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From TLS and the Mises Blog, a few related posts, “Randy Barnett’s Proposed ‘Federalism Amendment’” [Mises; archived comments; 4/23/2009], “Randy Barnett’s “Federalism Amendment”–A Counterproposal” [Mises; archived comments; 4/26/2009], and “Randy Barnett’s Federalism Amendment” [TLS; Mises; archived comments; 12/3/2010]. Each reproduced below along with archived comments from the quondam Mises Blog. “Randy Barnett’s Proposed ‘Federalism Amendment'” […]

Ayn Rand had Francisco d’Anconia say in the “Money Speech” from Atlas Shrugged, “Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.” Love that line. I feel the same about people who denigrate the libertarian notions of self-ownership and the […]

In recent Leonard Peikoff podcasts, we learn: Peikoff forbids the Kindle version of Atlas Shrugged from using the text-to-speech option because he knows Ayn Rand would not have wanted this. I guess there are no blind Objectivists! (Episode 132, at 13:52-) The proper use of profanity in sex; It’s okay to use porn for masturbation […]

From LRC 2010: Why Is Jonah Goldberg Still Here? Stephan Kinsella Karen Kwiatkowski’s LRC article today, Why Is Jonah Goldberg Still Here?, reminded me of my 2001 LRC article On Jonah Goldberg’s Youthful Phase. Kwiatkowski pointed out Goldberg’s wickedness and dishonesty; my article noted his abysmal ignorance—or dishonesty—about libertarianism and his wicked statism—his sneering objection to the […]

Heroic! Tea Partiers, Tenthers and Original Intent: Getting Back to the Real Constitution?, Kirkpatrick Sale, Counter.

‘Nuff said. Find it here.

Hilarious set of “facts” by Evan Isaac on his Facebook page (and some great Hoppe tee-shirts and images interspersed) 1) Hans Hermann Hoppe can see the invisible hand. 2) There is only one risk that is random yet still un-insurable: The risk of Hans Hermann Hoppe. 3) Hans Herman Hoppe can homestead intangible concepts and […]

No, he was not talking about marriage. He was talking about an aspect of the praxeological approach to economics, in which we start with certain incontestable (apriori) propositions (related to human action and its categories), and we explicitly introduce certain contingent facts to make the inquiry interesting. For example,  we posit a society with money […]

I just ordered this cool new teeshirt. Too bad this other one, “Hoppe is my Homeboy,” was never produced! (Someone did this mockup a while back on a facebook page.)

Great review of Hoppe’s The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (1993) by Walter Block. Block’s review was published in the Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, vol. 7, num 1, Mars. 1996, pp. 161-65.