Obama's Iraqi Fairy TaleI promised myself that I would no longer comment on what Barack Obama has to say, because it's just not worth the time and effort. Obama's public remarks are comprehensible only if you keep one thing in mind: he, like other politicians, thinks most people are morons.
I am so appalled by what Obama said in Europe the other day, however, that I must break my promise. In his s... (more)
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Traffic Jams Are Government Lines
Adam & Carey talk to random victims of theft on their way out of the Chatsworth Courthouse. Adam convinces this one of something very important ...
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Putin, Obama Agree: Everyone Into the Briar Patch!Since reading 1984 as an adolescent, I’ve remained perpetually amazed at George Orwell’s prescience. The Edward Snowden/Glenn Greenwald surveillance state strip-tease has recently focused attention on one aspect of that predictive acumen, but “we have always been at war with Eastasia” is returning to the fore due to the … “situation” … with Ukraine, Crimea and Russia.
The most recent development on that front as I write this column — quite possibly to be superseded by other... (more)
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The Iranian Threat That Never WasIf you take politicians and the mainstream media seriously, you believe that Iran wants a nuclear weapon and has relentlessly engaged in covert efforts to build one. Even if you are aware that Iran signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and is subject to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections, you may believe that those who run the Islamic Republic have cleverly found ways to construct a nuclear-weapons industry almost undetected. Therefore, you may conclude, Democratic... (more) I love how the media/government cycle from one "imminent" threat to another and the idiot public goes along with it none the wiser. - Chris |
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Why I'm Burning My Last Bridge With Obama
Join me as I wreck my last artifact of support for the war criminal-in-chief!! *I figured out the fraud a while back, but recently found this shirt in my closet :)
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Treating People Like GarbageAs English colonists living in America understood, living under an empire is not a pleasant experience. Empire officials are inevitably arrogant, pretentious, pompous, haughty, big-headed, insufferable type of people. They believe that others should bow down them, pay them homage, and behave subserviently to them.
American colonists, of course, haven't been the only ones who have had to suffer under the dominion of imperialist officials. Generations of people in Africa, the Middle... (more)
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Kennedy's "Weakness" During The Cuban Missile Crisis Saved Our LivesThe Obama-Putin faceoff on Ukraine inevitably brings to mind the Kennedy-Khrushchev faceoff during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The confrontation between Kennedy and Khrushchev, of course, was much more dangerous given that it brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of all-out nuclear war. But the two confrontations are similar with respect to the pressure brought on the president to be "tough."
Like Obama, Kennedy was accused of being a weak, vacillating presiden... (more) The neocons want to start a thermonuclear war because Putin is making Obama "look weak." |
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The Blind Eye Of The LawThough it is responsible for lies, for deceit, for the distribution of misinformation, for inequality, for discrimination and many other things, the one area that I believe is most unethical about the state, is it's hypocrisy. Though they repeatedly claim that it is not so, there is quite obviously one rule for the state, and those working for it, and another for everyone else.
A common response to anyone advocating a form of direct democracy, participatory democracy, or anarchy, ... (more)
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Pay Taxes or Go Directly to Jail It's been more than a month since Toine Manders, tax consultant and former leader of the Dutch Libertarian Party, was arrested and jailed for protecting his clients from theft. Less than a week away from his son's first birthday Toine is still held prisoner and his custody has been extended for an additional 90 days. It seems impossible that someone would be arrested for avoiding theft. However, arrest is the natural consequence when you are up against government thieves who disguise their the... (more)
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Fraud or Freedom?Most libertarians recognize fraud as a form of theft, and therefore a form of coercion that violates the non-aggression principle and should be subject to legal reprisal. In general, I agree. But what constitutes fraud?
The case of Kevin Trudeau has got me thinking. The famous pitchman has been convicted of fraud and sentenced to ten years in federal pr... (more)
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How the Drug War Failed Philip Seymour HoffmanNow that sufficient time has passed since the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, it is time to assess if there is anything positive that we can learn from this tragic and horrific event. Some questions may never be answered, but there are some questions with answers that provide us with insights for improvement and possibly some resolve to make those improvements.
The question that remains is: why did this happen? How could someone with so much talent and a bright future end up dead... (more)
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Washington Makes Moscow Look ReasonableIn 1999, the US government, with the aid of the NATO alliance, bombed Serbia for 78 days, killing thousands of people and inflicting billions of dollars’ worth of damage to the country’s infrastructure. Serbia never attacked or threatened the United States.
The purpose of the campaign was to force Serbia to surrender the province of Kosovo into the hands of ethnic Albanian separatists. In other words, Washin... (more)
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Obama Regime's Hypocrisy Sets New World RecordFrom the moment that Washington launched its orchestrated coup in Kiev, Washington has been accusing Russia of "intervening in Ukraine." This propaganda ploy succeeded. The Western presstitute media reported (nonexistent) Russian intervention to the exclusion of coverage of Washington's obvious intervention.
Having falsely accused Russia of invading Crimea, the Obama regime now demands that Russia interfere in Crimea and prevent the referendum set for next Sunday. Unless Russi... (more)
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Cancer, McDonalds and Justin Bieber - Stefan Molyneux and Jeffrey Tucker
Stefan Molyneux and Jeffrey Tucker talk overcoming Cancer, loving McDonalds, eating cheesecake, Justin Bieber hatred, intellectual property and frozen creativity at the Texas Bitcoin Conference.
Jeffrey Tucker is Chief Liberty Office of Liberty.me, a social network and online publishing platform for the liberty minded. He is also distinguished fellow ... (more)
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Wars on EverythingThis year marks half a century since Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty. The rhetoric of war harkened back to Franklin Roosevelt's declaration of war against the Great Depression, in which he demanded all the executive power the president would have against a foreign foe. Johnson's Great Society inaugurated many billions of dollars worth of social infrastructure. Neighborhoods were torn down and rebuilt. People were forced out of their homes by eminent domain. Trillions of dollars have bee... (more)
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The Water Bed Effect in Drug ProhibitionIf you lie down on a water bed, the amount of water does not change; it just moves elsewhere.
A similar phenomenon occurs with drug prohibition; targeting one drug reduces its use, but that displaced demand shows up somewhere else.
According to a new WaPo story, thi... (more)
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In the American West, Water Is a Political WeaponThe narrative going out from conservative commentators about the California drought (see here and here for two examples) is that environmentalists caused the drought and, since Obama is presumably allied with environmentalists, he is to blame for it.)
Now de... (more)
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Stefan Molyneux Interviewed on The Alex Jones Show
[Interview starts at 48:00]
On today's show, Alex welcomes the founder and host of Freedomain Radio, Stefan Molyneux, to discuss the future of human freedom, the global awakening to tyranny thanks in large part to independent and alternative media sources, and what the future holds in store for true libertarians.
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The Right to DiscriminateNew Mexico Governor Susana Martinez was a regular customer of hair stylist Antonio Darden. About two years ago, Darden decided that he would no longer accept the Governor’s business because of her opposition to the novel social arrangement called same-sex marriage.
Six years before Darden dropped Gov. Martinez as a customer, New Mexic... (more)
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Propaganda Rules The NewsGerald Celente calls the Western media "presstitutes," an ingenuous term that I often use. Presstitutes sell themselves to Washington for access and government sources and to keep their jobs. Ever since the corrupt Clinton regime permitted the concentration of the US media, there has been no journalistic independence in the United States except for some Internet sites.
Glenn Greenwald points out the independence that RT, a Russian media organization, permits Abby Martin who deno... (more)
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Private vs. Government Data CollectionWhen referring to the massive, super-secret NSA surveillance scheme over the American people (and the people of the world), commentators oftentimes conflate data collection by the government with data collection by private entities, especially those on the Internet. The notion is that it's all sort of the same thing and that since people are willing to let Google, Yahoo, Amazon, retailers, and physicians know so much about them, they really shouldn't have any reservations about letting the gover... (more)
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Have We Allowed the First Amendment to Become an Exercise in Futility?"The First Amendment was intended to secure something more than an exercise in futility."--Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting in Minnesota Board for Community Colleges v. Knight (1984)[1] Living in a representative republic means that each person has the right to take a stand for what they think is right, whether th... (more)
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Is the Drug-War Worth This?For the past several days, the mainstream media has been agog over the arrest of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, much as they've gone agog over every other big drug bust for the past 50 years or so. The hoopla surrounding these much-ballyhooed drug busts is to ensure that the citizenry, who have become increasingly disenchanted with the drug war, don't lose faith and that they continue to support the drug war for another 50 years.
Yesterday, in a surprising turn... (more)
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