Blockchain technology has been a boon for counter-economists. Prior to Satoshi's white paper, in order to conduct a transaction with an individual or firm not physically present, a third party was required to verify transmission and receipt of funds. Historically, the...
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Mind the Gap: A Strategy For Saying Libertarian Things
by Scott Horton | Nov 24, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Scott Horton
The Tenth Amendment Center's Michael Boldin calls it "the Horton rule." (It is my rule, but I didn't name it that.) It goes like this: Because libertarians are so dang good on everything -- better than the left on things the left is good on (e.g.: gays, drugs, cops,...
Globalist-Endorsed War on Cash May Be China’s Next Terrifying Weapon
by Tho Bishop | Nov 18, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics
Recent protests in Hong Kong, along with the resulting fall out from international corporations questioned for their relationships with mainland China, has placed a renewed focus on the authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party. This has led to several articles...
The Rule of Law or CIA Coup?
by Scott Horton | Nov 7, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Scott Horton
It's pretty obvious. Americans should support the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump, but not for Ukrainegate. In fact, they should oppose his impeachment on Ukrainegate grounds completely. Trump’s real offense is waging an un-authorized,...
The Nordic Model Isn’t True Socialism
by Paul Boyce | Nov 5, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Corez consider the Nordic model a socialist utopia. It provides ‘free’ healthcare, ‘free’ education, and strong social protections. These are the core goals for some of the modern-day, self-professed, ‘democratic...
3D-Printed Firearms and Defense Distributed: A Guide to Understanding “Ghost Guns”
by Sam Jacobs | Nov 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Disclaimer: This guide is intended to be informational only surrounding the topic of ghost guns and 3D-printed firearms. It is not legal advice. Ever since the landmark ruling on 3D-printed firearms, outrage and moral panic have surrounded so-called “ghost guns.”...
When Billionaires Want to Get Rid of Capitalism
by Jean Vilbert | Oct 30, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
"Successful economies are not jungles, they’re gardens, which is to say that markets, like gardens, must be tended, that the market is the greatest social technology ever invented to solving human problems, but unconstrained by social or democratic regulation, markets...
News Roundup 10/29/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 29, 2019 | News Roundup
US News From 2006 to 2018, US companies contracting with immigration enforcement have received more than $45 billion. [Link] Philippines A Philippines mayor - accused by President Duerte of being involved in the drug trade - was gunned down. [Link] Kashmir India and...
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Raptor Woes Continue to Plague the Air Force
More mismanagement and strategic deficit disorder at the Pentagon. The F22 Raptor is a very capable late 20th century aircraft and arguably superior to the much more expensive and increasingly anachronistic F35; it is being put out to pasture early because of...
Anti-War Blog – What Will You Do On The Day After?
They did it, finally. The wisdom of the statists, the planet ruined. Desolation, misery, nature blackened to near extinction. The whispering legacy of civilisation. The educated mastery of science and technology used to destroy it all, everything. They called it...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
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