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No such thing as a right to happiness

A recent court ruling awarded a father $11 million due to the "emotional distress" caused by Wesboro Baptist Church members who picketed his son's funeral. The defendant's attorney presented the case as an issue of free speech. While...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Thu, Nov 1 2007

Filed under: government, democracy, rights

Pongamos Fin a la Guerra Contra las Drogas

por Ron Paul Recientemente hemos escuchado muchas historias impactantes sobre brutales asesinatos y violencia despiadada y relacionadas con la guerra entre los carteles de la droga y funcionarios mexicanos y de los EE.UU. Estamos aproximándonos...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sun, Jun 7 2009

A View from the Trenches, August 9th, 2011: "The beginning of the end"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: august-9-2011 Where do we start after two weeks of absence? Let’s start by first acknowledging how utterly wrong we were to leave gold before the debt ceiling debate. Our analysis was binomial...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Aug 9 2011

Grassroots Versus No Roots

Grassroots is a term that really needs no explanation. Let a blade of good old Bermuda grass get hold and it will spread across a lawn like an invading army. Grass starts at the gound and does its own thing. Which is why it is applied to viral political...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Fri, Sep 4 2009

Filed under: Obama, health care, opposition, ObamaCare, protest, Medical care, townhall, grassroots

Open Access Harvard

This could be huge! Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Sun, Feb 24 2008

Filed under: harvard, internet, Technology

El Derecho a No Obedecer - XV - La evolución de los organismos no es otra cosa que la división del trabajo

Presentamos este documento, escrito en el año 1919, por el Maestro Fernando González, conocido como el Filósofo de Otraparte, o también como el Filósofo de Envigado (Colombia). Veremos la coincidencia de sus ideas con...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Thu, Jul 9 2009

Formalizing Ordinal Utility

I’ve tried to make an attempt to formalize the Austrian notion of utility. This seems to be a praxeologically sound formalization which does not imply that mathematics can be used in economic theory. This formulation does not state that utility...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Mon, Jul 27 2009

"Hurt Locker" for Best Picture

Clearly the Academy is full of shit. Again. John, www.not-a-lemming.com

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Sun, Mar 7 2010

Filed under: Avatar, Hurt Locker, Academy Awards, Best Picture

California wants to control your thermostat

The 2008 proposed building standards issued by the California Energy Commission include a requirement that new air-conditioners have a radio-controlled thermostat that cannot be overridden by the owner . This allows the state to override your settings...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Fri, Jan 18 2008

Filed under: environmentalism, price controls

Prices and Production: Lecture I, Part III

Once the historical timeline arrives at Knut Wicksell, it no longer becomes productive chronologically, following the ways by which his theories were transformed. Instead, it is best to assess the errors of the Wicksellian theory, and to follow the necessary...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Sat, Mar 7 2009

antitrust and the rule of man

This article by S.M. Oliva makes clear the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of antitrust law. Collusion is perfectly natural and accepted for some groups, such as NBA players, public school teachers, and manufacturing company employees. But others get sued...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Fri, May 28 2010

Filed under: property rights

libertarian fiction

In the last few weeks I've read a few of the more famous "libertarian fiction" works—Henry Hazlitt's Time Will Run Back , and Garet Garrett's The Cinder Buggy and The Driver . Hazlitt may have been a good writer, but he had...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Thu, Aug 19 2010

Filed under: reviews, books

Menger on Time and Uncertainty

This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 1 . Previously in this series: Higher Ground via Higher Orders Adding higher orders to a production process necessarily requires...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Fri, Jun 19 2009

Filed under: Carl Menger, Economics

Hey World Government Leaders, Here is the SECRET to fix the Economy:

http://freemmm.blogspot.com/2008/10/hey-world-government-leaders-here-is.html

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Fri, Oct 10 2008

Filed under: economy, fix, government leaders

A View from the Trenches, June 23rd, 2009: "Is Credit the new Maginot line?"

This week, the Treasury is scheduled to sell $104BN. Yesterday, the Fed bought $7.5BN of them. As our last week’s letters suggested, the Fed has run out of time, governments are playing déjà vu policies, the markets “castled”...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jun 22 2009