Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, the day reserved for giving thanks and feasting. In Ohio, at least, another day may be reserved in the future: a day for apologizing to the state. In 2006, an Ohio hunter shot a deer out-of-season . It doesn’t matter whose property the deer was on, all deer in Ohio are the assumed property of the Ohio Department of
The blog A Soviet Poster a Day offers a different poster from the Soviet Union on an almost daily basis, with a little history and explanation for each one (note: the politics of the blog are not libertarian). My favorite is How to raise a child like Lenin: Don’t you lie - ever! The stern yet beautiful teacher instructs her remorseful student in
NPR had a recent story on the National Transportation Safety Board, profiling two of its investigators. The story provides a clear window into the inner workings of our federal government. Certainly, some will listen in pride as the investigators allude to the value they and government provide. Yet, the free market ear will reveal a whole lot of
It’s tornado season here in Ohio. This afternoon as a few funnel clouds were forming miles from my house, I received a call from my mother living in Florida. Seems she was not about to wait for her son to make his yearly Mother’s Day call as she had urgent news. CNN and other news outlets were reporting funnel clouds and tornados in central Ohio,
The virus has unleashed petite tyrants to haunt their tiny jurisdictions, using the cover of crisis to arrogate powers belonging to the people. Witness Robert J. Taylor , mayor of Ostrander, Ohio (population: 643 in the 2010 census), who just declared his village to be in a “state of emergency.” Along with this declaration, the self-righteous
Ludwig von Mises : «Un hombre libre debe ser capaz de soportar que sus semejantes actúen y vivan de forma distinta a la que él considera adecuada. Debe liberarse del hábito, tan pronto como algo no le guste, de llamar a la policía». El totalitarismo solía ser el producto de los Hitlers y Stalins del mundo, pero tus vecinos están empezando a
[Publicado originalmente como «Sons of Leviathan» en octubre de 2007.] Robert Higgs identificó al Leviatán como una bestia oportunista, utilizando las crisis—reales o fabricadas—para expandir su reino , para deslizar sus tentáculos en las salas restantes donde se encuentran grandes cantidades de libertad. Cualquier acontecimiento nacional o
El virus ha desencadenado pequeños tiranos para atormentar sus pequeñas jurisdicciones, utilizando la cobertura de la crisis para arrogarse poderes que pertenecen al pueblo. El testigo Robert J. Taylor , alcalde de Ostrander, Ohio (población: 643 en el censo de 2010), que acaba de declarar su pueblo en «estado de emergencia». Junto con esta
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