https://youtu.be/_-6CyEYetxM How is something to be owned by “the community as a whole?” Ownership means that you get to decide what is done with something. If you and I disagree on who gets to eat your apple, then whatever you decide will take precedence, because it...
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by Harley Abbott | Feb 24, 2022 |
Join the Official Libertarian Institute Discord ServerDiscord is a free community chat application for Android, iPhone, Browser and Computer. It has a lot of great features like text, voice and video chat, screen sharing and more.Visit the Apple Store, Google Play or...
TGIF: Pursue Your Happiness and Forget the Rest
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 31, 2021 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
How about we do something novel in the new year? Let's stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let's...
The Human Under the Numbers
by Kym Robinson | Dec 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
The story of Anne Frank is tragic. If not for the words that she wrote in her diary, she would be a digit of history. Her diary is relatable, and the thoughts that collected inside her being during a horrible time in history gives the reader an idea of who she was....
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Lunatic With a Plan: Erdogan and Turkey’s Economic Woes
by Tom Luongo | Dec 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
News Roundup 12/27/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 27, 2021 | News Roundup
Covid Massachusetts halts all elective procedures. [Link] The USS Milwaukee will remain in Cuba after several sailors tested positive for Covid. [Link] USAID is running out of money to distribute covid vaccinations. [Link] The US donates 1.5 million vaccine doses to...
Liberty Truckers Trying to Stay Awake w/Reed Coverdale
by Tommy Salmons | Jun 11, 2021 | Year Zero
Reed Coverdale joined me to have a semi-conscious conversation about things. I was honestly so tired I don't remember much. And before you judge me for not listening back to jog my memory, listen to yourself talk for a fucking hour and report back with how much fun it...
The Case for Voluntaryist Unity. Magnus Panvidya & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | May 2, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/RldpvhquEyM In politics, whenever I hear the word “unity,” to paraphrase the famous words of a German politico of the 1930’s, “I reach for my revolver.” For almost always, “unity” is a scam, a call to abandon principle and follow the leader into some...
Unite and Stabilize America!
by Scott Horton | Jan 9, 2021 | Blog
First step: Label all radical right-wing dissent "terrorism." Step two: outlaw the most popular rifle in America. Step three: ??? Step four: Unity and Stability!...
Qualified Immunity: Your New Supreme Overlord Barrett: You Have No Right To Not Be Suffocated to Death by Your Security Force
by Scott Horton | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog
Read it and weep: If no court has ruled that you have the right to breathe, then no court can rule that you have the right to breathe. Neat trick. "the only right plaintiffs can assert would be the right of an out-of-breath arrestee to not have his hands cuffed behind...
Cop Kills Man
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | Blog
An entirely innocent, unarmed man; a "pillar of the community" who had stopped to break up a fight. It is already a foregone conclusion of course that there will be no accountability whatsoever for this heinous murder because the guilty criminal perpetrator is a...
A Barrel of Rotten Apples
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog
Government actors are a part of the population. Government actors are a part of the population. Government actors are a part of the population. Government actors are a part of the population. Government actors are a part of the population. Government actors are a part...
Cop Who Kneed a Subdued Suspect in the Eye ’20 to 30 Times’ Gets Qualified Immunity
by Scott Horton | Aug 21, 2020 | Blog
Billy Binion in Reason.
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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