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The scariest paper I read today

As I'm bunkered down in the library this early evening plowing my way through back issues of Crime and Delinquency , I couldn't help but get sidetracked by reading this paper unrelated to my dissertation. Jill Leslie Rosenbaum and Lorrain Prinsky...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Tue, Jan 29 2008

Filed under: crime, music, Entertainment and Culture, Punk Rock

PaleoConservaNationalistTarians

There has been a lot of hooting and hollering lately in libertarian circles, particularly as it relates to the Ron Paul campaign. This seems to be representative of a broader conflict between "culturally left" and "culturally conservative"...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Jan 29 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Decentralization, Centralization, Racism, Collectivism, Separatism, Constitution, Religion, Libertarianism, conservatism, isolationism

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If you're a Twitter user, you can now follow The Mises Institute below: http://twitter.com/mises The comments have been fabulous

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Tue, Jan 29 2008

Climate change, is democracy enough?

So runs the title of a recent op-ed by David Shearman (professor of medicine in Australia) who recently co-authored the book The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy , with Joseph Wayne Smith (a US lawyer), in a series from the Pell Center...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jan 28 2008

Filed under: climate, commons, pielke jr.

Lost in the language market

"I'm all lost in the supermarket can no longer shop happily I came in here for that special offer A guaranteed personality" Lost in the Supermarket, The Clash In the most recent Republican debate, candidate Rudy Giuliani professed his belief...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sun, Jan 27 2008

Filed under: market, services, English, lost, the state, rudy giuliani, skills, language, Spanish

Then & Now: My Attitude on Convincing Non-Austrians

I can vividly remember my first exposure to Austrian Economics. Around 7 years ago, during the dot-com crash, I stumbled upon an article by George Reisman that explained the Austrian Business Cycle Theory. My eyes were instantly opened, and I've been...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sun, Jan 27 2008

Filed under: debate

Social Graphs: Moron in the Middle?

IrishOutlaw asked me to expand on the social graphs comments that I made in my previous entry; this is my first attempt of (maybe) several, as the topic is rich. Graph topologies have nodes and edges. What is interesting about any graph is how many nodes...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Jan 26 2008

War

1945 marked the end of the greatest conflict man has ever known. Vast armies marched across Europe and Asia, destroying everything in their sight. Nuclear weapons were used for the first, and thankfully only time (KNOCK ON WOOD), against human populations...

Posted to Meistro by Meistro on Thu, Jan 24 2008

A proper gander at the FairTax

A recent debate topic on Facebook's Politics poll was whether you supported Mike Huckabee's FairTax plan. The FairTax is a splendid example for examining language and economics. Let's not mince words: The FairTax is not fair. It is an ugly...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Wed, Jan 23 2008

Filed under: taxation, ron paul, euphemism, irs, mike huckabee, fair tax

Liberty as a Lack of Unchosen Positive Obligations

And a lack of a gaurantee of survival and flourishing There are two fundamental ways in which liberty and rights can be defined. One definition of liberty is the freedom to use one's faculties in order to persue one's rational self-interest without...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jan 23 2008

Filed under: Ethics, Discrimination, Altruism, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Libertarianism, Philosophy

Interview about Vampires - Wealthy Elites Misuse Government

In an interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston refers to "Corporate socialism for the politically connected rich" and discusses how the politically connected rich have gamed the system to line their pockets from the public...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jan 21 2008

Filed under: johnston, Corporate socialism, corporate welfare, elites

Posting videos from Youtube and Google in blogs, forums, comments

I have installed a module to allow posting Videos from Soapbox, Youtube and Google video in blogs, forums and comments. The syntax is: [ Youtube:xxxxx] [ Soapbox:xxxxx] [ Googlevideo:xxxxx] where xxxxx is the ID of the video.

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Mon, Jan 21 2008

Filed under: videos

Not Climate Change Welfare, But Capitalism and Free Markets

... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jan 21 2008

Filed under: climate, development, state, ostrom, lockitch, lomborg, goklany, adler, Enviro Derangement Syndrome

It's been a while...

It has been a while since my last post and I apologize. In the past month or so I have been very busy traveling and such. First, I went to Houston, for a Liberty Fund conference on Francois Furet . Anyone interested in the odd self-deprecating nature...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Jan 21 2008

Filed under: interviews, AEA meetings

Patriots - 1800 & 2008

I just finished reading John Ferling's Adams vs. Jefferson - The Tumultuous Election of 1800 For those who are unfamiliar with this election, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr received the same number of electoral votes, so the winner was to be picked...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Mon, Jan 21 2008

Filed under: ron paul