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FPF #233 – John McCain’s NDAA

by | Aug 15, 2018 |

On FPF #233, I discuss Trump signing the 2019 John McCain National Defense Authorization Act. The overly costly and hawkish Pentagon spending bill is a perfect reflection of John McCain's horrific foreign policy record. I explain how parts of the bill will move the US...

I’m Quitting Twitter

by | Aug 7, 2018 |

As Dan McAdams was saying today on the Liberty Report, Twitter has demanded that we hit their Soviet BF Skinner button to delete our terribly offensive tweets, which at least in my case have been deleted from my feed by Twitter already, in order to begin the 12 hour...

FPF #228 – A $700 Billion Waste

by | Aug 3, 2018 |

On FPF #228, I discuss the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. Congress recently passed the 2019 NDAA, authorizing $716 billion in defense spending. The spending is largely for offensive purposes and does not benefit the protect the American people. I break down...

History's Greatest Empire

by | Apr 17, 2018 |

A quote from the early American moral philosopher (or, to some, preacher of religion), William Ellery Channing (from Spiritual Freedom, 1830): I call that mind free, which is jealous of its own freedom, which guards itself from being merged with others, which guards...

The Dews From Heaven

by | Feb 12, 2018 |

Pliny said, of the dew, that it is, "...the sweat of Heaven, the spittle of the stars." Mormon scripture, evoking Moses, recites, "Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly;...

Capitalism And Backscratchers

by | Sep 26, 2017 |

I'd like to relate a blog-appropriate anecdote concerning an epiphany I just experienced.  The other day I saw a backscratcher for sale at the store.  It was a metal hand, with a telescoping rod, connected to a plastic handle.  The display rack containing these...

War And Peace Put Simply

by | Jul 20, 2017 |

War is so costly because it requires reciprocal action and therefore wasteful escalation.  The force that drives this is the need to "win".  This is the same force that ruins politics. If you can accept some of what you want, maybe even in a context of getting mostly...

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A Strategy for Victory – Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D.

https://youtu.be/70oW1bau5Tg Th e strategy was dictated by the quasi-libertarian, stateless medieval starting point, and it suggested itself “naturally,” fi rst and foremost to the top ranks of social authority, in particular to feudal kings. In a nutshell, it boils...

The Wigan Pier of the Periphery

I just finished some work in the city. I was working with a pair of carpenters, men in dirty clothes with splinters in their hands. As we worked the nicely dressed office class ignored those building the world around them, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, the...

Friends Don’t Let Friends Ally with the USA

Osama bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and a legion of other malefactors discovered that alliance with the US and its coalition partners can be a mercurial and potentially lethal relationship.

A Home into a House

It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...

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