Or at least I could be, if this report by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (a government agency that researches terrorism) is to be taken seriously. If you’re an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia supporting a third-party candidate or a certain Republican member of Congress, if you possess subversive literature, you very [...]
Posts Tagged ‘government’
I am a militia member
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged activism, fear, free speech, government, mccarthyism, militia, nonsense, paranoia on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Geithner and Summers — power equations
Posted in politics, tagged economy, geithner, government, obama, political, summers, treasury on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New Republic has a fascinating article on the dynamics between Lawrence Summers and Tim Geithner, the two principal players of Obama’s economic team. An excerpt: It’s only natural that a man who was hailed as one of his generation’s great academic minds by age 30 and who’d become Treasury secretary by 45 would have [...]
Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education
Posted in education, people, politics, tagged arne duncan, charter schools, education, government, secretary on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jim Lindgren thinks he is a great choice.
You should be opposed to an auto bailout irrespective of your ideology
Posted in politics, tagged auto bailout, bankruptcy, becker, costs, economics, government on December 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My position on the auto bailout is simple. The big three should be allowed to go bankrupt. This is true even if one ignores the moral hazard and other intrinsic costs of bailing out private firms. Bankruptcy now is, quite simply, the best course of action not just for the taxpayer and the rest of [...]
The kneejerk reactions have begun
Posted in India, libertarianism, tagged civil liberties, freedom, google, government, India, information, internet, mumbai, surveillance, terrorism, terrorist on December 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A PIL has been filed in India asking to get Google Earth banned. Apparently the terrorists used Google images to plot their attacks. Considering that the terrorists also used buses, trains, cellphones and a fishing boat, perhaps we should ban those as well. And while we are at it, we should make sure that there [...]
The case for limited government
Posted in libertarianism, politics, tagged government, libertarian, limited government, political ideology, ramesh srivats, security on December 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, Ramesh Srivats explains, in a long but very readable post, why our unrealistically high expectations of what the government ought to do for us leads to a bloated maai-baap sarkar that loves to intrude into matters that are not its business, yet fails to perform its most basic [...]
The Austrian viewpoint
Posted in libertarianism, tagged austrian economics, bailout, crisis, economics, government, money on October 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Austrian school of economics is in a permanent “We told you so” mode these days. In this very readable post, Roderick Long gives the Austrian economist viewpoint of the current financial meltdown. After offering a detailed explanation of why it is regulation that got us into this mess (most of his points I agree [...]
What are rights?
Posted in libertarianism, politics, tagged coercion, debate, freedom, government, healthcare, liberty, obama, rights on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t usually agree with the National Review, but this article is bang on the money. During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Barack Obama was asked if he thought health care was a “right.” He said he thought it was a right. Well, if you accept that premise, I think you can ask some logical [...]
Blunting the inherent badness of governments
Posted in quote for the week, tagged Arundhati Roy, government, inefficiency, quote on October 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“India’s redemption lies in the inherent anarchy and factiousness of its people, and in the legendary inefficiency of the Indian state…” -Arundhati Roy.
Why the bailout isn’t (that) bad for libertarianism
Posted in libertarianism, tagged bail out, bankruptcy, banks, depression, economics, economy, government, investment on September 22, 2008 | 18 Comments »
In this post, I’ll defend a thesis that my libertarian friends will probably disagree strongly with — that the economic panic culminating in the $700 billion bailout isn’t all that bad for capitalist and libertarian ideals in the long run. Don’t get me wrong. The bailout is a monstrosity, a tremendous allocation of power to [...]
Saharan inefficiency
Posted in quote for the week, tagged government, Milton Friedman, quote on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand” -Milton Friedman.
The strange case of Salvatore Culosi
Posted in libertarianism, people, tagged accident, collateral damage, death, gambling, government, law enforcement, moral police, paternalism, victimless crimes on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The wages of sin is death. What constitutes sinful behavior is going to be decided by us, the government. We will do everything in our power to ensure that your children grow up in a moral environment. Sometimes shit will happen in the process. Culosi– poor guy – his fate was an unfortunate one. But you know what, some collateral damage is unavoidable in matters [...]

