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You Can’t Separate The People’s War From The Government’s

by | May 23, 2019 |

I'm reading about Chinese consumers switching away from Apple because of nationalism and the trade war.  Then, rumors that the trade war is hurting the Chinese economy more than they admit. So, here's what's happening: regular folks are having a tough time.  And when there's a bully ruining your day or worse, you get mad at them.  This leads to wanting to punch back.  This is the people's war.  The government uses this, sometimes it's forced to do something on account of this. Yet, when a government like Trump's targets the Chinese economy, their target is the other government.  A poke in...

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The Truth About The Second Amendment – It’s Accidentally About Freedom Itself, And Few Realize It

The Truth About The Second Amendment – It’s Accidentally About Freedom Itself, And Few Realize It

by | May 9, 2019 | , ,

The Second Amendment isn't about guns, it's accidentally all about freedom. I have an ex from Texas.  I remember her stories of the good old days.  She was 15, riding a motorbike splitting lanes, in the shoulder, whatever.  Cops didn't care.  I mean, she had no driver's license.  But here's the deal - what harm would a little beginner's bike do to a car?  It was her problem, maybe her parents.  Not society's. By the time I heard this story, this legal regimen no longer existed in Texas.  It was a stricter place.  However, that very very recent memory was of a place were radical freedom had...

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In A Rothbardian Society, The Legislators Are: Private Property Owners

by | Apr 25, 2019 |

I stupidly left out important verbiage from this article. I said that consumers are the legislators in a Rothbardian society (rights protection firms the executive, judgement firms the judicial).  What I meant is that private property owners are the legislators. When do the rulings from a decentralized market of judges become law?  As private property owners declare public allegiance to precedent.  This is the last piece of a complete paradigm of law in a Rothbardian society. When you enter someone's property, you would know the law which applies there (probably via a sign very much similar...

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Bernie Is Right: Felons Should Vote

by | Apr 24, 2019 |

What's the argument against felons voting?  That they'd vote for someone who'd absolve them of their crimes?  Felons might get 1-2% of a vote, so good luck with that. What if felons could actually influence the vote?  Let's say 10%, 20%, maybe even 30% of the vote was comprised of felons.  Yeah, that would be substantial influence.  Think about the situation, though.  30% of your electorate is in prison??!!!  Maybe there is something wrong with your laws then.  In fact, maybe it would be critical to allow felons to vote in this situation so that the law could be reformed and you wouldn't...

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Separation of Powers: Libertarian Edition

Separation of Powers: Libertarian Edition

by | Apr 23, 2019 | ,

The separation of powers is an old liberal principle that every grade school student knows originates from one Baron Montesquieu.  Yet, this principle is derived from which ideas exactly?  We say that separation of powers limits the abuses of despotism.  However, Congress' powers vis-a-vis the President - democracy's "executive" - are meaningless, in that the bureaucracy (the "fifth estate") has used Congress' power vis-a-vis the President himself to empower an administrative state that even the President has little real power to control.  The Supreme Court - a federal entity appointed by...

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Mueller Report And Russia

by | Apr 18, 2019 |

Just listening now to AG Barr.  He says Wikileaks got the DNC hacks from Russia via I guess Guccifer 2.0 (btw, Guccifer the first is Romanian, so it's pronounced like "Goochee" like the handbag - "Goocheefer" - funny hacker's name).  That's not the Podesta emails, I suppose. Still, I wonder what Mueller's proof will be? Will it be Cyrillic code found in some data log as per a special intelligence briefing personally ordered and signed off by John Brennan back when he was in charge?  I wonder... God, these people carry each others' water even when enemies.  What a dumb system.  Or maybe it's...

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Space War? Please No

by | Apr 12, 2019 | ,

So the Pentagon is concerned about the fact that other nation-states aren't simply surrendering to American hegemony on account of our threat to nuclear bomb them three times as much into oblivion as they will bomb us into oblivion?  America builds a robust first-strike force, so Russia makes a couple hypersonic missiles to sort of kind of maintain Mutually Assured Destruction?  Now the Pentagon is calling it a "space war"? How about just not messing up space with so much debris that we can never get up there ever again?  Forget having a future (not to mention a present). How about admitting...

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