February 2012
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“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn, on Kurt Vonnegut.
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“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers...”
– Charles Bukowski.
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I believe in the separation of everything and...
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How Democracy Began
Person 1: You look a little too stupid to make decisions for yourself.
Person 2: Yeah, I feel the same way about you.
Person 1: Hm... how about I just decide things for you, and then you decide things for me?
Person 2: Okay. That sounds like a really great plan.
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“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
– G.K. Chesterton.
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“The typical foreign-born adult resident of the United States today is more...”
– Daniel T. Griswold.
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“I can think of few things as pernicious as nationalism (disguised as...”
– Ricardo Perez.
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“To desire freedom is an instinct. To secure it requires intelligence. It must be...”
– The New Approach to Freedom, E.C. Riegel.
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“Libertarianism is ‘cultish,’ say the sophisticates. Of course, there’s nothing...”
– Tom Woods.
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Yahoo Answers teaches me more than my professors...
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“A question arises from the recent controversy between President Obama and the...”
– Sheldon Richman.
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If only Catholics still felt the same way about...
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“It’s a new technology that heats up every time a civilian is incinerated in a...”
– Nate, on the Obama campaign’s warm t-shirts.
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“If government had taken over the auto industry in 1920, today we’d all be...”
– Harry Browne.
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self-ownership:
statehate:
bacon is literally the most disgusting substance that I’ve ever had the displeasure of having allowed in my mouth
Stick to politics, Ricardo.
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“I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going...”
– Charles Bukowski.
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“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the...”
– Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist.
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“If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.”
– Julian Assange.
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weareshackleford asked: I once read an essay by Milton Friedman in which he said (paraphrasing) "libertarians should oppose democracy as they will always be out numbered," and instead they should support open boarders of nations and let states compete for citizens. What are your thoughts?
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“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at...”
– Jacob Hornberger.
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“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill...”
– George Orwell.
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“Piracy is not raiding and plundering Best Buys and FYEs, smashing the windows...”
– Paul Tassi.
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“It was a narrow escape. If the sheep had been created first, man would have been...”
– Mark Twain.
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“It would shock just about everyone to know that prices in the United States fell...”
– Peter Schiff.
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“Looking ahead I liked very little of what I saw. I wasn’t a misanthrope and I...”
– Charles Bukowski.
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“Most creative individuals find out early what their best rhythms are for...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
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“By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don’t mean fiddle with the code. I mean...”
– Ron Paul.
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my new editor told me to use "fewer facts" in my...
lolololol
okay brb mang let me add some twilight plot and keynesian theory
January 2012
34 posts
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“Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his...”
– Murray Rothbard.
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“I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think maybe we should send some...”
– Ron Paul.
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Note to university professors:
If you hire cute hippie girls to run your supplemental sessions, we will be much more willing to attend.
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“With the advent of Napster in 1999, music lovers discovered that […]...”
– Against Intellectual Monopoly.
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“We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational...”
– Charles Bukowski.
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“It not the people who vote that matter. It’s the people who count the votes that...”
– Joseph Stalin, on Newt Gingrich’s 40% win in SC.
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“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– Jessica Hische.
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The Root of SOPA.
The new legislation certainly has its deep legal flaws (i.e. guilty by accidental association), but we need to realize that SOPA is only a consistent extension of intellectual property enforcement, nothing else.
SOPA is an increase in government power, so attempts to pin this on the free market are pointless. Music corporations aren’t the ones hiring police officers to arrest you for...
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SOPA and the Internet.
October 25th, 2011: SOPA first mentioned on the Internet.
January 18th, 2012: First time I hear SOPA mentioned in person.
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“Economists are often accused of believing that everything—health,...”
– David Friedman.
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“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that...”
– Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand.
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The Gold Standard.
People tend to believe that the gold standard is “taking a step back in time.” But it’s not. It’s taking a large step forward after the previous generation’s many (yet subtle) steps backward. Trade within the human species first evolved into a bartering mechanism, and then—after centuries of experiments (including many in paper money)—it was universally...
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“Gingrich looks like a troll and Santorum looks like a creepy boy scout leader.”
– Ashley.
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Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling...
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