The state is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently. – Gustav Landauer[1] Introduction Count Leo Tolstoy outlines the following scenario in The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).[2] A man – I’ll call him Anatoliy – chooses to live by the … Continue reading Would You Press the Button?
Category: Liberty
Well, Hillary Clinton has gone and done it. To the cheers of alt-righters everywhere, those angry lords of the green frog meme who hurl edgy un-PC insults at everyone to their left, the Democratic nominee has put them on the map at long last. Specifically, she accused Donald Trump of encouraging and giving voice to … Continue reading Five Differences Between the Alt-Right and Libertarianism
The pronunciation in English is lay-say-fair. Its French origins date back to the late Renaissance. As the story goes, it was first used about the year 1680, a time when the nation-state was on the rise throughout Europe. The French finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, asked a merchant named M. Le Gendre what the state could … Continue reading What Is Laissez-Faire?
An Oklahoma police chief had a message to President Donald Trump on a controversial tool that allows law enforcement to seize property without ever charging its owner with a crime: police can’t step on the rights of citizens, as the tool called civil asset forfeiture allows. Stephen Mills, a police chief in Apache, Oklahoma, made … Continue reading Oklahoma Police Chief to Trump: Reform the Laws Letting Police Take Americans’ Property
One of the most important things to consider when buying a house is the quality of the grocery district. As the name implies, the grocery district determines which public grocery store you and your family get to use. District maps are drawn by the government to ensure each grocery store has an appropriate number of … Continue reading What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?
A U.S. district judge has blocked the state of Texas from cutting off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding. This is the sixth instance in which a court has prevented a state from denying Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood: Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana have also attempted to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for funds. On Dec. … Continue reading Latest Court Decision Blocking Texas’ Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood Shows Need for Congressional Action
Troubling New Videos Show Urgent Need to Defund Planned Parenthood Live Action, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending abortion and protecting the right to life, has released videos and findings that demonstrate the urgent need for Congress to defund America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. According to a report released in January, a Live Action … Continue reading SICK: Undercover videos catch Planned Parenthood assisting sex traffickers
Senator Rand Paul takes his Obamacare Replacement Act to MSNBC.
By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - A prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday that four men who took part in the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon last year in a land rights protest were on trial for their actions, not their beliefs. But in the defense's opening argument, a lawyer for … Continue reading Second trial begins in Bundy standoff
(Reuters) - An investment company is making plans to launch what could be the first exchange-traded fund to profit on marijuana. The Emerging AgroSphere ETF would give investors an opportunity to buy a group of companies making prescription drugs using cannabis extracts, selling hemp derivatives and other related stocks, fund backer ETF Managers Group LLC … Continue reading Proposed ETF would track flowering marijuana market
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