Bad Boy!
When I leave my gym, there's a red light at the intersection that literally takes five minutes to change. Often, it will skip the green arrow for people waiting to make...
The Virtue of Pressure
How much would the average new car cost if the least expensive new car you could buy cost around $5,000?
Probably, a lot less than the current average (2012) of just over ...
Breaking Through
Lenin asked, "What is to be done?"
The question facing liberty-minded people almost 100 years later is the same. But our answer should not be Lenin's answer - violent lashing out.
I get...
Boycott Autozone
If they won't respect our rights, maybe they'll pay more attention to our dollars. Or rather, the lack thereof - when we cease doing business with companies that don't respect our...
Their Proper Name
Ask any lawyer about the importance of being precise - or evasive - with language. Alexander Hamilton and his federal supremacists understood. So did railroad lawyer and slave-not-freer Abe Lincoln. (For...
Rights – vs. What Ifs and Mights
"Rights" - like "freedom" - is one of those terms that means different things to different people. Often, mutually contradictory things. Perhaps the simplest way to identify a right is to...
Permission Slips Instead of Rights
Our slavery is ingenious because it's so very subtle. Most people not only don't see (much less feel) their shackles - they get angry when someone calls attention to them. Most...
Here’s How it Will be Done…
Incrementalism has proved depressingly effective as a tool for getting most people to quietly surrender their rights piecemeal. For gradually habituating them to an ever-diminishing circle of liberty. When the circle...
Cloverized – Again!
Yesterday, I ran into a fresh Clover patch - the enstupidation of what had been a commendably Libertarian-minded entrance/exit to the main shopping center in my small-town Burg of Roanoke, VA.
Previously,...
TSA To Blame For More Deaths Than Al Qaeda
We're told Gate Rape saves lives - pure conjecture, since it's all hypothetical. After all, not one "terrorist" has been caught (much less stopped) as a result of the terroristic tactics...