Shards and Phractures

...great post by Chris Rossini over at Economic Policy Journal: You, Mr. & Ms. libertarian, are of the same pedigree as John Hancock!  It's true that you're not smuggling a physical good (as Hancock did) but if you'reabsorbing the ideas of liberty and then sharing those ideas with others, you're still a smuggler. I've always described being a libertarian as "rolling snowballs downhill."  Every time you discuss freedom, or Ron Paul, or Lew Rockwell, or libertarianism, the real Lincoln, alternative health, paleo diets, etc, etc...you pack a small snowball and set it loose to roll down a hill. Most snowballs rolled down a hill grind to a stop.  Some bounce off the slope and disappear.  But...every now and then... On occasion, one of those snowballs will hit just the right trajectory, and pick up speed, and just like in the old cartoons, it will just keep getting bigger and bigger until it reaches the bottom of the hill and creams all of the u...

I have to ask permission to drive, marry, hunt, fish, build a house, start a business, carry a firearm, or travel out of the country. And if I travel by air, you reserve the right to irradiate me, view me through a scanner that looks past clothing, and run your hands over my body.  You take a bite out of every paycheck, a cut of every purchase, and even the lion's share of the estate when I'm gone.  If I have employees, you decree how much I may pay them and how much I must pay you for hiring each of them. You control what my kids learn in school.  You claim the power to restrict what I put into my body.  You read my email, listen in on my phone calls, and steal my property if I'm even suspected of a crime.  Not charged, mind you...but simply suspected. You claim the right to decide what treatments my physician can use to heal me.  You jail more of your own citizens than any other country in the world.  You send our youth off to kil...

More narration work for the Ludwig von Mises Institute.  This time, I had the privilege of providing the voice for an essay by the incomparable Doctor Walter Block.  He is one of my favorite Mises/Lewrockwell.com writers, and I hope I did his writing justice.  You can listen to it here: You Didn't Consent To Be The State's Victim - Audo Daily ...or, if you'd prefer to just read it, without my mumbling getting in the way, click here instead: You Didn't Consent To Be The State's Victim - Mises Daily Either way, it's an excellent essay; I enjoyed narrating it for all of you.  Enjoy! -=ad=-