Scalia is a bit of a personal hero. I adore his clarity. He appeared on Fox the other day, and explained Textualism and Originalism. (See wiki.) But I was frustrated …
J.C. Hewitt’s answer is correct. The Austrian School of Economics invented the term (I think) and they focus on Monetary Policy, where malinvestment means credit is too cheap, and prices …
Paul, 1) THE ART OF CREATING AND ATTACKING STRAW MEN You have mastered the strategy of creating then attacking straw men, and in doing so crafting the typical progressive implication …
‘AN EXAMPLE OF THE SEA CHANGE IN LIBERTARIANISM (I posted this in response to a comment on The Skeptical Libertarian, which was critical of Tom Woods’ jibe that TSL was …
From No Comuna. A subtle criticism of criticism of Rothbard. Children and rights In the Ethics of Liberty Rothbard explores in terms of self-ownership and contract several contentious issues relating …
I am pretty sure that this represents the best overview of the USA’s current circumstances that exists today. There are six factors that play into power: 1) geography,2) demographics,3) economy, …
All civilizations have a ‘core state’ (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…) except islam, which last relied upon the Turks as the core state. Iran wants to become the core state of islamic civilization, …
In simplest terms, none. No policies made the difference. The reason the US began (and has now stopped) coming out of recession, and europe has continued to decline, is that …
The USA is attempting to allow China to peacefully rise by use of commercial power rather than military power. Commerce creates consumption which addicts citizens to consumerism, which then makes …
You’d need to define what you mean by Machiavellian tactics. Machiavelli was the first political scientist after Aristotle, and arguably the father of politics as a scientific endeavor. He entreated …
Government by it’s nature, because it is a monopoly, and concentrates capital, draws corruption. In the USA, corruption tends to be systemic rather than individual. Meaning that the system encourages …
I will answer this question if you will provide examples of “blind additions” and “these decisions” and why our attempts at controlling them would be ‘better’. Without those bits of …
Democracy is, at best, a means of peacefully transferring power. If you mean, can representative democracy (a republic) or even a direct democracy (versus an economic democracy), serve the interests …
