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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Using what you pay for- paying for what you use

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Using what you pay for- paying for what you use I was recently drawn into a debate in the comments on another blog . The author was telling ...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Pursuit of happiness

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Pursuit of happiness What is it you want most from life? Can you get it without hurting (which includes defrauding and stealing from) ot...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Concensus and 'need' are not sufficient

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Concensus and 'need' are not sufficient Government may be an effective way to get some things you see no other way of getting, but i...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Robotic revenuers banned

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Robotic revenuers banned New Mexico is outlawing robotic highwaymen on "state-owned" highways. Some people may euphemistically ca...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Helping 'cases' or helping people?

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Helping 'cases' or helping people? Filed in the "Laws solve nothing" file: The case of an Albuquerque woman's disappea...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Random hatred or statist desperation?

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Random hatred or statist desperation? I am noticing a shift in the attitude of the statists online. I began to notice it before the recent...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Overcoming a prejudice- better late than never

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Overcoming a prejudice- better late than never One mental stumbling block that took me a long time to get past was being concerned when some...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Pitting governments against one another

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Pitting governments against one another As much as I value individual liberty , and probably to a large extent because I value individual l...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Government 'requests'- The answer is always 'no'

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Government 'requests'- The answer is always 'no' The standard response to any government "request", demand, or thr...

Guns in restaurants

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Guns in restaurants Now that Governor Richardson has made it "legal" you may soon be dining in a restaurant, which serves some al...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Over-cooperation with the state

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Over-cooperation with the state I'll admit it. This story from the Albuquerque area, which has "gone national", has me stump...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Odds and ends again

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Odds and ends again One way to know who the truly brainwashed among us are is to watch for the common "mating call" of the statist...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Spontaneous order

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Spontaneous order Spontaneous order is not " chaos ". Instead, it is anarchy . Spontaneous order is what you get when there is ...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

No new cops?

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No new cops? The budget crisis has caused the Albuquerque Police Department to close* its LEO academy . So, no new ABQ LEO s. Good first s...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

Dialing '911'- Are you sure you want to take that risk?

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Dialing '911'- Are you sure you want to take that risk? Too many tragic events begin with a person in trouble, or someone acting on ...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Authoritarianism is the pits

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Authoritarianism is the pits Few people are a solid block of authoritarianism. Most are like a cherry pie of libertarianism with a few pits...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Fighting to control the train's rudder

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Fighting to control the train's rudder Electoral politics is like fighting over who gets to hold the rudder of the train. The people wh...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

'Only Ones' hate competition

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'Only Ones' hate competition An Albuquerque man learned a valuable lesson : Don't be a fake cop because the "real" cop...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Government protects its own

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Government protects its own Do you need more proof that " some animals are more 'equal' than others "? Look no further th...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Seasteading: Let's get to it

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Seasteading: Let's get to it Seasteading - it is already being done by the rich . Let's look at ways it might work for the rest of ...