Jul 13
The United States, once the world’s flagship of capitalism, low regulation and free markets, has entered the category of a high-taxing society. Here is a website that generally provides the average tax rates of the world’s countries. Notice that the U.S. is now taxing its citizens at rates above the North American average, the Western …
Jul 13
Infowars.com has obtained a video–purportedly from Russian hackers or “hacktivists”–showing a movie set where “ISIS”-type “beheadings” are (or can be) staged. Reportedly the hacktivists claim to have obtained the footage from a cell phone linked to U.S. Senator John McCain. It has been widely reported that the entirety of the “ISIS” threat has been a …
Jul 11
Somebody’s gotta say it. The current Pope of the Catholic Church is spewing utter falsehoods that have been so repeatedly disproven that only a knowing deceiver could spread them. Socialism has impoverished, starved and killed millions. For centuries, those who have trusted their governments to dispense food, shelter, clothing or medical care have watched as …
Jul 11
by Dr. Roger I. Roots, founder, Lysander Spooner University I remember years ago after I graduated from law school, I applied for a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. I attended an initiation meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. At that meeting I recall a Census official telling applicants that as Census agents we would be …
Jul 11
The U.S. national debt is now so large that it constitutes 74 percent of America’s annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Not since World War II has this percentage been so high. And today’s debt is not so much the product of a worldwide war but of the constant deficit spending required to pay for American …
Jul 10
The word “austerity” has been in the news a lot lately. Austerity means cuts in government payroll or other spending. Trusters of government like to claim that “severe” (Paul Krugman) or “harsh” (the Guardian) austerity measures are being imposed on the people of Greece, or maybe in some other European country. The truth is that …
Jul 10
I don’t know whether to write this post about the FBI’s claims or about the knee-jerk column of Matt Vespa, a self-styled “conservative” writer and Republican Party loyalist. In a column entitled, “FBI: We Stopped ISIS-linked Fourth of July Terror Plots” (found here), Vespa cites CNN for the proposition that “we now know that the …
Jul 09
Ira Glasser, long one of the ACLU’s most important legal advisers and litigators, spoke at an event put on by the Center for Competitive Politics entitled “Citizens United v. FEC after Five Years – Should Liberals Support Citizens United?” The video is here. Glasser excoriated those on “the left” for calling for a constitutional amendment …
Jul 09
Socialism is a curse that should be wished only on one’s enemies. Any society that embraces it will become sick and weak. In the wake of the default of Greece and the loss of one-third value of the Chinese stock market, world financial advisers appear to be proposing some rare fiscal restraint. In Britain, the …
Jul 08
The great Enlightenment writer and thinker Rousseau once wrote in his DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGIN AND FOUNDATION OF INEQUALITY that “[I]t is very difficult to reduce to obedience one who does not seek command.” In order to be free, in order not to be a slave, one must first renounce the desire to be a …
