The UK Libertarian

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Entries for January, 2010

Personal Responsibility & Freedom

Must read truth from the Devil… We are all individuals and we are all—all of us—able to make our own decisions, to make our own choices. Those who abdicate their decisions to others have no more moral right to the privileges enjoyed by adult human beings than some beast. Less, in fact, for the wild [...]

Tony Blair is irrelevant, the state is continuing indefinite war now!

I haven’t at all been following this Iraq Inquiry business, but it makes me laugh how seriously people take it. I will predict it now: Tony “I’d do it again” Blair will suffer no real consequences for the genocide he helped to create. This whole thing is a charade. That said I know nothing about [...]

Regulation punishes consumers

I’ve written about this before, but Obnoxio has a nice video along with a few of his own thoughts posted on his blog which explains how regulation is not your friend. The important thing to take away is this: whenever a politician is proposing regulation, no matter how sensible it might seem, you should be [...]

Gordon Brown is a Fucking Idiot (or how I learned to stop worrying and love indefnite killing and war)

The BBC Reports: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said mid-2011 should be the deadline for “turning the tide” in the fight against insurgents in Afghanistan. Now I’m a cynical guy, but even I thought “Turning the tide” was just a euphemism and that it stood for something concrete, some real, tangible promise (that he [...]

“Fear the Boom and Bust” a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

This might just be the most awesome video ever made: Massive credit to EconStories for this epic production. Quotes from the end of the video: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by [...]

What am I? Political Flow Chart

This was made by tomdemaine over at the 2+2 forums, I really liked it, so I’m sharing it here. UK readers can replace Republicans and Democrats with Labour/Conservative. It’s just for fun, so no need to go berserk in the comments if you disagree with it. That said, I think it’s a nice concise flow chart, with some [...]

The government cannot “create jobs”

I hear all the time, on TV, Radio and in print of the government “creating new jobs”. And then today I saw this from the ILM: Jobs guarantee for young people. Every young person who has been unemployed for six months will be offered a job, training or work experience under the Government’s Young Person’s Guarantee. [...]

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