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For the video- and audio-philes.

Tax Slavery Sucks

Libertarianism

This article is #19 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. ...

Libertarian Overtones in Iron Man 2

Culture

I had the great opportunity to see Iron Man 2 at the IMAX in Austin on opening day last Friday. Though it didn’t quite match the sheer delight of the ...

WikiLeaks releases suppressed video from Iraq

Media

Warning: The material you are about to witness is graphic – because it is war. If you’re still under the impression that the U.S. Federal Government’s wars in the Middle ...

ObamaCare finishes what LBJ started

Media

Yesterday evening, the illustrious U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4872, the Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010. Thus Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and company have finished what ...

Freedom: My Anti-Gov

Economics

Freedom subsumes individual liberty and personal responsibility. If individuals are free to act and also held responsible to bear the consequences for their actions, good outcomes will be reinforce correct ...

Enjoy Capitalism!

Economics

Capitalism is the only moral social system. Only a capitalist system allows you to act in your own interest, to keep what you have worked for and trade it with ...

Earth Liberation

Economics

Government policies cannot mimic the dynamism and spontaneity present in the market, and, in fact, more often than not create perverse and unintended consequences. The solution to environmental concerns is ...

Culture

Culture

This article is #2 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. ...

Communism Kills

History

Communism is the vision of an egalitarian society with common ownership of property. Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated that the prevailing capitalist environment is responsible for class struggle ...

Fear the Boom and Bust: Hayek vs. Keynes

Media

For those of you who haven’t heard, this video has been circulating around libertarian circles like crazy the past week. I particularly like the alcoholism-as-printing-money metaphor used. The production quality ...

Why the Free Market Rocks, Reason #497…

Media

I came across a great video yesterday and was just blown away, for multiple reasons… First, I love soda. Well, for that matter I just love drinks. Coffee, beer, wine, ...

Intellectual Property and Libertarianism

Economics

Stephan Kinsella’s presentation at Mises University this past July is an excellent introduction to intellectual property, and to rights theory in general. LVMI recently posted the talk to their YouTube ...

New Testament Theology of the State (Video)

Media

I finally managed to play around with the video of my presentation of the New Testament Theology of the State paper (read here) at the UT-Austin Christian Scholars Forum 2008. ...

Peter Schiff on the Daily Show

Media

Our cynical-comic pseudo-friend Jon Stewart had the heroic Peter Schiff on the Daily Show yesterday evening, and I thought the interview went pretty well. As some have mentioned already, typical ...

My interview with MotorHome Diaries

Media

About a month ago I had the great pleasure of meeting Pete Eyre, Jason Talley, and Adam Mueller of the MotorHome Diaries at the South Austin Freehold with a few ...

5 out of 5 Chewbacca’s Agree: Ron Paul is the Man

Media

5 out of 5 Chewbacca's Agree: Ron Paul is the Man.

Christians and War… and Battlestar Galactica

Christian Ethics

Tom Woods and Laurence Vance are two excellent examples of Christian libertarians, so I am delighted to share a few links that involve both of them today in follow-up to ...

Peter Schiff at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009

Media

One of the highlights of the Austrian Scholars Conference last week was the Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, presented by Peter Schiff. He’s a very funny guy, and a great speaker. But ...

What We Can Learn from Spaghetti Sauce

Media

This video doesn’t really have anything to do with Christian libertarian stuff, but it is an interesting comment on how individual freedom works for the betterment of mankind even in ...

Interview with the Libertarian Party of Texas

Media

This past Monday evening, I had the opportunity to interview Pat Dixon and Robert Butler, the State Chair and Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Texas at our weekly ...

Speedlinking Friday: Meltdown, Kindle, Putin, and Lincoln

Media

You need to watch this video of Thomas Woods on the Glenn Beck show. If only Beck would have been this open when Ron Paul was running for president! In ...

The Village Voice and Fear-Hope

Media

I found out this morning that none other than the Village Voice, an alt-newspaper in New York City, discovered my Fear is the New Hope post. They didn’t seem to ...

Speedlinking Friday

Christian Ethics

First off, congrats to Baroness_Fel for writing the 100th comment on LCC (and on the 50th post, no less), in the Washington to the Rescue post! That’s a lot of ...

Washington to the Rescue!

Media

The irony in this editorial cartoon is excruciating. The cartoon describes the situation perfectly, and quite profoundly as well. Banks have drowned themselves in bad debt, and those that were ...

Concealed Carry on Campus in Austin

Media

If you recall, January 20th was inauguration day of our new Glorious Leader, and many libertarians took over the West Mall on the UT campus to protest said leader’s policies. ...

Obamicons

Media

This is not a post about Transformers, and it isn’t about a new religious cult – albeit that would have been a really good guess. No, this is about an ...

Unprecedented Obama Lust

Media

The media spent 35 times more airtime covering Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration than the 2004 inauguration. Given, 2004 was an incumbent win, but even so this is entirely unprecedented in ...

Ron Paul on the Morning Joe

Media

Ron Paul was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, and he fielded questions about the state of the economy from about five different people at once. It is incredible to ...

Why Conservatives Should Love Obama

Media

After the inaugural address, how can any self-respecting conservative not think Obama is fantastic! He has all the same answers to the economy and national security that Bush has – ...

Speedlinking and fun stuff for January 16

Announcements

Friday is a day for linky goodness… Acting in a very timely manner with my post yesterday, Nature reports that scientists are getting in line for their own part of ...

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