Europe's welfare deadbeats thrive thanks to Uncle Sugar
How do libertarians answer when people say "socialist welfare states like Denmark work"? Beyond the question of "works for whom?" – dictatorships "work" for dictators, kingdoms "work" for kings,...
View ArticleOuting the NSA's perverted peepers
Edward Snowden recently leaked proof that the National Security Agency is spying on people's online porn habits. NSA's reason/justification/rationalization/excuse is to discredit Muslims who attempt...
View ArticleAnother BIG idea from the anti-freedom freeloading collectivists
The BIG idea in collectivist circles worldwide now is BIG: Basic Income Guarantee. Governments can eliminate poverty, a Slate article explains, by giving every citizen between childhood and retirement...
View ArticlePeople finally learning libertarians aren't isolationists
A Washington Post article cites a Pew Research poll that claims more Americans are "tilting" toward a libertarian foreign policy. Apparently people in greater numbers are asking why a supposed...
View ArticleLet them eat wedding cake, or else
Under threat of fine a Colorado judge ordered a Christian baker to make a wedding cake, against his religious beliefs, for a gay couple. The ACLU called the ruling a victory for gay rights. But it...
View ArticleUS police state vs. US foreign policy
America's nearly unchecked and overreaching domestic police state has become so pervasive and powerful that it is now invading the country's foreign policy. Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was...
View ArticleAmerica: Marxist, Nazi, both, or more?
It's been pointed out before that the US suffers politically from Multiple Personality Disorder: it has a socialist public welfare policy, a fascist economic policy and an imperialist foreign policy....
View ArticleAnti-Libertarian troll warns against feeding libertarians
Libertarians know they're making progressives panicky when "former libertarians" feel compelled to create stereotyped pigeonholed strawman libertarians with which to shadowbox before pretending to...
View ArticleRolling Stone advocates death of freedom
Is it still cool to be cool? Is FAIL finally a fail? Has "jumped the shark" finally jumped the shark? Is What's Trending still trending? Has the #Hashtag fad #Ended? Do...
View ArticleEverybody's answering the question libertarians 'can't answer'
A question posed by Michael Lind on the liberal/progressive/collectivist Salon.com last June seems to have become the "Anti-Libertarian Shot Heard Round the Freedom World." Under the headline "The...
View ArticleThe police state isn't coming – it's here
Since 9/11 more innocent Americans have been killed by police than terrorists. The Kelly Thomas case, in which a jury awarded two cops 007 License to Kill passes after hearing witnesses and watching a...
View ArticleThe politics of human-caused global colding
This winter's headlines about the record-cold Polar Vortex weather that turned most of the nation into a meat locker and the ship full of climate specialists locked in heavy summer-time Antarctic ice...
View ArticleAnother decaying political hack plays the race card
Joe Newby, Policy & Issues Examiner, posted an article Friday with this headline: "Chuck Schumer blames Tea Party racism for failure to pass amnesty" The liberal/progressive obsession with racism...
View ArticleSomalia: a failed socialist state, not a 'Libertarian Paradise'
Some people, eager to publically display their utter ignorance of libertarianism, say things like, "If libertarians hate government so much they should move to Somalia." First, government-worshipping...
View ArticleDownsize libertarians launch Zero Aggression Project
Today the people at DownsizeDC announced the Grand Opening of their Zero Aggression Project that uses heuristics to accomplish their simple mission: To promote and teach The Zero Aggression Principle...
View ArticleNJWeedman released from jail, attacks anti-pot Christie
Ed "NJWeedman" Forchion, possibly the best known marijuana legalization advocate in the country, was released from jail Thursday, January 30, after the judge reconsidered his sentence and reduced it...
View ArticleSociopath vs. rationalizer: Does that describe Bill and Hillary?
A sociopath, by definition, is a person devoid of positive human emotions. They are incapable of love, empathy, sympathy, compassion, mercy, and therefore cannot express shame, guilt, remorse or...
View ArticleDoes Cass Sunstein have a paranoid fear of libertarians?
While libertarianism is based on the Zero Aggression Principle (ZAP) – no one may initiate force, intimidation or fraud against others – big government-apologists who benefit from the use of organized...
View ArticleCoercion vs. Freedom: Making decisions down at the Y
When people offer you one of two choices they are not "giving" you choices, they are taking away all of your other choices. There are almost always more than two choices in life, or three, or four...
View ArticleZAP makes Christians and libertarians compatible
The Christian Post published a long article titled "5 Reasons Christianity and Libertarianism are Compatible, Young Evangelicals Say." The article was a report about a panel presentation at The...
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