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Gary North
Written by Gary North on June 12, 2014
You may have heard of the World Economic Forum (WEF). It is held annually at Davos, Switzerland. It’s where the super-rich meet each year. You can’t get in. Neither can I. Libertarians have a similar meeting. It is held in Las Vegas. You can get in. So can I. It’s a shame they don’t have […]
Continue reading →Written by John Odermatt on May 17, 2014
Everyone has an annoying friend, or at least an annoying acquaintance that doesn’t understand common courtesy or how to conduct themselves appropriately in public settings. Some people are unlucky enough to know of or to be harassed by an annoying enemy that pursues a personal vendetta well past the point of acceptable interaction. Annoying people […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 13, 2014
For over 40 years, I have watched university economists attack Murray Rothbard in print. They never laid a glove on him. They had certain things in common. They never published anything comparable to his book, Man, Economy, and State (1962). They never published anything comparable to America’s Great Depression (1963). They did not publish widely […]
Continue reading →Written by John Odermatt on May 2, 2014
Another controversial law was signed by Governor Jan Brewer this week in Arizona. The new legislation means Arizona will be the first state to make posting “revenge porn” online a felony offense. The Arizona Legislature unanimously passed the bill one week ago and the governor signed it into law last Wednesday. “Revenge porn”, also referred […]
Continue reading →Posted on May 1, 2014
Tal Fortgang, a freshman at Princeton University, says he has been ordered to “check your privilege” by his “moral superiors” several times this year because he happens to be a white male. In a column in the Princeton Tory, Fortgang takes on the ideology he says ”assumes that simply because I belong to a certain […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 28, 2014
A gun battle between six high school seniors got the attention of police plenty fast. It all stared when neighbors reported someone pointing a gun at a car one night earlier in the week. “They did scare a number of people in the area,” Capt. Ben Bliven of the Wausau Police Department told WAOW-TV in […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 24, 2014
With midterm election season in full swing, and coming off of my recent interview with the great Murray Sabrin for the Lions of Liberty Podcast, it seems like an appropriate time to examine the role of political action when it comes to advancing the ideas of liberty. As I see it there are generally three […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 21, 2014
General Mills, maker of Cheerios, Yoplait and Pillsbury food products, is asking customers for forgiveness, but any appeasement may not come as quickly as the company might hope for. The public apology came in a company blog post published on Saturday and penned by spokeswoman Kirstie Foster, after a New York Times article on April […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 17, 2014
Key members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressed outrage at revelations made in newly released emails showing ex-IRS official Lois Lerner coordinating with the Department of Justice on prosecuting nonprofit groups. One committee member said the emails prove why the IRS is “scared to give up the rest of Lois Lerner’s […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 15, 2014
Best-selling author Brad Thor and his family are fleeing the progressive city of Chicago for Nashville. The reasons behind the move are pretty self-explanatory. Thor cited the high taxes and violent crime in Chicago as the main reasons for his departure, Twitchy first noted. To make his point, Thor linked to an article that states […]
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