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40 Years of Drug War Failure: LEAP's Neill Franklin

Rick Lowe ReasonTV does tremendous work and the following video of Neill Franklin from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) is just that. It's time to stop the drug war. Read more →

Gasoline: Some Non-Strategic Thinking About a Non-Problem

Rick Lowe Professor Mark J. Perry at Carpe Diem offers some interesting food for thought on the recent release of fuel from America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve in his recent post entitled Some Non-Strategic Thinking About a Non-Problem: "Gasoline prices have been dropping steadily for the last six weeks, and the... Read more →

More on the UN request to halt Haitian repatriation from The Bahamas

Rick Lowe Yesterday's post generated some interesting points for consideration. JR said: I have the same argument and belief--but speaking to a young Bahamian about this last night. Their comments were still against the Haitians staying here in general. Interesting the idea of regularising and giving them land brought the... Read more →

UN asks Bahamas to halt Haitian Deportation for a while

Rick Lowe Conditions reportedly remain so bad in Haiti that the UN asked several countries, The Bahamas included, if they would stop sending illegal Haitian's back home. Apparently The Bahamas Government's position is to continue with repatriation efforts until further consultation with Haitian Officials. Every time an issue with Haitian's... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Will the Market Do It--I’ll think of something

Tibor R. Machan I am a bit concerned about this expression, "the market will do it"—there's even a joke in which a libertarian is asked how many people will it take to screw in a light bulb and answers, "None, the market will do it"—because it treats markets as if... Read more →

China: Are things as they want us to believe?

Rick Lowe A couple friends sent a link to the following video that is most eye opening. China is building ghost cities. It's like Alaska's bridge to nowhere. Around the same time I received the link to the video, this article by Eric Lam entitled China Waist-deep in debt appeared.... Read more →

Praxeology: Time to Rediscover a Lost Science

Rick Lowe Thanks to the Free To Choose Network for sending a link to this video with their weekly newsletter. Enjoy more zeitgeist minds videos here… Read more →

We don't want no Privy Council

Rick Lowe We don't trust the Police. We don't trust the Judiciary. Yet, we want local rulings on whether one should be put to death or not. Go figure! Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Deciphering Paul Krugman

Tibor R. Machan It is hardly ever explicit in Paul Krugman’s columns except that he has made it clear that he is a pragmatist and finds all ideologues off base. But what is an ideologue to Krugman? Someone who invokes principles as he or she thinks and copes with the... Read more →

Freedom from responsibility - Quote of the day

Hat tip to LR for this excellent quote. -- "To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their... Read more →