Thomas Jefferson

Do The Rich Want To Kill The Rest Of Us? No, Of Course Not! Who Would Be Their Servants, Slaves And Customers?

Don't mention Thomas Jefferson to Texas nutbag Ted CruzAs soon as the Texas plutocrats won control over the state Board of Education, through their pathetic Tea Party puppets, one of the first orders of business was to eliminate Thomas Jefferson from the history books. Dangerous revolutionary, that Jefferson, with his subversive ideas. I wonder how long it will take for them to move against historical Jesus too.

Reason’s Ronald Bailey on “Egalitarian” Opponents of Intellectual Property

My comment on “Citizen Science, Microfinanced Research, Patent Trolls, and Pharma Prizes: A final dispatch from the Open Science Summit,” by Ronald Bailey on Reason Online. Stephan Kinsella|8.3.10 @ 11:12PM|# Bailey characterizes the anti-IP “faction” as the “more egalitarian” one, as opposed to the more libertarian bloc at the summit. Yet libertarianism is, in my […]

Thomas Jefferson and the Patent Act of 1793

(Available now on archive.org) Volume Forty 1998 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE PATENT ACT OF 1793 by E.C. Walterscheid On September 9, 1792 Secretary of State Jefferson wrote President Washington that “[w]hen I embarked in the government, it was with a […]