Commentary

Mar 10, 2010

Thomas Sowell: Them Pore Ole Bosses Need All the Help They Can Get

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 4 comments

Kevin Carson: “The struggle between big government and big business is about as authentic as the struggle between a “good cop” and “bad cop” in a police interrogation room.”


Mar 10, 2010

A Note on Magic Words and Secret Formulas

Posted by Thomas L. Knapp in Commentary 2 comments

Thomas L. Knapp explains that the state can not be rendered tame and obedient by invoking obscure legal doctrines.


Mar 7, 2010

Statists Don’t Get It

Posted by Darian Worden in Commentary No comments

Darian Worden says things are best when we don’t work through government plans.


Mar 6, 2010

Capitalism: A Good Word for a Bad Thing

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 3 comments

Kevin Carson examines the matter of whether or not the word “capitalism” is useful to describe a true free market economy.


Mar 6, 2010

Count, Dracula

Posted by Thomas L. Knapp in Commentary 4 comments

Thomas L. Knapp on the U.S. census.


Mar 5, 2010

Obama and Liz Cheney: Separated at Birth?

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary No comments

Kevon Carson: “Before she can organize a necktie party, Liz may have to get in line behind Obama’s own justice department.”


Mar 3, 2010

Governments Persecute, Not Protect

Posted by Alex R. Knight III in Commentary No comments

Alex R. Knight III on the Chicago handgun law case before the US Supreme Court and the questions it raises.


Mar 3, 2010

The Copyright Nazis: Destroying “Intellectual Property” Rights in Order to Save Them

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 1 comment

Kevin Carson on IP advocates stooping to incoherent self-contradiction.


Mar 3, 2010

Serf Farming

Posted by Darian Worden in Commentary 6 comments

Darian Worden on the intersection of corporate and government power.


Mar 1, 2010

Ford’s in His Flivver, All’s Well with the World

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 8 comments

Keith Olbermann once ridiculed a Republican politician who, in a video clip from a “townhall meeting,” told a woman with a paralyzed husband and no health insurance that the proper first line of defense was neighbors helping each other.
Now, admittedly, that politician was exactly the kind of right-wing shill who uses Norman Rockwell imagery as [...]