File these under: “Things You Should Read.” I will add them to Meet Me Halfway as well… The Hallmarks of Cancer (a peer-reviewed journal article about why cancer spreads as it does, and how difficult it will be to stop). Market Chosen Law (how a system of law would work where no monopoly is granted…
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Your lecture this week is one that explores the money, bureaucracy, and recent history of health care in the U.S., and why, since government created the problem, the answer is not and has never been more government. Timothy Terrell, ladies and gents:
“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.” – Hans Hoppe Commonly in political circles, you will hear people praising the U.S.’s commitment to democracy and freedom. The problem is, the two values are incompatible,…
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. – Mises Many Americans, lay and economic professionals, believe that war is good for the economy. Here we have a circumstance in which people believe that on one hand, war is good (because it helps the economy), while on the other, it…
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does reproductive freedom mean a right to free birth control? Nope: Supporters of Obama’s birth control rule conflate liberty with subsidies, insisting that you are not really free to do something (in this case, use contraceptives) unless it’s free. According to this logic, observant Jews do not have religious freedom unless the government pays for…
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