Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
(Washington Times) The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a…
The parasite economy
From a recent Heritage release: This annual study by The Heritage Foundation analyzes federal assistance programs for everything from housing, health care, and food stamps to college tuition and retirement…
I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
Étienne de La Boétie. Reminds one of the solutions put forth in the book.
- 2007-08 Crisis
- Autarchy
- Budget Deficit
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Distributism
- Division of Labor
- Ecology
- Economic Theory
- Federal Budget
- Free Land
- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Game Theory
- Inspiration
- Interdependency
- Legal Theory
- National Debt
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Poverty
- Rational Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Simplicity
- Solutions
- Specialism
- Systems Theory
- Trade
- Wealth
- Zero-sum
Signs of a new de-urbanization?
After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, a great de-urbanization took place when city dwellers realized that the centralized system was unreliable and even dangerous. Smaller,…
Wikipedia Going Dark to Protest SOPA
Wikipedia will go offline Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA, according to Co-Founder Jimmy Wales. Wales made the announcement via a series of tweets.“This is going to…
Two questions from the early 20th century
From Max Weber’s essay, Parliament and Government in Germany under a New Political Order, published as a series of articles in the ‘Frankfurter Zeitung’ in 1917 as a critique of…
The paradoxes of politics
The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is…
Just what kind of students does the modern education system produce?
(Washington Post) A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took…