April 2008

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• ► 2009 (18)
  • ► December 2009 (4)
  • • Recipe: Slow-Cooked Spicy Citrus Chicken
    • Summary: Korsgaard's Sources of Normativity
    • Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way
    • Aristotle's Prime Mover
  • ► November 2009 (5)
  • • Taking the Pledge of Liberty and Justice for All Seriously
    • Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-11-15
    • My JLS Atlas Shrugged Article, Finally!
    • Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-11-08
    • Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-11-01
  • ► October 2009 (4)
  • • Belated Inauguration for My New Website & Blog
    • Stackpole, Doctorow, and Intellectual Property
    • Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-10-26
    • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-13
  • ► May 2009 (2)
  • • Oughtism and Its Cure
    • The US Post Office has got to go
  • ► January 2009 (3)
  • • Return of the Website
    • Website Update
    • My dissertation is completed, approved and now online
• ► 2008 (44)
  • ► October 2008 (1)
  • • The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test
  • ► September 2008 (5)
  • • John C. Wright's Austrian Anaylsis of the Financial Crisis
    • Pimp My Firefox: My Firefox Extensions and Setup
    • The New Apple iMissile
    • I'm on Twitter
    • Recipe: Spiced Basmati Rice with Peanuts
  • ► August 2008 (5)
  • • Criminals For Gun Control
    • Now This is Good Parenting
    • George Carlin: If you vote, you have no right to complain
    • Will IP be the death of the Watchmen movie?
    • A Brief Note on Robbins, Rand, and Atheism
  • ► July 2008 (2)
  • • A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn
    • Morphing Machine Gun That Fits in Your Pocket
  • ► June 2008 (3)
  • • George Carlin on Global Warming
    • The Prick-Waving Theory of War
    • The Anarchist Roundtable #1: Ron Paul
  • ► May 2008 (4)
  • • Dr. Bob Carter on Climate Change
    • Immanent Politics, Participatory Democracy, and the Pursuit of Eudaimonia
    • Hilarious American Dad Clip on Guns
    • My Library(Thing)
  • ► April 2008 (1)
  • • MSM Bias and Political Campaigns
  • ► March 2008 (3)
  • • The Subprime Lending Crisis: Humorous Keynesian Analysis
    • The Decivilizing Effects of Empire: American Troops in Iraq
    • In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?
  • ► February 2008 (13)
  • • Consumer Reports, Hookahs, and Legal Positivism
    • Resist the Call: Exercise Temperance and Retain your Humanity
    • How Easy It Is To Commit Electronic Voting Fraud
    • Ron Paul and the Remnant
    • Classic Bush Freudian Slip
    • Deputy Assaults Quadriplegic
    • This Baltimore Cop Bully Deserves Disrespect
    • Ignorant Bastards with Guns
    • Warning: Avoid Dubai If You Value Your Life
    • College Tuition Inflaters
    • Online Ad Business Model Takes a Hit
    • Socialized Health Care
    • Colbert Report: Ron Paul Sounds Alarm on Iraq War
  • ► January 2008 (7)
  • • "The most stupid fool is better off than those who think they are wise when they are not."
    • Comments on Roderick Long's "Inside and Outside Spooner's Natural Law Jurisprudence"
    • Movie Review: Cloverfield, with Star Trek XI Teaser Trailer
    • Movie Review: Children of Men
    • Arthur C. Clarke must never have read Mises and Rothbard...
    • A Catholic Defends The Golden Compass
    • Some Libertarian-Related SF&F News (And One Just for Fun)
• ► 2007 (137)
  • ► December 2007 (17)
  • • Moving Up (In Geekdom)
    • Stupid in America
    • 400 Scientists Dispute Global Warming Alarmism
    • Blog Feed & Functionality Changes
    • A Native American Group Wants to Secede from the Union
    • We're the Government -- and You're Not
    • Update on Conclusion of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series
    • Terry Pratchett Health News
    • Peter Jackson to Produce 'The Hobbit'
    • American vs. British SF
    • The Guardian: Top 10 Dystopian Novels for Teenagers
    • Economic Ignorance Among SF Writers and Reviewers
    • Ron Paul Discusses Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan
    • Ethanol Subsidies
    • John Galt vs. Fred Thompson
    • My Daemon?
    • New Forum for Fans and Writers of Libertarian Speculative Fiction
  • ► November 2007 (6)
  • • Sentient meat? You must be joking.
    • Uncle Jay Explains the Hard-Knock Life of Congressmen
    • Land of the Free
    • This blog's reading level is...
    • Brief Observation on War and the State
    • Orlando Cricket Player Shoots Opponent During Match
  • ► October 2007 (18)
  • • Eudaimonia, Virtue, and the Right to Liberty
    • Gun Updates
    • Rand on the Relationship between Values and Virtues
    • Faux News Entertainment Pwnd by Ron Paul
    • Naomi Wolf: The End of America
    • Giuliani: "Freedom is about authority."
    • ABC's 20/20 John Stossel on Climate Change: "Give me a break!"
    • Couple Make Burglar Clean Up at Gunpoint
    • Book Review: Sagramanda: A Novel of Near-Future India
    • Book and Movie Review: Transformers
    • Ron Paul on The O'Reilly Factor 9-10-07
    • BBC Video on Inconvenient Truths for Gore about his Movie
    • Iron Maiden vs. The American National Socialists
    • "To Protect and Serve" or "To Punish and Enslave"?
    • Nobel Farce Prize
    • Oh No! NOT the Buddy Bears!
    • CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film
    • The Left's Inversion of Climate Change Valuation
  • ► September 2007 (13)
  • • The Evils of Gun Control: Ted Nugent Tells It Like It Is
    • Science Future or Science Fiction?
    • The Freedom Cartoon
    • More Abuse of Police Power, and Police Brutality
    • The Talon: Tactical Impact Device
    • Range Report
    • Gun Updates
    • More Abuse of Police Power
    • Serve Oversalted Burger to Cop, Go to Jail
    • (Statist) Politics As Addiction
    • Gun Control Witness
    • Shotgun Mossberg 590
    • Gun Updates
  • ► August 2007 (8)
  • • AA12 (A fully automatic 12 gauge shotgun) - 2007
    • Scientific Forecasting vs. Forecasting by Scientists
    • A Terrifying Message from Al Gore
    • Al Gore's Travelin' Global Warming Show
    • Was Thomas Jefferson an Environmental Alarmist?
    • GLOBAL WARMING: The Menopause Song
    • Re: Jesus loves you
    • Make your very own Gun Free Zone
  • ► July 2007 (16)
  • • Moving to Nebraska
    • Bruce Willis on Late Night: An Unappealing Hunch
    • New Study Ranking University Political Science Departments by Job Placement
    • An Example of Environmentalist Bias in Wikipedia
    • Second Range Report: Taurus PT111 Revisited; & 200th Post!!!
    • Two Cool Revolvers
    • Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Water Banning Petition
    • My First Rifle? Revisited
    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Peasants
    • Libertarians Penn and Teller on Gun Control
    • NRA: To See Where Gun Licensing Leads, Look To England
    • PETA and Terrorism
    • The Truth About the Right to Carry
    • NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina
    • My First Tactical Folding Knife: Smith & Wesson S.W.A.T. Black Ops
    • The (Un-)American State of Minnesota Says No to Foreign-Made US Flags
  • ► June 2007 (13)
  • • Ron Paul's son, Rand Paul, interviewed before debate.
    • Gun Review: Taurus PT111
    • My First Shotgun?
    • Lazy US Postal Service
    • Affirmative Action in India: Race to the Bottom
    • Family Guy - "Democracy" in Iraq
    • Stay in Bed, Save the World
    • New Blog Features
    • What do Al Gore and Martin Heidegger have in common?
    • Family Guy vs. The Freakin' FCC
    • Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror
    • Yet More Environmental Hypocrisy: Follow the Money
    • The East Side Debate: Global Warming Is Not a Crisis
  • ► May 2007 (18)
  • • Not All Energy CEOs Are Selling Out and Going Green for Corporate and Personal Profit
    • Even More Environmental Hypocrisy: How the Watermelons Simultaneously Obstruct Solutions to AGW and Harm Human Life
    • Really Cool, Out of this World Guns
    • Surprisingly Wise Words from NASA Administrator
    • More Hypocrisy: RealClimate and Funding Issues
    • From The Onion: "God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule"
    • CO2 & Temperature: Do They Go Together? Yes, But...
    • I must have this knife!!!
    • My First Rifle?
    • My First Handgun
    • New Blog Format
    • More Ad Hominem and Attempted Suppression of Dissent by CAGW Mindguards
    • Global Warming & Funding (Non-)Issues
    • Freeman Dyson on Scientific Organizations and Climate Models
    • A Vegan Diet Is Not Natural
    • Al Gore's Environmental Hypocrisy
    • Scientific Skepticism and Asimov's Corollary to Clarke's First Law: Or, The Dearth of Scientific Skepticism in the Global Warming Debate
    • Dissertation Prospectus
  • ► April 2007 (3)
  • • Immigration and the Environment
    • Sorry, Sheryl, I haven't a square to spare.
    • Metallica and Philosophy
  • ► March 2007 (10)
  • • Reason: Going Green...and Statist?
    • SF Author L. Neil Smith Against the Establishment and Its Victim Disarmament Policies
    • And now for something completely different...
    • Update on John C. Wright...the Anarchist?
    • The iRack: An Ingenious Double Parody
    • The Great Global Warming Swindle
    • Libertarian F&SF Author John C. Wright
    • Google Mass Transit: Free, Green, and Luxurious
    • Ayn Rand Interviews on YouTube
    • New & Improved Blog
  • ► February 2007 (11)
  • • Gore's Inconvenient Truth: A Riveting Science Fiction Story
    • Science Fiction & Libertarianism
    • Letter to the Editor and Op-Ed on Minimum Wage Legislation
    • Letters to the Editor on Morals Legislation and Immigration
    • NYT Article Contradicts Al
    • Global Warming, Melting Ice, Hurricanes, and Extinctions: Cutting Through the Propaganda
    • Are the oceans really going to die?
    • Would you like to bomb Iran? A Tribute to Dr. Seuss
    • John Mackey, Founder and CEO of Whole Foods, a Former Leftwing Hippie Turned Libertarian?
    • An Inconvenient Truth: Gore as Climate Exaggerator
    • 7 Inconvenient Truths About PETA
  • ► January 2007 (4)
  • • How to Predict the Behavior of Government Officials, and Other Observations by Albert Jay Nock
    • Jefferson on the Right of Nullification
    • Bill Kauffman, Reactionary Radicals, and Radical vs. Reactionary Politics
    • Blogging Again
• ► 2006 (2)
  • ► March 2006 (1)
  • • Austrian Scholars Conference 2006
  • ► January 2006 (1)
  • • New Working Papers on Rome and Praxeology
• ► 2005 (96)
  • ► December 2005 (3)
  • • Democracy, Spontaneous Order, and the Democratic Peace Thesis
    • On Roman Liberty
    • Research Interests and APSA 2006 Abstracts
  • ► November 2005 (3)
  • • Penn Jillette on Atheism and God
    • World of Warcraft, Lawsuits, and Irresponsibility
    • Considerations on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome
  • ► October 2005 (1)
  • • The God That Failed
  • ► September 2005 (13)
  • • Presidential Address
    • Mises University 2005, The Video
    • Anarchism and Dualism at the Mutualist Blog
    • Surveillance Overload: Statism and Paternalistic Parents
    • They say a picture is worth a thousand words...
    • FEMA Cover-Up: Blocking Media Video/Photos of the Dead
    • New Website!
    • Libertarians on Katrina, New Orleans, and the State
    • New Orleans Head of Operations Calls Emergency Disaster Relief Efforts a Disgrace!!!/Troops in New Orleans have "Shoot to Kill" Orders!
    • Example of Central Planning at Work
    • House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Rebuilding New Orleans: "It doesn't make sense to me."
    • "Civil Unrest" in Baton Rouge
    • Lord of the Flies II: Escape from New Orleans
  • ► August 2005 (23)
  • • Rational Evangelism vs. Business and Technology: A False Alternative?
    • Katrina: The Aftermath
    • Katrina Cometh!
    • Is this your idea of a model Christian President?
    • Strategies for Libertarian Anarchy
    • On Hobbits and Snergs: More Tolkien Lore
    • Celebrating My 100th Post
    • Anarchy and Dualism Revisited: Some Clarification for a (One-time?) Reader
    • The Fall semester is about to begin...
    • Parental Socialism: A Peculiarly Modern Twist?
    • Firefly and the New Serenity Trailer
    • A Tax Song
    • Officer: "Ma'am... You don't have a prescription for that. I'm afraid I'll have to take you in. Step out of the car, please."
    • The Phraseology and Symbols of Despotism
    • A Thorny Issue in Just War Theory & Practice
    • Interesting Posts on Tolkien and Hobbits
    • Action Philosophers!
    • Watch the Dark Lord Kill Oprah!!!
    • Geoffrey and Sajida in Cartoons!
    • Gandhi on the True Nature of the State
    • Goethe on Real Unification
    • Mises U. Report
    • Extra Extra: The Devil is Pro-Life!!!
  • ► July 2005 (13)
  • • Off to Auburn
    • Objectivism and Austrian Economics
    • Constitutional Anarchy (Cont.)
    • Anarchism, Statism, and Dualism (Cont.)
    • Recipe: Spicy Chole (A Chickpea Dish)
    • Recipe: Geoffrey's Bean & Salsa Chip Dip
    • Recipe: Tamarind Rice w. Peanuts
    • Recipe: Lime (or Lemon) Rice w. Peanuts
    • Fiction: Happy Slaves & The Seeds of Disillusionment
    • Is anarchism inherently dualistic?
    • (Mis)Interpreting Nietzsche?
    • Fiction: A Desperate Flight
    • Taylor at Pitzer
  • ► June 2005 (7)
  • • Against Idealism: Ayn Rand and Johannes Daubert vs. Husserl's Ideas I
    • News
    • Off to Virginia
    • More empirical evidence against the democratic peace thesis
    • Mises University
    • On Reinach and Apriorism in Relation to Positive and Natural Law
    • On Reinach, the Act of Promising, and Moral Obligation
  • ► May 2005 (3)
  • • Death!!! Version 2.0
    • Federal Voyeurs
    • End of Semester
  • ► April 2005 (3)
  • • Another $110 million down the drain...
    • Hamilton vs. Kant on War and Peace
    • JARS!!!
  • ► March 2005 (5)
  • • New Working Paper!
    • AIM (Lack of) Privacy Issue
    • Corporate and Government Bedfellows
    • Triangulating Peace? Or, Two Foundations for Oppression?
    • If you go far enough to the right you encounter “the same idiots coming around from the left.”
  • ► February 2005 (5)
  • • Libertarian or Not?
    • New Working Paper
    • Is Death a Harm? Can the Dead Be Harmed?
    • Science, Statistics, and Ideology
    • Update
  • ► January 2005 (17)
  • • Which Sci-Fi/Fantasy Character Are You?
    • A Little More On Libertarian Feminism
    • Aw...crap! Not statistics again!!!
    • What!?! No WMDs?
    • More on libertarian feminism...
    • Debate Over Radical Libertarian Feminism
    • My first syllabus is finished!
    • A Heinlein Reader at NASA?
    • My Recent Activity on L&P
    • US Assassination Squads!!!
    • ARI backslides on foreign aid for tsunami victims
    • Rating economic liberalism
    • Tribute to the Irrepressible and Unstoppable Rothbard
    • How many Iraqi insurgents are there?
    • US Plans Detention for Life
    • Charity, Foreign Aid, and the Tsunami
    • Rothbard, Anarchy, and Utopianism
• ► 2004 (29)
  • ► December 2004 (11)
  • • Away for the holidays...
    • Barry Smith, Austrian economics, and the irrefutability of the action axiom
    • Value-neutrality in science; and Rand's agent-relative theory of value and the Austrian theory of subjective value
    • Ayn Rand and Apriorism
    • From NASA to LSU? Please no...
    • Be careful what you wear for Halloween!!!
    • Hot off the Presses!
    • Neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, and Hegel
    • Debating the nature of US foreign policy at L&P
    • On Fascism
    • Quote of the Day (and for the Times)!
  • ► November 2004 (4)
  • • Who's got a "pre-9/11" mindset? I do!!!
    • The UK (US?) Police State
    • Thanksgiving Lunacy in the NYT
    • Blogging ain't easy...
  • ► October 2004 (2)
  • • WSJ Reporter Tells the Truth About Iraq
    • Can the Constitution Be Saved?
  • ► June 2004 (1)
  • • My Manifesto!...er, I mean my Master's Thesis.
  • ► May 2004 (1)
  • • Neocons in Philadelphia!
  • ► April 2004 (3)
  • • One reason "Why I [Too] Am Not a Conservative"
    • God on the Institution of the State
    • Should the US have elections in 2004 if attacked?
  • ► March 2004 (6)
  • • Antiwar Song
    • A Libertarian Purity Test
    • Jury Nullification
    • Kangaroo Courts and Show Trials
    • Subverting the "Great Writ"
    • Congress Repeals Laws
  • ► February 2004 (1)
  • • Veritas Noctis