on november 28 of this year, NFL wide receiver plaxico burress accidentally shot himself in the leg with a handgun he was carrying in a new york city nightclub. the…
inflation warning
from the guy who told you to sell your houses in 2005, who told you to sell your stocks in oct 2007, who predicted the fall of major banks in…
is taxation irrelevant?
government is an unproductive entity. it is a net consumer of resources and, being a coercive monopoly, it has no idea what demand should be for its so-called “services”. because…
government and “rational” pricing
i mistakenly turned on cnbc the other day to hear the same old clap-trap about housing “asset” prices. the the straight-faced, yet empty-headed charlie gasparino was talking up the need…
words have meanings
often, a tactic of those who advocate evil is to use words with generally positive connotations to sway the unthinking masses to a cause, even though the usage may in…
the value of ignorance
human beings are complex critters. behavior isn’t always easy to understand. because value is subjective, there are virtually limitless things that individuals may choose to do with given time and…
fun with government
just for fun, i’d like to run through some of the circular logic, contradiction and inconsistency of the ideas behind the concept of government. there a quite a few of…
where do rights come from?
one of the key elements in understanding right from wrong is what rights are and where they come from. if one doesn’t understand these concepts, one’s ideas concerning ethics and…
voting sanctions violence
the state represents institutionalized violence, against peaceful people, as a social system. everything that government does is backed through violence or the threat of violence in order to achieve certain…