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Video: Why Young People Should Become Free-Market Activists

Greetings. I have made a video which you might enjoy and which has been entered in the Today.com video contest. “ Why Young People Should Become Free-Market Activists ”: http://www.today.com/video/view/why-young-people-should-become-free-market-activists/play-612/ This video is intended to...

Posted to General (Forum) by G. Stolyarov II on Thu, Jun 26 2008

you're preaching to the choir!

As much as I enjoy Mises.org, I can't help but think that it is a rather futile effort. This blog is used exclusively by libertarians, so I don't see how it is going to persuade anybody to join the libertarian movement. If you want to make an impact, you are going to have to persuade liberals...

Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by ama gi on Mon, Jun 23 2008

Re: Polygamist Church

i believe the goverment should leave the polygmist churches alone ..Our country is about freedom !!!!

Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by TheCaptain on Tue, Jun 3 2008

Re: Libertarians and Atheism

ENEMY OF THE STATE Why would a middle class white boy grow up to be an enemy of the State? That's a question I have asked myself for years. It was not always the case. I grew up like most people, waving the flag and brainlessly regurgitating the mantra that is the Pledge of Allegiance. http://mikewasdin...

Posted to General (Forum) by mikewasdin on Sun, May 25 2008

Freedom and Toleration

This post is inspired by the State of Texas' recent abduction of 416 kids from a polygamist compound . One way to measure the degree of freedom in a society is by looking at the kinds of associations made by its members. A free people can choose to enter into any association they wish, and are not...

Posted to Radical Idealism (Weblog) by HeroicLife on Wed, Apr 23 2008

Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases

Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne Gunter concerning the relatively high snowfalls...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo (Weblog) by TokyoTom on Mon, Feb 25 2008

Re: Religious anarchists; please explain

[quote user="Carl"] Henry Hazlitt would tell you to your face that economic freedom can not exist without good laws. [/quote] Good laws/rules/policies can exist without government. Walmart has a really good return policy. Is that because the government pointed a gun at them and said you must...

Posted to General (Forum) by GoRonPaul on Tue, Feb 19 2008

Benjamin Barber on Hyperconsumerism

Benjamin Barber in a recent article in the Huffington Post makes these comments about our "hyperconsumerism." "...the infantilization of adults as impetuous shoppers and the undermining of democracy by a privatized commercial ideology," "Shoppers are staying away from the mall...

Posted to General (Forum) by Philippe Waring on Thu, Jan 31 2008

Which country is the most Austrian?

Hi there, I'm new here (just found this excellent place) but I've been libertarian and Austrian since I've started studying economics and political science. I'm going off to University in the UK in half a year, hopefully to do economics all the way to a PhD. Anyway enough with the chit...

Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Fred Furash on Wed, Jan 16 2008

Re: Request: A Well Articulated Defense of Anarchism & a Response to the Greatest Problem of Mankind

[quote user="edward_1313"]I'm open to the plausibility of full scale anarchism if its endurance or stamina can be adequately defended.[/quote] [quote user="edward_1313"]...how does a group of men, which in the case of anarchism is not really a group but rather, various individuals...

Posted to General (Forum) by DennisLeeWilson on Tue, Jan 15 2008