The Ultimate Minority

Everyone should have a basic understanding of economics – it is the most vital school of social theory. Those ignorant of economic principle are easily duped and manipulated by politicians and demagogues (or do I repeat myself?) As an MBA, I have several years of economics in my educational background. It was a topic of [...]

Your right to travel unencumbered is one of your natural rights – inalienable, independent of where you live or where you were born. It seems that the right to travel unencumbered is always one of the first rights to be violated by governments. It starts subtly enough – how long after the invention of the [...]

This is one of the most annoying things I hear – “you’re not voting for <insert establishment candidate here>? Aren’t you aware that you’re wasting your vote? The title of the post is my standard response. A vote of your conscience is never wasted. Just the other day, I was talking to someone who is [...]

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, a free audio book on Librivox.org. I downloaded this book in two parts and listened to it 2-3 times in just a few days. It is that good. Thoreau was jailed for not paying a tax. He chose not to pay the tax because he did not support the [...]

Step One:  Separate the US government and its actions from the American people and the American system as an ideal. “We” didn’t invade Iraq, the US government and its twisted leadership did.  “We” didn’t “invite the attacks of 9/11,” our government and its foreign policy created resentment by people who see it as an imperial [...]

Do you know the difference? Unfortunately, most people think we live in a democracy. Every day in the media, in speeches by our elected representatives, the word “democracy” is used as though it were synonymous with freedom. It is not. Democracy is antithetical to freedom. Our Founding Fathers were clear on the distinction, and were [...]

Consider these statements: “I am an American Citizen, therefore, I have these rights…” – or – “These rights are granted to me by the Constitution…” – or – “The U.S. Government gives me these rights…” All of the above statements are WRONG. Yet most people probably wouldn’t take issue with them. Your government does not [...]