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Venice independence
(Mises.org) With an 89 percent majority, the voters of Venice have elected to leave Italy. In practice, what this really means is that the Venetians plan to no longer send…
An alternative to government science
(New York Times) American science, long a source of national power and pride, is increasingly becoming a private enterprise. In Washington, budget cuts have left the nation’s research complex reeling….
Car dealers ought to be afraid
This company is light years ahead of the competition. (Forbes) Tesla Motors TSLA -2.85% is being courted by four Southwestern states for its $5 billion gigafactory, but there’s another state…
The road map to Mars
The Mars One foundation will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. This Indiegogo campaign will help us jumpstart the first major step in our project — a private Mars…
- Austrian School
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- Budget Deficit
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- Health Care
- Influences
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- Tyranny
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George Will, increasingly intelligent
“I’ve lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that’s a lot of folly to witness up close,” says Washington Post columnist George Will. “Whatever confidence and optimism I felt…
Not feudal times, not the 1930s, but today
(HSLDA) At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a “brutal and vicious act,” a team of 20 social workers, police officers, and special agents…
- Autarchy
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- Closed System
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- Culture Divide
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Homeschooled kids are the future of liberty
(Forbes) The modern homeschool movement comes largely by Christians aghast over an academic establishment overrun by progressives. Schools long ago became laboratories for instilling statism and distilling politically correct groupthink….
Pushing things forward in medical research
(Reason) Jack Andraka is not your typical cancer researcher. His first research project resulted in a non-invasive, simple, sensitive, and effective test for detecting pancreatic cancer. His test is 168…
- 2007-08 Crisis
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- Welfare Statism
An argument against political correctness and fiscal irresponsibility
(Illinois Review) At Thursday morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, Dr. Benjamin Carson, a celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, gave a 25-minute long keynote address that directly refuted the key…
Good reads–One World Schoolhouse
Salman Khan’s One World Schoolhouse is a brief summary of mass education, where it’s been, and where it ought to go. It would be difficult to find a more comprehensive,…
Land, the new gold
(CNBC) Two billionaire brothers from Texas recently bought 177,000 acres of ranch land in Montana, bringing their total land holdings in the state to more than 276,000. The brothers, Farris and…
The future of education is now
(Forbes) The Khan Academy, which features 3,400 short instructional videos along with interactive quizzes and tools for teachers to chart student progress, is a nonprofit, boasting a mission of “a…
- Autarchy
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- Capitalism
- Closed System
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- National Debt
- Political Theory
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- Self-Government
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- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Systems Theory
- Technology
- Trade
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
A critique of Bitcoins
Episode 10 – Bit Coins the Currency of the Dark Net from Minute MBA by OnlineMBA.com on Vimeo. The idea that BitCoins are dangerous because they are used for illicit…
- Behavioral Economics
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- Zero-sum
What if money didn’t matter?
How do you like to spend your life? What do you desire? what if money didn’t matter? What if money was no object? Alan Watts explores the possibilities. Put frankly…
- 2007-08 Crisis
- Autarchy
- Budget Deficit
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Complexity
- Culture Divide
- Currency
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Economic Policy
- Economic Theory
- Federal Budget
- Free Land
- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Inflation
- Inspiration
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- Keynesianism
- Legal Theory
- Marxism
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Rational Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Sociology
- Solutions
- Systems Theory
- Taxes
- Trade
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
- Zero-sum
When in the Course of human events…
In the wake of the latest election, several states have petitioned the White House to peacefully secede from the United States. Sometimes, that is all that seems to be left…
- Autarchy
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- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Culture Divide
- Current Events
- Economic Policy
- Economic Theory
- Education
- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Health Care
- Inflation
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
- Legal Theory
- Marxism
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Psychology
- Public Choice Theory
- Rational Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
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- Sociology
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- Systems Theory
- Taxes
- Welfare Statism
Reflections on the election
In response to the election, many on the political Right have expressed dismay on the fate of liberty and the chances for a return to Constitution-based governance. Hopes for real…
- Autarchy
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Complexity
- Current Events
- Economic Theory
- Free Land
- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Game Theory
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
- Marxism
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Sociology
- Welfare Statism
- Zero-sum
What to do in a divided nation?
From the Introduction of the book: During the run-up to the mid-term election in 2010, as it became apparent that scores of Democrats would be replaced by a troop of…
Food waste a growing concern
(TED) Western countries waste up to half of their food. This is an injustice Tristram Stuart has dedicated his career to fixing. In his newest book, Waste: Uncovering the Global…
Charter cities set for development
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Investors can begin construction in six months on three privately run cities in Honduras that will have their own police, laws, government and tax systems now…