Freedom produces creativity. The state stifles creativity. Freedom has elements of want, need, and ambition. The state rewards greed.
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Offshore
I don’t yet know a great deal about the revelations of offshore financial maneuvers, but I am intriqued. I am going to follow the stories of the Paradise Papers and the Panama Papers more closely.
Disobedience is a Virtue
When we spend most of our formative years being bombarded with the message—from parents, teachers, the media, agents of the state, etc.—that obedience is a virtue and disobedience is a sin, we “learn” that lie at a very deep psychological level, way beyond merely an intellectual understanding.
Statism is the Ultimate Embodiment of Vice
Pride is the worst kind of vice, power is the worst kind of pride, political power is the worst kind of power, and state power is the worst kind of political power.
What the Response to the Challenge of Jurisdiction Should Tell You
Challenging jurisdiction is a very effective way to reveal the emptiness of the claims made by law enforcement, prosecutors, bureaucrats, and politicians. These folks exist, supposedly, to protect us from predators and to lead us forward toward our collective destiny of equality and prosperity for all. That’s the constant message we receive throughout our lives, anyway. And it’s complete horseshit.
Legislators, Know Thy Limits
Technology is hardly the forte of the legislature. There are fundamental differences between a body of random people whose sole qualification is the ability to get voted into office, and entrepreneurs, who risk their own skin in the game, rather than risking the lives and livelihood of millions of others.
Veteran’s Day is the Worst; I Hate Veterans
Now before you blow your top, you easily triggered little snowflake you, allow me to rephrase: I hate the idea of veterans. We only have veterans because we have war, and we only have war because greedy politicians just can’t help themselves to the spoils that are the result of sending other people’s children to war.
A Poor Politician
In truth, the only way to curb political corruption is to drastically reduce the scope of government. Only when the politicians have nothing with which to be corrupt will they stop being corrupt.
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.
Deflection
It is never OK to tinker with the election process, but no combination of things done by not-POTUS will dot a single “i” or rejuvenate a specific uncrossed “t” in the career of POTUS.