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Supreme Court – Enemy of Freedom

Judicial Activism The US Supreme Court is set to hear a case involving gun bans. The interesting thing about Supreme Court cases is that one side will say they screwed up, no matter what. The court is accused by one side of abusing their power, or legislating...

Posted to IrishOutlaw by IrishOutlaw on Sun, Nov 25 2007

Filed under: Parker v. District of Columbia, gun control, supreme court, guns

[Update] Mind Games: Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal panders to "skeptics" by abjuring science and declaring himself an expert on "mass neurosis"

[Update: For an ongoing case study of the startling irrationality and "sick souls" of some of the "skeptics", see my related discussions with the physicist Lubos Motl: [Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 6 2008

Filed under: religion, AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change, Bret Stephens, Durkin, Cockburn, Horner, Festinger, Lubos Motl

I graduated, thank the government!

I am now an official graduate of Iowa State University. Yes, a government public university. I feel accomplished, rightfully so, for graduating with a degree from an institution of "higher learning." My mother is proud of me. Am I proud? Yes...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sun, May 11 2008

Filed under: public education, politics, national anthem, state worshipping, state idolatry, public universities

Anarchists Oppose the State

Opposition Requires Action...

Posted to Brush Fires of Freedom by Bostwick on Sat, Sep 29 2007

Filed under: Anarchy, politics, Ron Paul, voting

Sheldon Richman joins Gene Callahan in naively arguing that, IF man's activities are responsible for climate change, we need not government but simply louder and more obnoxious enviros

1. I noted in November 2007 Gene Callahan's interesting post , entitled " How a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming ", in the October 2007 issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty , at the website of The Foundation for Economic Education...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jun 16 2010

Climate science: a Fundamentalist/creation science approach (update)

For convenience of reference, I`ve excerpted from the long "Malthus and Mein Kampf" thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp ) those portions of the exchange of posts I and others had with Fundamentalist that relate to creation science...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Oct 29 2007

Filed under: climate, Fundamendalist, AGW, creationism, "ice cores"

Explotando la burbuja de Eugene Fama

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 15 de febrero de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4056 . En una reciente entrevista en el New Yorker , Eugene Fama, economista de la Escuela...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Feb 16 2010

Filed under: crisis, Robert Murphy, hipótesis de los mercados eficientes, Eugene Fama

"Private" and "Public" are Misleading Terms

This is a response to the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9qGxjjAP8 Hello Luke I share your frustration with the definitional chaos surrounding these words. In many ways the meanings typically attached to the terms public and private...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Mar 4 2008

Filed under: Collusion, Patronage, Propaganda, Economics, Corporatism, Central Banking

Callahan finally speaks: but are external, "objective moral truths" needed for a community to enforce shared rules?

[Well, the Mises server just swallowed my first attempt at this post, so the reader will just have to suffer this sketchier one.] I have been chasing both Gene Callahan and Bob Murphy to try to get them to spell out what they mean when they assert that...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Sep 10 2009

Filed under: yandle, evolution, Callahan, Murphy, objective moral order, David Sloan Wilson, Rappaprt

Thoughts on the upcoming Ron Paul Announcement

The latest press release shows that: Dr. Paul will announce his intentions for the fall presidential election and will be accompanied by several special guests. This could mean anything. However, it doesn't sound like an endorsement, since the title...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Mon, Sep 8 2008

Filed under: ron paul

Open letter to Ron Paul

We have followed and continue to follow with utmost interest the political career of US Congressman Ron Paul. We sympathize with Mr. Paul’s cause for sound money, but he and his political life reminds us of Cicero in the face of Rome’s final...

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

Sophomoric optimism?

Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Oct 15 2007

Filed under: environment, mises, state, property, ostrom, cordato, commons

Who knows climate science? The Mises Blog!

[Snark alert; See update at bottom] The Mises "Daily Article" for December 11 presents "Are Carbon Emissions the Cause of Global Warming?" a brief, unfootnoted post by David Evans , a self-acknowledged non-expert (who has once previously...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Dec 13 2007

Filed under: mises, science, AGW, IPCC, Enviro Derangement Syndrome

"Vulgar" Libertarianism and Voluntary Socialism

From what I've been able to gather, "vulgar" libertarianism is a label applied to the tendency of some libertarians, particularly with right-wing sympathies, to defend currently existing property arrangements and corporations as if they...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Dec 29 2007

Filed under: Anarchism, Competition, Capitalism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics

Freedom vs self-censorship / Libertad vs. autocensura

This is the first time in my life I write a blog. I have so much to share that a healthy dose of self-censorship must be ensured, right now, as there are rules of etiquette. There are people who will be offended. There are ideas that those in power do...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Tue, Oct 21 2008