Interview: A big freakin' libertarian's Big Freakin' Book
Tom Knapp's blog bio identifies him this way: "Thomas L. Knapp, aka KN@PPSTER, is Senior News Analyst at the Center for a Stateless Society, letters editor at Antiwar.com and publisher of Rational...
View ArticleChemtrails, Zen tales and the libertarian Zero Aggression Principle
Everyone, we are told, knows that chemtrails, those white fluffy-looking streaks crisscrossing the skies of our world, are not vapor trails left by the Jet engines of airplanes; they're really a...
View ArticleFerguson, racism, race-baiting and 'police-ism'
With all due respect Ferguson, Missouri, It's not just a racism problem, it's a police-ism problem. If you're a hammer, as the old saying goes, everything looks like a nail that must...
View ArticleA Libertarian fireplace for a libertarian Santa visit?
Every libertarian should be ecstatic over the "Libertarian Indoor Ventless Electric Wall Fireplace." This "Libertarian" item is currently available at various venues like Amazon, Walmart and Sears. It...
View ArticleChicken salad economics and the ghettoization of America
"Taxes," Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote, "are the price we pay for a civilized society." But taxes, libertarians know, are the skim the "civilized" ruling classes take from the ruled classes to...
View ArticleVoluntaryists take on the tasteless TSA tormentors
The Voluntaryist Valiants are vaulting back into battle with yet another action packed adventure comic book episode and these dealers of defensive deeds are in need of freedom's financing. In other...
View ArticleForget net neutrality, libertarians want net freedom
FFTF, Fight For The Future, is a nonprofit group fighting to implement "net neutrality" in the name of "Activating the internet for the public good." To accomplish this they want to take the internet...
View ArticleDebunking the Daily Kos anti-libertarian bunkum
When a writer like "arendt" at Daily Kos gets the most fundamental premises of his nearly 3,000-word harangue-plus-addendum against libertarianism so utterly wrong you know there's no sense reading...
View ArticleJury rights activists rally in NYC around Silk Road trial
The trial of Ross Ulbricht, accused by the federal government of running the Silk Road "dark web" site on the Internet, kicks off on Monday, January 5, in New York City. Libertarians see the trial as...
View ArticleInterview: George Donnelly says 'Screw Activism. Build community.'
George Donnelly may be best known to libertarians as the former Tyranny Fighter who was manhandled by uniformed thugs outside the Allentown, Pennsylvania courthouse and put through judicial hell...
View ArticleProf says individuals are myths and libertarians are Republicans
In a November NY Times article anthropologist John Edward Terrell claimed that individualism is an "American myth." While attempting to prove his position he misuses "libertarian" in his commentary,...
View ArticleVoluntaryists vs TSA comic still counting on your cash
The Voluntaryist Superhero comic book campaign at the Indiegogo crowdfunding corner is counting down to its conclusion on February 10 and they're still shooting short of their $7,000 target. The...
View ArticlePakistani teachers have guns; US teachers have whining
Why are the supposedly "backwards" Third World Muslim people so much smarter than the Western World's wimpy gun-fearing self-defense-hating populations? Simple; they deal with reality every day while...
View ArticleBook Review: 'Lando Cruz' cruises in libertarian page-turner
Full disclosure: This isn't really a book review. It's more of a Book Appetite-Whetter. The book in this case is Lando Cruz and the Coup Conspiracy, a near-future libertarian dystopian science fiction...
View Article'Capitalism' suffers from Chronic Ideological Definitional Disorder
There are at least four (and probably more) different understandings of what the word "capitalism" means floating around in the web world and because people cling only to their own definitions they...
View ArticleNet Neutrality is the end of free speech
"The FCC is plotting to take over the Internet." declares DownsizeDC President Jim Babka. "Their plan for doing this has been kept secret, but insider leaks suggest the plan is horrifying." This is the...
View Article'Government Libertarian Paternalism:' weasel words for 'Nanny State'
Anyone who embraces the Zero Aggression Principle against initiation of force, intimidation and fraud can legitimately call themselves libertarians. In a voluntary society everyone is free to live as...
View ArticleThe Social Contract is a master-slave contract
In his commentary on his Beautiful Anarchy "writing platform" at Liberty.me Jeffrey Tucker sagaciously identifies the 50 Shades of Grey movie as an allegory for our relationship with government. In...
View ArticleFuture SF flick spoiler alert: 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistrust'
From time to time news emerges that master SF novelist Robert A. Heinlein's libertarian masterwork The Moon is a Harsh Mistress will finally become a film. And time after time after time it doesn't...
View ArticleBelle Knox vs the libertine-libertarian loathers
What a great opportunity for all the old libertarian loathers to come crawling back out of the wormy woodwork and start calling all libertarians "libertines" again after everyone thought they had...
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