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You can't buy a hill if no one lives there? Are you saying there is land in America that hasn't been claimed by private owners or governments, who can be negotiated with? I am unaware of such land. You sound frustrated, and I get that. But short of buying up all the land within line of sight, I can think of no way you can control a view in a
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Most people don't know how the Fed works. I didn't, until recently. I'm afraid any complex discussion of money theory is not going to resonate with people who are worried about jobs. I'm unclear on how a 100% reserve would work. How could they offer loans? If only on money beyond cash holdings, it would favor giant banks and erode competition
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Theists are free to believe. Atheists are free to not believe. Freedom is what libertarians are all about, not agreement on everything. (If I'm wrong, I'm leaving.) It is correct that a believer is restricted in his thinking, in the sense that if you accept the idea of a creator who gives his rules in a certain book, where that conflicts with
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No, you have no right to control what someone else does with his property just because you can see it from your window. What to do? Buy the hill. Can't afford that? Get a group of investors, say your neighbors + you, and buy the hill. Or, claim to be 12.5% native, say your ancestors are buried on that hill, and use the government as your weapon
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All '-isms' are boring. It's a key reason the libertarian position is marginal. I'm a recent convert, and I'm telling you -- we really need a simple message to be considered as a legitimate alternative. I know the Libertarian Party has improved on messaging, and Gary Johnson's got my vote, but we will never get past 3% until
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I'm new, too. Hopefully I won't get flamed on my first post. :) I like Shermer. He's a sharp guy. On this one, I feel he's thinking of a narrow solution (ban assault weapons) to a broad problem (mass murder in America). His math is fine; I've no doubt some psychopath will kill a few people In the next month or two, somewhere in the