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Of course his words were foggy and he wasn’t specific as to how many would be left for “specific tasks” but if you knew the number to be closer to 100,000 than 5,000 today would a fair interpreter colour his words as lies? Of course the news that politicians lie should not surprise anybody by now, but [...]
I’ll believe it when I see it, but Yes Please, indeed!
The best argument the statists have managed to come up with so far is this:
Unions argue that Royal Mail, as a provider of an essential public service, should remain in state hands.
Which can be translated into “The Royal Mail should remain a public service because [...]
Botang & Demetriou states:
Mr Boatang and I predicted well over a year and a half ago that the libertarianblogosphere would descend from its rampant success and popularity into stagnation and unpopularity. On the basis that once Labour lost in an election (this one, as it happens) and once the Tories were in power (coalition or no), there would [...]
N.B. I am not Davy
Instead of voting in the election today, take the time to watch this talk instead:
Christian Michel – Why I am not a democrat (I prefer freedom)
Christian Michel – Q&A on democracy
Hat tip to the Oxford Libertarian Society.
— Jack Whitehead
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Although Schwarzenegger has expressed some very libertarian ideas in the past, since becoming governor of California he’s been largely ineffective in slowing the growth of the nanny-state. It’s a notable aberration then that he just vetoed a bill that would have “banned smoking at state parks and beaches”.
Although more a token gesture for freedom lovers than a [...]
Right what is it with “Sceptics” persistently refusing to be sceptical of government?
I came across the following on rational-scepticism.org but stuff like that is overflowing on all forums that claim to love science, logic and empiricism:
Matt H says the following on the topic of people who oppose the NHS:
It is important to remember that those [...]
Nice little talk from Roderick Long which addresses a bunch of common objections to the anarcho-capitalist philosophy. Hosted by mises.org:
Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections (Audio)
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This story was published to the Mail Online on 01/04/2010 and yet somehow it appears to NOT be an April fools joke…
Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards ’sting’.
At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking [...]
For those who don’t know, Rand Paul is Ron Paul’s son and is a Republican running for the Kentucky US Senate seat. Check out his latest attack ad:
This is why the political process doesn’t work. Ron Paul is just about as good as you can expect to get from a politician, and he’s massively well-liked [...]
As we all knew it would, Obama’s healthcare bill has just passed in congress. Barack is well on his way to becoming the biggest government spender in the history of man-kind. I don’t have too much to add to this debate, so I’ll leave it to spawktalk to sum it up succinctly:
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