Anarchy is simply the absence of rulers. It is not chaos, or bomb throwing, or communism. The absence or rulers does not mean the absence of leaders or the absence of governance. It means the absence of a political ruler – a person or institution that claims the moral right to initiate violence.
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US May Be One Panic Away from Disaster
A couple of centuries ago, a smart fellow known as Voltaire pointed out, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” This is a timeless truth.
Prescription Drug Prices: Politicians Are All Talk, No Action
Why do Republicans and Democrats both talk a lot about controlling Medicare spending on drugs, but never actually get the job done? That’s no mystery: Big Pharma makes bigger campaign donations and hires more lobbyists than you do.
Humor is a Sign of Life and Light
The more jokes are told in a culture, the healthier it is. And the more things allowed to be joked about.
It’s All Communism (So Stop Pretending It’s Not, And Other Things Too Fucking Obvious to Point Out)
“I find it nothing short of amazing that all of this indignation has been (most correctly, in my view) been levelled at this Marxist ‘teacher’ – yet no one is pointing out the most abundantly obvious underlying fact here: That the ‘public’ (government) tax-financed school system itself is a 100% Marxist construct.”
Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Isn’t About COVID-19
The ostensible purpose of the mandate is to combat a raging COVID-19 pandemic, but that supposed purpose doesn’t pass the smell test.
Bad Sign?
When I see four of those yard signs on my morning walk, I chuckle. If I’m in a mischievous mood I might someday suggest a couple of memes that the owners might add. I could embrace all of those memes, but not without some qualification and in several cases, a good deal of qualification. But […]
Liberty’s Crisis Crisis
The Nineties were almost crisis-free; indeed, the collapse of Communism ended the forty-year crisis of the Cold War. Ever since, however, we’ve had one exasperating crisis after another: 9/11, the Iraq War, the Great Recession, and ISIS, followed by Covid-19, the crisis that puts all the others to shame.
Defamation is Not Aggression, Ergo, Not a Crime
Tom Wood’s is absolutely correct when he laments that today’s young libertarian is just not studying the classics, the theorists that came before. Here’s one recent anecdote of someone who can’t even properly define aggression in the libertarian sense, which mistake confuses him into believe that defamation is a crime which should be legally prohibited. Judge for yourself.
Not Anti-Vaccine, but Anti-Mandate
If you want the vaccine because your opinion of the relative risks differs from mine, I want you to get it. If you get the vaccine, I hope it works or at least makes you feel safer — whatever you want it to do.