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Saturday, October 03, 2015

Hard truths on guns

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Here are some of my random thoughts on the recent college massacre, and my reactions to the knee-jerk demands of the anti-liberty bigots: So...

Looking at "taxation is theft" from both sides

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(Previously published in The Libertarian Enterprise ) Statists hate the "libertarian shibboleth" of "Taxation is theft...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

Professionalism in action

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If someone violates you in a "professional" way, is that somehow less of a violation? I occasionally see copsuckers defending po...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Cherry picking the Bill of Rights

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Anti-liberty bigots rarely fight against the 4th and 5th Amendments like they do the 2nd. You almost never hear them claim their city is exe...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Liberty only lost when given up

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( My Clovis News Journal column for August 28, 2015 ) How well do you think it would work if a bureaucrat in Washington D.C. controlled yo...
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If you don't trust me with a gun...

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If you don't trust me with a gun, you don't trust me. If you don't trust me, why would I trust you? A good question, don'...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Assume the best, expect the worst

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While I assume liberty , I also expect statism. Most people are no more guilty for being statists than Pleistocene humans were guilty f...
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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Being Popular

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Back when I wrote for Examiner, a common complaint among the serious writers was the dominance (and page views/pay) of those who wrote celeb...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Opinions

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If you can back your opinion up with facts and examples, it ceases to be "just an opinion". If you can't back up your opini...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Thinking- too much trouble?

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It bothers me that people don't want to think. Even if they come to conclusions opposite to mine, as long as they can explain why they...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Troublemaker neighbors

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A new family has moved into the neighborhood. I see trouble on the horizon. This family has an indeterminate number of kids- somewhere bet...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Good, bad depend on cooperation

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Good, bad depend on cooperation (My Clovis News Journal column for August 21, 2015) Through years of observing people interacting, I hav...

Making an issue of Jenner

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(Previously posted to Patreon ) Someone recently shared a silly "conservative" meme which included a picture of Caitlyn Jenner, ...

The situation

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Someone I met a while ago mentioned something that has really stuck with me. They said most people who hold non-libertarian views aren't...
Monday, September 21, 2015

"Legalize"? No need. Just stop illegalizing.

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All the words used to describe making something which was once made "illegal" legal again miss the mark for me. "Legalize...
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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Oh, the contradictions

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I'm libertarian . According to characterizations I have been subjected to, this means I must be a young, old rich white "bleeding...
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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Dull 'Hawk-isms 2

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More things I have recently posted as Facebook statuses: If your crops are being devoured by locusts, and withering from lack of rain, and...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

They don't work for me.

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(Previously posted to Patreon ) " Government works for us ." You, maybe. Not me. If they did, I would fire them all immediat...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The "immigration" disconnect

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(Previously posted to Patreon ) If you pour water down an animal's burrow, do you get angry when the animal flees- and runs across you...

Death in "no guns" zones

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When I see a "no guns" sign, I interpret it to mean " We hope you die! " Or, at the least, " Your life means noth...