“If your approach is so great, why hasn’t any country anywhere in the world ever tried it?” writes Michael Lind of Salon.com. Supposedly this is the great impossible question which entirely refutes the efficacy of a free and voluntary organization of society. Lind argues in his article that, since no nation has ever tried it,...
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Useless Idiots
Stories about people who are useless to society.
The Question Libertarians Supposedly Can’t Answer
The Anarchist Prime Minister of Sweden
“It is important to prove that we are not controlled by those committing violent acts… We have groups of young men who believe that you can and should use violence to change society. Let us be clear. This is not okay. We cannot be governed by violence.” -Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt He sounds like an...
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Lupe Fiasco Kicked Off Stage at Obama Inauguration
Lupe Fiasco played at Obama’s Inauguration and had a few choice words for the prez. ”Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit. That’s why I ain’t vote for him, next one either. I’m part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful.” Spin notes that he was kicked off of the stage...
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Gun Control: Using Threats To Get What We Want
How many of us in our daily lives threaten others with violence to get them to comply with our wishes? I reckon that the majority of us don’t regularly threaten people. There is a logical reason for this; when we threaten people we burn social bridges. Cooperative arrangements between humans are necessary in order...
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Bitcoin Fear Mongering By An MBA School Ranking Website? – Possible Ties To Bank of America
Good lord this video is about as biased as it gets when it comes to explaining Bitcoin. In fact, they don’t even bother to explain Bitcoin, beyond saying its a decentralized currency that can’t be controlled by bureaucrats. Of course, the video makes the assumption that this is an entirely terrible thing. The video...
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Michael Suede vs. Russ Roberts – Why Keynesians Always Get it Wrong (and Most Economists Too)
I had this rather interesting exchange with economist Russ Roberts, of George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, that arose from my comments on a recent YouTube video that was posted by Reason magazine. The conversation below was copied and pasted from the YouTube comments section of this video. Roberts’ comments are in red. I’d rather hear him...
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Detroit Spent $15,570 per Pupil in 2010
Detroit spent $15,570 per public school pupil in 2010, while operating some of the worst schools in the nation. 47 percent of Detroit citizens are ”functionally illiterate.” In 2009, Detroit public schools actually set a record for the lowest scores ever in the history of National Assessment of Educational Progress testing. At $15,000 per pupil,...
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Former Fed Chair Paul Volcker Half Jokingly Declares The Fed To Be Insidious
Paul Volcker, former Chairman of The Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, gets confronted by Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange about his attendance of past Bilderberg meetings. When Rudkowski questioned him about his involvement in the Bilderberg meetings, Volcker said he barely remembered them. When pressed further, Volcker said he probably didn’t...
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The “Defense” Industry Wants to Draft Your Kids With The Help of The New York Times
Recently Thomas E. Ricks, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, authored an article entitled “Lets Draft Our Kids” in the New York Times that called for the military conscription of 18 year olds. I have a great curiosity about people who advocate for conscription (which is essentially slavery) and war, so I decided...
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Libertarianism, Disagreeing With The Mainstream and Self-Worth
Recently I authored a piece on the Higgs Boson discovery, in which I pointed out that the physicists in question haven’t proven anything yet. I compared the standard model of physics to a religious doctrine and its adherents to crazed zealots. This earned me a prime-time spot on the Reddit drama discussion board,...
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