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Comedy is a serious subject: A book review of Kat Timpf

Comedy is a serious subject: A book review of Kat Timpf

Libertarianism

Comedienne and libertarian commentator Kat Timpf’s first book is a serious examination of comedy that challenges many well-intentioned but mistaken myths about social taboos. A regular on TV’s Gutfeld! and ...

Weekend Insights – Malice, Anarchism, Batman, and much more…

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

All Humor is Racist – That’s pretty funny

Culture

He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord holds them in derision. Psalm 2:4 Perhaps the best way to ruin a joke is to write an analytical post about ...

John Oliver Swings and Misses at Injustice

Media

John Oliver’s HBO program “Last Week Tonight” has certainly made a name for itself the last couple of years, exposing the inconvenient truth with respect to a wide variety of ...

Flying Robots! Oh My!

Media

And now for something completely different… The infamous creators of the Bed Intruder song, the Gregory Brothers, have released a hilarious new video for their “Songify the News” series with ...

Deck the Halls with Macro Follies

Media

The inimitable EconStories gang, which includes the great John Papola, has just released their newest creation just in time for Christmas: Deck the Halls with Macro Follies. It lampoons the ...

News of the Week: “You Didn’t Build That”

News

Recapping the interesting and significant events of the past week. This week, President Barack Obama told a crowd that if you have a business, “You didn’t build that.” Congratulations to ...

Vikings and Legalized Plunder, oh my!

Media

What do Vikings have to do with government? Find out in this video… This video is brought to you by the Foundation for a Free Society, who have done other ...

This is not a form of brainwashing.

Media

Did this ever happen to you as a kid?

Hayek vs. Keynes: The Second Round!

Media

Remember the Hayek-Keynes Rap from John Papola, Russ Roberts, and EconStories? Well, they have posted their second video on Youtube just today. What an amazing exposition of Austrian economics ideas, ...

Another war?

Media

Jon Stewart tells it like it is. Pardon the colorful language (it is bleeped out), but this is great.

Federal Government will bring sight to the blind

Politics

Reportedly heard in the House of Representatives, supported by many, surprising none. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.B. 2020, the National Eyeball Allocation and Regulation of Sight ...

Jon Stewart Crushes Obama on Civil Liberties

News

This clip speaks for itself. Oh wait, I get it. He’s a Democrat stealing the thunder of Republican big-government programs. That’s why.But I’m still curious, why do “conservatives” want to ...

Sunday is Coming!

Media

This video was too good not to post, so enjoy this great parody movie trailer… Now, to be clear, I have very little against “contemporary music” save the vacuity in ...

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 ...

How a Government Gets a Job Done

President's Blog

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 ...

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.

Sunday Article Linkage

President's Blog

Some Sunday reading for you A Look at the Jury System and Our Participation in It — Graham Dugas observes that being on a jury can be a great check ...

That’s No Moon… It’s a Space Stati… What the?

Economics

These pictures should need no explanation…  

One Ring to Rule Them All

News

I just found a stupendous editorial cartoon, written by Terrence Nowicki, Jr. at This Is Historic Times: Awesome work, Terrence, keep it up! (This cartoon reminds me of this post ...

What do you hate most about taxes?

Philosophy

“Tax season always begins on April 16th, and ends 365 days later.” “There are only two certainties in this life: death and taxes. I’m thinking I’ll have better luck cheating ...

If President Obama Twittered

Politics

For the uninitiated… Twitter is a nifty “micro-blogging” service where you are limited to no more than 140 characters to say anything. It is kind of like a mix of ...

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 ...

Change Never Seemed So Similar

President's Blog

Jon Stewart of The Daily Show roasts Obama on his policy “change” in Iraq. He even compares statements from Obama and Bush about the US role in Iraq side by ...

Stimulation Nation

President's Blog

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota...

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 ...

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 – ...

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