A Crime Without a Victim: Is It Possible?

I had an interesting discussion with my family  this morning. It started out as a tirade against the speed limits. This is how it started: Point One: The government says that when you drive over the prescribed limit, there’s a greater likelihood that you will harm yourself, your passengers and also others on the road. My point: Why stop there? Point Two: Carrying on many conversations with people of various ages while trying to drive is distracting. It is harder to concentrate when your two-year old is saying something quite incomprehensible but she really wants you to understand what it…

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What I’m Thankful For

Since this is, after all, a sort of political/economic blog, I’m going to put a free market twist on what I’m thankful for. This is not in any particular order, I just write as things come to me. I’m thankful for… – Apple and their amazing and beautiful computers that make life so much fun and so much easier than Microsoft could ever do. – The Mises Institute and their relentless dedication to doing interesting things, sharing knowledge, and of course, being nice to me. – My friends who agree with me because it makes me feel like I’m not…

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The Great Thanksgiving Hoax

You know me by now, and so you must know that I can’t simply say “Happy Thanksgiving!” but must also give a revisionist story of history. So here it goes…the Thanksgiving story we never knew, by one of my favorite authors, Richard Maybury. http://mises.org/daily/336

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Life, Liberty and Property for Everyone

Wow. That’s all I can say. I was trying to think of a topic to write about, and this article just jumped off the screen and into my hands. It is from The New American. You may notice that I link to The New American fairly often. I don’t always agree with them. I probably agree with them 25% of the time, and so I’ll let you know when I do. So you don’t usually see the other 75% of the time when I’m going, “what? These people are absolutely crazy! I can’t believe they are actually saying that!” But…

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A Good Week

I hope you are having a good week because mine is going just great. I’m actually sticking to my schedule pretty well and doing what I wanted to accomplish. I’m reading the first couple chapters (or sections in chapters, depending on how they are set up) in four different books, “Conceived in Liberty,” “Man, Economy and State,” “Democracy: The God That Failed,” and “The Great Gain of Godliness.” I have yet to tackle Man, Economy and State. Usually I read in bed right before I go to sleep, and it is a little cumbersome to hold that large volume and…

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The North Koreans Are Going To Get Us All!

Even though it was South Korea that fired the first shot. As a friend commented, wars have been started over less than this. Rather scary. Pretty scary. Not North Korea, but South Korea and our government. Sadly, they have a bad reputation for starting wars because of attacks/invasions, etc…that didn’t really happen, or at least weren’t masterminded by the supposed enemy. Who knows what they will do next… http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/71052.html

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Has the Free Market Amused Us to Death?

I’m reading a book right now called, “Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940.” I bought it at our local library for 25 cents. It is a gem. I write a lot about this era in American history, and so it is very interesting to read the nitty-gritty details about life. Needless to say the author (David Kyvig) is quite the leftist. But I can easily penetrate through this propaganda, and there’s an interesting story behind it. The early 1900’s were really a time of great technological change, even revolution, in America. From driving to church in a buggy to…

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