2010

Enjoy Snitchin’? There’s an App for That

by Brian Martinez December 15, 2010

If you suspect your neighbors are cooking up meth or fertilizer bombs in their basement — or maybe you just want those damn kids to get off your lawn — “help” from the government is as close as your iPhone: The PatriotApp links your phone to American security and law enforcement agencies via the Internet [...]

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Movie Preview: Sucker Punch

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 15, 2010

Zack Snyder, director of 300 and Watchmen, has a new film project coming out in 2011 that may be of interest to genre-loving libertarians: the upcoming movie Sucker Punch. It may not have an overtly libertarian theme or plot, but it does appear to center around an issue that is relevant to libertarians, particularly women [...]

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Hoppe: “Principles of Sovereignty and Modern Democracy”

by Stephan Kinsella December 14, 2010

Fantastic lecture series by Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Dr. Hoppe delivered the Keynote Address (lectio magistralis) entitled “Principles of Sovereignty and Modern Democracy,” at the conference “The decline of contemporary Europe: National Sovereignty, Localization and Globalization,” University of Padova–Faculty of Law (Dec. 9, 2010). Audio and pictures. Local files: Principles of Sovereignty and Modern Democracy; European integration [...]

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Purchase an Online Mises Academy Course as a Holiday Gift

by Stephan Kinsella December 13, 2010

As the lecturer for an upcoming Mises Academy course (Study Libertarian Legal Theory Online with Stephan Kinsella), I have to say, I like the idea of Grayson Lilburnd in this Mises Blog post Just in time for the holidays, now you can purchase a Mises Academy course as a gift, and actually have a physical [...]

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FYLR!

by Brian Martinez December 11, 2010

It started out as an in-joke among us here at TLS; now it’s set to become part of Internet lore, as ubiquitous on Web forums as LOL and “all your base are belong to us” jokes: FYLR! Initialism for “FUCK YEAH LEW ROCKWELL!” An exclamation of delight at some wondrous gift bestowed upon the world by [...]

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Robert James Bidinotto and “The Contradiction in Anarchism”

by Stephan Kinsella December 11, 2010

Here’s an interesting piece on Objectivist Robert James Bidinotto’s criticisms of anarcho-libertarianism: Nicholas Dykes, Robert James Bidinotto and “The Contradiction in Anarchism”, Libertarian Alliance, Philosophical Notes No. 77, 2006 (pdf). See also my post Objectivism, Bidinotto, and Anarchy; See also Roderick Long’s Bidinotto-Long debate on anarchism and Roderick Long’s blog discussion about this.

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Followup on Thoughts on iPad from a Slightly Disappointed Fanboi

by Stephan Kinsella December 10, 2010

Earlier in the year, I posted Thoughts on iPad from a Slightly Disappointed Fanboi. Having had most of the year to use it, I’ve got some updated thoughts. I still like the iPad. But my use of my iPad has declined, for reasons given below. I think it is beautifully designed. As for hardware, I [...]

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