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 17 Dec 2008 @ 20:42
Next stop, the Ludwig von Mises Institute:
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a libertarian mecca based in Auburn, Alabama.
The institute is named for a libertarian Austrian economist, but it was founded by Llewellyn (Lew) H. Rockwell, Jr., who remains its President---its philosophy derives largely from the work of the late Murray Rothbard, a self-described anarcho-capitalist.
While the people surrounding the von Mises Institute may describe themselves as libertarians, they are a different breed than the urbane libertarians who staff the Cato Institute or the libertines at Reason magazine. Instead, they represent a strain of right-wing libertarianism that views the Civil War as a catastrophic turning point in American history--the moment when a tyrannical federal government established its supremacy over the states.
After breaking with the Libertarian Party following the 1988 presidential election, Rockwell and Rothbard formed a schismatic "paleolibertarian" movement, which rejected what they saw as the social libertinism and leftist tendencies of mainstream libertarians. In 1990, they launched the Rothbard-Rockwell Report, where they crafted a plan they hoped would midwife a broad new "paleo" coalition.
Rockwell explained the thrust of the idea in a 1990 Liberty essay entitled "The Case for Paleo-Libertarianism." To Rockwell, the LP was a "party of the stoned," a halfway house for libertines that had to be "de-loused." To grow, the movement had to embrace older conservative values."
The most detailed description of the strategy came in an essay Rothbard wrote for the January 1992 Rothbard-Rockwell Report, titled "Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement." Lamenting that mainstream intellectuals and opinion leaders were too invested in the status quo to be brought around to a libertarian view, Rothbard pointed to David Duke and Joseph McCarthy as models for an "Outreach to the Rednecks," which would fashion a broad libertarian/paleoconservative coalition by targeting the disaffected working and middle classes. [link]
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 16 Dec 2008 @ 00:03
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than
to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
- -- John Kenneth Galbraith
For the conspiracy junkies among us who take their addiction seriously and who do love to be teased, and threatened and horrified with lies, half-truths and terrible facts, why settle for some recycled cut and paste hand-me-down?
Go to the source: More >
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 15 Dec 2008 @ 20:08
Sweet dreams are made of
Who am I to disagree?
What one believes is one's business!
But really now, friends, Romans, and South Carolina people, was there any need to make it the DMV's business too?
So asks Dr. Zaius. More >
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 13 Dec 2008 @ 00:42
LOL... Looks like Old Spice got its finger on the pulse of a certain aspect of cyberculture here with this uproarious tongue-in-cheek approach to online affectation on social networks and the Internet at large. More >
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 11 Dec 2008 @ 21:17
Marsrising, a member of AboveTopSecret.com, claims that 2012 has already happened:
"STOP. THINK. The governments of the world knew 2012 was going to happen. To con everyone they have changed the calendar. So all of you waiting for the world to end or to get saved are wasting your time."
Well, Marsrising, thank you very much on behalf on the rest of us, "conned" little tushies out there, on our way to celebrate the coming new year. Seriously now, how is one even expected to know what year it is anymore, let alone what time it is?
But, thankfully, and reassuringly so (?) before that, there is always Xmas! And, so, Merry Christmas you all! Santa and Satan's Government both want to know (or are they one and the same?): have you been naughty or nice?
What would zz top say?
I been bad, I been good,.......
I aint askin for much....... More >
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