July 20th, 2011 at 5:13PM
[L]ibertarian interests … today [are] not about Washington and [are] not about building a better state. [They’re] about innovating new spheres for freedom that can live outside the apparatus of compulsion and coercion and eventually displace and replace the anachronism of the central state as we know it. — Jeffrey Tucker. (via libertarians)

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July 20th, 2011 at 5:01PM
statehate: Fengxian, Shanghai, China I met three really sweet Chinese girls who work as secretaries at a license plate factory. In my experience so far, all Chinese people are very nice and attentive and they go out of their way to help you (even random people on the street), and these girls were no exception. They brought me water, coffee, peaches, and a plate full of watermelon, and kept telling me over and over in their broken, yet surprisingly good, English, “you are very handsome boy, very handsome.” Then, we had the following unfortunate exchange on the topic of a Mao Zedong statue in their lobby: Me: Why do you have a statue of Mao?Girl: He is Chinese national hero.Me: So, do you like Mao?Girl: Yes, uh…no, I LOVE him. Me: I see. But what about the millions of people that he killed?Girl: Yes, well, he only killed the…bad guys.  And immediately she lost her chance to come to America.

statehate:

Fengxian, Shanghai, China

I met three really sweet Chinese girls who work as secretaries at a license plate factory. In my experience so far, all Chinese people are very nice and attentive and they go out of their way to help you (even random people on the street), and these girls were no exception. They brought me water, coffee, peaches, and a plate full of watermelon, and kept telling me over and over in their broken, yet surprisingly good, English, “you are very handsome boy, very handsome.”

Then, we had the following unfortunate exchange on the topic of a Mao Zedong statue in their lobby:

Me: Why do you have a statue of Mao?
Girl: He is Chinese national hero.
Me: So, do you like Mao?
Girl: Yes, uh…no, I LOVE him.
Me: I see. But what about the millions of people that he killed?
Girl: Yes, well, he only killed the…bad guys. 

And immediately she lost her chance to come to America.

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July 20th, 2011 at 4:58PM
For some time I have come to the conclusion that the grave deficiency in the current output and thinking of our libertarians and ‘classical liberals’ is an enormous blind spot when it comes to big business. There is a tendency to worship Big Business per se … and a corollary tendency to fail to realize that while big business would indeed merit praise if they won that bigness on the purely free market, that in the contemporary world of total neo-mercantilism and what is essentially a neo-fascist ‘corporate state,’ bigness is a priori highly suspect, because Big Business most likely got that way through an intricate and decisive network of subsidies, privileges, and direct and indirect grants of monopoly protection. — Murray Rothbard (via freeman23)

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July 20th, 2011 at 4:54PM
Let me define the difference between economic power and political power: economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. — Ayn Rand (via iosepos)

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July 20th, 2011 at 3:10AM

This is the short film, written by Kurt Vonnegut.

This is one of the most important films ever produced about liberty.

July 19th, 2011 at 4:49PM
Greece: This is what passes for economic leadership with the Democrats. We are doomed.
July 19th, 2011 at 11:48AM

“The Battle for Brooklyn.”  Eminent domain abuse.  Gov’t, corporations, and bribed community and union groups plot to steal private property.

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July 19th, 2011 at 11:28AM
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July 19th, 2011 at 11:27AM
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July 19th, 2011 at 1:34AM
fuckyeahlibertarian: Gun Control: the theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

fuckyeahlibertarian:

Gun Control: the theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

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July 19th, 2011 at 1:31AM

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July 19th, 2011 at 12:03AM
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. — Andrew Jackson (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
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July 18th, 2011 at 11:55PM
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down — Frederick Douglass (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
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July 18th, 2011 at 10:05PM
July 18th, 2011 at 10:02PM
Julian Simon: The Doomslayer
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