Thanks to Brad Birzer and The American Conservative for this review of Back on the Road to Serfdom , a book I edited early last year.
Another Defense of Ron Against Left-Liberal Interventionist
Another reply to pro-war platitudes .
Your Public Servants Have Special Rights, Citizen
Ademo Freeman of CopBlock.org has been sentenced to 12 months in prison, with nine months suspended. What did he do? Here’s a summary : Ademo Freeman faces 21 years in prison because he stood up for a 17-year-old student who was assaulted by school liaison officer Darren Murphy at… Read More
Help Me Choose a Banner
The great (and libertarian) folks at Hester Designs made me these two banners, one of which I’ll feature at the top of this page, pointing people to Liberty Classroom . I suppose I’ll rotate them, but I want to feature the better one more often. Is one of them… Read More
Drones Cause Problems
Writes Eric Margolis in The American Conservative: “Senior Pakistani diplomats have been warning that the drone strikes that have so far killed 2,500-3,000, mostly civilians, are fueling extremist groups in Pakistan and humiliating its armed forces.”
Left-Liberal Obamaite Ridicules Ron Paul’s Antiwar Position
No surprise there; Obama is as much a part of the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment as anyone. But this kid , in denouncing Ron, repeats every establishment foreign-policy talking point ever devised — from his comic-book version of the Balkans and Iraq to his insistence that the nonexistent Iranian… Read More
A ‘Tribute Video’ to Ron Paul at the RNC
So Ron Paul can’t speak at the Republican Convention, but the neocons will air a tribute video about him that will portray him pretty much as the hangers-on themselves have always tried to portray him: as a good budget-balancer who wants transparency at the Fed. Writes Lew Rockwell : The… Read More
If We Make ‘The Rich’ Pay Their ‘Fair Share,’ Would That Fix Things?
Mish writes: I have a set of questions for the “fair share” tax proponents. Would fair share tax hikes be enough to fund US government spending? What if we took 100% of the profits of Walmart and Exxon Mobile? What if the corporate tax rate… Read More
Paul Ryan Supports the Gold Standard, and I’m Lady Gaga
Bob Wenzel notes that Keynesian Joe Weisenthal just tweeted: “Ugh. Paul Ryan appears to believe in something akin to the gold standard. http://bit.ly/NpNMK4 .” Be sure to read Bob’s analysis , which is spot on as always. But for me, the key point is this: how tone-deaf to… Read More
Paul Ryan Roundup
No need for me to reinvent the wheel; the Daily Paul has a pretty comprehensive post about Ryan and his record.