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By Megan Duffield at 1:29PM

Feb 6, 2012

"Sh*t People Say" Contest -- Liberty Themed!

There’s this meme floating around on YouTube. There’s these videos satirizing the ridiculous things people say, usually broken down by demographic. Sh*t white people say. Sh*t black people say. Sh*t rich people say. Sh*t hipsters say. Sh*t zombies say. Just a whole lot of shit. I found a lot of them pretty racist, or at least collectivist by design. I don’t usually go for that sort of humor, but then I found one that tickled my prejudices right where I like it:

Just brilliant! Best of all, completely true. Will Potter, who created the video, says it’s all based on statements the FBI has actually made in court, in the press, or to activists themselves. Being married to a civil rights attorney, I’ve heard most of these before. Green Is The New Red looks mostly liberal, but they’ve chosen a rallying cry everyone can get behind: Activism is not Terrorism. Americans allegedly have the Constitutional right to political activism, but activists on both sides of the aisle (or no aisle at all) are being targeted by the programs created to surveil terrorists.

Click here to participate in the contest!

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By Wesley Messamore at 12:59PM

Dec 13, 2011

The Federal Reserve and Santa Claus [Spoiler Alert]

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Spoiler Alert: If there are any six year olds reading this blog, you can skip today’s post. It’s not written for you. Do the right thing and click the “x” on this tab right now. Santa’s watching.

I believed in Santa Claus a little longer than most children do. For some reason, as long as I couldn’t definitely prove that my parents were the ones leaving presents under the Christmas tree, I wasn’t ready to completely reject the possibility that it really was jolly old Saint Nick riding a sleigh pulled by reindeer and magically shrinking himself small enough to slip under the front door or through the key hole and into my house (we didn’t have a chimney).

And my parents were incredibly sneaky. I never once caught them. But when I finally told my dad I didn’t believe in Santa any more, he said, with a sly grin, “Santa doesn’t deliver presents to kids who don’t believe in him,” and I promptly responded, “I believe! I believe!” The matter was settled. I got some awesome Legos that year.

The Federal Reserve, fiat money, and inflationary stimulus policies are no different than the Santa Claus of our childhoods. The only problem is that so many adults still believe in them.

60 Things Free Market Haters Shouldn't Do

I'm sure as consistent defenders of liberty we've all experienced someone saying to us that since we consistently defend liberty and free markets, that we should not drive on government roads, call the fire departme nt , etc.

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Well, thanks to twitter (shameless plug: follow me @Locjeb) I stumbled upon a list of "60 Things NOT To Do If You Hate the Free Market." So next time some statist says something to you like "Don't drive on government roads!", respond by requesting they not do the following:

1. Do not buy a desktop or laptop computer (PC or Apple).

5. Do not use air conditioning.

6. Do not buy food from a grocery store or supermarket.

19. Do not buy any products made, produced, or assembled in China, Japan, Taiwan, or any foreign nation.

40. Do not use a refrigerator to freeze food or keep it cool.

Economic Insanity Wolf

Economic Insanity

My artistic tribute to Paul Krugman.

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By Alan Brooks at 9:59AM

Jul 25, 2011

Social Justice in the Classroom

I once took a required course in college called National Government. The book for the class is titled: "The Struggle of Democracy." The book lists the functions of government: maintaining order, providing government services, and promoting equality.

The book defines equality as one vote per person and freedom for all equally (i.e. fair trials, freedom of speech etc.) -- but it goes on to say that if money is taken from a rich man is given to a poor man then they both win since the rich man still has plenty of money and the poor man is given the money he needs.

The professor agreed with the “social justice” argument in the book and I piped up.

"Well, let's test that out in this class." I said.

"What do you mean?" asked the professor.

"Well, the people who get A's in the class don't really need all those points. Let's give some of them to the people who get F's. Then everyone ends up with a C and we're all equal." The class laughed and the professor looked chagrined.

"We can't do that." He said.

"Why not?" I asked. "It's only fair. Unless you think that the people who work hard deserve the grade they get in this class."

My professor replied: "Well, the college won't let us," and then he quickly changed the subject.

Congress should watch more Schoolhouse Rock

It would appear that Congess didn't watch enough Schoolhouse Rock as children:

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By Nicholas Davies at 8:20PM

Mar 13, 2011

Definition of an isolationist in laymen's terms

Isolationist Definition

For anyone who's ever been frustrated by the irony in the claim that libertarians are "a bunch of isolationists."

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By Bonnie Kristian at 12:47PM

Mar 10, 2011

Rand Paul on Choice, Light Bulbs, and Toilets

This may be the best video of Rand Paul to date. Make sure you stick through til the end when the government drone he’s talking with is literally speechless. As for the toilets in question, here’s humorist Dave Barry on the subject:

Every now and then I’ll just hit a nerve — when I wrote about disliking low-flow toilets, which were foisted on Americans by an act of Congress when Congress paid really no attention to this law that was passing. I couldn’t believe it. Apparently no one had ever really talked about that … around 1993 new toilets stopped actually flushing! And I didn’t know that! We bought a house and we had new toilets and they didn’t work very well, and I thought there was something wrong with our toilets. And the plumber came and I said “Can you fix our toilets?” and he said “No. That’s the law now.”

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