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For many years I have claimed to anyone who would listen that Republicans and Democrats were different sides of the same coin. As you might imagine that proclamation didn't exactly endear me to cheerleaders for either of those supposedly different organizations. To be sure, there are huge differences between their respective approaches to governance, but I have always maintained that those differences were more along the lines of issues, scope and detail than any philosophical quarrel about whether or not government has the solutions to societal problems. But now that we have been pulled from the most recent wreckage of the American experiment and are lying in the emergency room instead of the morgue, it seems like an excellent time to examine how the crash occurred in the first place and whether it actually made any difference which group was driving when we hit the wall. And just when I was pondering how to make the case anew to the rescued occupants without using the old c...

I’ve discovered a new way of cooking bacon. All you need is: bacon, tin foil, some string, and.. oh whats it called?… oh yeah, an old worn out 7.62mm machinegun that is about to be discarded, and about 200 rounds of ammunition. Read the entire awesome article here . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries. I warned at the time of the creation of the TSA that an unaccountable government entity in control of airport security would provide neither security nor defend our basic freedom to travel. Yet the vast majority of both Republicans and Democrats then in Congress willingly voted to create another unaccountable, bullying agency-- in a simple-minded and unprincipled attempt to appease public passion in the wake of 9-11. Sadly, as we see with the steady TSA encroachment on our freedom and dignity, my fears in 2001 were justified. The s...

We libertarians tend to think of ourselves as a tiny, embattled sect, ignored when we're not reviled. Lately, though — with Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" shooting up the Amazon charts and Tea Partiers with "Don't Tread on Me" flags storming Capitol Hill — there's increasing interest in figuring out how this strange tribe thinks. A team of social psychologists, including the University of Virginia's Jonathan Haidt, provides some of the most detailed answers yet, putting libertarians on the couch in a new study, "Understanding Libertarian Morality." Read the rest of Gene Healy's essay at Cato.org Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and the author of The Cult of the Presidency .  Filed by Grant Davies , Regular Columnist, T H L Articles | Author's Page | Website

In recent news, mainstream Republicans and establishment figures are coming out of the woodwork in opposition to QE2. Equipped with a new-found understanding of economics, they are suddenly worried about inflation. The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, has called for the G20 to look into using gold to check inflation. Sarah Palin, not usually a bastion of Austrian economic thought, is now worried about inflation and demanding that Bernanke "cease and desist." She expounds: "We shouldn't be playing around with inflation. We don't want temporary, artificial economic growth bought at the expense of permanently higher inflation which will erode the value of our incomes and our savings." She was even featured on Judge Napolitono's Freedom Watch regarding the matter. Indiana Rep. Mike Pence is also new opponent of Bernanke , planning to introduce legislation that eliminates the Fed's mandate of maintaining "full employment and stable p...

This is hysterical! I've got to say, I'm starting to like foreign news media more than a lot of American news media. Taiwanese animators put together this excellent animated news report on the TSA's violation of our civil liberties: Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

John McClane actually fights terrorists... the TSA just feels up old women and little children. Yippee ki yay MF! Feel free to share this around via social media or publish it on your blog! Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page