Updated News Digest March 15, 2009

Quote of the Week: “All universal moral principles are idle fancies.  All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature;…Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you […]

Updated News Digest March 1, 2009

Quote of the Week: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”                                                                               -Friedrich Nietzsche “Journalists and opinion makers who now deride what was revolutionary and progressive about modern capitalism (an easier life and a higher standard of living) do so as […]

Updated News Digest February 22, 2009

Quote of the Week: “Conservatives uphold voluntary community, quite as they oppose involuntary collectivism. Although Americans have been attached strongly to privacy and private rights, they also have been a people conspicuous for a successful spirit of community. In a genuine community, the decisions most directly affecting the […]

Updated News Digest February 8, 2009

Quote of the Week: “A war for Kuwait? A war for an oil-can! The rest is vanity; the rest is crime … an unimaginative, ‘democratic capitalist’ Republican regime, early in 1991, committed the United States, very possibly, to a new imperialism.                                             –Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence […]

Updated News Digest February 1, 2009

Quotes of the Week: “A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to […]

The State and the Banksters

by Peter Bjorn Perls As an old libertarian and anarchist, news like this is not a surprise to me anymore, and neither should it be for others of like persuasion, but for those not accustomed to cynicism against the Establishment, a lot of reminders of the corruption in […]

Updated News Digest January 11, 2009

Quote of the Week: “As a matter of priority the new generation of “Alternative” righties are decentralists and anti-imperialists first, and culture warriors second, if at all. To them the warfare state and erosion of civil liberties are vastly more important and relevant than the overturning of Roe […]

The 60s Radicals Have Won-Now What?

Forty years ago, in the summer of 1968, leftist radicals fought the police outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Four years later, these same New Left forces went into the Democratic Party, seized control of its nomination process, and put George McGovern on the presidential ticket. The […]

Updated News Digest December 7, 2008

Quotes of the week: “”If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will […]

Updated News Digest November 30, 2008

Quote of the Week: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”                                                                                                       -George Orwell War, Peace and the State by Murray N. Rothbard The MRSA Horror by Robert Klassen Lawrence Wilkerson: A Truth-Teller for Our Times by Tom […]

Updated News Digest November 23, 2008

Quote of the Week: “The fires of Hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American Government.”                                                           -Joe Vogler, founder, Alaskan Independence Party Inmate Escapes German Jail in a Box Dual Loyalties Will Doom Obama  by Rannie Amiri Obama: The First Hundred Days by Alexander Cockburn Americans Like […]

Obama's Victory and What It Means

I’m going to go out on a limb and make a few unorthodox statements and predictions concerning the Obama victory. The first question, of course, is why did Obama win in the first place? Most conventional analysis tends to argue that Obama’s victory is traceable to the poor […]

Updated News Digest November 2, 2008

Quote of the Week: “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is […]

Mock the Vote!

By David Heleniak Jesse Ventura, when he’s not talking about 9-11, makes a lot of sense. Describing the two party system to Larry King, he said, [W]hat you have today is like walking into the grocery store and you go to the soft drink department, and there is […]

Updated News Digest October 19, 2008

“I want to see this guy on death row.” -Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson, on the possible prosecution of George W. Bush for mass murder Taking a Look at Constitution Party Candidate Chuck Baldwin by Laurence Vance Ain’t My Government by Manuel Lora How to Fix Our Depreciating Money by […]

Reply to a "Horrified" Leftist

This is in response to something posted about me on The Art of the Possible web site: Says “Anonymous” (geez, that’s creative): “This web site is dedicated to hosting a dialogue between libertarians and the left, with the goal of encouraging theoretical synthesis and practical cooperation between the […]

How to Be Inhuman

reason.com Ronald Bailey Biotechnology holds the promise of some day allowing people to enhance themselves and their children using pharmaceuticals or genetic interventions. This prospect is welcomed by some, but causes a great deal of anxiety in many people: Are there enhancements whose benefits would come at the […]

Beyond Conservatism and Leftism

What does it mean that the Vice-Presidential candidate for the ostensibly “conservative” party is a female from a working class background who has the flag of a foreign state associated with a domestic ethnic minority hanging in her governor’s office? What does it mean that the Presidential candidate […]

Updated News Digest August 31, 2008

Quote of the Week: “We can expect as little from society as from the state. Salvation lies with the individual.”                                                                                                              -Ernst Junger   Neocon Leader Bill Kristol Calls on McCain to pick Lieberman as his Running Mate (Dog?) Fed-Bank-Wall Street Fraud Biden for Vice-Dictator by Glenn Greenwald When […]

Sufic Notes on Proudhon, Rothbard and Anarchism

(Thanks, Sean!)  [These are my musings from correspondence with a like-minded proprietor of a homepage, which I thought some here would find interesting. -SJ]:   Sufic Notes on Proudhon, Rothbard and Anarchism   I concur with your disavowal from the false dialectic of Left and Right: We have transcended beyond […]

Updated News Digest August 24, 2008

Quote of the Week: “In 2042, the Republican Party platform will include a plan for comprehensive reform of the US’s national health care program.  Republican Congressmen will engage in furious debate in an attempt to limit the penalties for discrimination against homosexuals to fines rather than imprisonment. Anybody […]

The Politics of Transhumanism

changesurfer.com Version 2.0 (March 2002)     James J.  Hughes, Ph.D. Originally Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science Cambridge, MA November 1-4, 2001 For more information please contact: James Hughes Ph.D. Public Policy Studies, Trinity College, 71 Vernon St., Hartford […]