Even if you cringe at last week's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, it would be wrong to say that the five Supreme Court justices took away women's right to have abortions. I say this because the Supreme Court, unfortunately, never actually recognized a...
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The Moral and Economic Case Against the Minimum Wage #FightAgainst15
by Keith Knight | Jan 18, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/I5CJv00aojU Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker’s employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone...
Consent is Morality. Sean Leal & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jan 8, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/qVgi52Og4KM Each individual should have the freest possible scope for the development of his faculties and his personality. In order to have this scope, he must have freedom from violence against himself. Violence can only repress and destroy human...
How Walter Williams Made the Bulletproof Case for Free Markets
by Keith Knight | Dec 12, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/l7movaUqfEI Find Kyle at The Libertarian Institute: : https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/ Essay discussed: https://lbry.tv/@libertariantruther:0/MORALITY-vs.-EFFICIENCY-Walter-E.-William:4...
The Choice We Don’t Face
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Libertarianism
Despite what some people suggest, our choice today is not between black lives and private property. Quite the contrary: respect for black lives logically entails respect for all persons, their possessions, and their peaceful projects. The first property right is...
Episode 335: Responding to an ‘Objectivist’s’ Claim That Self-Ownership Doesn’t Exist
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 8, 2019 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
56 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete noticed someone calling themself an objectivist on Twitter making the claim that people don't own themselves, so Pete invited Vin Armani to return to the show to talk about the concept. Vin wrote a book entitled "Self-Ownership:...
The Cancer of Absolutism
by Ryan Burgett | Apr 28, 2019 | Blog
At its heart, Agorism is a pragmatic philosophy. It is about doing what is best for you and your family. It doesn't waste time worrying about the silly people who try and hold us back. But, even though we try and live outside of the system, it is possible for even an...
TGIF: Who Owns You?
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF, Will Grigg Radio
“The issue comes down to whether the individual is viewed as a private person or as public property: the former has no obligation to the community to be or stay healthy; the latter does.” “Virtually everything the Founding Fathers sought to achieve by separating...
Episode 159: “Things are not Going to Change, Until I’m Ready to Change”
by Peter R. Quiñones | Sep 24, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall
55 Minutes NSFW Language Mance welcomes Quincy Johnson to the show. Mance discovered Quincy through Twitter and they have been following each other and interacting for almost 2 years. Quincy is an anomaly on social media in that he keeps it positive and only has a...
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Black History Month?
If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he'd be right -- for a racist qua racist need not bear ill will toward a particular group. What makes someone a racist is the very...
ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
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