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Get behind Ron Paul`s American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007!

Ron Paul introduced this bill (H.R. 3835) in the House of Representatives on October 15: American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (Introduced in House) HR 3835 IH 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3835 To restore the Constitution's checks and balances and...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Oct 28 2007

Filed under: ron paul constitution

A View from the Trenches, December 21, 2010: "End of 2010 comments"

This is our last letter of the year. Briefly, we want to go over the main themes that we leave with: To have structure, we will classify the themes according to their respective currency zones. Starting with the US, we must say we’re impressed by...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Dec 20 2010

Nomic: A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law

The current issue of the New Yorker magazine (Dec. 10) contains an article ("The Checklist") about Peter Pronovost's checklist, which is like a pre-flight checklist for intensive care units in hospitals. The checklist is specific to one...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Thu, Dec 6 2007

I'm so honored and reassured: a member of the friendly TSA TwitterTeam writes to tell me that the TSA poses no threat to my personal rights, liberties or DNA

What a wonderful government we have! In response to my earlier re-tweet of someone's Twitter message that contained a link to a February 26 online news story entitled Genetic Patdown: Homeland Security plan for DNA screening could quickly lead to...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Mar 1 2011

Speech and Sociopaths: Does it make sense to collapse, for Constitutional and legal purposes, the distinctions between human beings and corporate "persons"?

Further to my preceding posts on corporate "free speech" , let me copy here for those interested some parts of a post by legal blogger/law prof Kimberly Hauser , and excerpts of the comment thread (emphasis added). Says Hauser: Justice Kennedy...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 11 2010

Filed under: constitution, Lessig, limited liability, states, speech, federalism, equal protection

The hen rebellion

All of a sudden, the hen sprung into consciousness, looked around at its mindless sisters scratching and clucking, and proclaimed "I hereby declare my independence from this oppressive regime! No more laying eggs for some biped's breakfast while...

Posted to Man, Meaning, and Freedom by William Green on Wed, May 5 2010

Filed under: liberty, freedom, government, libertarianism

Cómo mejorar la cultura

Por Jeffrey A. Tucker. (Publicado el 28 de diciembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/3984 . La cultura se está yendo al garete, se nos ha venido diciendo durante...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Jan 2 2010

Filed under: Jeffrey Tucker, libre mercado, cultura

The Problem

Here’s a perfect example of the economic challenge this country faces. Take a look at the story posted below that I pulled from CNBC. It seems the Federal Reserve can fix anything by simply printing more money. Translation: The sins of the past...

Posted to rrt00004 by rrt00004 on Sun, Aug 7 2011

The troubled US insurance giant has bowed to demands to restructure its bonus payments to its employees.

The troubled US insurance giant has bowed to demands to restructure its bonus payments to its employees. Top level bonuses to its executive staff are to be dramatically cut this year according to a letter sent by Edward Liddy, AIG’s Chairman to...

Posted to mikguiruram by mikguiruram on Mon, Mar 16 2009

Worst ways

or, why deledefs love Fiat-money and their money monopoly. Well as we have to realize that we have a debt problem world-wide. (USA > 15 trillions of debt, just remember in June or so they have raised the debt level vom 14 trillions), The EU somewhere...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Fri, Nov 18 2011

Filed under: stealing, deledefs, central bank, lies.

A View from the Trenches, September 23rd, 2009: "Why I turned neutral on equities"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com I want to start today’s comments reiterating my neutral call on equities. This is on equities only, not on credit. Credit is undergoing a different dynamics. Again, my call...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Sep 22 2009

If A Person Comes Along - You Must Whip It!

What does one mean by state? I'll try and play devil's advocate. Let's say I'm a fan of the state. Let’s say I’m a Statesman. This bears down to a few key points in ideology. To spare people from having to grind their gears...

Posted to M. of Bedlam by idi0m on Wed, Oct 8 2008

Filed under: anarchism, philosophy, ethics

Rep. Grayson tells Cheney to "STFU"

Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson made some more headlines on cable TV Wednesday night, telling former Vice President Dick Cheney to "STFU." That's an internet acronym used for "shut the f--- up." Grayson was responding to Cheney's...

Posted to mikguiruram by mikguiruram on Thu, Dec 10 2009

If you like money burnt

then I just have on advice to you. Ask for more political intervention. The examples on how efficiently money can be burned are legion. Let's see the biggest burning places for money in Germany. 1) budget for "social issues" 2) subsedies...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Tue, Sep 21 2010

Filed under: bureaucrats, deledefs, economic reasoning, burning money

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