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The Non-Aggression Principle Is Realistic and Not an Abstract Concept

In his book the Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard sets out the links between individual liberty, property rights, and the non-aggression principle. Rothbard’s explanation of property rights as the essence of liberty has greatly influenced the libertarian understanding of the NAP, but there is often a great deal of confusion as to what amounts to an act of aggression. As David Gordon has pointed out, some libertarians have gone so far as to say that the NAP should be rejected altogether for havi...

This Really Happened

I promised, after having nearly died in a hospital the summer before last, to write the things I wanted never to write.

I’ve almost kept my promise. But there are a few stories left unspoken; that catch in my throat. This is one of them.

You, dear reader, remember our beloved little dog, the late Mushroom.

He joined our family when I had recently become a single mom with two small children — that most vulnerable, most raw, most wary of identities; that state most in need of a friend and protecto...

What’s ‘Normal’ in a Hyper-Normalized World?

Now that the entire economy depends on these hyper-normalized speculative bubbles for its “growth” and “wealth,” there is a profound fear of a future based not on artifice but on the real world.

Humans are quick to habituate to current conditions, i.e. consider them normal. This rapid normalization has advantages and disadvantages.

Normalization is an adaptive strategy, enabling humans to adapt readily to conditions that are considerably different from their previous “normal” state of affairs. S...

Drugged Into Oblivion: More Than 60 Percent of U.S. Adults Admit That They Are Taking Pharmaceutical Drugs

Americans watch more television than anyone else in the world, and as we watch television we are constantly being bombarded by commercials from pharmaceutical companies.  As I discussed in a previous article, pharmaceutical companies spend more than 15 billion dollars on television advertising each year.  The reason they do this is because it works.  We are the most drugged nation in the history of the world, and the pharmaceutical companies are absolutely swimming in cash.

According to polling ...

Mises’s ‘Fight Against Error’

One of my favorite sections of Ludwig von Mises’s majestic treatise Human Action (1949) is a rather short one titled “The Fight Against Error.” Its main theme is to show how mankind’s problems come down to errors arising from flawed economic ideologies. He writes: “The main objective of…economics is to substitute consistent correct ideologies for the contradictory tenets of popular eclecticism.”

In some ways, civilization can be seen as a sort of bridge which must be engineered and understood us...

Palestinian Pebbles of Resistance

I can’t help following the Austin Metcalf-Karmelo Anthony racial saga. This is the big story of the moment, framed dishonestly as always, highlighting the two sides we have to choose from. What the great Huey Long called Tweedledum and Tweedledee. High Papa Lowem and Low Papa Highem. Servers working for the same Wall Street chefs.

A few days ago, former January 6 political prisoner Jake Lang organized a “Whites Fight Back” rally in Frisco, Texas. Or maybe it was “Protect White Americans.” Regar...

UKanistan Is Erasing Christianity

Gail Appel wrote:

Cancelling Easter and imprisoning Christian preachers, people who silently pray for others or hand out Christian leaflets.

Islamists who block the streets en masse 5x daily, wish death upon Christians, Jews , UK and the west and hand out Hamas recruiting propaganda get elected as Mayors, members of Parliament and collect welfare.

See here.

 

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Ayaan Hirsi Al on Sweden’s Rejection of Christianity- Hasn’t worked out as imagined

Thanks, Gail Appel. 

See here.

 

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When Palestine was a backward arid desert

Joseph Salerno wrote:

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1993 Warning of the NWO

Writes Gail Appel:

They even use the term “Useless Eaters”!

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