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I've just finished reading Richard A. Viguerie and Mark S. Fitzgibbons recent pamphlet titled Reclaim the Constitution: A Pamphlet of Principles, Purpose, and Proposals for Constitutional Conservatives and must say that I am very impressed with the effort. One of the things which I am glad to see...
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Economic Equality versus Economic Liberty by Alex Merced One of the fundamental divides among activist economics is what is the goal when thinking of policy and the economy. Progressives focus on Economic Equality and how policy can manipulate the economy to distribute resources in a more "equitable"...
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I'm watching the results of the mid-term election as I write this and I am afraid that freedom died in America tonight. There have simply not been enough incumbents defeated to make an impression upon the entrenched elites who control the Big Government party which runs this nation. Yes, the House...
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Labor Economics #3 - The Minimum Wage by Alex Merced One of the most sancrosanct bastions of Labor laws is the minimum wage, and if you want to go beyond this article in learning about it listen to Roger Garrisons lecture on topic from Mises U 2010 . Essentially what I want to demostrate through a brief...
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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 I have to settle for dry corn and a stinking coop...
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A hurricane develops over the Atlantic, a thunderstorm over the midwest. A dust devil whirls like a dervish across a vacant lot. A flock of starlings dances, amoeba-like in the sky. A hive of bees finds the best nectar sources. A colony of ants finds food, establishes trails, and builds its nest . A...
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Free Market Solution to Healthcare Problems by Alex Merced (MercedForFreedom.com/LibertyIsNow.com) In order to understand how a Free Market can solve many of the problems in healthcare we must understand the cause of these problems. What are these problems? 1. Culture of Sugar: Due to the excessive amount...
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Why Liberty Fails By Monty Pelerin , posted March 8th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/08/why-liberty-fails/ Liberty as an Ephemeral Event “If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.” Robert LeFevre Introduction...
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What gives one the right to a vote? There is no better question with which to begin a discussion on suffrage; decades of rights violations have come as a result of misunderstanding this question and its answer. So first off, I think it is necessary that we establish the ground in which all voting rights...
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“… as long as the Schumpeterian horse of innovation and the Smithian horse of the gains from trade outrun the Government horse of stupidity, the winners will continue to be you, me and our children and grandchildren, even if the stupid horse is running a bit faster than it used to.”...
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[Update: Bob Murphy sends in an email comment, copied (in relevant part) at the bottom of this post.] I`ve addressed here on five different threads the question of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post . I`ve commented here mainly because...
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A recent post on the Mises Daily pages on the " Religious Roots of Liberty " by the late Congregationalist minister Rev. Edmund Optiz (1914-2006) (originially published in The Freeman, February 1955 ) provides an opportunity to restate and discuss some of the thoughts I`ve been working though...
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Liberty Lost? Or To What Extent Have the United States of America Become Collectivist To The Detriment of Individualism? This dissertation charts the changes throughout history in the balance between collectivism and individualism in United States federal government policy. It is argued that collectivism...
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America means something. America is different. It really is. As far as I know, and I don’t know everything – close, but not all – there has never been a situation where a man from a class of people imported as slaves, has risen to be leader of that nation, without a violent rebellion...
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Newly sworn-in President Barak H. Obama could have said a lot of things during his inaugural address today. He could have said that he recognizes that the current financial crisis is a direct result of interference by the Federal government in the workings of the marketplace. He could have said that...