Statism

Full Tilt Poker executives should have opened a bank

by Dick Clark September 22, 2011

Federal prosecutors have alleged in their amended complaint against Full Tilt Poker that the gambling interest was a “Ponzi scheme,” apparently in part because of the company’s level of cash reserves. FTP owed approximately $390 million to players around the world, with $150 million owed to U.S. players. FTP only had $60 million on deposit [...]

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Keynesian Economic Policy Is a Negative-Sum Game

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 7, 2011

Keynesian economic policy is a negative-sum game: They essentially believe that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming pool with a bucket, carry it to the shallow end while sloshing water out onto the deck along the way, dump it back in, and somehow the water level of the swimming pool [...]

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Super-statists Love The Super State

by Manuel Lora September 5, 2011

After a horrific and murderous weekend in NYC, Mayor Bloomberg, frustrated that folks determined on committing crimes are ignoring those magical incantations and spells enacted by local legislators, does what must necessarily follow in the mind of the statist: call the feds. “We cannot tolerate it,” Bloomberg said while speaking at the Christian Cultural Center in [...]

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On the crime of being an anarchist

by Brian Martinez August 1, 2011

It’s become rather clichéd to invoke the nightmarish police state envisioned by George Orwell in 1984, but damned if the old boy isn’t vindicated on an almost daily basis.  The most recent move to making thoughtcrime a reality comes, unsurprisingly, from the UK: …next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster [...]

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Keeping Rights on Paper, Losing Them on the Streets

by Robert Wicks July 22, 2011

While many people love to promote the various rights guaranteed by the Constitution, it is interesting to see how rights are restricted not through legislation or even an active judiciary, but simply by law enforcement not respecting them. Consider the right to keep and bear arms and this officer’s reaction to a man exercising his [...]

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Mimi & Eunice: Let’s Make More Regulations!

by Nina Paley July 21, 2011

[Here's another departure from our usual syndicated Mimi & Eunice content. It's not strictly IP-related, but it was too good to pass up, dramatizing as it does the simultaneously comical and frustrating disconnect that most people have with regard to problems and solutions involving government. -- GAP] ~*~ This is post originally appeared at Mimi and [...]

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Re-Imagining Marketopia: A Reply to Terence Ball

by Matthew Alexander June 29, 2011

A decade ago Terence Ball wrote a critique of some Frankenstein-like creature meant to represent free market ideology. He robbed the graves of men and women as diverse as Murray Rothbard, Margaret Thatcher, Robert Nozick and Ayn Rand to put it together and came up with something that no libertarian would endorse, I suspect, but [...]

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