Archive | September, 2011

How to Get Campaign Contributions When Your Regular Sources Dry Up

DOE Pushing On With $5 Billion In Solar Energy Loans – CNBC.   The U.S. Department of Energy said it plans to push ahead with as much as $5.3 billion in potential additional alternative energy loans by Friday, despite Republican complaints the money is going out too quickly to untested firms. That comes against a [...]

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Want to Resolve Conflicts of Rights? Abolish Public Property

Government inherently causes social conflict. The fact that we have public spaces causes conflict over who has the right to use them, and how. The existence of public roads causes conflict between travelers and protesters. Who has the right to mount a pro-abortion protest? When? For how long will they tie up traffic? What about [...]

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Identifying the Glock 21SF

The Best Bugout Handgun — Glock 21SF

How to choose the best handgun for a bugout bag or any other survival or emergency situation; comparing the Glock 21 and Glock 21SF

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Why God Has the Right to Tax, and Governments Don't

One of the fundamental concepts of libertarianism is that taxation is theft, and therefore morally wrong. Yet God ordered the collection of a temple tax; if taxation is wrong, why would he do this? Let’s look at Exodus 30:13-15: This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel [...]

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How the Government INCREASES Crime

Update: According to a Fox News story, the government not only ordered licensed gun dealers to proceed with illegal gun sales, government agents actually made illegal purchases with taxpayer money, all in order to drive guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Government agents bought the guns, sold them to known criminals, and watched [...]

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State Protection of Monopolies

From The Truth About Liberty: How the Tea Party Can Save America You were probably taught that the only thing that stands between you and gigantic monopolies is a benevolent government. Like a lot of things taught in government schools, the exact opposite is true; monopolies only exist when the state grants a business a [...]

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Taxation is Theft

I can’t go to your house and simply demand your money — you don’t have to give it to me. If I use force, you can defend yourself. But for some reason we have accepted the idea that I can go to your house with several armed men and force you to pay up, as [...]

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The Reign of the People Farmers

[The following is excerpted from an email from Senator Windbag to his nephew, Richard Needles, the esteemed representative from one of our Southern states]. Hi Richard, Congratulations on winning a seat in the Senate. With the six-year terms, you’ll find it much more lucrative in this chamber than in the House; you can spend less [...]

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