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"What Is Austrian Economics?" (Mises Institute)
"I, Pencil," by Leonard E. Read (The Freeman)
"The Epistemological Basis of Anarchism,"
by Roy A. Childs, Jr. (TLD)
"Polite totalitarianism," by Ronald N. Neff (TLD)
Posted May 10, 2012:
A new article by Tony Pivetta.
• TLD’s standing challenge to the Left •
Instead of merely emitting the word as mouthfog, please define and defend your notion of fairness, and demonstrate how it comports, or not, with justice.Answers and responses thereto may be posted. I am prepared to keep this challenge posted right here for a year if necessary. — Nicholas Strakon, April 10, 2012
(No takers yet. — NS, May 10, 2012)
Posted May 10, 2012.
An obviousness wrapped in a transparency inside an enigma. If you got the early word on Wednesday that Barack Obscura's philosophy on homosexual "marriage" had "evolved," but you hadn't yet learned just what he said in his ABC interview, in which direction did you predict he was "evolving"? Toward a more traditional, coherent idea of marriage or further from it?
Sorry: It's such an easy question. These Dark Reds are so predictable. And by "Dark" I refer to Obama's nature as a homosexualist Red Guard who is a creature and servant of the homosexualist Dark Suits. That is — not to the color of his skin but to the content of his character.
For rhetorical purposes I imply that some change has actually occurred in what passes for Obama's thinking. Again, no insult intended: I know my implication is hard to swallow. [Nicholas Strakon]
As soon as you hear one of these characters utter any variant of the word evolution, as it applies to his thinking, you just know you're going to be seeing yet another monstrous mutation. [Modine Herbey] Ω
That immense power. 0's service as a Dark Red has earned him a bad review in Newsweek: "Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice?," by Peter J. Boyer and Peter Schweizer
This is exquisite:
Had Obama wanted to strike real fear in the hearts of bankers, he might have appointed former special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald or some other fire-breather as his attorney general. Instead, he chose Eric Holder, a former Clinton Justice official who, after a career in government, joined the Washington office of Covington & Burling, a top-tier law firm with an elite white-collar defense unit....Senior editor Ronn Neff comments: "Red Guard 'justice'! The banks may not have broken any laws, but let's get the Justice Department to make something up."It may be ... that Wall Street was greedy, stupid, and immoral, without actually breaking any laws. But the powers of the Justice Department are immense, and a more aggressive prosecutor surely could have found cases to make.
This intramural slugfest may be our modern American version of the Trotsky vs. Stalin bout. Extra butter on my popcorn, please. [NS] Ω
Black humor, in spades. Hungry for some satire that's sharp and timely? I recommend Jonathan Frost's guest article at Unamusement Park. [NS] Ω
Who are the utopians? In his recently published collection of essays, Delusions of Power, Robert Higgs writes:
I am accustomed to having my arguments in this regard [questioning the very existence of the state as we know it] dismissed as utopian. My reply is that the true utopians are those who continue to look to government as we know it for the protection of people's just rights to life, liberty, and property. The experiment in avowedly "limited" government, it now seems to me, was destined to fail and has indubitably done so. (pp. 3-4) Ω
No doubt you've already seen all this in the newspaper or heard about it on the evening news, but maybe the juxtaposition, at least, will be fresh. Both items are from Larry Auster's View from the Right, and both have to do with advances toward Diverse People's Democracy over in Airstrip One:• "Goodbye blacklist, black hole, blackmail, blackhearted, etc."
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