The Myth of OverpopulationThe world is overpopulated. The street are clogged, traffic is in a snarl, and people are living – both figuratively and literally – right on top of each other. There's hardly enough room to swing a cat these days, right? Wrong.
The world is not overcrowded at all. There are vast swaths of unpopulated land all over the place. Siberia, Canada, Africa, Australia, even the rural USA all contain more than enough wide open spaces. So why do people labor so resolutely under this delusio... (more)
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"Check Your Privilege" Is An Idiotic Phrase
“Check your privilege” is an insulting and self-righteous phrase.
It’s used as a way to shut down discussion. It only creates more division, guilt, and jealously. Stop reducing people to their skin color or body parts. It’s not cool.
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Only "Extremists" Believe They Have a Right to be Left AloneErnie Wayne terTelgte is a poor man from a tiny village in Montana who believes that nature gives him a license to live. Barack Obama is a wealthy and privileged man residing at the seat of power who believes his position gives him a license to kill. Naturally, the Tolerance Commissars are pretending that the former is a menace to society, because of the contempt he displays for the system that facilitates the crimes committed by the latt... (more)
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Martial Law, Detention Camps and Kangaroo Courts: Are We Recreating the Third Reich? "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me."--Martin Niemoller Despite what some may think, the Constitution is no magical incantation against government wrongdoing. Indeed, it's ... (more)
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No Foraging in the King's Forest Because It Hurts The PeasantsConveniently hidden in the noise of the Bundy Ranch standoff is the heart of the issue: property rights and use of government-owned land. With the federal government going on a land-grab spree of late, it's time we have a frank discussion about "public" land.
What is it? Who owns it? What's it used for? What rights do citizens have to use it?
Back in feudal times peasants weren't allowed to forage in the king's forest. Those caught poaching to feed their families w... (more)
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Deja Vu in UkrainePardon me, but I’m experiencing déjà vu with respect to Ukraine, specifically relating to the CIA.
As everyone knows, the CIA's business involves regime change, operations in which the CIA oftentimes secretly and surreptitiously ousts democratically elected regimes that are independent of or unfriendly to the U.S. government and replaces them with regimes that will do the bidding of the U.S. government.
Both during and after the CIA's regime-change operations, innoc... (more)
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How to Kill a Man The government of Oklahoma did not botch an execution on Tuesday. When the administration of an untested combination of drugs fails, we do not describe the treatment as "botched," but simply as a failed experiment. Last night, the government of Oklahoma conducted an unsuccessful experiment on a human being without his consent.
This man, a convicted rapist and murderer, is not someone I plan to mourn. His crimes, which included the rape and murder of a teenage girl, were as heinou... (more)
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Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State“[The aim of public education is not] to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim . . . is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States…”—Henry Mencken, American Journalist (April 1924) How do you persuade a nation of relatively freedom-l... (more)
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The BLM: Scourge Of "Lesser Breeds Without the Law"The conflict between the BLM and Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has laid bare evidence of deeply entrenched institutional racism.
No, I’m not referring Mr. Bundy’s awkward but earnest effort to encourage people of all ethnic backgrounds to seek an end to the suffocating embrace of government paternalism. I’m talking about the fact that the Bureau of Land Management is an enforcement arm of a Regime that continues to treat Amer... (more)
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Some Basics of State Domination and Public SubmissionFamiliarity may indeed, as the saying goes, breed contempt, but it also breeds a sort of somnolence. People who have never known anything other than a certain state of affairs—even an extraordinarily problematic state of affairs—have a tendency not to notice it at all, to relate it, so to speak, as if they were sleepwalking through it. Such is the situation of modern people in relation to the state. They have always known it, and they take it completely for granted, regarding it as one might reg... (more)
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With Government Roads, the Customer Is Always WrongFrom the moment automobiles became commonplace in society, people have been dying in them at astonishing rates. Tragically, over the last century almost 4 million people (around 35,000 per year) lost their lives on U.S. roadways alone, with India, China, and Russia averaging almost 300,000 per year combined.
But early figures indicate that 2013 saw the lowest number of traffic fatalitie... (more)
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Ranchers vs. Regulators: The Clark County Range WarTruth, Justus, and the American Way: Cliven Bundy invites a five-year-old to try on a cowboy hat.
War came to the Western Range that April, a conflict pitting the forces of order and respectability against a restive band of extremists accused of cheating the government of what it was due. The prohibitively stronger side consisted of regulatory agencies allied with powerful non-governmental organizations determined to control the land and expel small private interests... (more)
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Bundy, the Senecas and Fighting for SovereigntyIn 1997, New York state declared war on the Seneca Nation reservations located upstate near Tonawanda. The war was over a declared power of the state to impose taxes on goods sold on native reservations. As enforcement, New York saw fit to shut down native businesses, cutting off petroleum and cigarette supplies to the Senecas.
In response to this declaration of war, natives and their supporters blocked traffic onto their land from state troopers and mounted a blockade on Intersta... (more)
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Tax Day: What Kind of "Civilization" Are We Paying For? April 15 seems to be a holiday of sorts for progressives, who inevitably trot out Oliver Wendell Holmes’s quote about taxes being “the price we pay for civilization,” and reminding us of all the great stuff — roads, schools, etc. — that they pay for. But on closer examination, tax day really isn’t a very good choice for progressive holiday.
Let’s start with the idea of progressive taxation as a remedy for economic inequality and unjust distribution of wealth, taking Bill Gates a... (more)
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Justice Should be Blind, Not CrazyTwo years ago, Chicago-area voters reelected a criminal court judge named Cynthia Brim despite the fact that she was declared legally insane. Her state-certified mental illness was the only thing that kept Brim from being sent to jail for assaulting a sheriff’s deputy.
Judge Brim, who shoved the deputy during what was described as a manic episode, was found not guilty of battery by reason of insa... (more)
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US Supreme Court Endorses Involuntary ServitudeA slave is somebody compelled to provide service to another. Elane Huguenin, a wedding photographer from New Mexico, was arraigned before that state's "human rights" soviet for politely declining to provide her services to a lesbian couple planning a "commitment ceremony" (the state doesn't recognize same-sex marriage).
The couple had no difficulty finding another photographer wil... (more)
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The Disturbing Truth Behind Your Next Income Tax ReturnThe least of the problems with income tax is that it takes your money. The really big problem is that the income tax takes your life. It gives the government direct access to the things you own and sets up the political-bureaucratic sector to be the final arbiter of what you can and cannot consider to be yours.
Illustrating this point is the bitter news that the IRS has considered it completely legal to demand access to your email archive whenever it wants. This news came about be... (more)
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Gun-Control MadnessBritish commentator Piers Morgan took a parting shot in favor of gun control during his final appearance on his CNN news show last Friday. Morgan exclaimed, "It's your country; these are your gun laws. And the senseless slaughter will only end when enough Americans stand together and cry: Enough!"
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times is exclaiming against th... (more)
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America's Liar in ChiefEveryone is familiar with where America's Cold War national-security state apparatus has led our nation: down the dark road of assassinations, torture, indefinite detention, coups, surveillance, regime-change operations, secrecy, tribunals, and other dark-side practices that are inherent to communist and other totalitarian regimes.
But how many Americans ever give thought to the fact that the national-security state apparatus has also converted the duly elected president of the Un... (more)
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Pardon Martha Stewart and Joseph NacchioThe Get Out of Jail Free card that the Justice Department has given to national-security state official James R. Clapper can't help to bring to mind what the feds did to Martha Stewart.
Clapper commits perjury before Congress and nothing happens to him.
Stewart lies to some federal agent when she's not even under oath and she's indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to five months in prison and fined.
How can anyone claim that that type of jus... (more)
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