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Putting The NAP In Its Proper Context

I contend that the non-aggression principle is not a contextless axoim and it requires a specific definition of the difference between genuine self-defense and the initiation of violence. There is a grave problem that thin libertarianism and plumb-line...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Jan 18 2009

Filed under: Objectivism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Vulgar Libertarianism

Another book recommendation: In Defense of Pure Reason

Been a while since I've last compiled one of these, and as I'm taking a break from the forum to catch up on some reading, what better time than now? I'll be rather brief this time round - primarily because I've yet to finish the book in...

Posted to Veritas Veritatum. by Jon Irenicus on Sun, Jan 18 2009

Children and The Family

The question of children's rights and familial authority is often regaurded as a grey area for libertarians, as it remains an issue of contention. I generally take a fairly anti-authoritarian view on the matter. While I think that Murray Rothbard's...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Jan 15 2009

Filed under: Ethics, Libertarianism, Stefan Molyneux, Murray Rothbard, The Family, Psychology, Children's Rights

For crashing fisheries, a coalition of mainline US enviro groups calls for .... property rights!

In a recent post , Andy Revkin , a New York Times reporter who blogs on energy and environmental issues at his "Dot Earth" blog, asks "When whale species, like the minke, are no longer rare, can they be both admired and eaten — as...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jan 14 2009

Filed under: tragedy of commons, property rights, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, whales, fisheries

The Best Example Yet ...

... of lemming-like behavior among humans. dirt 1234345.html No exposition necessary. - Futbol Guru

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Jan 14 2009

Zimbabwation: Coining a New Term for the Coming Economic Disaster

Bob Murphy asks what we should call the upcoming severe recession and inflation : I think we are in store for a very severe recession (i.e. depression) and very big price increases. It will be stagflation but worse. So we need a catchy term. The two contenders...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jan 14 2009

Filed under: Bob Murphy, Zimbabwe, misgovernance, inflation, depression

Rent-seeking: CEI's Chris Horner comes clean and acknowledges that climate denialists and alarmists are peas in the same pod

In an earth-shaking ;) essay in today's Human Events, CEI 's Chris Horner comes clean and acknowledges that climate denialists and alarmists are peas in the same rent-seeking pod. We have encountered Horner, former lawyer and now full-time scourge...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jan 13 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, gore, hansen, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, Horner, limited liability, climate change

Transcript of Bernanke's answer to Terry Easton on the Austrian school.

X : Yes, one right at the back, red tie, just underneath the cabinet rack. Terry Easton : Thank you, that's an Adam Smith tie, eh, at the Adam Smith Foundation. Thank you Dr. Bernanke. I really appreciate as we all do your challenge in dealing with...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Tue, Jan 13 2009

Filed under: transcripts

The Legacy of a Lemming

"The most important job I have had - and the most important job the next president is going to have - is to protect the American people from another attack." - President George Bush, January 13, 2009 There has been much talk in the past few...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Jan 13 2009

It has been a while but in socialist time all is happening really fast

From the ruins (or at least in the near future) I am trying to write something that captures what I am living and at the same time reflects what I am thinking, but none of the experiences I am about to live in this year will compare to what I have lived...

Posted to Notes from the ruins by rflores on Mon, Jan 12 2009

Filed under: step by step, socialism, venezuela

[Update 2] Neocons, conservatives, libertarians and Exxon join Jim Hansen in calling for rebated carbon taxes in lieu of massive cap/trade rent-seeking and industrial planning

[Update at bottom.] Neocons, conservatives, libertarians and Exxon`s Rex Tillerson have recently joined arch-warmer Jim Hansen in calling for rebated carbon taxes in lieu of massive cap/trade rent-seeking and industrial planning . I`ve blogged extensively...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jan 9 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, climate change

Blago and the senate seat.

Blago is going to face an impeachment trial for essentially a conspiracy to sell an appointment to a US senate seat. As disgusting as it is, I think the people of Illinois, which I am one, and those of the nation will be worse off with the seat NOT being...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Fri, Jan 9 2009

Revising Self-ownership

In various articles in the past I have made a monist objection to a dualistic concept of self-ownership due to the problems that an absolute mind/body dichotomy leads to. To summarize the problem: who exactly is it that is doing the owning? If I own it...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Jan 8 2009

Filed under: Ethics, Personal Freedom, Individual Sovereignty, Libertarianism, Philosophy

AMC and the Dodo

AMC. American Motors Corporation. Does anybody remember that one? They actually made some pretty cool cars. The Javelin and AMX come to mind. Forward thinking for the time, the AMX was a two-seat sports car with a 401 C.I.D. engine. Fast, good-handling...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Jan 7 2009

Filed under: economy, government, politics, corporations, automotive industry, AMC

Somali piracy flows from the greater and continuing Western theft and abuse of Somali marine resources

The January 4 Huffington Post carries a perceptive column by Johann Hari , a writer for the Independent , who explains that Somali piracy (which I have commented on here and here ) has roots in the Western theft and abuse of Somali marine resources -...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jan 7 2009

Filed under: tragedy of commons, fisheries, piracy, Somalia