Monday afternoon marked the release of Ron Paul’s “Restore America Now” economic plan and federal budget, and it is impressive. Forget this “9-9-9” garbage put forward by campaigns that prefer catchy numerical alliterative nonsense to substance, Ron Paul’s plan is the only plan that immediately eliminates five cabinet departments and craters the military-industrial complex in [...]
Vikings and Legalized Plunder, oh my!
June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The final push against the TSA in Texas
May 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I have been at the forefront of fighting the TSA’s “enhanced security” theater in Texas for some time. We have gained so much momentum in the last month that now even the Feds are taking notice. Yesterday, the US Department of Justice waltzed into the Texas Capitol with a letter to the Lt. Governor, saying [...]
Libertarian Answers to Alternative Energy Questions
May 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
I was recently asked to interview with a student seeking different viewpoints on political aspects of climate change and alternative energy. Here’s what we talked about… (my answers are in italics) 1. With concern to the energy industry, where do you stand on the argument that free markets will provide the most economically efficient solution [...]
Action Alert: Support measures to criminalize TSA abuses TODAY
May 2, 2011 By 2 Comments
Libertarian Longhorns calls to action all Texans who support civil liberties today! There are two bills in the Texas House of Representatives right now that need our help. First, the bill proposing to ban body scanners (HB 1938) has the votes in committee to be moved to the floor, and likely has a supermajority to [...]
Politics Hurt
April 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
When confronted with a problem most people today turn to the government—but in reality, it’s often the government that created the problem and its continued involvement only exacerbates the problem. Politics distorts free market signals, quashes rights, and, quite bluntly, kills individuals.
Don’t Tread
March 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
This is the third article in a series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by our friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct [...]
The Meaning of Competition
December 7, 2009 By 1 Comment
It is disturbingly easy for arguments originally employed on behalf of the free market to be turned against it. In this article I hope to redeem the concept of competition, which perhaps more than any other argument has been corrupted into the service of the state. Rather than as a peaceful, cooperative, and ordered network, [...]
The Foundations of Rights and the Capitalism of Law
March 26, 2009 By 5 Comments
In this post I will discuss the nature of rights and the principles of homesteading and consensual exchange. This is certainly a more fundamental issue than the one discussed in a previous post, in which I described how a system of law can arise out of the network of contracts between people in a free [...]
Discourse on the sources in my natural law presentation.
February 10, 2009 By 2 Comments
Here you will find a list of the sources I referenced in my presentation and my thoughts on them. There are books that are specifically on libertarian philosophy as well as more general philosophy from non-libertarians. I’d recommend that everyone read all of them immediately. Man, I can’t believe I wrote all this! You’d better [...]
