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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
This evening, we had our 30,000th comment here on the Liberty Papers.
On behalf of all of us who post here, I’d like to thank you, our audience, for your feedback, arguments, discussions, and explanations.
You, our readers, are why we write.
Thanks for reading.
Continue reading 30,000th Comment
Posted in Admin, Blog Discussions | 1 Comment »
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
According to the Iranian government, the person dying below was a terrorist. No doubt all the people walking around her in apparent unconcern for there were fellow terrorists, and the people she was terrorizing were outside camera range.
She is being called Neda. The person who uploaded the video to Youtube claims that he [...]
Continue reading This is Government
Posted in Democracy, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Free Speech, Freedom, Freedom of Association, Freedom of the press, Individual Rights, War on Terror | 41 Comments »
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Judging from his statements and the note he left in his car, James von Brunn walked into the Holocaust Museum believing that he was about to strike a blow against Jewish world hegemony and Federal gun-control. Even by his twisted standards, his actions were counterproductive. His plan was to massacre people visiting and working at [...]
Continue reading Symbolic Victories Are Often Real Losses
Posted in Activism, Culture, Elections, Fascism in America, Keep and Bear Arms, Strategies For Advancing Liberty | 5 Comments »
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
The Democrats are steamrolling over all opposition, putting bad idea after bad idea into practice. The Republican Party is in no position to stop them, and their impotence has everything to do with their ideological bankruptcy during the Bush years.
At its heart, the Republican Party was dominated by mercantilists, people who believe in big [...]
Continue reading The Bankrupcy of the Republican Party
Posted in Republicans | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Since Barack Obama has decided to continue down the path George Bush started down, the path of Robert Mugabe and Friedrich Ebert, the United States economy will soon be facing all the problems associated with inflation.
Unfortunately, the effects of inflation are poorly popularized, meaning that most people have a very limited understanding of inflation. As [...]
Continue reading The Signs of Inflation
Posted in Currency and Monetary Policy, Economics, Inflation, Monetary Issues, Theory and Ideas | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
On this website, we have a category called “Dumbasses & Authoritarians” that is a grab bag of stories about really dumb or vicious government officials. Typically, the posts that are assigned to that category detail some government official who is making everything worse via his actions. No, not every post gets assigned to that [...]
Continue reading One Proper Way To Confront a Government Official
Posted in Activism, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Strategies For Advancing Liberty, Theory and Ideas | 4 Comments »
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Men (and women) who physically abuse their spouses often express remorse afterwards. “Come Back Baby, I won’t hit you anymore” they say. And puzzlingly, their battered spouses often say yes, even though this latest offer is probably just as unlikely to be true as the previous 600 offers. To those of us observing [...]
Continue reading Why Do We Keep Believing Them?
Posted in Corruption, Culture, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Elections, Fascism in America, Government Incompetence, Hubris, Liberty, Theory and Ideas | 5 Comments »
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Many Republicans, having discovered that Bush’s policies are tyrannical, are making noises about wanting out of the fascist state that they were cheering on a few months ago. While we may wonder why it took the trivial matter of having people who have the letter D appended to their names on [...]
Continue reading No Secession, No Legitimacy!
Posted in Democracy, Doublespeak, Fascism in America, Federalism, Founding Fathers, Freedom, Liberty, Socialism, Taxation, Theory and Ideas | 20 Comments »
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
The furor over the Tea Party movement has been quite exciting. While I love watching government officials and their sycophantic propagandists energetically denounce people for daring to suggest that people should be permitted to keep their earnings, I, like others, think the protests - in and of themselves - are insufficient to meaningfully change the [...]
Continue reading Keeping What What We Make Away From the Tax-man
Posted in Activism, Culture, Fascism in America, Fiscal Policy, Freedom, Liberty, Monetary Issues, Property Rights, Strategies For Advancing Liberty, Taxation, Theory and Ideas | 4 Comments »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Somali pirates have been in the news a great deal lately, and there is a great deal of controversy as to how to deal with them. To date, the proposed solutions seem to be a simplistic calls for a) intervention to build a stable state in Somalia, b) send in various national navies to engage [...]
Continue reading Responding to Piracy on the Somali Coast
Posted in Foreign Affairs, History, Non-Intervention, War on Terror | 10 Comments »
Monday, March 30th, 2009
The trainwreck that is the Obama administration continues with his support for caps on executive pay. This bad idea has been tried before, and had the disastrous result of enhancing the power corporations wield over their employees, particularly with upper and middle management. It contributed to many of the instances of corporate malfeasance.
The [...]
Continue reading Obama Encourages Corporate Malfeasance
Posted in Corruption, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Economics, Free Trade, Government Incompetence, Hubris | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Would that we had an articulate defender of freedom in Congress as Daniel Hannan, Minister of the European Parliament for South East England.
Here is a video of him confronting the Prime Minister of England.
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in [...]
Continue reading You, Sir, Are the Devalued Prime Minister of a Devalued Government
Posted in Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Economics, Free Trade, Government Incompetence, Hubris, Taxation | 7 Comments »
Friday, March 20th, 2009
The United States is a banana republic. The Jeffersonian ideal of a series of republics built upon enlightenment values of freedom and reason has died. It wasn’t a sudden death, like that which occurs in a car crash; where one can pinpoint to the second where death occurred. Rather it was [...]
Continue reading Abandoning the Rule of Law
Posted in Activism, Corruption, Crime and Punishment, Criminal Justice Reform, Culture, Fascism in America, Individual Rights, Strategies For Advancing Liberty, Theory and Ideas | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Barack Obama is making the same disastrous mistake that George Bush did, and I am amazed that neither he nor his advisers are aware of it.
Many people have commented that Obama has effectively given Pelosi and Reid free rein to insert as much prok as they wish into their spending bills while pontificating in mock [...]
Continue reading Obama: Third Term for Bush
Posted in Activism, Energy Policy | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Václav Klaus gave a speech that U.S. politicians would do well to listen to:
The citizens of the Czech Republic feel that the European integration has an important and needed mission and task. It can be summarized in the following way:
- removing unnecessary – and for human freedom and prosperity counterproductive – barriers to the free [...]
Continue reading Václav Klaus Addresses the European Parliament
Posted in Democracy, Economics, Free Trade, Freedom, Government Regulation, Theory and Ideas | 5 Comments »
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
The Obama administration, having retained the basic elements of Bush’s disastrous n ational security policies, and having applied a similar political approach to the economy, has set the stage for the collapse of the U.S.
The number of laws that tangle us all continues to multiply. At this point it is probably impossible for us [...]
Continue reading Ignore the State
Posted in Activism, Strategies For Advancing Liberty, Theory and Ideas | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Over at Reason, Radley Balko has published a damning article and video of Dr Michael West attempting to murder a man named Jimmie Duncan.
In 1993, [Dr Michael West and Dr Steven Hayne] conducted an examination on a 23-month-old girl named Haley Oliveaux of West Monroe, Louisiana, who had drowned in her bathtub. The video shows [...]
Continue reading Dr Michael West Filmed Committing Attempted Murder
Posted in Corruption, Crime and Punishment, Criminal Justice Reform, Death Penalty, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Government Ethics, Government Incompetence, Human Rights, Legal | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
College enrollment has been booming. Schools have not only been adding new seats to existing programs but also adding new programs. And, unlike the free-market process where the supply of a good is expanding dramatically, the price of these seats has been increasing dramatically – much faster than the CPI. The increased [...]
Continue reading Another Looming Bubble: Higher Education
Posted in Credit Crisis, Education, Government Incompetence | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 9th, 2009
One of the bizarre fallacies propounded by President Obama, the Congressional leadership, and their intellectual enablers such as Paul Krugman, is the notion that society should be organized to give people jobs, and that if the supply of jobs is insufficient to meet the demand, the government should step in and create an additional supply [...]
Continue reading An Economy Is Not About Jobs
Posted in Credit Crisis, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Economics, Fascism in America, Government Incompetence, Monopolies | 10 Comments »
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
John Hasnas of Georgetown University wrote What It Feels Like To Be A Libertarian:
…almost no one ever discusses what it feels like to be a libertarian. How does it actually feel to be someone who holds the principles described in Murray’s book?
I’ll tell you. It feels bad. Being a libertarian means living [...]
Continue reading What It Feels Like To Be a Libertarian
Posted in Activism, Libertarians, Politics, Strategies For Advancing Liberty, Theory and Ideas | 6 Comments »