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    The Morality of Bitcoin (Or Why One Libertarian Has It All Wrong)
    editorial posted by digdug in bitcoin
    Introduction I've a bone to pick with a libertarian. Possibly more than one, but not everyone. At the moment, my focus is this one (who also penned this and this and this). Surely, Gary Nort...

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    Image of My favorite quotes
    My favorite quotes
    editorial posted by b_independent in b_independent Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License
    I love quotes. The ones to which I most relate become a part of me. They inspire me. They guide me. They strengthen my resolve. They reinforce my values. They comfort me. These are mine (without a...

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    Image of How America is like a bad boyfriend... and the irony is she's being lectured by a Brit
    How America is like a bad boyfriend... and the irony is she's being lectured by a Brit
    youtube.com link posted by c_prompt in politics
    But... I love America!
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    Image of Freewill: You Never Forget Your First Love
    Freewill: You Never Forget Your First Love
    editorial posted by b_independent in objectivism
    Her name was Nicky Romashko. Though I'm having a hard time remembering our ages (probably about 10), it was sometime during grade school that I experienced my first love. If you'll allow me the pun,...

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    Congress: this is a blackout. To sunset the PATRIOT ACT, valME.io joins 10,000+ other websites in blocking your access and redirecting you to naked photos of indignant NSA protestors until you end mass surveillance laws.
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    First They Came for the Anti-Vaxxers
    lewrockwell.com link posted by c_prompt in health
    The manipulation of the conversation around vaccines in the mainstream media has been nothing short of a tour de force. If you read only mainstream publications, you might come away with the impres...

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    Image of Civil forfeiture - cops are legally permitted to take stuff away from anyone with near-total impunity. No crime required. Your chances to get it back are slim to none. Last Week Tonight's funny man John Oliver nails it
    Civil forfeiture - cops are legally permitted to take stuff away from anyone with near-total impunity. No crime required. Your chances to get it back are slim to none. Last Week Tonight's funny man John Oliver nails it
    youtube.com link posted by c_prompt in politics
    Did you know police can just take your stuff if they suspect it's involved in a crime? They can! It’s a shady process called “civil asset forfeiture,” and it would make for a wei...

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    “race is simply not a level of biological division …in…humans”
    lewrockwell.com link posted by c_prompt in politics
    In the spirit of Morgan Freeman's excellent advice on how to solve the race problem and just "stop talking about it," I'm reposting this thoughtful perspective from lewrockwell.com. Rachel Dol...

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    IRONY ALERT! This U.S. Banker Says China Should Let Companies Fail
    ronpaullibertyreport.com link posted by c_prompt in politics
    The irony is so thick in this story, you may not be able to handle it. Let's go back to the financial crisis of 2008. Easily, one of the biggest heists in world history went by the name of TARP, an...

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    Captured, Cuffed, and Jailed: A Personal Story - Jeffrey Tucker
    tucker.liberty.me link posted by c_prompt in politics
    By day’s end, it was over. Except not really. This one incident is over. But the reality that none of us really control our lives, that none of our property is really our own, that we all stand v...

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    Image of Handcuffed and Helpless:There’s a naive idea floating around that an innocent person should never be afraid of cops
    Handcuffed and Helpless:There’s a naive idea floating around that an innocent person should never be afraid of cops
    fee.org link posted by c_prompt in politics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License
    What you are about to read is not a philosophical argument. It’s a personal testimony. The aim of telling this story is neither to make a political statement, nor to score points for a particular i...

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    Have you heard about Common Core? The chilling truth behind these new national educational "standards" will terrify you.
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    I had to pause this video a few times to allow myself to calm down. This isn't new. I started researching the genesis of "new math" and "everyday math" back in 2007 when I...

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    Image of The mainstream of human progress: individual freedom and the principles of cooperation
    The mainstream of human progress: individual freedom and the principles of cooperation
    editorial posted by b_independent in politics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License
    Throughout most of human civilization, centuries of men have starved, died from the elements (for lack of proper housing), suffered terrible health, and barely lived. Even today, starvation kills m...

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    Image of Looks like there's a new libertarian "country" to be started!
    Looks like there's a new libertarian "country" to be started!
    telegraph.co.uk link posted by Clarisse88 in libertarian
    Self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state whose founder admires Nigel Farage welcomes its first citizens on Friday, with the first 100 arrivals to be granted honorary citizenship
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    Image of The Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto
    The Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto
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    Image of Apocalypse Now - Or Apocalypse Later
    Apocalypse Now - Or Apocalypse Later
    original.antiwar.com link posted by digdug in politics
    Another brilliant article by Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com providing great insights into the American political class's imperialism, crony-capitalism, big government plundering, collectivism, hy...

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    Image of Rand on the Middle East
    Rand on the Middle East
    lewrockwell.com link posted by digdug in objectivism
    By Murray N. Rothbard First published in The Libertarian Forum, December 1971. The neo-Randian weekly newspaper Ergo has given us a detailed account of Miss Rand’s answers during a questi...

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    Image of If You Meet John Galt On The Road, Kill Him
    If You Meet John Galt On The Road, Kill Him
    thedailybell.com link posted by c_prompt in philosophy
    John Galt is the protagonist of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged and expresses her vision of the ideal man. The title of this article flashed at me during a discussion with a fellow who argued a...

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    Image of People are scared of guns because they only have 2 outcomes: death & freedom. And freedom scares them more than death.
    People are scared of guns because they only have 2 outcomes: death & freedom. And freedom scares them more than death.
    bravetheworld.com link posted by c_prompt in guns
    I understand this quote is a bit of hubris, and I don't agree that these are the only two outcomes. I still like the quote and do agree that many people are terrified of freedom. People's fear of fr...

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    Image of The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
    The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
    mises.org link posted by c_prompt in politics
    Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all ver...

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    Image of Peter Schiff: How the Media Deceived Me - Jon Stewart's The Daily Show interviewed him for four hours and then condensed it down to a few minutes by piecing unrelated segments together to make him look like a monster
    Peter Schiff: How the Media Deceived Me - Jon Stewart's The Daily Show interviewed him for four hours and then condensed it down to a few minutes by piecing unrelated segments together to make him look like a monster
    thedailybell.com link posted by c_prompt in entertainment
    From the article: But the woman who interviewed me from "The Daily Show," one of the things she mentioned in that four-hour interview was that she was a socialist, a Marxist. Of course...

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    On the First Day
    editorial posted by b_independent in politics
    There are those who cannot think of a world without some form of government. I can. I do not expect to ever see such a paradise in my lifetime. But one can dream... What if, with your magic wand...

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    Is Maleficent an Anarchist Fable?
    mises.org link posted by c_prompt in anarcho-capitalism
    The story of Sleeping Beauty always struck me as a libertarian fable. The central plot demonstrates the impotence of government: Aurora is cursed to prick her finger on a spinning wheel, and he...

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