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Shotgun Mossberg 590

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 2, 2007 @ 9:57 pm Uncategorized

Looks fun. Watermelons would make expensive targets though.

How to Predict the Behavior of Government Officials, and Other Observations by Albert Jay Nock

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 31, 2007 @ 2:18 pm Featured Posts

Old MySpace Blogpost (June 7, 2006): Here are some choice passages from the collection of some of Albert Jay Nock’s essays, The State of the Union: Essays in Social Criticism. While spending time in Europe he remarked: “Here I saw the State behaving just as I had seen it behave at home [the USA]. Moreover, [...]

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Jefferson on the Right of Nullification

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 31, 2007 @ 2:15 pm Featured Posts

Old MySpace Blogpost (June 6, 2006): Many Straussians, Lincoln-idolators (many of whom are Straussians), and other statists like to suppress the fact that the states had the right to secede from the “Union” as well as the right to nullify legislative enactments they thought were unconstitutional. As one piece of evidence that these rights were [...]

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Bill Kauffman, Reactionary Radicals, and Radical vs. Reactionary Politics

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 21, 2007 @ 8:12 am Featured Posts

Old MySpace Blogposts: From May 20, 2006: Bill Kauffman, author of Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists – localist conservative anarchist, Jeffersonian decentralist, and reactionary radical – whose book I just began slowly reading, has a group blog [which unfortunately looks to be ended] to promote his book. Check out [...]

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World of Warcraft, Lawsuits, and Irresponsibility

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 21, 2005 @ 9:38 pm Uncategorized

I couldn’t pass up blogging on this issue. The first article linked to below, by Geoff Richards, nearly says it all for me, particularly on parental irresponsibility and the contemporary trend to pass the buck by filing a lawsuit. Parents sue over WoW death Enacting Warcraft, Youth Kills Self Blizzard Sued for Death of Gamer

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words…

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 7, 2005 @ 8:24 am Uncategorized

Check out this picture on Michael Barnett’s blog. Even an NOPD car didn’t escape the looting. And speaking of pictures, be sure to check out the hundreds of other pictures linked to on Michael’s blog.

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FEMA Cover-Up: Blocking Media Video/Photos of the Dead

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 7, 2005 @ 8:12 am Uncategorized

FEMA is attempting to minimize the damage to their reputation and status caused by their FUBAR handling of the relief efforts in New Orleans. They are attempting a cover-up, blocking media access to the search operations, therby preventing photos and videos of the bodies from being taken. Let’s not forget that Bush also prevented (or [...]

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Libertarians on Katrina, New Orleans, and the State

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 2, 2005 @ 6:00 am Uncategorized

Michael Barnett: The Interdictor (a.k.a. the Survivor of New Orleans blog) Mises.org: “The State and the Flood” (article, blog post); “New Orleans, State-Planning, and the Free Market” (blog post); “A Government Flood” (blog post); “Is this the first spotting of the ‘Broken Window’ fallacy?” (blog post); “A Price Gouging Reader” (blog post). LewRockwell.com: “Conservatives on [...]

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New Orleans Head of Operations Calls Emergency Disaster Relief Efforts a Disgrace!!!/Troops in New Orleans have "Shoot to Kill" Orders!

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 1, 2005 @ 10:39 pm Uncategorized

A particularly scary aspect of this is that many of these troops spent time in Afghanistan and/or Iraq. They may be all too ready to shoot first and ask questions later of suspicious looking “hoodlums.” Playing Devil’s Advocate, however, NO is in chaos, quite a few residents are armed and dangerous, and there have been [...]

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Example of Central Planning at Work

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 1, 2005 @ 9:37 pm Featured Posts

Knowing the problems of statist central planning in theory does not compare to seeing it unfold in real life. Check out the link above for a moving example of what happens under statist central planning. A word on military and military-related acronyms: SNAFU: Situation Normal All F**ked Up CF: Charlie Foxtrot, or Clusterf**k, which is [...]

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