Wednesday
October 29, 2003 |
 You Might be a Fascist
by Russell Madden
Many of the beliefs common to citizens today are actually examples of a fascist politico-economic system. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
October 22, 2003 |
A Judgment to Rush
by Russell Madden
Rush Limbaugh's self-admitted problem with painkillers, the nature of (Read more...)
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Wednesday
October 15, 2003 |
Perfect Security
by Russell Madden
Never let it be claimed that the French are laggards . . . at least in some areas of life. Even though their economy creaks along under a socialistic burden even greater than our own, they are Jean-ny-on-the-spot when it comes to advancing the interests of the State. (Read more...)
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Tuesday
September 23, 2003 |
For the Little Guy
by Russell Madden
As someone who has fought for years in my own small ways for freedom, I have been accused of many negative things. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 10, 2003 |
 The Measure of a Man
by Russell Madden
The Liberation of Sims: what precisely does it mean to be a person? Tibor R. Machan (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 3, 2003 |
Pandering - the Redistribution of Virtue
by Russell Madden
Don't Upset the Ego-Drenched Parvenus (Read more...)
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Voting Fraud
by Russell Madden
No. I am not talking about the Fall television schedule nor even the rush to Christmas. I refer, of course, to the recent feverish focus on voting that has the jaws of the Talking Heads flapping in overdrive. (Read more...)
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 Taxpayer's Rights
by Russell Madden
The folks in Spring Hill, Tennessee — a small town of about 12,000 residents located thirty miles south of Nashville — believe they have latched on to a good idea. The city leaders recently passed a "taxpayer bill of rights." (Read more...)
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 Getting Rights Right
by Russell Madden
Over the past century, the concept of "rights" has gradually been so distorted and twisted that its bloated and grotesque face is now barely recognizable. (Read more...)
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Values and Virtues: Von Mises and Rand
by Russell Madden
While subjective wishes may be important in understanding human motivation, any such desires that undermine life should be understood and labeled for what they are: destruction. (Read more...)
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Wealth and Responsibility
by Russell Madden
Guilt Trips and Tax-Collectors' Wet Dreams (Read more...)
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Extinguishing the Flame
by Russell Madden
Amazing what a difference two-and-a-quarter centuries makes. Amazing . . .
. . . and sad. (Read more...)
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Gun Control in America East
by Russell Madden
If the most recent incarnation of the war in Iraq has accomplished nothing else, the aftermath of that conflict has revealed fascinating insights into the mindset that dominates the agents of the American State. When I read articles and quotes and comments regarding what the United States is doing in Iraq in its role as that country's latest caretakers, I sometimes have to check to be certain that the stories are not detailing events in the Homeland. (Read more...)
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Strikes and Guns for the State
by Russell Madden
My wife and I recently returned from two-weeks in Paris. This visit was our first to the French capital. Before we crossed the Atlantic, we had somewhat anxiously read reports about government workers striking to protest proposed cuts in their pensions. (Read more...)
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Legal Counterfeiting
by Russell Madden
The government is concerned with counterfeit currency when the real issue is the counterfeit freedom they have been peddling to us for decades. (Read more...)
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Gateways to Hidden Worlds
by Russell Madden
Repairman Jack Confronts the Entropic 'Other' (Book Review) (Read more...)
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Humor Against the State
by Russell Madden
Humor is a tricky proposition. (Read more...)
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Government and Anarchy: Some Preliminary Observations
by Russell Madden
A perennial source of tension and discussion in libertarian circles is the question of whether freedom would better be defended by anarchy or by a truly limited government. (Read more...)
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The Polite Slave
by Russell Madden
Imagine: the Antebellum era. Someplace in the Deep South. Mississippi. Alabama. Georgia. A slave owner calls his favorite property into the house to discuss an important political and philosophical issue... (Read more...)
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In the Arms of the State
by Russell Madden
Russ Madden examines a TV story on a well-known tax evader and considers whether we should pay our taxes. (Read more...)
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When a Gun Is Not a Gun
by Russell Madden
Mmmmm...chocolate guns. (Read more...)
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 I Are a Student
by Russell Madden
Philadelphia was once a center for the explosion of liberty that helped create the United States. Perhaps one day its citizens will abandon the illusion that there can be a "middle-way" between freedom and its opposite. Perhaps one day they will opt for true educational reform and, at last, set their students free. (Read more...)
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