“Friedman’s mechanistic view of money was thin gruel compared to the seminal contribution of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises”.

I had no idea that my recent article “Standards of Environmental Good and Evil: Why Environmentalism Is Misanthropic” would be so successful that it would persuade even Tokyo Tom. Yet it apparently has. See his blog comment on my article, where, in the midst of what seems to be considerable agitation, he concedes my essential points. He writes:

In the same Libertarian Forum newsletter that J.H. Huebert recently linked to we find these encouraging words from Murray Rothbard’s Keynote Address to the LP Convention:

The Milton Friedman Choir sings about the only obligation of corporations, school choice, privatization and freedom a la Friedman (3 minute video). Very funny.

let markets rule us
states should not school us
now we’re free to choose

More debt (not).

It is very common for people to talk nowadays about environmental good and evil, but with virtually no explicit statement of the standards by which something is to be judged environmentally good or evil. People are unaware that a standard is always present and that there is more than one such standard. There are in fact two diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive standards of environmental good and evil. The following example will bring them out.

In a speech entitled — with breathtaking hubris — “The Worldwide Conquest of Inflation”, the neophyte Fed Governor Randall Kroszner quotes Hayek’s proposals for currency ‘denationalization’ as support for his thesis that competition between fiat currencies has somehow encouraged a ‘race to the top’ among them, thus retarding the ongoing debasement of our monies.

As the much-anticipated Casino Royale opens today, I wonder why it is that many libertarians — perhaps even a disproportionate percentage — like James Bond so much, even though he’s a cold-blooded killer for the state?

Some of us may have gotten started with Bond because Ian Fleming was one of the few twentieth-century authors other than herself whom Ayn Rand could endorse. Or maybe it’s for the reasons Murray Rothbard stated in his Libertarian Forum review of Live and Let Die: