Ringo's Law and the Healthcare System of Doom
Glen Allport
2009-08-12 16:00
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The Law
Some years ago, noted philosopher Ringo Starr described an important and now-famous discovery: "Everything government touches turns to crap."
That observation clearly deserves elevation in status from the mere "something Ringo said" to the more formal Ringo's Law. Ringo's Law generates accurate predictions and explains events in useful fashion;...
The Abolitionist Argument in 35 Seconds
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Glen Allport
2010-06-21 03:00
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". . . a power too great and terrible to imagine."
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was released on Blu-Ray in April, which reminded me that I hadn't seen the first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring, since its theatrical release in 2001. While watching the film again I was struck anew with its abolitionist message – a message that is clear,...
Had Enough Government 'Regulation' Yet?
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Glen Allport
2010-08-19 03:00
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The Blessings of True Regulation in a Civil Society
Many things should be regulated – for health and safety, for protection against fraud, and for other reasons.
Regulation is a normal function of civil society. We don't want to get electrocuted when we touch a toaster or vacuum cleaner, for example, and the makers of...
Sneering as a Tactic: The Campaign Against WikiLeaks
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Glen Allport
2010-12-21 04:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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Be very cautious when hearing any argument against someone that relies on a sneering tone. To put it bluntly, decent people don't use such tactics.
On the web are blog posts and columns that attempt to link Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks organization to Israel, or to the Rothschilds, or to the CIA. WikiLeaks, these pieces insist, is a...
The Pathocracy Unmasked
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Glen Allport
2011-02-11 04:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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Exposed as Criminals and Psychopaths, the Coercive Elite are Desperate to Stop the Flow of Honest Information
"When Bush cancelled his trip to avoid prosecution, the human rights groups who prepared the complaints made it public and announced that the Bush Torture Indictment would be waiting wherever he travels next."
CCR...
Why Is Social Security Going Broke?
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Glen Allport
2011-03-08 04:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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In plain language, there is no good reason for the unfolding Social Security nightmare. Yes, the Baby Boomers are retiring, but so what? It's a big group, but this same big group has been paying into Social Security their whole adult lives. It's not like the money hasn't been set aside or anything.
Right?
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Of course,...
'Anarchy or Minarchy' Is Only Half the Question
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Glen Allport
2011-04-05 03:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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Hello Wesley,
I loved your Libertarian Dilemma: Anarchy or Minarchy? in today’s Humble Libertarian (March 22, 2011). Since founding the site, you’ve shown a knack for asking interesting questions and a willingness to consider views outside your comfort zone. In this new column, you say, among other things, that “I am...
Protecting Your Family from Fukushima Radiation and Other Health Threats
Glen Allport
2012-05-22 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
Part 4 of "Could the Non-Aggression Principle Stop the Sixth Great Extinction?"
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My previous column – Timeline of a World-Killing Paradigm Shift – describes our current situation, including the dead-serious threat that the Fukushima disaster poses to the entire planet, and how we got here. In this column, I will describe...
The Doctrine of Love and Freedom
Glen Allport
2011-08-16 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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Almost unnoticed amongst the glitter and wonder of modern sci-tech is that the basic, foundational truths of classical liberalism are now exceptionally well supported by science. If you want a society that produces physically and emotionally healthy people and that fosters prosperity, innovation, and peace, you want – you need – both...
The Doctrine of Love and Freedom: Condensed, One-Word Edition
Glen Allport
2011-08-24 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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The Word
** Love. **
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Start of Commentary Section:
The Word is Complete in Itself
Nothing more is needed, because love includes non-aggression: you don't aggress against others if you love them. The Doctrine of Love and Freedom is thus completely contained in the single word...
Finding the Divine
Glen Allport
2012-03-22 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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Scientific consensus is emerging that people are fundamentally empathic, kind, fair-minded, and cooperative. Yet these characteristics are being undermined by widespread emotional damage and a corrupt system of coercive governance.
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Why So Much Darkness Staining the Light?
"The divine within me...
Reaping the Whirlwind of State Aggression: Nuclear Consequences
Glen Allport
2013-02-27 07:52
Column by Glen Allport.
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Part 5 of "Could the Non-Aggression Principle Stop the Sixth Great Extinction?"
In Part 3 of this series, Timeline of a World-Killing Paradigm Shift, I made the case that Statism, via widespread use of coercion and constant violation of the Non-Aggression Principle, has set in motion the destruction of the Earth's biosphere, bringing us...
'Anarchy or Minarchy' Is Only Half the Question, Part 2
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Glen Allport
2011-04-13 03:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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This is Part 2 of a response to a column by Wesley Messamore. Last week's Part One of this column discussed the following:
· Minarchy: Lighting a Match to the Fuse of Tyranny
· Anarchy: By Itself, Yang without Yin
· The Missing Key...
How the 1% Took America's Wealth--and How to Get It Back
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Glen Allport
2011-12-01 01:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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Plundering Wealth vs Producing Wealth
In recent decades, the rich have gathered an increasing share of the total wealth in the United States. As this wealth disparity grows and especially as large numbers of the formerly middle class fall into poverty and even into homelessness, this flow of wealth from main street (from anyone not...
Further Adventures in the Quantum Wrongness Field, Economic Crisis Edition
Glen Allport
2009-02-25 17:00
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February 26, 2009
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Deeper into the Wrongness
I described the common state of Wrongness in Marooned in the Quantum Wrongness Field (April, 2007). Today, the public is predictably being lured ever-deeper into Wrongness by propaganda about the economic crisis. Among other things, we are told that adding trillions of dollars in new federal debt and printing oceans of new money-...
Could the Non-Aggression Principle Stop the Sixth Great Extinction? Part 2
Glen Allport
2011-07-15 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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[Part 2 of a five-part series]
How the Idea of Civil Society was Destroyed
In the second half of the 1800s, the nascent civil society in the United States, with its classical liberal worldview – including the understanding that society should embody both liberty and compassion – began giving way to the modern Left...
Terrorist Alert: Government Extremists Threaten Americans
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Glen Allport
2012-03-26 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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Question: are you more terrified by Muslim extremists, by "domestic terrorists" – or by your own government? Which group is more likely to assault you? To kill you? To unjustly imprison and even torture you?
The U.S. federal government has ALREADY:
Built and is staffing a huge gulag of concentration camps ["...
The Year Ahead: 2010
Glen Allport
2010-01-08 04:00
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"'A lot more people were living on the edge than we ever even anticipated,' Haynes said. 'So many people were just barely making it. It's absolutely shocking.'"
~ Hospitality House spokesman Barry Frost, quoted in Economy Creates Newly Homeless by Kimberly Edds, OC Register, December 11, 2009
"There is no normality and no recovery. You cannot spend...
Love and Freedom in Avatar
Glen Allport
2010-01-25 04:00
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[Spoilers ahead]
A month after its opening, “Avatar” has brought in more than $1.8 billion worldwide and is still packing theaters, which suggests that it may become the first film to pull in $2 billion or more.
There are many reasons “Avatar” is so popular – it is visually gorgeous and inventive, it tells a good story, and the film's casting...
How Did Americans Become Poor?
Glen Allport
2012-08-01 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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"If you can understand why a bathtub empties when the drain is opened, you can understand why Americans are now as poor as church mice."
Not long ago, we Americans were rich; now we are poor. How did that happen?
Actually, Americans are worse than "poor" – Americans are staggeringly indebted, in debt beyond...
Ebooks Everywhere
Glen Allport
2010-11-04 03:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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(Paper is so Fifteenth Century)
A Review of Amazon's E-Book Software and the Devices it Runs On
I resisted ebooks until recently, despite my somewhat geeky background. I've been a heavy reader since childhood, which means that books – real books, printed-on-paper books – have been a big part of my life for a darn long...
Could the Non-Aggression Principle Stop the Sixth Great Extinction?
Glen Allport
2011-07-11 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
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[A five-part series]
Part 1: Civil Society Requires Non-Aggression (and one thing more)
Unless you're a hard-core libertarian, you probably haven't heard much about the non-aggression principle, or NAP. That's a shame, because the NAP is what would have saved the world from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill (and...
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