February 2012
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In a moment of self-promotion vanity which is... →
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dereksinsanelyirrationaluniverse asked: Just curious if you've checked out the Mises institute.... I found your bog and instantly fell in love with it. Keep spreading the real facts :)
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“While Brazil and European countries are much freer than the US concerning...”
– Fernando Chiocca
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So who here's going to be at the ISFLC next week?
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conza replied to your photo: GPOYW. In other me-related news, I’m training for…
Treadmill. Laptop. Tumblr. Problem solved.
Come on, now, treadmill running doesn’t count. Inside air = sucky and the machine’s doing half the work for you! The ground isn’t going to conveniently move underneath me when I’m running that half marathon XD
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“I think we all understand that these values cannot truly find voice in our...”
– Barack Obama, 2012 National Prayer Breakfast
As you have probably figured out if you’ve been reading this blog for long or have checked out my other tumblr, I’m a Christian. Perhaps it’s for that reason that I find this excerpt in particular and the President’s whole prayer...
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What Thrives and What Dies During War? →
From the article comes this outline:
Main Street Economy: Land, Labor, and Capital Harmed By War
Retail business
Real estate and Insurance
Art and Entertainment
Airlines and capital intensive industries
Manufacturing and Non-defense capital goods
The Unregulated Economy: Technology and Entrepreneurship Harmed By War
Technology
Internet
Banking privacy
Small businesses
New businesses
...
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Sure, you can buy a cigar in Boston...if you're... →
The city of Boston has quietly banned all cigars which cost less than $2.50.
Translation: Blunts, no. Fancy Habanos, yes.
Second translation: Poor people smoking, no. Rich people smoking, yes:
The ban is effective February 1, 2012.
But for those upper class cigar aficionados, the elite few who are still allowed to smoke indoors at their pricey cigar bars, will still be able to purchase...
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12 Progressive Contradictions in Neoconservatism →
From the piece:
[W]hile neoconservatives are extremely vocal in their opposition to progressive domestic policies, they advocate a paternalistic approach to foreign policy.
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One must rabidly advocate “small government,” but blindly embrace a huge military as a part of the same government.
On a similar note, one must lionize the Founding Fathers’ vision of a decentralized federal...
January 2012
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Mitt Romney and Ron Paul: A Tale of Two Very... →
From the (very thoughtful) article — emphasis added:
The biggest divide, however, may be their supporters. Paul’s people, who dutifully showed up to hold signs bearing his name at some of Romney’s Florida events, are dedicated to Paul’s policies. Asking them the reasons for their support can easily lead to a 10-minute conversation about the advantages of non-interventionism or the gold...
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Hey, remember after we invaded Iraq and we found...
stfuconservatives:
Y’know the ones that the president, pretty much every other politician, every military general, and every intelligence analyst was CERTAIN were there? Yeahhh… Now tell me again about the imminent threat of a nuclear Iran. -Joe
Exactly.
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So I actually caught part of the GOP debate last...
This is unusual for me, because:
I don’t have a TV.
If I did, it wouldn’t have cable.
I’m sure it’s on the internet somewhere but don’t feel like finding it.
I already pretty much know what everyone is going to say.
That said, I must say that there were some…amusing, I guess you could say? — moments which I much enjoyed.
Topping the list is when...
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Why the Government Must Control the Internet →
n-morgan:
It wasn’t too long ago that that we had three sources of national news: ABC, CBS, and NBC. Print media were limited to the daily newspaper and national news magazines like Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. No more.
The media gatekeepers are few and far between today. The last gate – the biggest gate – is the internet. If it can’t be controlled, the people can’t be...
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The TSA has detained Sen. Rand Paul for refusing a... →
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“In other words, many SOPA opponents were confused and even shocked when they...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via kateoplis)
“The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” — Henry Kissinger
And then eventually, they pass laws to legalize it. Congress has to be kept busy somehow, right?
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“What cost $1 in 1900 would cost $25.85 in 2010. ...
Q. Under the Austrian School of Economics, and indeed by the predictions of its proponents, the huge, expansionary policies of the Federal Reserve should be causing run-away Inflation. Indeed, the cry for years has been to warn of dire hyperinflation should any of the no in place expansionary policies by tried. Yet this flies in the face of what we have seen, namely price stability (save for...
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Official List of "Too Big To Fail" Banks →
libertariancontrarian:
Do you do business with any of these vampires? If you do, you are a part of the problem.
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Wait, what?
mattgaw replied to your post: Since you’re someone who is both pro-life and pro-peace, I was wondering what you thought of the idea of the “consistent life ethic” which is a political philosophy that opposes all forms of legalized homicide such as abortion, war, capital punishment, euthanasia, ect?
LOL I like how nrneal asked how you justify abortion when your against all other violence and then...
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We're really going over this again?
Q. How can you legitimately believe that you are supporting the preservation of liberty when you are against taxes on the rich and for deregulating our economy. There is the freedom to do something and then there is the freedom from something. In the case of corporations, the question is whether they should have the freedom to exploit their workers and consumers without consequences, or whether...
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Ron Paul and Earmarks
Q. I like Ron Paul, for the most part, however why do Ron Paul fanatics never mention his millions of dollars in earmarks he asks for (and mostly receives) every year? — The Modern Patriot, from tumblr.
A. I’m not sure that it’s accurate to say that this issue is “never” mentioned. On the contrary, it’s brought up quite regularly as a supposed “gotcha” ostensibly showing Dr. Paul is not as...
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a-rascal-bled-misery asked: how do you feel about Gary Johnson?
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nrneal asked: Since you're someone who is both pro-life and pro-peace, I was wondering what you thought of the idea of the "consistent life ethic" which is a political philosophy that opposes all forms of legalized homicide such as abortion, war, capital punishment, euthanasia, ect?
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The Author of SOPA is a Copyright Violator →
Of course he is.