Recently New York Post freaked out over higher prices imposed by ride-share companies. “New Yorkers are fed up with forking over excessive amounts for Uber and Lyft rides.” Excessive? Just what is “excessive?” Who decides?
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Leftists Are Toxic Lunatics
… a little recent repartee from Quora: Is socialism when the government does stuff? Alex Knight BA from Union Institute & University Answered Feb 24 “Government itself is socialism. It does not rely upon market forces, but coercive force in order to secure its financing. It then imposes (not provides) “services” (many of which would…
Liberty is The Only Reason You Need to Own Firearms
The question was posed about 7 months ago, “Gun owners of Reddit, what is your reason to own firearms?” My answer and a conversation about my answer went as follows. Skyler: Australia right now, and every tyrannical government previously. TheOnlyFallenCookie: What makes you confident that you will be able to judge if your government turned…
My Guidelines for Government
Until now I’ve never really told the world’s governments what they ought to be doing. My bad, but I’m ready to make amends. Here, in no particular order, are my Guidelines for Government.
A Taxing Day
I think they have done it. The politicians have employed confusion, as they did with Covid19, to befuddle completely the victims who support them. Do you know, in any sane metric, how far in debt you are individually, or in collectives such as “we the people” or future generations?
Shades of Gray in the Russia-Ukraine War
If you’re looking for morality tales — clashes between the clearly good and the clearly bad — I suggest you look elsewhere than to the geopolitical theater. There we find only conflicts between shades of darker gray.
The Collapse of “Peace and Security” For Freedom and Responsibility
In the past, man was often stupid, but rarely constantly dumbfounded, and often immoral, but rarely constantly demoralized. In other words, the main problem of today’s man is not his degradation, but the learned passivity and the unawareness of being its victim; and the only effective solution to this problem is not “peace and security” but freedom and responsibility.
The Ironclad Argument Against Racism
Being labelled a “racist” is scary. If you scour the Internet, you will find a few confessed racists. For the most part, though, “racism” is a doctrine we ascribe to others in order to damn and ostracize them. The strange result: While we hear endless debates about whether a person, idea, or practice is “racist,” we rarely hear arguments against racism itself. Arguments of the form, “Racism is wrong because…”
Texas Marijuana Laws Are Failure
An excellent measure of whether a “law” is good or bad is to see if it prohibits something that isn’t prohibited elsewhere — especially, right next door.
CNN Slams Libertarian Children’s Books—Causing Sales to Surge
Last week, CNN published an opinion piece arguing that the “right-wing children’s entertainment complex is upon us.” Prominently featured as a case in point were the Tuttle Twins children’s books, created by Connor Boyack to offset the progressive propaganda that many children now confront in classrooms across the country.