Two songs in particular give me goosebumps when I consider their implications in the life of a voluntaryist: “Brave” by Sara Bareilles, and “Roar” by Katy Perry. Everybody should find the bravery to roar their truth to the world, in every way they can!
Tag: politics
Eric’s Journey, #1 Jet.com Insider, & Libertarian Politics (1h2m) – Episode 097
Episode 097 welcomes Eric Martin to the podcast for a chat with Skyler. Topics include: winning the Jet.com Insider contest and his stock options reward, what Jet.com’s sale to Walmart for $3.3B meant for Eric, running for US Congress in 2012, Ron Paul’s influence on his journey to libertarianism, types of libertarians, cryptocurrencies, future education plans for his children, and much more.
Mongoose
In Hawaii, in the late 19th Century, Mongooses were imported to rid the sugar cane fields of rats. Now the mongooses are overwhelming, reducing populations of birds and turtles, and domestic cats! The mongoose tale is still a bit exotic, but the story is most often demonstrated where government is the mongoose.
Assertions versus Facts
CNN can show us an apple, but it can’t show us Russian election meddling or global warming or people being made safe by gun control. Unlike apples, these are complex things not amenable to depiction.
Factory-Like Schools Are the Child Labor Crisis of Today
There is mounting evidence that increasingly restrictive schooling, quickly consuming the majority of childhood, is damaging children. Rates of childhood anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, and other mental illness are surging.
Conundrums
Which is the lesser of two evils — having a lesser evil in public office or having a greater evil moaning about losing? If the candidate who was the greater of two evils loses thereby, doesn’t that outcome represent a lesser of two evils?
Lysander Spooner Quote #21
By my reading, Spooner is opposed to “quanto-cracy” in any form. There are no mathematical paths to freedom, except those dealing with the individual’s voluntary relationship with each other individual, directly, in their scope of action.
This Just In
The media are dithering again. They incorrectly interpreted the Donna Brazile story to say that elections had been rigged. Now they are sticking to that incorrect story against a tsunami of contradicting fact.
Pot Meet Kettle, Kettle, Pot
It seems odd that associates of one political party will regard members of opposing political parties as though they have character defects.
Quit Worrying about the Russians in Our Borderless World
Is American society so fragile that a few “divisive” ads, news stories, commentaries, and even lies — perhaps emanating from Russia — threaten to plunge it into darkness? The establishment’s narrative on “Russian election meddling” would have you believe that.