Avril
If you are reading this, you probably already know of my fascination/obsession with Avril Lavigne. This song really shows off her voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weeluzD_hxk&list=UUC6XuDtfec7DxZdUa7ClFBQ&index=1
Gungnir
An eclectic collection of thoughts and opinions.
da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory – Leonardo da Vinci
Is It Okay to Steal if You're from the Government?
In early January, I shared a "libertarian purity test" based on 64 questions.
I was a bit disappointed that I only scored a 94 out of a possible 160, but my excuse is that it was really a test of anarcho-capitalism. And as I explained when sharing this amusing video, I'm only in favor of getting rid of 90 percent of government.
“Tyranny, like …
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine, The Crisis, December 23 1776
Paine
America's Fiscal Problem Is Too Much Spending, not Inadequate Revenue
In a debate on CNBC, I point out that America is in fiscal trouble because of the reckless spending of the Bush-Obama years.
Amazingly, my opponent at first claimed that taxes have no impact on the economy, though he then modified his statement to acknowledge some effect.
I think the best part of the interview was when I explained that there are…
von Mises
”The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.”
-Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Swiped from The Cato Institute http://www.cato.org/
Adams
“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.” ~ John Adams
Via: Donlyn Turnbull of http://www.dirtysexandpolitics.com/
Bogart
I haven’t posted for awhile….not lazy, just been staring at a computer screen at work all day. Takes a little of the fun out of it when I get home.
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” –Humphrey Bogart
“The best definition of a Fascist in American life today is simply a Conservative winning an argument.”-Jonah Goldberg, Ricochet podcast #117 and probably elsewhere.
Ricochet: http://ricochet.com/
