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Positive "Rights"

The idea of positive rights is that people have a "right" to be given particular benefits, material resources or services by others. They represent claims of a right to recieve positive benefits from other people, in the abscence of any actual...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Dec 19 2007

Filed under: Universality, Altruism, Equality, Slavery, Theft, Scarcity

ECB's Contradictions

From CNNMoney : European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet warned Wednesday that the euro area's inflation surge was likely to last longer than expected - a remark suggesting the bank will stick to its tough stance on interest rates even...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Wed, Dec 19 2007

Filed under: inflation, eu

A New Way to Look at History

Murray Rothbard wrote that Lao-Tzu was the first libertarian intellectual. I recently read Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching and received some real insight from the following passage: (Note: "Tao" is the word that Lao-Tzu used to describe God): "Things...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Tue, Dec 18 2007

Filed under: history

Hostile Takeover

If the Republican Party were a publicly traded company, its stock would be at a 40 year low. Republicans have taken the White House in seven out of the last ten elections, and it probably would have been eight out of ten if it weren't for Nixon's...

Posted to Michael Owen by Michael Owen on Mon, Dec 17 2007

Filed under: Ron Paul, Republican Party

Brian Tracy Acknowledges Von Mises

For those who don't know who Brian Tracy is, here is a short bio: Brian Tracy has traveled and worked in more than ninety countries worldwide. He has started, built, managed, or turned around twenty-two different companies and produced more than 300...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Mon, Dec 17 2007

Filed under: mises

Let's talk about viability now....

Ron Paul will enter the primaries and caucuses as the most viable GOP candidate. He will have the most money on hand. The Tea Party 2007 was an enormous success, raising over $6 Million dollars in 24 hours. There are two weeks left in this quarter, and...

Posted to SaladBarBeef by SaladBarBeef on Mon, Dec 17 2007

Filed under: Ron Paul viability

The Myth of the Social Contract

One of the most erroneous political ideas is the notion of the social contract. The idea is that the legitimacy of a government is based on a social contract between the people and the government. In America, the constitution is supposed to be our social...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Mon, Dec 17 2007

Filed under: Anarchism, Sovereignty, Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Social Contract, Consent, Natural Rights

Evidence of the Intelligent Designer found!

His helpers are busy in a laboratory near you: http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_802264340 And other stories show how He left some of His Watchmaking tools lying scattered around the universe: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Dec 17 2007

Filed under: intelligent design, evolution

Holiday joy: roasting "watermelons" on an open pyre!

[snark on] One of Sean Corrigan's threads brings us not only more information on handy Misesean definitions, but a path towards Yuletide joy. (For those of you who have not been reading them, Sean's columns and comment threads are truly gifts...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Dec 16 2007

Filed under: Reisman, AGW, watermelons, Corrigan, Reisman Rule, Corrigan Creed, Enviro Derangement Syndrome

Bison and the Theft of the Commons

[Updated, as noted] [I now view this as my first "Avatar" post. February 15, 2010.] My attention was drawn today to a letter to the editor published by The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) , an organization of free-thinkers who...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Dec 16 2007

Filed under: markets, Indians, Bison, PERC, tragedy of the commons, property rights, P.J. Hill, theft, Jared Diamond, Avatar

John Baden: is this free market enviromentalist stalwart a Mt. Pelerin misanthrope/watermelon?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Dec 16 2007

Filed under: Reisman, enviros, public land, John Baden, Corrigan, Mt. Pelerin, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Kuznets

How The State Thrives, How The State Falls

Foreward note: inspired in part by "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Eteinne De La Boetie . How the State Thrives How does the state maintain itself? It is true that to some extent all states initially derive...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Dec 15 2007

Filed under: Competition, Collusion, Education, Agorism, Social Evolution, Big Media, Interventionism, Revolution, Patronage, Entropy, Civil Disobedience, Propaganda, Intellectualism

Inefficient by Design

Those that lean to the left of the political spectrum (Green Party members in particular), readily agree that the profligate waste of, and the laying waste to, the environment constitutes a moral failing. Certainly they agree that the grinding of mahogany...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Dec 15 2007

Reducing CO2 vs. expanding energy needs

Ron Bailey of Reason , reporting from Bali, has an interesting post up summarizing the discussion by James Connaughton, director of President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, on one small aspect of the climate conundrum, namely, what would...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Dec 15 2007

Filed under: climate, bali, AGW, bush, Ron Bailey, CO2, targets

Richard Tol and Marty Weitzman on The Costs of Ignoring Carbon

There is a new paper out by economist Richard Tol that summarizes all of the economic work on climate change over the past two decades, in light of recent analyses, particularly the ground-breaking new work by Harvard's Marty Weitzman on how the "fat...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Dec 14 2007

Filed under: climate, AGW, CO2, carbon pricing, Weitzman, Tol

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Positive "Rights"

ECB's Contradictions

A New Way to Look at History

Hostile Takeover

Brian Tracy Acknowledges Von Mises

Let's talk about viability now....

The Myth of the Social Contract

Evidence of the Intelligent Designer found!

Holiday joy: roasting "watermelons" on an open pyre!

Bison and the Theft of the Commons

John Baden: is this free market enviromentalist stalwart a Mt. Pelerin misanthrope/watermelon?

How The State Thrives, How The State Falls

Inefficient by Design

Reducing CO2 vs. expanding energy needs

Richard Tol and Marty Weitzman on The Costs of Ignoring Carbon