At C4SS, Tom Knapp, Kevin Carson, and Jeremy Weiland weigh in on the Obamacare decision. (For background, see also Kevin here, Gary Chartier here, and me here and here.)
Vote or the Terrorists Win
Your vote can help the Gnu’s Room, Auburn’s best used bookstore and coffeehouse, to win a grant – if you do it by this coming Saturday.
But He Once Bought a Can of Vienna Sausages
LP presidential candidate Gary Johnson admits he has never read Mises, Rothbard, or Hazlitt.
Unfree Minds, Unfree Markets
An interesting set of observations from dL on abortion, intellectual property, public goods, communitarianism, oligarchical collectivism, and the senses in which the u.s. government did or did not create the internet.
Everything Is All Right, the Struggle Is Finished, I Have Won the Victory Over Myself, I Love Historian Herby
Going through more old papers today, I found the following mimeographed propaganda that was handed out in my school in 5th or 6th grade (mid-1970s):
Our Obligations as Citizens
In the Constitution of the United States of America, every citizen is guaranteed certain rights. When people have rights, they also have obligations.
These are some of the obligations that citizens of the United States have:
1. The obligation to vote. Each citizen has an obligation to vote for good officers for our government.
How old must you be to vote? ____________________
When is Election Day? ____________________
2. The obligation to uphold the Constitution by obeying the laws.
3. The obligation to serve on a jury if we are asked. The right of trial by jury makes serving as a juror an obligation.
4. The obligation to study and learn about our form of government so that we can be intelligent citizens.
5. The obligation to respect the rights of other people. When we have the right of going to a church of our choice, we must respect the rights of others to go to a church of their choice.
Historian Herby says, “For every right we enjoy, there is an obligation we must pay.”
Anarchy Is Coming!
Here’s the cool cover for Gary Chartier’s excellent forthcoming book Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society (originally titled Anarchy Under Law):
Check out the publisher page and Amazon page. And start saving your pennies! (Saving 55 pennies per day between now and the publication date should do it.)