Taco Bell has been fending off the political tactics of the Immokalee Migrant Worker Coalition for some time now. The CIW has been trying to wage boycotts and launch smear campaigns alleging Taco Bell’s responsibility in regards to low farmworker wages in South Florida. Free market commentary has been done by myself ( here and here ) and Art
Gunther von Hagens accepts donations by willing participants to create his bazaar artform. What can we say about self ownership? Check out how to go about donating your body after death at the Body Worlds website
It turns out that France’s spectacular new Millau bridge, the tallest and surely the most beautiful ever built, was financed without taxes and at a fraction of the price taxpayers might have otherwise forked over. This SFChron article tries to come to terms with the price difference between this private brdige ($522 million) and the Bay Bridge ($5
Area Man Killed In Committee : NEW YORK—K&L Advertising executive Nathan Lohaus was killed in committee Monday, his life voted down by an 11-3 margin at the 2 p.m. departmental meeting. “We threw Nathan out there and discussed him at length, but in the end we decided he just wasn’t viable,” K&L creative director Marcus Somers said. “We had a lot
This post is per the request of Mr. Adam Martin... Imagine Star Wars but Han Solo was the main character instead of Luke Skywalker. Though it’s not a full length film yet, “Firefly” may deserve a strong place on the listing of films of libery . The series has strong libertarian threads running through each episode. Here are some select quotes:
Walter Block’s recent thread “I blew my chance to be on the payroll with everyone else!” reminded me of a scene out of the recent Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The context of the scene is as follows. The wizarding world is in a state of unrest as the evil wizard Lord Voldemort has returned and begun a subversive movement of Death Eaters
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911, Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, and Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me have been leading the trend of documentary film making as of late. Liberty and free market minded film lovers have few alternative opportunities for viewing. Filling such a void is Bretigne Shaffer’s recent addition to the Mises Media section,
While rummaging through some old materials at the Mises Institute, I came across this original magazine advertisement for Block’s, Defending the Undefendable. It has served as interesting reading during study breaks so I thought I’d share it, so it has been added to the description section of DTU’s catalogue
He is voted the greatest philosopher by BBC readers. In contrast, here is the classic opening line to Murray Rothbard’s study of Marx : “The key to the intricate and massive system of thought created by Karl Marx is at bottom a simple one: Karl Marx was a
Richard Timberlake sent in his new paper on the Great Depression, which critiques the Fed policy of the period which he says was based on the real bills doctrine. Austrians will argue with his monetary analysis but the doctrinal history is
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