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Did you know the United States' highest court has ruled that police have no obligation to protect anyone?

How committed are liberals really to ending gun violence? And do they really have the will for an exhausting spiritual and political fight to accomplish that? If the answers are "Very!" and "Yes!" then... I. How much should we cut the Dept of Defense's budget? 😋 I'm a libertarian I like budget cuts. 50 percent? I think 50 percent is what we should cut. They're the most gun violence people in the world! Using Trump's method of asking for too much so you can negotiate down to a better deal... Which is not necessary for most normal reasonable people, so it's mostly just super obnoxious and time-wasting.... 75 percent. 😛 II. We'll still be like five times the next biggest military! lol And nobody's going to come over an ocean and conquer one of the best things they've got going for them– That America is here and alive and free, baby! 🌾🌾🌾 The only reason they have as much military as they d...

Deeply in touch with his electorate base. Probably not the best guiding philosophy for living a good life or building a good world.

While Redistributing Our Wealth, Mostly to Themselves Then They Said We Can't Be Free Because of Poverty While Incentivizing Poverty And Trashing Our Economy Then They Said We Can't Be Free Because of The Drug Dealers While Propping Them Up And Subsidizing Big Pharma's Leaders Then They Said We Can't Be Free Because of the Right Wing Militia Groups While Stockpiling Hollow Tip Ammo and FEMA Body Bags Too Then They Said We Can't Be Free Because of Terrorists After Years of Funding, Arming, and Training Them These People Need To See A Therapist Now They're Saying We Can't Be Free Because of Immigrants When This Whole Time The Biggest Problem Was Always Washington And good luck stopping immigrants from coming in Or bitcoin from popping out the Old World Order's linchpin

Eric Boehm at Reason: Doug Jones, Roy Moore, and the Politics of the Lesser Evil "The politics of the lesser evil are very much in vogue right now—though not usually in terms as stark as what we just witnessed in Alabama—because neither major party has much in the way of a compelling vision to win support. Demonizing the other side and hardening tribal lines over issues of race, class, and social policy is, if not the only way to win in that environment, then certainly the easiest. This 'negative partisanship' has infected all parts of the political dynamic, and it's getting worse. But winning elections isn't supposed to be the goal of politics. Creating policy is. And the politics of the lesser evil are not good for the creation of policy, because whoever wins gains power and therefore quickly becomes the greater evil." Jeffrey Tucker at FEE: This Bloodsport Needs to End "The left is getting nuttier, the hard right is getting scarier, and the...

Let's start off with an easy question: Whose Internet would all of the cool, hip, California-smug, Obama-liberal/libertarian-lite, techno-pundits say is more "neutral?" America's or China's? A: China's right? The Great Firewall of China You see, there's nothing neutral about an Internet on the leash of state regulations. Which is why "Net Neutrality" is as Orwellian a name for it as the Patriot Act is for that piece of unpatriotic trash. Once you put on the leash, just so long as Washington is tugging it in the direction of your pet issue ( this time , you fool)... It doesn't matter if you give yourself a mile of leash. It will keep getting shorter until the state is yanking you around by the neck. Net Neutrality activism is for people with short eyes and long ears. Sounds great to people who can't see past next week. And people with short memories too. Because when oh when will we ever learn that Washington...

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. -Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Every time someone carries out a terrorist attack in America using a gun, these shameless political opportunists and their fake-lamenting, virtue-signaling public of political fetishists brazenly climb onto the pile of dead bodies to start harassing other Americans who peacefully own guns and calling for the curtailment of gun ownership in this country. There is nothing at all like a comparable reaction to the constant carnage on America's highways, with thirty and forty thousand people dying every year in automobile accidents: a 9-11 terrorist attack worth of human lives lost every month. We fundamentally reordered our society and planet over 9-11, but can't be bothered to stop the automobile deaths. We've just written those people off as the cost of doing business. Because the lives lost in a terrorist attack like Las V...

If you're having trouble maintaining a gloomy mood this Labor Day morning, there's this: North Korea's Kim Jong Un is "begging for war," US ambassador Haley says at emergency UN Security Council meeting https://t.co/hvNF1B0iMo pic.twitter.com/AXlXNHV2Uk — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) September 4, 2017 The bloody Washington regime continues to try to start a fight with North Korea instead of actually looking out for Americans and the world by working to keep things calm. If you're having trouble maintaining a happy mood because of that, there's this: If you want to be knowledgeable about North Korea and completely understand what's happening over there, please read this: The Latest News on North Korea from a Libertarian Perspective .

This is not a partisan tirade. I did not vote for Clinton or Obama either time. So I am not just reflexively criticizing Donald Trump for this because he's Trump and has an R next to his name. In one sentence: None of this is any of the federal government's business. Both DACA and the repeal of DACA are examples of big government run amok. If I want to hire someone, that's their work permit. They are now permitted to work for me. It's my business. Because I am paying them to and I give them permission to. It's my money to pay them. And it's my business to decide. We don't need any extra permission from anyone else. We're grown ups. We can decide. It doesn't matter where that person was born either. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Why should the place someone was born make them have any less rights than anyone else? We're all people. Do conservatives think God cares where a person was born? Do the...

The appropriations fight over federal relief funds for Hurricane Harvey is a big show of support and compassion, but it's really just another wealth transfer to the government that doesn't do anything to solve the problem at all . If Congress really cared about solving problems, they would pay out as much as they need to from the federal flood insurance program for Harvey, raise the program's budgets, whatever they need to do to fulfill promises they've made.... And in the same bill they would start to phase out the federal flood insurance program and make people pay actual market rates to private insurance companies for flood insurance by a certain target date. Then people will have to consider the real costs of building in a flood plain by a coast. Read the rest of my article , Which was graciously published at Everything Voluntary

My new book about the seriously cancerous life and personality of Karl Marx is out this week. Get "Karl Marx Never Bathed" here . Or enjoy this excerpt: Introduction - The Setting For This Book A zombie is haunting the world — the zombie of communism. All the powers of good old fashioned Reason and basic Science have entered into a holy alliance to finally put this zombie back in the grave where it belongs. But we just can’t seem to get through to the brainless, undead monster that refuses to die, despite the wreckage of a century with half the world living under the nightmare of mass murder, police state repression, forced labor camps, and millions upon millions of starving people, dead because of the fatal conceit of violent bureaucrats who couldn’t manage their way out of a paper bag much less the complexity of industries like farming and manufacturing that require specialized knowledge and you know, price signals to help them allocate resources effectively. ...

4/24 commemorates the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915 from Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals were arrested that day. Eventually 2,345 prominent Armenian leaders were detained. The event has been described by historians as a decapitation strike, which was intended to deprive the Armenian population of leadership and a chance for resistance. By Yerevantsi - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 These detainees were later relocated within the Ottoman Empire. Most of them ended up murdered by the government. This was just the beginning. Eventually 1.5 million Armenians were rounded up, men, women, children, and the elderly... ...and systematically murdered in forced death marches through the Syrian desert and in concentration camps. Headline of New York Times, December 15, 1915 Barack Obama Promised That When He Was President The US Would Finally Recognize What Happened As a Genocide. But he never kept his word. ...

A song from System of a Down on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day . Elimination Die Why walk down A whole race, genocide Taken away all of our pride A whole race, genocide Taken away Watch them all fall down Revolution The only solution The armed response Of an entire nation Revolution, the only solution We've taken all your shit Now it's time for restitution Recognition Restoration Reparation Recognition Restoration Reparation Watch them all fall down Revolution The only solution The armed response Of an entire nation Revolution The only solution We've taken all your shit Now it's time for restitution The plan was mastered And called genocide (Never want to See you around) Took all the children And then we died (Never want to See you around) The few that remained Were never found (Never want to See you around) All in a system of down Down, down, down Walk down Watch them all fall down Revolution The only solution ...

Saw this on Davi Barker 's Facebook page last night: "We've heard a lot about how compulsory schooling harms the natural enthusiasm to learn, as well as the unspoken lessons of the Prussian system. I've heard a lot of people discuss how forced association leads to bullying. But I have never heard anyone discuss to effects of compulsory schooling and forced association on broken hearts. Think about a highschool from a biological standpoint. It is for practical purposes a cage in which society throws people who are biologically, and by any pre-modern standard, adults. They are trapped there for six hours a day, locked in a room with 30+ other adults, arbitrarily selected by age. They are at the peak of their emotional and hormonal volatility. And they are told to devote their undivided attention to education. This is very bad chemistry. Inevitably relationships form, adding more volatility. Love, lust, jealousy, rage. Explosive emotions, probably experienced for th...

...government will be bigger than ever. Just like it was at the end of Ronald Reagan's time in the White House. And you will have given millions of dollars to Rand Paul along the way, who will spend it on ads to get elected, ads in the mainstream media outlets that teach people not to be free. This is how libertarians unwittingly subsidize a message that makes theirs incomprehensible to the people they are trying to enlighten. You'd be better off spending your political donations on some good books.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names. A special message for those who celebrated Veteran's Day:

Want to see a piece of paper that gives me the RIGHT to rob you? You don't believe there is such a thing? Are you SURE you don't believe it?

(Warning: Graphic Footage) Washington doesn't merely lack the legal authority for a military intervention in Syria. It lacks the moral authority. We're talking about a government with a history of using chemical weapons against innocent people far more prolific and deadly than the mere accusations Assad faces from a trigger-happy Western military-industrial complex, bent on stifling further investigation before striking. For the facts, please read my latest article at PolicyMic, a list of 10 chemical weapons attacks carried out by the U.S. government or its allies against civilians . And after you've read it, check this out: THL Exclusive Bonus Footage for The Article (Warning: Graphic) I had included several very graphic photos of the victims of these chemical attacks in the PolicyMic article linked above. I wanted for people to see just how horrifying Washington foreign policy and chemical weapons are and just how real these attacks were, just how real thes...