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When the Cold War with the Soviet Union ended two decades ago, many people expected to bask in the warm sunshine of lasting peace. The optimism was unwarranted. Since 1991, notes Mearsheimer, we have been at war in two out of every three years. Every president is a wartime president.
Military considerations increasingly shape — and warp — our entire system of democracy and law. Despite the absence of any major threat to our safety and independence, we have become a garrison state, permanently mobilized for incessant intervention. It’s a safe bet that whoever wins in November, we will be embroiled in a new war sometime in the next four years.Posted on May 10, 2012 via The Hipster Libertarian with 65 notes
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News to Me: Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote
04-27-2012 • www.techdirt.com
Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that’s not even the worst part.
The vote followed…
Posted on April 27, 2012 via News to Me with 2 notes
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I always start by reminding people that what happens all over the world is our business.
Marco Rubio, explaining his extremely interventionist (and absurdly unrealistic) foreign policy at the Brookings Institute.
A consistent supporter of limited government Rubio is not — in fact, particularly where foreign policy is concerned, I’d go so far as to say that he’s one of the few VP choices which would make a Romney ticket even more distasteful and statist.
(via hipsterlibertarian)
Posted on April 25, 2012 via The Hipster Libertarian with 24 notes
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Can the president kill an American simply because the person is dangerous and his arrest would be impractical? Can the president be judge, jury, and executioner of an American in a foreign country because he believes that would keep America safe? Can Congress authorize the president to do this? …
If the president can kill an American in Yemen, can he do so in Peoria? Even the British king, from whose tyrannical grasp the American colonists seceded, did not claim such powers. And [they] fought a Revolution against him.Posted on March 22, 2012 via L.A. Liberty with 81 notes
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Why does this elude the average american idiot?
The News
Ha! This is great.
Posted on February 23, 2012 via Howtobea ℛƎ[Ꮮ♥♈]☋☦i☯nⒶ♪y with 619 notes
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What Thrives and What Dies During War?
From the article comes this outline:
Main Street Economy: Land, Labor, and Capital Harmed By War
- Retail business
- Real estate and Insurance
- Art and Entertainment
- Airlines and capital intensive industries
- Manufacturing and Non-defense capital goods
The Unregulated Economy: Technology and Entrepreneurship Harmed By War
- Technology
- Internet
- Banking privacy
- Small businesses
- New businesses
The Death Economy: Benefits From the Destruction of People, Peace, and Privacy
- Military
- Weapons Industry
- Spies (CIA, FBI, etc.)
- Government and Taxes
- The News Media
The Devil Economy: Benefits From Government and War
- Wall Street
- Big Banks
- Oil Service Companies
- Pharmaceutical and Healthcare
- Public Enterprises
Posted on February 7, 2012 via The Hipster Libertarian with 38 notes
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Credit to this article from Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute for the list.
Posted on February 7, 2012 via The Hipster Libertarian with 222 notes
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In 1934 the MPAA voluntarily passed the Motion Picture Production Code, more generally known as the Hays Code, largely to avoid governmental regulation. The code prohibited certain plotlines and imagery from films and in publicity materials produced by the MPAA. Among others, there was to be no cleavage, no lace underthings, no drugs or drinking, no corpses, and no one shown getting away with a crime.
A.L. Shafer, the head of photography at Columbia, took a photo that intentionally incorporated all of the 10 banned items into one image.
The photograph was clandestinely passed around among photographers and publicists in Hollywood as a method of symbolic protest to the Hays Code.
(via vintagegal)
Posted on February 2, 2012 via with 4,010 notes
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The Author of SOPA is a Copyright Violator
Of course he is.
Posted on January 19, 2012 via Linefaced with 149 notes
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Even though I’m pretty sure this particular artist wouldn’t mind, if SOPA passes, posting a copyrighted image like this could possibly get all of tumblr taken down if the artist chose to prosecute.
Yes, really.Posted on January 14, 2012 via The Hipster Libertarian with 71 notes
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