm that FDR and Henry Wallace initiated in 1933? No government has so badly used individual farmers since the Roman Empire decided that only farmers could…
Science and Faith
Nobody asked but … I could not wait to share this link with you, 22 Messages of Hope (and Science) for Creationists, written by Ethan Siegel. This is where evidence and faith come together. This article shows to me the value of an examined life, from either side. And I will share here with you…
Farm Subsidy
Nobody asked but … I call to your attention an analysis from the Mercatus Institute, at George Mason University. And the worst part of it is that many of these cronies are not cronies of the current regime — some go all the way back to FDR and Henry Wallace. They are in embedded special…