The number of children being homeschooled is up 75% since 1999.

I’m pretty sure I recall seeing Drudge link to this the other day. Gun killings were down 39% between 1993 and 2011, and non-fatal gun crimes were down 69%. Yet only 12% of the public realized this, with 56% saying gun crimes were up. I’m sure there…
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Here’s the story , which also mentions that sexual assaults in the military are substantially up from two years ago.

The day he was presented with a copy of Nullification .

I don’t know what to make of this. Ken Connor , of something called The Center for a Just Society, writes as follows: Thanks to a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand and high-profile figures like John Stossel, Glenn Beck, and Rand Paul, libertarianism is…
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I only just now saw the acceptance speeches delivered by Rush upon their recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Whether you’re a fan or not, you should watch. I am impressed with what Alex Lifeson was able to do in his…
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What a great weekend I had in St. Paul, thanks to the hordes of great folks there. And while there, I did this brief interview with Tea Mage , a great and multi-talented guy. I’m not sure I can tell you about his current project, but it…
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I’m running some errands before heading out for my events in St. Paul tomorrow, so here’s a quick post about the Mises Institute’s Mises University summer program, which was the formative event in my own intellectual development 20 years ago. (I was class of ’93, not ’92, at…
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I talk to Brion McClanahan, author of The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution , in this brief video. I was in a funny mood this morning, so I decided to include a blooper at the end.

In a discussion of the show The Walking Dead, fiction writer Steven Lloyd Wilson says : All of these events are the slow stripping away of the vestiges of the state, deriving step by step the hell that waits at the logical end of the libertarian impulse, a counterpoint to…
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