Most of us have a garden in order to have delicious fresh produce, not to live off of its production. However, if you’re already gardening, it’s only a little more trouble to prepare some crops for storage. During the rest of the year we’ll find out what I can do in a small garden space. [...]
Archive | May, 2011
Do It Yourself Canned Beef and Broth
The richest beef broth is the one you make yourself, and it makes the most savory soups and sauces you ever tasted. And since you’re already making broth, you might as well can some meat too. After discovering how ridiculously easy it is, if you’re like me you’ll make your own from now on. There’s [...]
Emergency Food Stock Management
Now that you have an emergency food stock, you need to maintain it. Emergency food supply management is simple, and it returns enormous dividends. There are three essential steps to follow in maintaining an emergency or survival food supply: testing, inspection, and rotation. Food Stock Testing This is not about testing to make sure the [...]
Build Your Emergency Food Supply in Six Months
Survivalists and grandparents tend to measure wealth differently than the Gameboy generation. If you’re the kind of person who’s concerned about emergency preparation, a large food stock truly is wealth.
SWAT Murder in Tucson
‘Why Did Police Kill My Dad?’ by William Norman Grigg. “I saw this guy pointing me at the window,” Vanessa recalled in a subsequent television interview. “So, I got scared. And, I got like, ‘Please don’t shoot, I have a baby.’ I put my baby [down]. [And I] put bag in window. And, I yell [...]
Gingrich Shows His Statist Colors
Gingrich Knocks GOP Proposal for Medicare – WSJ.com. Newt Gingrich has a health care proposal for you — you should be required by law to buy health insurance. He cages this statist mandate in terms of “personal responsibility,” which reminds us that in the government, it’s always opposite day, upside-down day, or backwards day. There [...]
Indiana Cops Have the Right to Enter Unlawfully… Say What?
Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home. INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if [...]
Medicare, Social Security Funds Expiring Sooner, U.S. Says – Businessweek
Medicare, Social Security Funds Expiring Sooner, U.S. Says – Businessweek. TAL Commentary: The difference between Bernie Madoff and the US Government is that Madoff is in prison, and that social security is a much bigger Ponzi scheme than he ever perpetrated. None of the politicians are dealing with the fundamental immorality of the whole thing [...]
What Rednecks do to Price-Gougers
Introduction to Mobonomics Part 2: Redneckonomics In Part 1 — TANSTAAFL, we discussed what happens after a hurricane in Mobile, Alabama, and the advantages of a free market economy over the Mobonomics of State intervention. In our scenario, Nick bought generators in Birmingham and sold them at high prices in Mobile. Soon there was competition [...]
Introduction to Mobonomics
Part 1: TANSTAAFL — There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. This means that whatever you get, you’re paying for it one way or another. Whenever people are free, they allocate resources by pricing — think of this as “price-rationing.” But when the government intervenes, it does “political-rationing.” Only price-rationing actually works in [...]
Dallas keeps $2,000 found by honest teen
Dallas keeps $2,000 found by honest teen | wfaa.com Dallas – Fort Worth. DALLAS — Dallas will keep $2,000 found by a teenager in a parking lot last February. The money will go into the city’s general fund — not back to Plano high school student Ashley Donaldson, who found the cash in an [...]
The "Security" Beast
Whenever the state provides a product or service, it will always tend to provide more of it — need it or not, want it or not — as an excuse to increase spending. As I predicted in my upcoming book, The Truth About Liberty, once the state maxed out air travel security it would soon [...]
The Rea$on for War – Part 2
Read Part 1 Whenever the government monopolizes a product or service, it will behave like any other monopolist; it will maximize cost and minimize quality. Also, agents of the government (and their dependents, like defense contractors) are tax consumers, so assuming nothing more than their own self-interest, you can expect them to increase public demand [...]
The Foundational Economic Myth of Our Era: Government Cured the Great Depression
The Foundational Economic Myth of Our Era: Government Cured the Great Depression. May 6, 2011 Economist Thomas Sowell recently challenged the Great Myth of FDR and the Great Depression. No economic downturn in all those years ever lasted as long as the Great Depression of the 1930s, when both the Federal Reserve and the administrations [...]
State or Private Law Society by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
State or Private Law Society by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. The Problem of Social Order Alone on his island, Robinson Crusoe can do whatever he pleases. For him, the question concerning rules of orderly human conduct – social cooperation – simply does not arise. This question can only arise once a second person, Friday, arrives on the [...]
The Rea$on For War – Part 1
It is said that the US government has engaged the War on Terror to save lives. If this is true it means that the State is deeply concerned with our lives, and intent on securing our lives at virtually any cost (for the war has been extremely costly by any measure). But what are the [...]
