There’s apparently been quite a panic about the introduction of non-indigenous snakeheads (originally from Asia) to the United States. These beautiful and impressive fish have several properties that are bothersome to many. Firstly, they’re large and carnivorous; when introduced into the US, they have no natural predators. They are aggressive and
Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate for President, and David Cobb, the Green Party candidate for President, were arrested today for attempting to serve papers to the Commission on Presidential Debates , when they tried to get through a barricade . Two previous attempts to serve the CPD with the papers were thwarted by guards in a clearly
In the Republican National convention, Arnold Schwarzenegger said that terrorism is worse than Socialism. Empirically, he is wrong. Between the Nazis, the USSR, and China, Socialism has been responsbible for hundreds of millions of murders. The number of murders committed by terrorists doesn’t even come anywhere near that. I tend to like
These are my alternate interpretations of terrorism and the Nation-State. With regards to terrorism, the war on Afghanistan and Iraq did nothing to reduce it, and everything to increase it. It is likely that the US military’s infiltration of terrorist organizations may allow us to better combat terrorism; however, I’d argue that that certainly
This is part of a transcription from an an interview of Mark Faber by Jim Puplava from FinancialSense.com . I think that Faber is right on the money in some areas, but doesn’t present a really clear picture of the Austrian view. Jim Puplava: I want to move on to your views or your perspective on economics. You approach the framework of analysis of
MSNBC has a transcript of some events at a speech given by Mrs. Bush at a public hall attached to a firehouse (also see this article . A mother, wearing a shirt saying “President Bush, you killed my son”, started objecting in the middle of the event. She was arrested outside of the hall, while she was being interviewed by several reporters. It is
Is Scott Peterson guilty? He probably is, but I don’t know for sure. What I do know is that the legal system as a whole is guilty of a crime: the imprisonment and enslavement of 9 12 jurors. These jurors have been taken from their normal lives and sequestered in a hotel like prisoners, and have been forced to accept a compensation lower than they
Robbert Herring, a “tycoon” , has offered Michael Schiavo $1million if he hands over the rights to decide whether or not to take his wife, Terri Schiavo, to her parents. Mr. Schiavo says that she’d told him she didn’t want to live that way, but her parents disagree and think she could become better with treatment. Mr. Herring, who is a completely
Justice Janice Brown is a justice in the old tradition of actually abiding by the Constitution, and is of a strongly libertarian bent. What follows are a few choice quotes from Janice Brown. “[a]rbitrary government actions which infringe property interests cannot be saved from constitutional infirmity by the beneficial purposes of the regulators.”
This is a brilliant essay by Philip Fischer that I’ve transcribed from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings , the third book, Developing and Investment Philosophy . Here it is: By the coming of the 1970’s nearly all of my investment philosophy was firmly in plce, molded by my experience of four prior decades. It is not coincidence
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.