Kevin Carson: Sympathy for the Devil, BP. I reply in detail in the comments. Sheldon Richman, Self-Regulation in the Corporate State: The BP Spill. My comments to Richman: This is a good piece–unlike Carson’s (uncharacteristically) weak one on this topic. Of course, Lew’s comments were not a defense of BP of the type Sheldon rightly […]
Yesterday, totally out of the blue, my six year old drops this one on me. We had not even been talking about taxes or anything for weeks. Last serious political talk was right before Earth Day, when I spent an hour inoculating him from propaganda–which, to my pleasant surprise, didn’t occur; his Montessori school hardly […]
Gene Callahan, in Private Domains and Immigration, in 2003, concluded, in a critique of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s views on immigration: giving more power to the state, based on an arbitrary set of ideals as to who should be allowed to come to the US (or any other country), ideals that are divorced from any actual entrepreneurial […]
My reply to one “Chris George’s” post No, The Non-Aggression Principle is Not Enough (see Reply to Left-Libertarians on “Capitalism” for other discussions with Chris): Chris, you are getting better. Glad you accept the NAP as a basic rule of thumb. But confusions remain. “If we got down to the really nitty gritty, I’m sure […]
It is clear that the left-libertarians have lost in their campaign to demonize the word “capitalism.” Nice try, fellas, but you lost. Libertarians are not buying your strained arguments and pointless attempt to fight semantic battles. Capitalism as a word just means private ownership of the means of production. I point you to a dictionary. […]
Update: This was just a rant when I was in a bad mood. In actuality I like helping people, especially friends and fellow libertarians. So take the following with a grain of salt. However I do wish more libertarians had better manners when the approach others for help. SK *** I don’t mind giving free […]
Since comments to this 2010 post are now inexplicably (but predictably; so many libertarians are totally half-assed about such matters) deleted, here is the whole post and comments thread, from the archive: Big Government, Big Business — Conjoined Twins Thomas L. Knapp | January 9th, 2010 David Corn, writing in Mother Jones, takes issue with the popular sentiment: For […]
Great comment about Thomas Paine by Bill Stepp on this thread: Paine forfeited his copyright in “Common Sense” so that any printer could publish it (this was prompted by a dispute with his printer, if memory servies), but he later defended copyright. For what it’s worth, he also defended the evil Pennsylvania Test Oaths, and […]
