Category Archives: Goverment

leftists use guns to curb state corruption

Posted on December 20, 2012 by christopher fisher

In Oakland, California Panthers would patrol the streets at night with legally owned shotguns and law books. Police brutality and false arrests dropped dramatically. The response of the State Legislature was to change the gun laws so that Black Panthers could no longer do armed patrols. The Panther’s response was to interrupt the hearings with guns and proclamations in hand. Bobby Seale, co founder of the Panthers told the press that black people had a constitutional right to bear arms to defend themselves. Continue reading →

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Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of the Government’s Protection of the Handicapped

Posted on December 6, 2012 by christopher fisher

Handicapped author Greg Perry explains how ADA hurts the disabled. Continue reading →

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democracy does not give voice

Posted on July 26, 2012 by christopher fisher

As in a real democracy, my vote counts for nothing–the group always decides what it decides irrespective of my vote. By working in a “workplace democracy”, I have simply traded a one-headed boss for a many-headed boss… individual political liberty does not make individuals more autonomous or in control in any meaningful sense. Continue reading →

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jewish heroes stand up against fascist

Posted on July 17, 2012 by christopher fisher

With America’s own flirting with fascism, it is ironic that it was four Jewish men who brought down a key piece of FDR’s controls, the first New Deal. Steve Horwitz details the story of the Schechter brothers, butchers from NY that refused to violate kosher laws to conform with the New Deal Continue reading →

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Lowes versus the facists

Posted on December 13, 2011 by christopher fisher

Stop for one second and imagine you lived in a country in which you could be threatened by the government for not buying a certain product. Stop pretending, the thought police are already at your doorstep. Lowes is in hot water because they pulled their advertisement from a TLC show about Muslims… Continue reading →

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the shadow government workforce

Posted on November 22, 2011 by christopher fisher

In FY 2010 (Oct 1, 2009 through Sep 30, 2010), the Federal Government spent more than $44 billion on management support services. In laymens terms, these are contract employees, sitting next to and indistinguishable from government employees. Guestimating about $100k average per contract employee (probably a low estimate), this would mean that contract employees add another 440,000 (upper estimate) on top of the official government worker numbers (federal = 4,443,000). Continue reading →

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rephrasing the cliche

Posted on November 22, 2011 by christopher fisher

[John] Kerry said. “Fair and balanced is not giving the wealthiest people in America tax cuts while you ask people on Medicare and Medicaid to pony up more. ..” Continue reading →

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prosperity that might not have been

Posted on October 21, 2011 by christopher fisher

Image a world in which McCarthy could not find that pre-existing self-service store, or imagine a world in which that first store filled the patent. Patents destroy innovation and retard the standard of living. Continue reading →

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Jesus on contract law, minimum wage, and discrimination

Posted on July 7, 2011 by christopher fisher

A good Christian can apply these concepts to a whole host of evil government laws: minimum wage laws, affirmative action laws, equal pay acts, government enforced CEO pay caps, and anything else involving other parties telling a second party what prices are “fair” and “right” to pay certain people. Continue reading →

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those who misrepresent government spending

Posted on May 20, 2011 by christopher fisher

A while back I read a post by Don Boudreaux criticizing those who claim trust funds are not real debt. I realized that while he is responding to a real person who reality believes this, I half scoffed to myself … Continue reading →

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