I hope all of you have done something on this national day of service.
All levelly aside, the talks of mandatory or even incentivised national service is one scary thought. Now there is nothing wrong with some sort of service, but to have the government basically give somebody money in the form of tax brakes [...]
Have you heard about Larry Moore? If you have not, he’s the “best dressed shoeshine guy in San Fransisco.” Larry was homeless drunk that decided he didn’t want to be a homeless drunk anymore, so he stopped drinking and started shining shoes. He grew pretty popular and almost had the $600 to be able to [...]
That is basically what it seems that the United Kingdom likes to do. According to this article, Social Workers in Nottingham have determined that a mother is too stupid to be able to care for her daughter. The daughter was born with some problems at birth and social workers determined that the mother would not [...]
There are so many stories out there where there was some domestic problems, or maybe there was a fight, or maybe their kids are acting out and somebody in the house calls the cops so they can come over and mediate. Then the cops come over and many times somebody ends up going to jail [...]
So it seems that the bigoted blogger and internet radio host Hal Turner was actually agent provocateur working for the FBI. An agent provocateur basically is an agent working for the government that eggs people on in a way to “cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest,” He [...]
by Jeff Snyder
by Jeff Snyder
Recently by Jeff Snyder: Plastic People
J.H. Huebert had an excellent article last Friday about the US attempts to force the Swiss bank, UBS, to divulge information about US account holders to the IRS. These efforts are nothing less than an attack on Switzerland’s sovereignty in the form of its ability to [...]
by J. H. Huebert
by J. H. Huebert
Recently by J. H. Huebert: Ron Paul’s Manifesto Against ‘False Choice’
First we attacked Afghanistan. Then we attacked Iraq. Now the U.S. has it sights set on Switzerland.
Peaceful, neutral Switzerland? That’s right. What’s the crime? It’s not sponsoring terrorism or harboring weapons of mass destruction. No, in the eyes of [...]
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
The Gun in the Room
by Stefan Molyneux
“Put down the gun, then we’ll talk.”
One of the most difficult – and essential – challenges faced by libertarians is
the constant need to point out “the gun in the room.” In political debates, it
can be very hard to cut through the endless windy abstractions that are [...]
by Karen De Coster
by Karen De Coster
Recently by Karen De Coster: The Tyranny of Weight Control
You don’t have to be a dedicated libertarian, an anarchist, a front porch radical, an anti-government adherent, or a tea party insurgent to take exception to the government’s coercive political process that seeks to master you and crush your independence. [...]
The following documents the horrors that the US government (and British government for that matter) is capable of.
By Srdja Trifkovic
A few days ago a man who could have caused my death died of cancer at the ripe age of 86. He never faced a War Crimes Tribunal. He should have, and in a just [...]
