I thought some people here might be interested in one of the latest absurd claims floating around. The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute’s President, Ken Brown, has declared that Linus wasn’t really the creator of Linux , but stole it. To try to back up his absurd claim, Brown tried to go to interview Andy Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX. Brown did
I’m at the Mises University now, and I plan on transcribing my notes. This is the first lecture given. Any errors are mine, feel free to point them out so that I can correct them. This lecture was given by Prof. Hulsmann . Why isn’t Austrian economics taught? State interventionism. The State hiring economists: Biased towards the government. At
I’m at the Mises University now, and I plan on transcribing my notes. This is the third lecture given. Any errors are mine, feel free to point them out so that I can correct them. This lecture was given by Prof. Herbener. Basic points about Human Action Human Action, the Action Axiom : man acts, using means to obtain ends, so as to ease unrest
As an avid viewer of the Suze Orman show, I’ve noticed one interesting thing: Suze Orman doesn’t like tax-refunds. The reason for this isn’t that she dislikes the idea of people getting their own money back. Rather, she dislikes the idea of people giving the government a series of free (0% interest) loans, averaging 6 months. When a viewer called
On April 5, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the confiscation of gold from US citizens , in one of the most heinous acts of mass-robbery imaginable. Below is the text of Roosevelt’s order. Forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5(b) of the Act of October 6,
Well, you can praise someone one minute, and have to harshly criticize them the next. On the Suze Orman show, Suze advised a highly indebted guest to declare bankruptcy on approximately $70K of credit-card debt. Telling him about the legal benefits of declaring bankruptcy, she went a step further and asked him to tell at least 10 of his friend’s
David Holcberg, of the Ayn Rand Institute , published U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims [Our money is not the government’s to give] . In response, James Taranto, of the Wall Street Journal ‘s slandered the ARI . The Ayn Rand Institute’s Holcberg argued that: Every cent the government spends comes from taxation. Every dollar the government hands
In response to my blog defending the Ayn Rand Institute against slander , one Objectivist curiously asked me (and others) about how anarcho-capitalism would work. It is refreshing when someone new to the concept of anarcho-capitalism (or propertarianism, or plum-line libertarianism) approaches it with an open mind, as you are doing. Let me try to
The latest legislative insanity comes from HR 1677 , sponsored by Delegate John Cosgrove (R-78) . The latest judicial insanity comes from Bastine: Apparently, pregnant women can’t get divorced in Washington. Shawnna Hughes had hoped to divorce her abuse husband by Christmas of 2004, but when the Judge Bastine found out she was pregnant, he gave
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