Consider the sheer idiocy of paying legions of twenty-somethings who cannot speak Arabic, Farsi, or Pashtun, and who know practically nothing of the history, customs, folkways, and traditions of these places.
Why be libertarian, anyway? Why engage in a deep and lifelong commitment to the principle and the goal of individual liberty?
Being a type of spontaneous order, it is no surprise that language is subject to the same kinds of centrally-planned disruptions as economic systems.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, offered to “roll out the red carpet” for any high-income earning Frenchmen who wanted to avoid paying French taxes.
How in the world could anyone call Japan's policy a non-aggressive loose monetary stance?
If we define austerity more properly as a reduction in the size of government, then it cannot be held responsible for the crisis in Europe, because it was never tried.
Social insurance co-opts all potential sources of political opposition, making it inherently a fiscal doomsday machine.
The Greyjoy words, “We Do Not Sow,” are a very apt description of the state, which is a fundamentally parasitic institution.
Since the time of Lenin, the Soviet Union, vis-à-vis the other Great Powers, consistently pursued a policy of what they long termed “peaceful coexistence."
A woman in the audience became overwhelmed by the speech and said that she no longer needed to worry if she could make her car or mortgage payments because he would take care of it for her.
