December 2011
62 posts
“I don’t admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my...”
– Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (via distantheartbeats)
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit...”
– Frederic Bastiat (via anarchei)
“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax...”
– Henry Hazlett (via a-petro-manifesto)
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed...”
– Gekko
“The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.”
– american gangster
Gullible Americans →
baseballlibertarian:
by Walter Williams
National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman has called for states to mandate a total ban on cellphone usage while driving. She has also encouraged electronics manufacturers — via recommendations to the CTIA-The Wireless Association and the Consumer Electronics Association — to develop features that “disable the functions of...
Walter Block destroys the "Ron Paul would have let... →
First of all, a President Paul would never have foisted an oil embargo on Japan. So, there would have been no attack on Pearl Harbor, and no fighting with the Japanese military would have been necessary. This consideration alone means that hundreds of thousands of innocent people would not have perished. And, also, it...
“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s....”
– Robert Frost, 1960
“Speaking my truth in rhyme no matter how bland it is
A heavy heart lighting...”
– Clipse
“When the oppressors give me two choices, I always take the third.”
– Meir Berliner, who died fighting the SS at Treblinka (via cultureofresistance)
Obama’s simplistic view of income inequality →
In short, the public wants fairness but retains a healthy skepticism about the federal government’s ability to achieve it
good little read
“From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a...”
– Sherlock Holmes (via philphys)
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the...”
– C. S. Lewis (via asuperfluousman)
BREAKING: White House will NOT veto National...
a-petro-manifesto:
abaldwin360:
shortformblog:
White House issues statement saying it will not veto defense bill - @AP
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) December 14, 2011
Disturbing news, as this is the bill which would allow for indefinite detention. More details here.
Welcome to the police state.
Hey Obama fanboys, suck my cock.
