In all countries which have not openly adopted a policy of outright and all-around socialization the conduct of government affairs has been for many decades in the hands of statesmen and parties who style themselves “progressives” and scorn their opponents as “reactionaries.” These progressives become sometimes (but not always) very angry if somebody calls them Marxians.
Commenting on yesterday’s daily, Jeffrey Tucker wrote, ‘This article hurls a dead cat into the temple of the civic religion — and does so in way that only Rothbard can.’
That line came back to me last night when I started listening to a great new History of Rome podcast. 
If you want to expose the absurdity of the state, think governmental accounting. Really, there is no better way to show the impossibility of a government solution to scarcity than by reading the annual audit of any governmental entity.The “extremists” among you openly call for the death of 1 to 6.4 billion human beings. The “moderates” among you openly call for the forced reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 90 percent within a few decades, which would serve to reduce energy use almost to the same extent. Such a severe reduction in energy use follows from the fact that there are no presently existing large-scale viable alternatives to fossil fuels other than atomic power, which is regarded by most members of your movement as a death ray and is opposed more vehemently than fossil fuels.
McCain says that Bernanke hasn’t lower rates fast enough, as quoted by Bloomberg. The story adds that McCain “supports mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system,...”
In June of 1775, writes Murray Rothbard, George Washington was appointed Major General and elected by Congress to be commander in chief of the American revolutionary forces. Although he took up his tasks energetically, Washington accomplished nothing militarily for the remainder of the year and more, nor did he try.
A patent infringement trial is about to start where Blackboard (a large educational company) is suing Canadian company Desire2Learn for infringing Blackboard’s patent for “Internet-Based Education Support System and Methods”.