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Faith in Markets or Faith Politics?

Faith in Markets or Faith Politics?

by | Mar 28, 2024 |

I plead for greater liberty and a more open world, not because I believe one system happens to be more efficient than another, but because those things provide a setting that unleashes individual creativity as no other system can. They spur dynamism that has led to human, economic, scientific, and technological advances… At its core, belief in capitalism is belief in mankind… My aim is freedom and voluntary relations in all fields. – Johan Norberg, In Defense of Global Capitalism

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My Favorite Michael Malice Quote

My Favorite Michael Malice Quote

by | Mar 25, 2024 |

If the government didn’t have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced was foie gras. – Michael Malice  

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A Conservative/Libertarian Alliance

A Conservative/Libertarian Alliance

by | Mar 24, 2024 |

https://youtu.be/y-f9wLgBjJ0 Focusing on disparities also distracts from focusing on the principle at hand. Progressives often will oppose the “War on Drugs,” for example, on the grounds that certain demographics are disproportionately targeted for drug arrests. But this assumes that the state has the right to imprison people for victimless crimes, so all that police need to do is arrest more people at a rate proportional to each demographic. According to the Selective Service System, all men ages 18–26 must register for “the draft.” One way to approach this is to say that forced labor is...

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Six Questions for Socialists

Six Questions for Socialists

by | Mar 9, 2024 |

https://youtu.be/8V1_acTYaaQ The very same people who say that government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults. – Thomas Sowell, Ph.D., “Looking for That Elusive Escalator to Success,” Sun Sentinel, Jan. 2000 Watch on BitChute

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The Progressive Divide-and-Conquer Strategy

The Progressive Divide-and-Conquer Strategy

by | Feb 25, 2024 |

https://youtu.be/j0cXomWoiVw Focusing on disparities also distracts from focusing on the principle at hand. Progressives often will oppose the “War on Drugs,” for example, on the grounds that certain demographics are disproportionately targeted for drug arrests. But this assumes that the state has the right to imprison people for victimless crimes, so all that police need to do is arrest more people at a rate proportional to each demographic. According to the Selective Service System, all men ages 18–26 must register for “the draft.” One way to approach this is to say that forced labor is...

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Thomas Sowell: Imperialism and Slavery Did NOT Make the West Rich

Thomas Sowell: Imperialism and Slavery Did NOT Make the West Rich

by | Feb 20, 2024 |

https://youtu.be/zuPg34_7PjA The Economic Legacy of Slavery What was accomplished by the enslavement of untold millions of human beings in countries around the world? No doubt particular projects here and there were the fruits of slave labor, but it would be difficult to make the more general case that slavery advanced the economic level of those societies in which it existed on a mass scale. The American South, for example, was by no means the most economically dynamic region of the country, either during or after the era of slavery. It was in fact the poorest. Brazil, which imported...

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