Adding Soap to the Bubble Bath
Washington excels at unintended consequences. A law gets passed or a regulation is imposed that’s meant to do this . . . but ends up causing that.
One example of this phenomenon is the way...
The Fix Was In From The Beginning
I threw the Constitution in the woods years ago, when I became aware of its true nature as a document empowering government rather than protecting the rights of the people. The...
But There’d Be No Roads!
Along with the Myth of Authority - the idea that being ordered about by other people is legitimate so long as those people have given themselves titles or wear uniforms -...
“Clover” & “Gil”
The other day, Prison Planet published an article about government trolls who are paid to post disruptive comments on contrarian (anti-government/anti-corporate) web sites. We've long suspected such trolls have attempted to...
Uncle’s Roads…
When you’re a Libertarian, you get challenged a lot to conjure what things would be like absent Uncle’s interventions.
For example, roads.
The contra argument - against privately built and managed roads -...
Tesla Goes Up in Smoke… Three Times
The owner of another Tesla has died - horribly - in Davie, Florida after his car struck a tree and burst into flames.
It then burst into flames again - post mortem...
Good Men
Can a good man spend his days doing bad things and remain a good man? What if he chooses to spend his days doing bad things and could at any time elect not...
Fixing The Cop Problem
You've no doubt heard the term, "checks and balances." It's usually mentioned in the context of government - of the American form of government (well, its theoretical form) in particular. The...
Fuel Riots – The Paris Preview
They're rioting in France over the government's imposition of artificial fuel scarcity.
There's no actual shortage; the country - the world - is swimming in fuel, courtesy of new discoveries and new...
The Automotive Low Flush Toilet
I wish I could take credit for this one, but I can’t. However, I will shamelessly use it - and credit the reader (Jim H) who made the analogy:
Auto-stop/start systems -...