Speaking of nonsense, now we are having our annual summer hand-ringing rituals over air-conditioning and power consumption in Ontario, with people asked to “save the planet” and conserve power, because – surprise surprise – the centrally planned and regulated electricity … Continue reading →
Update as of June 1, 2015: I totally disagree with my final statement now. Maybe it was a fantasy in a sense that we were falsely sold, but people paid for it all those years and it worked very well, … Continue reading →
Toronto butting out at midnight (http://www.680news.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20060530_161356_3304) www.680news.com, May 30 ’06 . . . all indoor-smoking in public places such as restaurants, casinos, bars and bingo halls. . . Anti-tobacco activist Michael Perley expects some businesses will resist. “I think there … Continue reading →
Amnesty for tax cheats a success: Report (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1147005128157&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World) www.thestar.com, May 7 ’06 A federal amnesty program for tax cheats is successfully flushing out mostly rich Canadians who want to settle up Tax “cheats” is a funny term to use, since … Continue reading →
The Philosophy of Liberty (Original Post)
Continue reading →Read it online at mises.org: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray N. Rothbard The price at Amazon.ca: (Original Post)
Continue reading →Canada treads dangerous line over poppy eradication in southern Afghanistan www.canada.com, April 23 ’06 But uprooting the plant from which opium and heroin is derived is not the kind of image the military wants to cultivate here as it tries … Continue reading →
What About Darfur? The case against intervention Justin Raimondo, www.antiwar.com, May 1 ’06 From a realistic point of view, there is nothing U.S. military intervention can accomplish in Sudan except to make things far worse. (Original Post)
Continue reading →The Individual or the State? Butler Shaffer, www.lewrockwell.com, May 1 ’06 Drawn from the thinking of such men as John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and other advocates of individually-centered political philosophy, the social contract theory is premised upon each person … Continue reading →
Canada joins growing battle on China parts import policy (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060414.RCHINA14/TPStory/Business) www.theglobeandmail.com Ottawa said China put in place measures last year that cause tariffs on parts imported for assembly of complete vehicles to be higher than the tariff that applies to … Continue reading →