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Americans Hate Liberty’s Sorry Guts With a Passion

by Scott Horton | Apr 5, 2020 | Blog

Our countrymen: "We presented a nationally representative sample of 3,000 U.S. residents with eight possible policy responses to the outbreak, all of which may be unconstitutional, including forced quarantine in a government facility, criminal penalties for spreading...

Dangerous Times

by Sheldon Richman | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Libertarianism

We live in dangerous times -- and not just medically and economically. Government executives all over the world -- with a few honorable exceptions -- are exercising autocratic power, that is, power without legislative or constitutional authority, in the name of...

No One Hates Truth More Than the Police

by Scott Horton | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog

Every cop, prosecutor, "expert witness," judge and juror involved in the false conviction of Darlie Routier for the murder of her children should be buried in the deepest solitary confinement hole. They are guilty and deserve nothing less for their crimes.

Free Ross!

by Scott Horton | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog

Trump administration to federal prisons: Increase home confinement for inmates to slow coronavirus spread

You Better Buy Your Bullets Now Boys

by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog

They're going fast. Our friends over at Ammo.com have a great study of the increases of all their sales since late February. It's not going to last. After the Obama scare of 2012, guns and ammo were wiped out completely for months. This could be even worse. Maybe...

Live in Philly? Better Arm Up Now.

by Scott Horton | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog

Via BigLeaguePolitics: Leaked Memo: Philadelphia Unleashes Looters, Police Will Not Make Arrests For Property Theft, Drug Crimes During State of Emergency (There's no such thing as a "drug crime," right-wing kooks. Richard Nixon is dead, okay? Prostitution among...

Cops Kill Lady

by Scott Horton | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog

“Window Into Hell”: Mother of Five Dies After Four Days in Solitary Confinement She was not charged with any crime. Just murdered. But don't worry about the state of the country needing your attention or anything. This particular individual in jail is of no direct...

Good News: Belmarsh Prison To Move Assange Out Of Solitary Confinement

by Steven Woskow | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog

Keeping Julian Assange in solitary confinement is torture - he is no threat to anyone. His crime is exposing the world to the corruption and lies that governments use to hide their crimes of war and torture. Their have been many reports that his health is...

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Production for Profit Is Production for People, part 2

"In his capacity as a businessman a man is a servant of the consumers, bound to comply with their wishes. He cannot indulge in his own whims and fancies. But his customers’ whims and fancies are for him ultimate law, provided these customers are ready to pay for them....

Production for Profit Is Production for People

"Profit and loss can be expressed in definite amounts of money. It is possible to ascertain in terms of money how much an individual has profited or lost. However, this is not a statement about this individual’s psychic profit or loss. It is a statement about a social...

Pseudo-Liberalism

"The detractors of liberty are in this sense right in calling it a 'bourgeois' issue and in blaming the rights guaranteeing liberty for being negative. In the realm of state and government, liberty means restraint imposed upon the exercise of the police power. "There...

Freedom and Competition

"The freedom of man under capitalism is an effect of competition. The worker does not depend on the good graces of an employer. If his employer discharges him, he finds another employer. The consumer is not at the mercy of the shopkeeper. He is free to patronize...

Do You Really Meme It?

I was going to write a comment on some current discourse, the usual diatribe of impulsive viral outrage invented by those who live online. A reaction to trending tantrums. The usual produce from memetards who vomit digital junk the algorithms, whether one follows them...

“Mature Capitalism” Ain’t Capitalism

"It would be correct to describe this state of affairs in this way: Today many or some groups of business are no longer liberal; they do not advocate a pure market economy and free enterprise, but, on the contrary, are asking for various measures of government...