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[Note: Cross-posted from my HLS blog .] When Larry Lessig launched his " Anti-Corruption Pledge" last year, I commented on the Wiki page he set up for it , and left a copy in an earlier blog post . Larry responded the next day. I copy here both his reply and my counter-comment: But even if Limited Liability is a more fundamental problem, which
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Robert Higgs , Senior Fellow in Political Economy and Editor at Large, The Independent Review , has a piece up at The Independent Institute (last Tuesday, April 9), " Libertarian Wishful Thinking ," that is worth a "gander". I'd like to focus on the paragraphs excerpted below, and then give Bob and other lovers of freedom a little
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Just stumbled upon a website offering an interesting feature: a personal page that reposts tiles/thumbnails of your tweets and RTs that contain links and favorities, as well as to your Facebook page and such blogs as you care to link to. I logged on, and it made a beautiful page from just my Twitter activity, with the newest content on top and tabs
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I present a guest post by libertarian blogger " Libertarian Soup ". The original post is here ; I have made no editorial changes, other than some tweaks to the title. He can be found on Twitter here , and on Facebook here . Readers may recall that I have from time to time posted a few thoughts on some the apparent objectives of the Koch brothers
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" The War Inevitable " A speech by Patrick Henry March 1775 No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen
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I just stumbled across an old post and comment thread , that I thought some might find worth pondering, so am cross-posting it here. * * * Planet's First-Ever Mass-Extinction Precipitated by Humans Should we be alarmed at the current massive die-offs being noted in the animal and plant kingdoms? After all, new species arise and old species die off
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A few compass points (thrown together in response to someone poking me at FB): - To control our destiny, we need to bring governments, corporations and the institutionalized looting and risk-shifting they engender under control. - We do this in part by re-asserting ourselves, and demanding accountability and skin in the game by all, and in part by disavowing
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Yesterday I stumbled across the July 23 repost in LvMI Daily of Walter Block's article, IsThere a Right to Unionize? , which apparently originally appeared on LewRockwell.com, January 1, 2004. I left the following comment : Funny how Walter finds not worthy of mention the coercive role of the state in setting up limited liability corporations, whose
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For those befuddled about the "Global War on Terror" and the attacks on US embassies/consulates in Libya and Egypt, perhaps this bit of fun from The Onion in 1998 might help: State Department To Hold Enemy Tryouts Next Week (excerpts below; go to link for full piece) Taking steps to fill the void that has plagued the American military-industrial
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I refer to the very recently-launched " Anti-Corruption Pledge " here , which is the latest project by prolific Larry Lessig , now a Harvard Law prof and head of a corporate reform center there (and whom I have introduced and discussed in a number of preceding posts ). Larry further describes the purpose and motivation of the Pledge at his