Benjamin Mee: You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.
Lily Miska: [to Kelly during the opening of the zoo] If you had to choose between people and animals, who would you pick?
[Kelly doesn't answer]
Lily Miska: Me, too. People! Continue reading
‘Global warming’ is a controversial subject in the freedom movement, with a sizable percentage dismissing it as globalist propaganda intended to better control the masses. I think we need to separate the science from the agendas present on one side of the Cartelocracy or the other, then do what we can as human beings to avoid realistic dangers of climate catastrophe in the geologic-time near term.
Dr. Hansen‘s comments, now as a private citizen, seem prudent and solid to me from the perspective of simple rationality. Plus his suggested fixes appear to be a lot freer from politics and globalist meddling than cap and trade. — bw Continue reading
“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”
Since my Memorial Day column from 2008 has been such a perennial visit-gatherer—and I must admit it touches all the libertarian emotional, intellectual, and spiritual bases—I’m going to continue that tradition this year… with more thoughts on paying tribute to those who fought and died for (or partly in) human liberty, whether or not they are American and whether or not they ever donned a uniform. Continue reading
Matt Simon: The thing about being an individualist, and acting as an individual in a free society is that people have an interest in cooperating with one another, without any force whatsoever. It’s one of the constants of human experience: any time there’s a problem or a threat to the community, individuals band together, they cooperate for the greater good. They do it all the time.
But where we bristle is when we’re forced to cooperate, where somebody else’s good idea is so important that it needs to be paid for with the money that each of us works hard to earn. And when you go into ideas that are just morally objectionable, like, oh, invading and occupying a sovereign nation [based on lies--ed], or waging drug prohibition, we very much resent that our money is spent to propagate those policies. Continue reading
“We [Alex Jones and other journalists at infowars.com and prisonplanet.com] have exhaustively documented preparations for the mass internment of citizens inside America, but this is the first time that language concerning the reeducation of detainees, in particular political activists, has cropped up in our research.” Continue reading