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Ron Paul on Iran

Wow I hadn’t seen this clip. (Lew Rockwell and Scott Horton referred to the Paul/Santorum exchange during an interview.) For those who can’t understand why people get so fired up about Ron Paul, it’s because of stuff like this. This is the furthest thing from a smooth politician, flattering the American public to win their […]

Potpourri

* I don’t care if you’re a Keynesian, if you tell people they should read my blog, you’re very likely to get a link from me. Oh, it’s a post about the Broken Window. I think we’re almost done discussing it…almost. * David R. Henderson posts a funny Samuelson anecdote. (Note: I was making a […]

Guest Post: My Time in the US Navy: “Service” to Whom?

Editor’s note: In the comments of some blog posts here at Free Advice, Joseph Fetz alluded to his experiences in the U.S. military and his discovery of Austrian and libertarian ideas. I asked him to write up his thoughts more concretely, which he has done below. –RPM My Time in the US Navy: “Service” to […]

Rules Are for Suckers

Glenn Greenwald has an interesting post titled, “The War in Libya Growing More Illegal by the Day.” I was curious what he could mean by that, and was surprised to learn: To the extent that the War Powers Resolution (WPR) authorized President Obama to fight a war in Libya for 60 days without Congressional approval — […]

Tom Woods Hits It Out of the Park

Several people had been praising this particular speech, and I thought, “Great, so Tom gave a good speech. He always gives good speeches. Why would I bother listening to this one?” Well I’m glad I did, and not just because he talks about me in the beginning. All joking aside, this gets really awesome by […]

General Wesley Clark Tells an Interesting Tale

What do you think, kids? Is he making this up to please the Democracy, Now! crowd? (HT2 LRC) For those Free Advice readers who are geographically challenged as I am, here’s a Middle East map: When the New York Times starts quoting anonymous CIA officials explaining the discovery of terrorist cells in Turkmenistan, I think […]

War Is Not Conservative

Brad DeLong linked to an interesting post by Karl Smith, which showed that total government employment has apparently gone down the last few quarters. (Note that I am not familiar with these data, so I can’t say whether they are accurate.) I wanted to see how much of the effect was due to state and […]

Tom Woods Tells Conservatives Why Wars Are Not Conservative

This is really a great little video. Like Tom, I thought the first Gulf War was pretty cool. When I was little my uncle gave me a bunch of photos of Grumman aircraft and such. Man the F-14 Tomcat is still one sleek machine.