Stefan Molyneux and I take on the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Ron Paul urges people to consider what they would think if the shoe were on the other foot.  This is not a thought experiment we are normally encouraged to have.  Instead, we are told how awesome we are. And amid today’s debased version of conservatism, the…
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“ Cain opens 20-point lead on closest rival… ” “ FINANCIAL CRISIS ‘WORST WORLD HAS EVER FACED’… ” So we are possibly looking at the worst financial crisis the world has ever faced, and Republicans are dying to elect a man who, one week before the financial implosion, gave the economy a clean bill of health . How, pray tell, is a man this inept going to…
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Thanks to the Freedom Book Club for choosing We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now (Basic Books, 2008), which I edited with Murray Polner, as this month’s book of the month!  Here I am discussing the book:

On October 14 I’ll be speaking at the Streettalk Advisors X-Factor Investment Conference in Houston.  Details here . On October 22 I’ll be speaking at Nullify Now, Jacksonville (Florida).  Details here .  Use coupon code LIBERTY for $5 general admission!

A 5.6% surtax on incomes over $1 million is being contemplated as a way of paying for the president’s “jobs plan,” which underscores the phoniness of the “jobs.”  Over at EconomicPolicyJournal.com a reader writes : First off, like everyone in the media, you are leaving off…
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I wish I could share the optimism of the zillions of people who write, on Facebook and elsewhere, that Obama is destroying our country — as if there’s a huge array of people waiting in the wings to save it. I’d say the whole establishment…
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Once upon a time I was a fairly conventional conservative.  That experience has made it possible for me to speak to conservatives with an ear to their concerns and in a way that has borne some fruit in bringing people to a more consistently anti-state…
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Matt Miller, a reader of this blog, has just alerted me to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Faithful Citizenship page .  There we are introduced to things like The Candy Game , a “social justice” and “fairness” learning game.  We read items like: Social Justice. Changing unjust rules, such…
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Poor Bruce Bartlett.  He’s spent his career trying to be loved, and it just ain’t happening. First he was a Ron Paulian. Then he realized his career would be better served by jumping on the supply-side train. Then he ditched that to jump onto (yes)…
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