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Aug 20
Climatologist Patrick Michaels: Private Citizens Should Closely Monitor the Government’s Temperature Claims
Climatologist Patrick Michaels recently notified the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, the government agency maintaining certain government thermometers) that the agency’s thermometers at Reagan National Airport were reporting temps that were 2 degrees hotter than the agency’s thermometers at the Dulles airport (also in Washington, D.C., just miles away). Michaels had tracked this 2-degree …
Aug 19
Government Universities Continue Their Suppression of Dissenting Opinions
The brilliant Walter E. Williams has written another essay about the embarrassing state of ideological oppression at America’s government-sponsored colleges and universities. See here. For example, Oberlin College and Georgetown University have both issued “trigger warnings” to students prior to campus visits by the noteworthy scholar Christina Hoff Sommers. According to the dominant government-supremacist culture …
Aug 17
Whole Foods CEO: America’s professors tend to hate capitalism because they subconsciously envy business leaders
John Mackey is the cofounder and CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation, Whole Foods. As many libertarians know, Mr. Lackey identifies as something of a libertarian, and he has made a number of fairly courageous statements about various state-authoritarian policies (such as the government’s slave-plantation healthcare). Here is a decent interview of Mr. Mackey by …
Aug 15
New Study: For Every New Dollar a College Receives in Student Loans, a College Raises its Tuition by 65 Cents
We all know that the Federal Student Loan Program has driven up college tuition costs because the Program subsidizes artificial demand. Now a New York Fed study has found that: for every new dollar a college receives in Direct Subsidized Loans, a school raises its price by 65 cents. For every dollar in Pell Grants, …
Aug 14
Reason Magazine: When Government Gives Diet Advice, You Should Always Do the Opposite
Generally speaking, every government in the world seeks to increase its advantage over its subjects (and therefore, to increase the DISADVANTAGE of its subjects in comparison to the state). Thus, one should generally do the very opposite of what government advises–especially regarding investing or nutrition. For years, observers have noted that the government’s “food pyramid”–which …
Aug 13
Government-supported universities continue censoring and suppressing individualist ideology
Whenever you walk from the free world onto a government-supported college campus, you are entering a world where products and services are more expensive and where your freedoms are decreased. Everything at most modern government-supported colleges is more expensive than off-campus. In Bozeman, Montana, for example, parking is free everywhere. Except in one location: the …
Aug 13
Poll: Americans are largely ignorant of the country’s tax structure
For years, politicians have won elections by claiming a desire to tax “the rich” at higher rates. This incessant messaging has even percolated into the debate over campaign finance, where activists routinely claim that “the rich” are controlling American politics by their political spending. But the actual tax distribution of the United States shows that …
Aug 13
Upcoming Courses for August 2015
Lysander Spooner University will be offering a one-day course on “How Government Harms the Poor” at the Manhattan, Montana Potato Festival on Saturday, August 15. Tuition is free; the exam is $5. Find us at the Libertarian Party table at the Festival. Every government measure aimed at helping the poor actually harms the poor. Consider …
Aug 10
New U.S. Army Manuel Says Journalists may be Treated as “Unprivileged Belligerents”
For centuries, governments have sought to suppress open debate about their wars and violent aggression. Now the new U.S. Law of War Manual contains passages indicating that the Pentagon considers some journalists to be “belligerents.” A belligerent is the same broad category that includes guerrillas or members of al-Qaeda. The U.S. government (like all governments) …
Aug 09
Venezuelans resort to pet medications to survive
Socialism is a curse that one should wish only on a hated enemy. To adopt it is to set a course toward gradual poverty, sickness, weakness, pollution and disease. The only question is when. Venezuelans have voted for hard-line socialist politicians (such as the enigmatic Hugo Chavez) for decades. Venezuela has adopted “single-payer” (slave plantation) …
