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A Violation of the Rights of the Parent

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way. But it’s got to get done.” -- State Attorney Glenn Ivey of Prince George’s County, Maryland, on the vaccination of 2300 children whose parents object to the county’s policy of forced immunizations. According...

Posted to dget by dget on Wed, Nov 14 2007

Filed under: Forced Vaccination, Education Free and Compulsory, Rothbard, Patental Rights, Forced Immunization, Paternalism, police state

Ron Paul Demonstrates Unreliability of Political Polling

For those following the presidential campaign of Texas Congressman Ron Paul there is little questioning his status as a top-tier candidate. Evidence supporting this conclusion is constantly growing, and after this past week’s events even the main stream...

Posted to dget by dget on Mon, Nov 12 2007

Filed under: Ron Paul, Pollsters, Polls, Ron Paul President, Grassroots

Get FeedBurner for your Mises.com blog

You can easily set up FeedBurner for your blog by going to your Dashboard then Syndication Settings . What is FeedBurner, you ask? FeedBurner is a Google company that lets you do all kinds of things with your blog's feed, including automatically formatting...

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Sun, Nov 11 2007

Filed under: Blogging, syndication, FeedBurner

The AARP’s "commitment to all generations" campaign is dishonest and hypocritical

Have you seen the AARP’s latest ad campaign ? It shows a series of children who urge us to take action on the “five core needs” of AARP: “the need for health; the need for financial security; the need to contribute or give back to society; the need for...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Sun, Nov 11 2007

Filed under: fraud, media, healthcare, welfare, social security, AARP

Who are the real monsters?

[ Crossposted: ] Watching a segment about the U.S. Coast Guard today, I heard an agent describe the immigrant smugglers who bring people from Cube as “ruthless” men who “care nothing for human life.” That may well be true. Yet moments before saying those...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Sat, Nov 10 2007

Filed under: immigration

Quit Saying Public Please

It is interesting how much power is in that one little word, “Public”. From where I am sitting, it is the word used to commit all kinds of atrocities in the US. The idea that there is some kind of collective greater good that can be imposed on people...

Posted to IrishOutlaw by IrishOutlaw on Sat, Nov 10 2007

Filed under: IrishOutlaw, libertarian, socialism, funding, anarchy, rights, collective

Did Ben Bernanke really just say that?

While addressing the House Financial Services Committee recently Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said something quite astonishing. Responding to an absolute drilling from Representative Ron Paul, Bernanke claimed that the devaluation of the...

Posted to dget by dget on Fri, Nov 9 2007

Filed under: Ron Paul, Federal Reserve, Inflationary Policy, Indirect Tax, Ben Bernanke

Introduction

First post! Really, here's an introduction - I'm a fourth year economics student. I'll concede that I really can't call myself a pure Austrian - while I think praxeology is great, I think that the use of math and statistics in economics...

Posted to Musings from an Economics Student by champthom on Thu, Nov 8 2007

Filed under: mises, student, introduction, murphy, blog

Glenn Greenwald praises Ron Paul

Glenn Greenwald has just gone off the deep end by putting up a long post in praise of Ron Paul`s "principled positions" and his understanding the deep Constitutional mess we`re in. http://www.salon.com/src/pass/sitepass/spon/sitepass.html?http...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Nov 8 2007

Filed under: ron paul, Greenwald

The Hamakua Macadamia Nut Company

I haven't blogged in a while, as I just spent a couple weeks of vacation on the big island of Hawaii. To a geek like me, one of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Hamakua Macadamia Nut Company's factory in Kawaihae. The accumulated capital...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Wed, Nov 7 2007

Stupid Arguments - RE: Immigration

Here's the first installment in my list of stupid arguments I've heard regarding government, law, economics, etc. I've talked to a number of people who say they have no problem with people immigrating to the U.S. in order to build a better...

Posted to Ronorama by Ronorama on Tue, Nov 6 2007

Protectionist rhetoric will only accelerate the dollar's slide

Pat Buchanan's recent attempt to diagnose the sinking dollar demonstrates that ignorance of basic economics is not limited to the left. Buchanan points out the plummeting value of the dollar relative to other currencies and major commodities such...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Tue, Nov 6 2007

Filed under: protectionism, trade, currency, Fed, isolationism

The Authoritarian Welfare State

Awhile back, I wrote about the looming mass resignation of nurses here in Finland. Now, apparently, the Finnish government is ready to use the favourite tool of the state; force. Government prepares legislation to keep some nurses at work Urgent care...

Posted to libertas by Libertas est Veritas on Tue, Nov 6 2007

The Arch-Warmer, James Hansen

Jim Hansen keeps his articles, commentary and presentations here: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/ It is worth taking a look from time to time.

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Nov 5 2007

Filed under: climate, hansen

Economics at Five Minute University

Father Guido Sarducci describes the education you can get for $20 (in the 70s/80s). Thrown in with economics are religion and foreign language! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4 running time is 3:54

Posted to ChssAddct by ChssAddct on Mon, Nov 5 2007

Filed under: economics comedy education