Am I the only one here who missed signing the Social Contract? Maybe I was sick that day. Oh wait…James Ostrowski argues that there never was a Social Contract, implicit or explicit. Hmmm…then how did we “consent” to being governed by this government?
Here is an excellent article by Butler Shaffer on why McChrystal had to go. It elaborates very nicely on a few thoughts I had yesterday on the subject, here.
These are some online reports or promotions of events in which I’ve participated. Bio at the Stephenson County Tea Party website and at the Monroe Times Report from Stephenson County Tea Party Speech at Rock River Times and here at the Prairie Advocate Report from Stephenson County Tea Party Speech at Austrian Economics Blog Report on Tea Party Express and Northern IL Tea Party Meeting at Rock River Times Picture at Rockford Register Star from April 15th Tea Party Promotion of Northern IL Tea Party Townhall in the Prairie Advocate (2/3 down the page) Excerpts from Interview in Vidalia, Georgia, after a…
(For Doing Exactly What Government Led Them To Do) by Matthew Novak, from Mises.org Although I am not one to condone negligence or malice, I have no intention of adding my voice to the chorus bashing BP. After all, they are one of many companies providing fuel for our cars, generating electricity to power our homes, and enabling so many aspects of our lives today. I could not readily type this short article, and expect to send it to an editor who will read it within a few hours and let me know whether he is interested, without companies like…
Thanks to this, I got a heads-up about this film being aired on Wisconsin Public Television tomorrow night. Although we don’t live in Wisconsin, we’re close enough that we get WPT anyways. I usually watch their “Sherlock Holmes” episodes on Thursday nights, but tomorrow night, I won’t turn it off at 9pm, but will stay up and watch “For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty.” I’ve been very excited about seeing this, but didn’t have the money to buy it…now, thanks to our wonderful government (isn’t that ironic?) I can watch it for free!…
There are two courses that you can sign up for, both having to do with the Road to Serfdom. One of them has no registration costs, and you can take the class at your own pace. Simply observe the United States government, keep an eye on everything that they’re doing, from internet regulations, to healthcare, to oil drilling regulations, and you see see how to pave the road to serfdom, if you ever happen to become a president, king, dictator, etc… The other is $175 to register, but is taught by Tom DiLorenzo, and will talk about “Despotism, Now and…
Very interesting take on the global economy, what our government is doing, what they plan to do, and what’s going to happen, over at Bob Chapman’s The International Forecaster, read the article here.
A fascinating article over at Lew Rockwell on the differences between Latin America and the United States. Excerpts to whet your appetite: People rarely race around at dangerous high speeds. They don’t delay either. Major collisions are much rarer than in the U.S. I lived for 5 years in a city of one million people that had no traffic lights or stop signs at the time. Traffic flow was very natural. Traffic would flow one way through an intersection until there was a natural lull and then the cars from the other direction would nose in and dominate the intersection until…
A new book is due out soon by John Taylor Gatto, read about it here. Samuel Blumenfield notes, “…with the educational-industrial complex, we are dealing with an entirely different animal, one that eats children alive, destroys minds, destroys families, undermines our culture, provides neither protection from our enemies nor academic learning for our kids.” There are countless times while I’m reading about public education where I stop and thank God that I was homeschooled. As a recent graduate, I’ve thought a lot about education in the last few months, and it made me realize, all over again, what a profound…
