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It's just an excuse to distribute money to his cronies. It'll be just like this.

More Than 100 Lynn Residents Ticketed For Failing To Shovel The State employs people to "inspect" and issue fines, but they can't be bothered to help clear snow.

Alex is probably minarchist, but I've suspected for a while that his staff may have been sympathetic to AnCap (Kurt Nimmo in particular).

At first, yes. The problem is not the market. The problem is that the municipal services that support those areas are largely State-controlled monopolies. Single points of failure are a disaster waiting to happen. Every time there is a ferocious storm, hundreds of thousands of people go without electricity (sometimes for weeks). Sometimes they can't get potable water. The market makes life better. The State gets in the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67BqWuEelY

The Atlantic - Public schools actually superior to private schools. Majority of young adults think astrology is a science In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins Scientific illiteracy in the U.S. Functional illiteracy in the U.S. 1 in 4 Americans Unaware that Earth Orbits Sun

"That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want" Even with all that power, he can't accomplish anything productive.

Everybody has narcissistic traits to some degree, but the kind of narcissism being discussed in the video (which is a menace to others) has nothing to do with spending too much time in front of a mirror tending hair and cosmetics.

He is talking about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, pathological narcissism, and malignant narcissism.

Peter Schiff suggested on his show that this program could become mandatory like Social Security. Argentina recently threatened "tax evaders" with prison if they refused to buy bonds.

The MyRA Propaganda Begins: "A Start To A Secure Retirement" Promises Treasury Secretary The balance may never go down, but what about its purchasing power?

It's highly improbable that an alien species would be aggressive because they would require division of labor in order to develop the technology to travel through space.

EU has secret plan for police to 'remote stop' cars

I don't have a top 5; just a top 1: economic calculation (also known as the coordination problem or knowledge problem). It's imporant to avoid getting drawn into a debate over whose ideas are better because no idea, no matter how great, will ever materialize without prices. Any system which distorts or obstructs prices is doomed.

Dear Stef, Below are compelling reasons to never accept invitations to be interviewed by mainstream news. 'The Daily Show': Intellectually Dishonest about the Intellectually Disabled Huffington Compost ran this: Rich CEO Tells 'Daily Show' The 'Mentally Retarded' Are Maaaybe Worth $2 An Hour Also, the New York Times recently ran a hit piece on the Mises Institute and its associates. Lew Rockwell wrote about the experience. Tom Woods discussed it here: Also see some of my other threads on mainstream media: Mainstream Media = Flacks for the State Glenn Greenwald to leave the Guardian, start own website

Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary

"I don't know how problem 'X' would be solved without force. Therefore, I get to use force." is unsound reasoning.

Whomever wrote that wiki entry doesn't know what he is talking about. Austrian economics eschews mathematical modeling because an economy cannot be mathematically modelled. Economies are emergent phenomena. Austrian economics has nothing to do with libertarianism. A person can be both a socialist and Austrian economist.

Most sponsors of minimum wage hike bill don't pay interns

Obama Says Racial Animus Blunts Approval, New Yorker Reports Obama blames unpopularity on Limbaugh, Fox News for making him into a ‘caricature' Narcissists never take responsibility for anything. Everything that goes wrong is somebody else's fault. The reason why people dislike Obama has nothing to do with his complexion.

Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary (thread on Slashdot) Feel free to post your D&D stories, memories, and interesting links. My reminiscence of D&D: I loved D&D when I was growing up in the 80s. Those days of inviting over a group of friends and spending countless hours around the dining room table (covered in books and papers) are among my fondest childhood memories. Regrettably, I don't have a single photo of my friends and I playing. I had all of the books, including Monster Manual 2, Fiend Folio, and Deities & Demigods, bags of dice, metal miniatures, and paperboard map pieces. It was serious business. I even made my own character sheets with a computer. There was the cartoon and plethora of video and computer games. Who remembers Treasure of Tarmin and Cloudy Mountain for Intellivision, or Wizardry, Bard's Tale, or Dungeon Master? How many quarters did you sink into Gauntlet? Not everyone was as enthusiastic about D&D. Hysterical religious fanatics and the National Coalition of Television Violence attempted to link D&D with devil worship, murder, and suicide (go to page 153). A movie with Tom Hanks called Mazes and Monsters, in which Tom Hanks' character becomes psychotic and almost kills himself, undoubtedly contributed to rumors. Several of my childhood friends were not permitted to play D&D or any computer/video games of the genre because their parents believed that it was satanic and demonic. Also check out this amusing article: 12 Nutty Dungeons & Dragons Media Mentions From the 1980s YouTube video of Pat Robertson linking suicide with Dungeons and Dragons. I wonder if Rick Warren's son played D&D? The religious kooks are worried about D&D encouraging murder and suicide while people (including children) around the world are abused, tortured, and murdered for witchcraft and possession. A woman was recently charged with murdering two of her children during an exorcism.

Female inmates at Alabama prison 'raped by guards, forced to use toilet in front of staff and take part in strip show contests'

This is just another public housing program which is guaranteed to produce predictable results.

Academia and government artificially select for particular traits, among which is a lack of life experience. This is why it's possible for a person to be exceptionally bright while failing to grasp something as rudimentary as supply and demand.