Darian Worden suggests that America does not need strong leadership.
Thomas L. Knapp: “The state wants to know everything about you, but politicians want absolute control over what you can know about them.”
David D’Amato reviews Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
If the Pulpit Freedom Summit succeeds, it will be a victory for free speech, but encouraging churchgoers to vote in elections only further entrenches the system of false choices in American politics.
Kevin Carson: “[T]wentieth century liberalism is essentially Schumpeterian. It identifies with the large, hierarchical, managerialist organization the same way the French politiques identified with the absolute monarchs four hundred years ago.”
Paul Krugman and Dinesh D’Souza both wander past the point that is always dying to be made: producers should own what they labor to create, and the status quo is not the product of a free market.
David D’Amato: “The story of Adam Winfield, the 22-year-old Army specialist now charged with the murder of an innocent Afghan civilian, is the latest illustration of the sickening culture of impunity cultivated by the U.S. military.”
Kevin Carson: “…because of copyright enforcement problems presented by digital technology, the “cognitive capitalism” model requires increasing levels of authoritarianism… to stay tenable.”
Kevin Carson: “Take, for example, the cultural authoritarianism prevalent in much of fundamentalist Christianity…”
Thomas L. Knapp urges rejection of the cult of the omnipotent state.
David D’Amato: “When the parties ‘work together,’ which is indeed their custom, the victors are not ordinary, working people who want affordable healthcare and decent jobs; they are corporate executives and government agency czars, elites who turn to their advantage the lie that we live in the most polarized, partisan period in all of American history.”
Darian Worden on George Donnelly’s arrest and watching the state.
Thomas L. Knapp on the arrest of the Bell, CA municipal government leaders.
Kevin Carson on judging the state by the same standards used for everyone else.
Thomas L. Knapp on collusion among Big Government, Big Busines and Big Non-Profits to restrain competition, at a cost in lives.
Kevin Carson: “…when it comes to restricting the state, the law isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.”
Darian Worden on Ernest Withers, the FBI, and surveillance of political activists.
Kevin Carson on the myth of statist capitalism as alleged provider of jobs.
David D’Amato: “In politics, there is no ‘right man for the job’ because it is the job that is flatly wrong…”
Kevin Carson defends crowdsourced law.
