Reading: Which Way for Liberty? (March 27, 2005)
Lew Rockwell, Mar 29 ’05: Which Way for Liberty? (Original Post)
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Ayn Rand, Gun Rights, North American Security Integration, War on Drugs (March 13, 2005)
Tibor R. Machan – Feb/Mar ’05: A Defense of Ayn Rand: Let’s Stop the Gossip and get to the Meat The Libertarian Enterprise | Anthony Gregory – Mar 13 ’05: Conservatives and the Second Amendment Canada.com – CP – Mar … Continue reading →
Libertarianism and First Nations Self-Government, Quote by Mises (February 28, 2005)
Continued from Governments vs. Aboriginals: Breaking Families and Treaties To sum up, in Canada we have historical injustices, false notions about “conquest” based on broken treaties, futile ideas like “assimilation”, and an awful record of what amounts to child abduction … Continue reading →
H.L. Mencken on Atom Bomb and Libertarianism (November 10, 2002 & re-posted: January 23, 2005)
H.L. Mencken: Individualist and Libertarian Essay by Murray N. Rothbard: H. L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian Selected quotations: “It is, perhaps, a fact provocative of sour mirth that the Bill of Rights was designed trustfully to prohibit forever two of … Continue reading →
Iraq and Human Life: Libertarian Objections to War (January 2, 2005 re-post of August 30, 2002)
Iraq and Libertarian Objections to War (original version: 2002) 2014 note: Just to avoid giving the wrong impression: At the time I wrote this (2002), I didn’t realize that Ayn Rand’s foreign policy views may have been hawkish and inconsistent … Continue reading →
Euripides: Free-Enterprise Capitalism vs. Warmongering State Capitalism (December 15, 2004)
Euripides: Difference Between Free-Enterprise Capitalism and Warmongering State Capitalism “For the deity hates violence, and biddeth all men get lawful gains without plundering others. Wealth unjustly gotten, though it bring some power, is to be eschewed. The breath of heaven … Continue reading →
Absolutism vs. Traditions, Higher Principles, Rights – Government Attacks Tradition of Sanctuary (August 2, 2004)
Government Attempts to Undermine the Authority of Rival Institutions: Tradition, Church, Family Why Judy Sgro is just plain wrong The Globe and Mail, Catherine Dauvergne, Aug 2 ’04 Canadian Immigration Minister, Judy Sgro, says there is no need for churches … Continue reading →
Philosophy & values – Niomachean Ethics & Aristotle 1.12 and 2.1
September 27, 2003 Philosophy & Values Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.12 …to us it is clear from what has been said that happiness is among the things that are prized and perfect. It seems to be so also from the fact … Continue reading →
Liberty, war, on politics, minding our own business, philosophy, Aristotle, von Mises
(6/3/2020 – Looking back over these old posts, maybe I’m wrong, but it does appear in retrospect that, although there are good points, the anti-State rhetoric seems to fit (as with left-wing anarchists also) with the ultimate agenda of a … Continue reading →
Ethics & philosophy – Selected Quotations from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius – Part II
July 14, 2003 – A Selected Quotations from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (and I argue with him too) Part II …nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging … Continue reading →