Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Ideas Have Consequences

by Charles A. Burris
Previously by Charles A. Burris: The Manichean Battle Over Sonia Sotomayor
I would like to call your attention to a virtually unknown little book, The Lost Literature of Socialism, by George Watson, Fellow in English at St. John’s College, Cambridge and editor of the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
As the publishers explain [...]

Memorial Day 2009: How About A New Meaning?

by Russell D. Longcore
Copyright by Russell D. Longcore
russlongcore@gmail.com
Special to The Libertarian Enterprise
The Memorial Day 2009 weekend is upon us. Many will use this weekend as the first short vacation of summer. Picnics, boating, traveling, family gatherings, and dedication to enjoyable activities are the rule this weekend.
But Memorial Day is meant to honor the men and [...]

Chrysler is Bankrupt

Chrysler is going to file for bankruptcy since they failed to come up with a plan that is acceptable to their creditors to restructure by the date the Obama administration set. On the other hand, GMC has found a path to restructuring which involves the government and the UAW being the major owners, with the [...]

The Replacement of the Police and the Judicial System

Subscription-Based Patrol and Restitution have developed a business model for Subscription Based Patrol and Restitution. It seems to merely be an academic exercise right now, but who knows what could happen. For a nominal fee, they would patrol the residence with a guaranteed response time (something government based police could never figure out). If [...]

Up With Libertarian Entrepreneurship!

by Gil Guillory
There are lots of great ideas for expanding liberty. The most important is probably spreading the ideas of liberty through popular articles, lectures, books, interviews, and formal classes. For these things, we need a professional class of libertarian intellectuals. For those of us who are not quite scholars and who are fed up [...]

My Illinois 5th Vote

I have done it, I have voted for “None of the Above” for the Illinois 5th Congressional Seat. I was thinking about not voting for two reasons. First, the real election was weeks ago during the primary, because who every wins the democratic ticket is basically automatically the winner of the seat. I predict a [...]

The Government Should not have an Advertising Department

I was all ready to write a post about how Obama is trying to get the congress to pass the largest budget in US history, and how he claims to be fighting the special interests and Washington lobbyist when the only thing he is doing is changing which special interests and Washington lobbyists he is [...]

The President’s Address to the Congress

I watched Mr. Obama addressing the congress tonight. It was generally the same as on his first press conference as president, where he basically said that without the government the world would stop turning. He explained that the people can do somethings, but we need the almighty government there to spur the people in the [...]