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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 […]

More Comment Poltergeists

Once again, for some reason WordPress decided to change the comment settings on my posts, such that even posts that were already up and had a few comments on them, suddenly became “closed.” No idea why that periodically happens. Feel free to offer advice in the comments here, if it lets you. I suspect that […]

Konkin: We’re All Marxists Now

I did a crash course in agorism for a panel at PorcFest. Specifically, I read the New Libertarian Manifesto. (Thanks to the reader who pointed me to it.) I liked a lot of it, especially the fact that Konkin dedicated it gave special acknowledgements to Mises, Rothbard, and LeFevre. (This shocked me; I had no […]

Termite Bask

OK, so I moved into this house in Nashville in the fall of 2006. (Yes that’s right, I bought a house at nearly the peak of the housing bubble.) From that time until today, I have (a) never seen any evidence of termites and (b) never had Terminix or other companies come. Today, I had […]

TSA Suppressing Cancer Cluster Among Its Workers?

I am engaging in yellow journalism here, because I’m not taking the time to look into this carefully. But Tony G. sends this post by a group that used a FOIA request to apparently get memos from the TSA admitting that there were unusually high cancer rates among its agents near passenger and baggage screening […]

Agorist Bask

Oops there was a slight miscommunication. I was originally going to be on an Agorist roundtable discussion at “Porc Fest” this Thursday, but I thought it got moved to a time before I’d arrive. Yet I’ve discovered that no, there are two Agorist discussion groups with Dan D’Amico and Roderick Long, and the Thursday one […]

Discrimination Bask

I am writing something up on the Wal-Mart ruling. I know within the last year or two some libertarians (?) interviewed people in a mall, asking if black restaurant owners should be forced by the government to serve members of the KKK. Most people said no. Can anybody find the link to that video?

I Thought “We” Made Money on the Capital Investments of TARP?

You know how Matt Yglesias & Friends like to say, “We made money on TARP,” by which they mean, “The US government made money on a subset of all transactions conducted under the TARP legislation”? Well, I was digging up some numbers for an upcoming article, and I came across something odd. This (pdf or […]