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“What the State Fears Most” – Great Mises Institute article on Wikileaks

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Quotes from “What the State Fears Most: Information” by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan: Presently, our ability to attain knowledge is threatened because said knowledge represents a threat to the state — not to “national security,” as is claimed, but to the legitimacy of the state itself. Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, has made available to society [...]

Inflation Lesson from Ducktales

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

From the Mises Institute. I remember them publishing this before but it’s not on my blog. Ducktales Inflation Lesson I left a comment on the Mises Institute blog, which states this: What’s great about this video is that inflation is not described merely as an increase in prices due to manipulation of the money supply, [...]

Is The Mosque Catholic?

Friday, August 20th, 2010

I had posted my blog post I made on Aug 18, which included a video and petition opposing construction of a mosque near the WTC, to several mailing lists and newsgroups I am on. It seems that more people agreed with construction than I thought. Most criticism comes from a Catholic Yahoo group, where many [...]

Tutorial: How Webmasters and Blog Owners Can Weaken The Influence of Wikipedia

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The easiest way to do this is to remove all references and links to Wikipedia from your site. I myself have just deleted various blog posts and modified others that mention or link to Wikipedia, and intend to avoid discussing the site in the future. Mentioning or linking to Wikipedia (or Wikimedia Commons, or any [...]

Strict Cold-War-Era Oklahoma Law

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The State of Oklahoma’s Title 21. Crimes and Punishments->Chapter 9 – Offenses Related to Flags->Section 374 – Display of Red Flag or Emblem of Disloyalty reads as follows: Any person in this state, who shall carry or cause to be carried, or publicly display any red flag or other emblem or banner, indicating disloyalty to [...]

For the “Mob” – Pass Along!

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

From artist Pablo Solomon: “By all means share my latest design with Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell and the rest of the ‘mob.’”

"Very Hot Chicks"

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

This definition is so 100% true, and a few months ago I printed it out and hung it on my bulletin board. There’s also a Dilbert comic taken from a newspaper, a cute hamster ripped from a magazine ad (Fortune I think), a bookmark from the Ludwig von Mises Institute with an anarchist-leaning quote on [...]