Capitalism gets a bad rap when it comes to environmental issues. And yet, when you look at the most polluted areas of the world, what’s the one thing they all have in common? Socialism! #1. Where socialism thrives, the environment dies. Time Magazine produced a report in 2009 which listed the world’s 10 most polluted…
Socialists love to point to Sweden as a model of success for a centrally planned economy. They hate talking about Venezuela or North Korea, or the former Soviet Union. Still, Sweden stinks too. And here’s why. #1. Something about those Swedes… Once a Scandinavian socialist bragged to Milton Friedman about their low level of poverty…
by Josh Guckert 1. “To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit…
“If you ever hear of a group forming up to stop X, put your money on X,” -Richard Nixon to Pat Buchanan, 1968 It would appear that billionaire neo-conservative Sheldon Adelson has a penchant for spending millions of dollars on losing causes. He recently stated that should Rand Paul come close to securing the 2016 Republican nomination,…
#1. “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…” -George Washington First Annual Address – 1790 Washington’s First State of the Union address on January 8th, 1790 featured a section where the first president argued in favor of individuals arming themselves, and the need for the country to be self sufficient in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Father of Modern Liberal Thought Said Very Outrageous Things by Josh Guckert 1. “There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring…
#1. “Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” Mark Twain was not a fan of the copyright system.
by Josh Guckert 1. Tax Man by the Beatles (Video features cover version due to YouTube copyright policing) There’s nothing that libertarians hate more than taxes. The Beatles share this hatred in their 1966 song, which was in response to the high level of taxes enacted by then-Prime Minister of the UK Harold Wilson. Best…
They may take our lives. But they will never take our yoga pants! This past Tuesday, Montana state Rep. David Moore introduced an indecent exposure bill which would include “garments that give the appearance of a person’s buttocks, genitals, pelvis or female nipple.” He stated afterwards that, “Yoga pants should be illegal in public anyway,” a…
by Josh Guckert 10. Ronald Reagan Reagan is the only post-1929 President to be listed, and one of only two on this list who served in the 20th century. Reagan was quoted as saying that “the heart and soul” of conservatism is libertarianism. Additionally, he is much less hawkish than some modern conservatives wish to remember….