Thomas DiLorenzo explains: Corporations are often accused of despoiling the environment in their quest for profit. Free enterprise is supposedly incompatible with environmental preservation, so that government regulation is required. Such thinking is the basis for current proposals to expand environmental regulation greatly. So many new controls have been proposed and enacted that the late…
DetailsAll this time blogging and I realized I had never brought this topic up. Sheesh… The problem of economic calculation is the topic of your lecture of the week (next week, and since it is Easter on Sunday I do not want to post it then, so here it is…). This one should not be…
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Back in the day, writing a letter to the president actually meant something. Lysander Spooner had some harsh words for Mr. Cleveland… But the falsehood and absurdity of your whole system of government do not result solely from the fact that it rests wholly upon votes given in secret, or by men who take care…
DetailsMuch praise is given to the concept of tolerance. Being tolerant is now a virtue above most in the dominant culture, even in spite of becoming paradox when encountering the opposite of itself (That is – should we tolerate intolerance? Who knows?!). Many have made the point that tolerance is a directionless action or choice,…
DetailsIt is no surprise to those paying attention that the Bill of Rights means very little to those intent on expanding the police state. Politicians, academe, military strategists, and others spend a good deal of time advocating the revocation of the most basic of our rights, and an assault on the First Amendment is ongoing:…
DetailsI have heard even small-government types proclaiming the goodness of net neutrality legislation. Here is a bit of why that misses the mark: