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Spooner, Captain Phillips, Further Fallacies
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. This is…
Fallacy Again, The Constitution, The State and War
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. In this…
Words Poorly Used #27 — Constitutional
If Lysander Spooner wrote, “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist,” in the middle of the 19th century, then how…
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…
On the Non-Aggression Principle
Everybody adheres to the non-aggression principle. Property is a corollary of the non-aggression principle, and vice versa, meaning, property ownership is the exclusive right of control, an exclusion that precludes aggression, an uninvited boundary crossing, by non-owners. People disagree, however, on what constitutes property. Some only consider the body and movable personal possessions as property;…
What We Should Do
Nobody asked but … In his speech on the NSA, Obama said this, “But America’s capabilities are unique. And the power of new technologies means that there are fewer and fewer technical constraints on what we can do. That places a special obligation on us to ask tough questions about what we should do.” (emphasis from original speech). And what…
On Personal Oaths
Many who enter the service of the state are required to make a personal oath to defend the document that supposedly gave the state its authority, eg. the Constitution of the United States. Well and good, but when someone who has taken this oath decides that what they are being ordered to do by their…
Unschooling Undefined
Editor’s Pick. Written by Eric Anderson. Unschooling is a word coined by negating the idea of schooling; it starts off with a negative definition. What, specifically, is it about schools that unschoolers want to do without? The School Organization Breaking up the day into learning time and play time. Starting and stopping learning (or shifting…
On Utah’s Polygamy Ruling
Once again I’m disappointed on a ruling seemingly for liberty. A federal judge in Utah ruled two days ago that Utah’s law prohibiting polygamous cohabitation to be unconstitutional. That a federal judge would interfere with a local law is troubling. It’s a display of power by a bigger state over a smaller one. Local laws…