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Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 5/4/2019

Politics eric - May 9, 2019

Here's the audio of my talk earlier this week with Bryan Hyde. This is going to be a regular/scheduled thing going forward. The show - my part of it - will...

Dangerous People

Politics eric - May 9, 2019

You've likely been following the suppression of speech by the big tech companies and may have noticed collusion - the real thing, unlike the asserted thing directed at the Orange Man. The...

The Commuter (and Privacy and Other Things) Tax

Politics eric - May 8, 2019

If you don’t wan't your dog to run away, you leash him. The government doesn’t want you to run away, either - but has a different kind of leash in mind. The...

Our Former Right to Travel – And How to Reclaim It

Politics eric - May 7, 2019

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Control mobility - free movement - and you have controlled the population. Their other rights are automatically cheapened into functional irrelevance if the right to come and go without permission and...

The First Autonomous Car

Politics eric - May 6, 2019

You will probably never hear a TED talk about it, but the fact is the most autonomous car ever made was last made almost 100 years ago. It was the Model T...

Latest Radio: Tom Woods Show 5/2/19

Politics eric - May 3, 2019

Here's the audio of my chat with Tom Woods! Also, I wanted to take this opportunity to mention that I will be doing a regular radio spot with Bryan Hyde, beginning...

Latest Radio: On With Bill Meyer KMED 5/02/19

Politics eric - May 3, 2019

Here's the audio of my chat yesterday with Bill Meyer over at KMED radio in Oregon! I will have the clip of my latest Tom Woods appearance up soon. ... Got a question about...

That First Taste of Freedom

Politics eric - May 2, 2019

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Riding a bicycle has changed - and the change may account for the waning of interest in driving as well as the waxing hostility between cyclists and drivers. Cycling is mostly an...

The Glut Cometh

Politics eric - May 1, 2019

Wouldn’t it be nice to know the canary’s going to sing before he actually does? Very few saw the crash coming back in ’08 - which was the last time the car...

Run Out of Gas? Hut! Hut! Hut!

Politics eric - April 30, 2019

Running out of gas is apparently "suspicious," too - and justifies a Hut! Hut! Hutting! Two guys in a black SUV were forcibly removed from their SUV, shackled and subjected to the...

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eric: Agreed, Jason – But, the problem for me is that everyone else texts. And so I need to be able to receive them. I mean...
Jason Flinders: I think the addictive quality is less when you use a simple phone that does nothing but act as a portable telephone. (No...
Bill B: I remember the absurdity of fuel rationing in the 70’s, when one could only buy gas on specific days depending on...
Eightsouthman: I think these systems open the valves early to avoid compressing air with no fuel. This is where the system has early...
JdL: How handy it will be for the government once cars are under explicit control! Anyone the government doesn’t like can be...
Eightsouthman: eric, our roads are pretty good but most are crowded but not having to deal with the loafers and such I sometimes find...
JACK: This article really sets me off ! Some of us, our ancestors that is, fought this yankee tyranny. They killed over 300,000 of us for...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I had no idea I came off as that stupid. Just remember what Forrest’s mom said.
eric: Hi D, Some of the cost of “coverage,” of course, is a function of the car you drive. Its value/replacement cost as well...
eric: I agree, T – All it will take is the right pretext, properly delivered. Just like 911. Anyone who remembers the world before...
eric: Hi Blue, I sometimes feel like an alien sent here to observe… When I first heard about Twitter, my immediate reactions was:...
eric: Hi Handler, The jury is still out for me on this question. My niece is still very young. But you’re right. I would absolutely...
eric: Morning, Handler! I read an interesting study a few weeks ago about the psychologically addictive nature of cell phones and the...
The Handler: It’s no accident that smartphones are controlling people.
The Handler: You’d be better off leaving it to a stranger that actually appreciates the car. My parents decided not to leave my...
The Handler: “IMHO Liberty / Freedom isn’t a learned concept,,, it cannot be taught. It has nothing to do with knowledge,,, in fact...
bluegrey6124: “I swear the average IQ has dropped 20 points or more since the advent of digital controls and ‘smart’ phones.”...
Jeremy: Hi Tuanorea, Yeah, me too! No, I never ate at Checker cab, wish I had though. Cheers, Jeremy
Tuanorea: Well Jeremy, I was hoping the last few decades were just a nightmare and I could still go to Michigan and Trumbull and sit in...
Tuanorea: Marky, It will surely be incremental. “I still think it’ll take more than a decade before today’s present fleet of cars can be...
BrentP: Robot cars at their finest: https://youtu.be/tP19WuyY3IY?t =428 (if the time in the URL doesn’t work 7:08)
Nunzio: D, Have you thoroughly shopped around? Premiums can vary wildly from company to company- and often the big ones that advertise...
D: Wow guys! I’m paying over $1300 a year for my 2013 CTS in TX. And that’s up from $900 3 years ago (even after switching...
Jason Flinders: Pumping losses are reduced with cylinder deactivation. I don’t know if that translates into any noticeable...
BrentP: On self checkout. First the discount went to those who benefit inflation. Second at many stores the cashier staff is slow and/or...
BrentP: In the late 1980s there was a push to ban all pre 1980 cars for the environment. It failed because people fought back not because...
BrentP: The welfare state rewards low IQ and short time preference and punishes high IQ and long time preference with little exception....
Anti Federalist: Ken wrote: “I swear the average IQ has dropped 20 points or more since the advent of digital controls and ‘smart’...
eric: Hi Culley, It takes very little power to maintain say 60 MPH on a flat road; as little as 30 or so horsepower. The slight economy...
MikePizzo: “Will enough of us wake up in time?” In time to do “what??”
MarkyMark: Well, you didn’t say that to begin with! As for only 8.3 million being returned, if the amount seized isn’t big,...
Jeremy: Hey Tuan, Even sarcasm is not immune from you. Cheers buddy, Jeremy
Culley: Thank you for your response but I still don’t understand how running four cylinders can save fuel. The amount of energy...
ken: Good luck with that,,, IMHO Liberty / Freedom isn’t a learned concept,,, it cannot be taught. It has nothing to do with...
Tuanorea: Jeremy, “A dystopian nightmare would descend upon the world!” That’s news to me. I thought it already had. If only I could...
Tuanorea: Marky, “If someone has to FORFEIT an asset on which they’re paying $6,000 or more PER YEAR, people are going to notice that,...
eric: Hi T, Prolly… but you never know. I have a niece… I suppose I could pass the Orange Barchetta on to her…
Tuanorea: Eric, Let me bring you back from “the before time in the long, long ago” to the reality of today....
BrentP: Everyone else must conform to your definitions of what’s real and how the public way should be used. Yeah. I expected as...
BrentP: So if you own a lumbering pickup truck you’re not a real car enthusiast? Especially if chose not to use your sports car...
BrentP: It’s not the opposite. You have decided I am ‘fake’ because I don’t drive like you do. And being someone...
Anonymous: Exactly. I have 3 who know now what it took me 40 years to discover.
eric: Hi Eight, Indeed – but circa 1969, most highways had 70-75 limits… that was 50 years ago. Today’s cars are as...
eric: Hi T, Indeed. But, there is also the opportunity to transmit the heresy of liberty down the line. If I found a simpatico chick, I...
eric: Hi Vonu, I doubt Gary’s paying appreciably less than I am. My truck is ancient – 2002 Frontier – and hardly worth...
Tuanorea: Eric, “I still debate with myself whether to have kids if the opportunity arises… is it a moral imperative? Or a moral failing...
eric: Hi Ken, I also sigh audibly in re the self-checkout. Not because of self-checkout, per se. But because – as you note –...
ken: There is very little hope Eric. Driving to the store,,, people talking on phones,,, walking in store,,, people talking on phones....
Vonu: Eric, It sounds like you could benefit from reading Gary North on automobiles. My automobile insurance has never exceeded $400 a...
Ernie: Freedom would/will fix so many things. When engaged in your driving, you don’t text or surf. You keep your equipment in top...
Nunzio: Awww, geez, yous two- yous remind me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ALaUQgjweYM
Eightsouthman: eric, we have some decent speed limits in Tx. 75 most everywhere and higher on I 10 and I 20 beginning in Ward county...
Anonymous: Heya 8, Well, you know one now! It would be my honor to join you on a trip. You really seem switched on!
MarkyMark: I didn’t say that DUI checkpoints don’t limit mobility; they do, in that they, at best, inconvenience you and it...
Chris: Clockwork Orange Alert¹: Chevrolet’s new safety mode blunts teen spirit https://www.detroitnews.com...
Tuanorea: Marky, “Unlike TSA patdowns or DUI checkpoints, limiting mobility will impact people economically.” You really think...
Eightsouthman: Anon, I’ve never known anyone who did acid that wasn’t changed to some degree by it….and I’ve...
Jeremy: “How is that AGWs are legally immune from the consequences of things which if we did them would be prosecuted as...
brazos_bend: Same here, trying to find a way out. Premium up over $600 since 2017, un-affordable now. House insurance premiums up same...
Nunzio: Mornin’ D & Eric, I concur! It’s now “like that” everywhere. The BS that started in CA, NY and MA 40...
Jason Flinders: It’s based on the ancient maxim that “The King’s men can do no wrong.”
brazos_bend: More feminization of vehicles, trying to break up the boys only club. Over at Thenewx.org where I post frequently, we all...
brazos_bend: Another butt ugly, nightmare under the hood. Though, it probably has more HP now than my 2013 V8 silverado which is only...
MarkyMark: BB, according to the math WE learned, it is…
Jeremy: Chuck, “Just like you expect me to “voluntarily” drive like a grandma so you can ride wherever you want whenever you...
MarkyMark: How is that AGWs are legally immune from the consequences of things which if we did them would be prosecuted as crimes?...
Eightsouthman: eric, I’ve seen a few videos of people having problems, often fairly severe, with GM pickups due to cylinder...
MarkyMark: Eric, I think this scheme will take a decade or so to fully implement. Why? Because people are simply keeping their cars...
brazos_bend: Eric my math may be off but isn’t infinity months larger than 48 months?
Tuanorea: Eric, “If one accepts the premises – that carbon dioxide is an “emission” and that its release by human activity such as...
ReadyKilowatt: Or maybe it’s just that they all went to the same colleges and continue to stick in the same circles. I’m...
ReadyKilowatt: But there’s the DMCA too. They needed both to keep from becoming common carriers, which is really what they should...
ReadyKilowatt: And don’t forget that the elites really liked the 3 broadcast network world. And the three record label world. And...
eric: Thanks, Victor! I also got a chill when I noticed the comment sections being shut down. And I have discovered, as an aside, that...
victor t: It became glaringly obvious to me where this was all going a few years back when i started to notice MSM sites starting to...
eric: Hi D, Indeed. Another crazy thing: Never in the history of the automobile has the average automobile been as powerful/quick/fast as...
eric: Hi John, I am convinced that if automated cars or speed limiters become common/mandated, the government will simply tax distance...
eric: Hi D, My parents lived in Arizona until 2016; you’re right – it’s changed. Because people have changed –...
bluegrey6124: It’s not the Internet; but rather, that damned social(ist) media that is making all but a few of us...
D: I spend a lot of time in AZ and it is even worse than the, rapidly eroding, situation in Texas.
John: The badge-n-gun-totin’ tax collectors will merely make up other reasons to pull you over. Touching the white line with your...
D: Eric – I’m paying much more now for a 2013 Cadillac than I did 27 years ago for a 12 year old 1980 Ferrari GTB. Insane....
Shotgun Chuck: “Uh, no. ‘We’ don’t ‘claim’ roads, the only person who seems to believe he has a right to...
Shotgun Chuck: “Yeah, I’m fake because I don’t intentionally drive at the limits of tire adhesion on the public way.”...
Shotgun Chuck: Sorry, but this misses the point entirely. The ones who don’t own cars are the ones I can sort of understand....
Shotgun Chuck: More a difference in mentality. When you’re on the street, there’s no real reward for “winning”...
Nunzio: Dayum, Ed! Ya got me. I don’t own a car. (I do own two trucks….)
BrentP: Yeah, I’m fake because I don’t intentionally drive at the limits of tire adhesion on the public way. There are...
BrentP: scared of the trees or something?
Ed: Chuck, I get what you’re saying about the fake enthusiasts. These guys who love to argue about their rights to the roads...
eric: Amen, Nunz! The people here are top shelf and my muse, too!
Jason Flinders: I’ve been wondering how long it will be before the metastasizing police state reaches out to crush the Amish....
Anonymous: Hi nunz, Thank you for saying kind things. Not to get too personal, but I’ve been having an unusually difficult time...
Nunzio: Exactly, Cantank! The Amish have it right. They’ve avoided most of the control, and most of the perils of modern life....
Jeremy: Hey Chuck, 1. “Every somewhat curvy road that’s within 30 miles of civilization and not already full of houses has already...
Nunzio: Eric, while your articles are always excellent, I have to say that this site has the best comment section on the internet! The...
Nunzio: And Brett Kavanaugh was responsible for a good deal of that legislation- hence the media circus surrounding his nomination to...
MarkyMark: Even Bill Maher stuck up for Alex Jones on his show! He said that he didn’t like Jones, but that AJ has a right to speak.
MarkyMark: Speaking of cats, how’s Fuzz doing?
MarkyMark: Yeah, considering that the scooter saves more than that in fuel alone.

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