Archive for February, 2012

On February 23, 2012, Reason’s Nick Gillespie appeared on Fox Business’ Stossel show that was taped at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. Co-author with Matt Welch of “The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America,” Gillespie explained why the historic rise in independent voters, massive deficits [...]

By using billions of dollars in federal funding to strong arm states to adopt national standards of dubious quality, the Obama administration has raised federal intrusion into education to new heights, transferring control over the nation’s classrooms to anonymous federal bureaucrats, special interest lobbies, and insider experts, ultimately rendering parents and taxpayers powerless. The Marching [...]

May I remind you. “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” Mr. Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September. That was our current j\head of the Department of Energy, Dr. [...]

Otherwise known as dumbing down the populace in order to enable politicrats to feed on them while encouraging their ignorance. A few more years of this and they will be eligible for the Occupy Movement. (The latest incarnation of the Hitler Jugend.) Whatcha wanna bet they can recite all sorts of Malthusian-Luddite fables and fantasies [...]

Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s University. In this lecture given at an International Society for Individual Liberty conference in 1991, he introduces subjective value to the general concept of human flourishing. He references F.A. Hayek’s article “The Use of Knowledge in Society” to make the argument that a familiarity with [...]