If we're going to have a conversation, these facts must be a part of that.
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Saturday - 06Apr2019 Filed in:
Headlines““Hollywood has a clever way of distorting our perspective on history, and a great example of this is Western film – a movie genre we've all come to love. Cattle rustlers, guns blazing, outlaws running loose, and vigilantes dishing out vengeance indiscriminately. These scenes have become more synonymous with the American Frontier than Winchester and their "Cartridge That Won the West." But these fictional tales have produced more than entertainment for over a century; they've also contributed to an ongoing, subtle push for gun control, all while making Hollywood millions.
Revisionist history books tell us that the “Wild West” was an anarchic period of time that was not conducive to human prosperity. Images of a Hobbesian nightmare – a life that is brutish and short – are ingrained in our consciousness thanks to decades of public schooling and violent images on the silver screen which are light on actual history and heavy on creative license.
However, individuals who believe in liberty and developing their critical thinking faculties should be skeptical of most mainstream narratives regarding history, especially American history. After all, these narratives by and large have been created by Hollywood, a legacy institution that has historically advanced politically correct content with the support of Washington in order to perpetuate the cultural status quo.
When the curtain of political correctness that's been draped over this particular period of history is pulled back, we see a much more nuanced picture of the American Frontier. In fact, research by historians such as Peter J. Hill, Richard Shenkman, Roger D. McGrath, Terry Anderson, and W. Eugene Holland shows that this period was rather indicative of a “not so wild, Wild West.”
For the purposes of this article, the Wild West will now be referred to as the Old West. This is by no means a pedantic distinction, but rather an acknowledgment of the fact that this time period was not “wild” by any stretch of the imagination when compared to other chaotic periods in human history. Indeed, the Old West had its fair share of challenges for American settlers. But as we’ll see below, crafty settlers found ways through ingenuity and mutual cooperation - all done with very limited state interference - to create a stable order for generations to come.
”” read the rest at Ammo.com
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A voice of sanity.
Another attempt to panic you. Seriously, why does anyone listen to this man when he has been wrong so many times?
One advantage of fifty states is so we can experiment and find alternatives that might work better. The Constitution does not grant power over education to the Federal government.
Pretty accurate analysis.
Why is this accepted?
“John Bogle's life is a reminder that in capitalism you can make a fortune by saving your customers money.”The implications are staggering. You'd better believe that this is getting a lot of attention.
A good step. So why wasn't this done years ago?
So why isn't this a major story?
“Technology extracts at least 2,000 liters of water per day from the atmosphere at a cost of less than 2 cents per liter.”When people don't buy what you are selling, change the label.
Elites don't like it when the populace make their own choice.
“Why were there more FBI agents sent to arrest Stone than Navy SEALs sent to kill Osama bin Laden? Why jackboots in the morning in America? Here is the back story.”Then there is the obvious question, why does the economy have to be "run?"
“So long as there is peace and political stability in Cambodia, the future is looking bright for this growing economy.”Amazing how no one talks about cutting spending.
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“The President's recent threat to use "the military version of eminent domain" to seize property for his border wall is just the tip of a larger iceberg of policies and legal positions inimical to constitutional property rights.”
Ladies, expect your rates to go up
If Republicans were smart, they'd keep quiet while the Democrats self-destruct
Just the Hispanic Caucus.
“Those households, enterprises and organizations that have no debt, a very low cost basis and a highly flexible, adaptable structure will survive and even prosper.”
“They can’t end the standoff because Democrats and Republicans are trying to solve different problems”
“The first House Democratic bill aims to hamstring opponents.”
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Liberty&Law“Dozens of news outlets reported that America has the most mass shooters in the world. Many say that shows America needs more gun control.”
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Friday - 16Nov2018 Filed in:
Law&Liberty“Taylor Woolrich told her story yesterday at the annual conference of Students for Concealed Carry…”
I despise guns. I really do.
But I approve of this message.
No matter how I feel about guns, I can't help but notice that the people who obey the gun laws are not the ones we have to worry about. I can't help but notice that the folks making the most noise about gun control are the same ones I wouldn't trust to keep quiet about what anything. And I can't help but notice that the officials, agents, and policemen who proclaim that gun control is absolutely necessary to public safety are the same ones who don't want dash cams or the public recording them on cellphones.
Yes, I approve of this message.
*nods*
I used to be very anti-gun. Not quite out there carrying a sign, but close. Then someone pointed out Cramer’s The Racist Roots of Gun Control and I started looking into it and thinking hard. It was the last bit of libertarianism that I accepted, and the one that was most difficult.
The first time I ever did the reluctant advocate bit was in defense of concealed carry.
That's what started me questioning, but it wasn't where my studies stopped. I finally came up with questions I couldn't answer.
Why should someone who carries a gun decide if other people are allowed to carry? Why does his power trump their rights?
The answer is very simple. In a free society there is no reason.
I started keeping my crux files because I noticed I kept getting into the same discussions in comment threads on other people’s web sites. After a while it just made sense for me to organize my thoughts by topic. These are snippets. It’s not in any particular order, it’s just discussions I have again and again.Tags: Crux Files ∙ gun control ∙ Taylor Woolrich ∙ Students for Concealed Carry
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Politics&Law“Project Veritas Action Fund has released a third undercover video from campaigns during this 2018 election season. This report exposes how incumbent Senator McCaskill and individuals working on her campaign conceal their liberal views on issues in order to court moderate voters.”
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Thursday - 29Mar2018 Filed in:
HeadlinesAt this point this is a well informed guess, but it could be huge. The ramifications of shifting from a petroleum based economy to a fusion one is unprecedented. Also, I want helium airships the size of stadiums.
Realist or loose cannon?
The stakes can't be higher. I think it's going to backfire. Pun intended.
Another sign of a runaway bureaucracy.
There's a problem when no one is allowed to ask questions before the bill is signed into law
Think about this. The Paper Of Record went after Rosanne Barr for a political opinion and flubbed it
This means she knows she flubbed it, regardless or what happened.
It's not going to stop there.
Facebook is a data mining company. Count on any "regulation" of FB to protect the data mining, even in the classroom.
They use children so their opponents won't tell the kids to shut up and let the adults speak.
“As the privileged white community of Parkland, FL spreads its message of universal disarmament following a high school shooting, the voices of inner-city communities are not being heard as the debate continues.”
Hemp used to be the industrial fiber
“The proportion of state and local tax revenues dedicated to Medicaid and public pensions is the highest since the 1960s”
I am really beginning to wonder just what is going on at the FBI
Yes, it's been fifteen years. Is the nation safer?
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Tuesday - 27Mar2018 Filed in:
NeoNotes&Law&Liberty&Free Markets❝❝I never expected Trump to do anything except disrupt.
Pardon, but you're making the same mistake they did. You think that if the right person was in charge, everything would be okay.
Government is not your friend.
We will have a government regardless - until we replace it. The replacement may or may not work as well, it may or may not get better, but the ability to replace is inherent in the promise of America.
We've not had a "better" government in decades. Good government is not measured by how much government controls, but by how much it doesn't. It's no accident that America's greatest advances come from places that government doesn't regulate.
Sometimes (and more times than we'd like to admit), the best way to fix something is to replace it. Sometimes the only way to replace something is to destroy it. It works that way with food, clothing, houses. It works that way with cars, companies, and marriages. And yes, sometimes it works that way with government.
There is some opinion that NASA exists to keep other (and particularly American private interests) out of space. There a fair-to-middling novel Kings of the High Frontier, that explores that. I'm rereading it right now.
We understood the principles behind the internet years before. AT&T had adopted some of them years before to keep long-distance phone calls from being interrupted. Even after the internet became public, the real driver for bandwidth and video compression was porn. Netflix owes it's existence to horny men looking for naked pictures.
Building roads has always been easy. Maintaining roads is the hard part. There government has failed so much that "infrastructure" is a code word for raising taxes.
My faith is in the free market, not consumer capitalism.
Trump is changing things (and disrupting things), but he's only a small part of what is happening.
First of all, they were poor before Trump was even a candidate. And they weren't helped by Obama's war on the coal industry. If you read the article, state and local authorities had a hand in there too.
I haven't looked at this in depth, but I know there wasn't much of an economic base to begin with. Despite what is claimed, that's not something that any government can create. At a minimum, it requires good ideas and private investment.
Oh, and the jobs vanishing overseas? That's something the Democrats and Republicans share the blame for.
Like Venezuela?
I could give you pages of proof, but long story short, central control distorts the economy. The more pressure focused in one area, the bigger the disruption. On a small enough scale, you may escape second and third order functions. But if you are using a healthy economy to support massive intervention, you are pretty much guaranteeing those second and third order disruptions.
Think of it like tapping a water main without turning down the pressure. It will give way, it will require replacement, and while it is being fixed most of the system will have to be shut down. The only question is when.
I'm not a conservative.
I picked Venezuela because in just a few short years socialism destroyed a robust, expanding, petroleum based economy.
Your other examples aren't exactly socialist either. They are more progressive than the US, but they have not nationalized their means of production. Unlike say, Venezuela.
Have you taken a closer look at the Obama Administration? Cronyism, emotional appeal, basically everything that Trump does except it was (mostly) within the system.
Government is not your friend.
I repeat, have you taken a look at the Obama administration? A good, long, hard, unbiased look? Have you seen how many of his contributors benefited?
Nor is the Obama administration alone.
This is what annoys me. You're all set to blame Trump and the GOP for crimes against humanity all while excusing the crimes and excesses of the Democrats. And you are still calling for more government control.
Now if you really want, we can match abuse of power against abuse of power. I can tell you horror stories about Congresscritters and technocrats. I can show how almost everything you've been told about economics is designed to confuse you and keep you quiet. I can prove that almost everything government tells you is a lie just to convince you that government is necessary and that one flavor of politics is better than the other.
How about I tell you truths instead?
Government is not your friend.
Politics is about control, not truth, not compassion, not liberty, and not funding.
There's no Man on a White Horse riding to the rescue. You shouldn't trust anyone who looks like that because they are cosplaying.
The Republicans and the Democrats are about equally as guilty for the mess we're in. Each will blame the other, then you for not caring enough. Each will want more money and more power.
There's no objective difference between the party on the right and the party on the left. The only difference is who gets screwed now and who gets screwed tomorrow.
Blame Trump. Blame Obama. Blame Smith. It doesn't matter because government is the problem.
Government is not your friend.
Obama didn't reduce the debt. He reduced the deficit. That means the government didn't overspend as much as it had in previous years. Oh, and by the way, they printed more currency to "cover" some of the difference which raised the inflation rate and the interest on the national debt.
Trump didn't nuke North Korea. He responded to provocation, as Presidents at least as far back as Kennedy have done. And by the way, the Norks are willing to negotiate now.
I don't remember seeing anything about Trump going after gay marriage.
Before you defend the ACA, take a look at the costs of healthcare starting when Medicare became law. It's no accident that the costs have exceeded inflation every year since. Thanks to the ACA, dozens of states are scrambling to try to cover healthcare costs. Some are opting out of the program. Legally they aren't supposed to, but there is no way they can cover costs.
I'm not familiar with Golden Valley.
Only Congress can decriminalize marijuana. Since they are exploiting an opioid crisis created by government action, I don't expect them to act soon. Basically when Obama's DoJ stopped enforcing marijuana law, they were breaking the law.
The cities and counties who have the strictest gun laws are the same cities and counties who have the highest rate of gun crimes. Pay specific attention to Chicago and Baltimore. Most of those areas have had Democrat administrations for decades.
"Vote Democrat." Why? So we can fall off the left side instead of the right side?
Government should be smaller than absolutely necessary.
You mean the multinational corporations who pay both sides but mainly the left ones to pass laws and regulations that benefit them and shut out competition?
You mean the alt-right is a bigger threat than unaccountable race hustlers and movements like BLM who focus on events that fit the narrative and exclude things like "black" on "black" crime in the major cites?
You mean like the attacks on Christianity that happen just because someone professes their faith?
And let's not forget all those people who are only too willing to tell "white" people what they can and cannot say, what they can and cannot think, what they can and cannot do, because of "white privilege."
Government is playing all sides (not both sides, all sides) against each other, and the politicos just keep getting taxes and more power.
Like I told you before, if you want to keep the people you distrust from having power over you backed by government force, the only sure way is to drastically reduce government power. That way you can't mess with them and they can't mess with you.
But it is possible.
Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense: “Society is produced by our wants and, government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.”
Milton Friedman wrote: “Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”
James Madison said: "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
People are perfectly capable of making their own decisions. Those choices won’t always be ones you agree with. Sometimes those choices will be bad ones with terrible consequences. Still, freedom is based on choice. Without choice, there is no freedom. Without freedom, we aren’t human.
You are perfectly capable of making your own decisions. That is your right, that is what makes you human, and f*ck all to anyone who tells you different.
KYFHO now and forever. The only protection you should get is the certainty that NO ONE ELSE can use government to control you.
But, if you expect that right for yourself, you’d better damn well defend if for others. Even if you don’t like them. Even if you don’t trust them. Especially if you don’t trust them. Otherwise you will lose your choice.
Otherwise you will lose your freedom.
It’s simple. If you want to live free, you can’t meddle in other’s lives.
The second you start meddling is the second you sacrifice your own rights.
“The greater good” is just as big a tyranny as “for you own good.”
You only think it’s fantasy because that is what you’ve been taught by those benefitting from the current power structure.❞❞
NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.
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Will China demand censorship across the globe? A free internet is humanity's last, best hope.
“The nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s selections for the federal judiciary. Quattlebaum replaces not one, but two scuttled Obama nominees who were African American.”
There isn't a trend. See also
School Shootings Have Declined Dramatically Since The 1990S. Does It Really Make Sense To Militarize Schools?Someone didn't think it through. Well, it was a bad decision anyway, but the unintended consequences…
“A 1989 shooting at a Cal. schoolyard began the national "assault weapon" issue. It was a consequence of law enforcement failure.”
Remember Seth Rich?
People are taking the NRA boycott seriously. Just not the way the virtue signalers hoped.
All sorts of implications here
You mean climate fixes itself?
This needs to be in the gun control (victim disarmament) discussion. Remember this
The Parkland Teens Fighting For Gun Control Have The Backing Of These Huge Organizing GroupsThou shalt not dissent
“Federal law outlawed debt prisons in 1833, but lenders, landlords and even gyms and other businesses have found a way to resurrect the Dickensian practice.”
Thou shalt not dissent OR criticize
In 1900 America, "liberal" meant what "libertarian" means today
This might be a glimpse of what happens next. See also
When DCCC Calls, Hang Up the PhoneTags: China ∙ censorship ∙ debt ∙ YouTube ∙ conservatives ∙ liberal ∙ libertarian ∙ DCCC ∙ Laura Moser ∙ Parkland ∙ gun control ∙ victim disarmament ∙ drought ∙ snow ∙ Obamacare ∙ states ∙ Tenth Amendment ∙ NRA boycott ∙ virtue signaling ∙ assault weapon ∙ California ∙ Seth Rich ∙ free internet ∙ China ∙ censorship ∙ nomination ∙ Chuck Schumer ∙ racism ∙ Marvin Quattlebaum ∙ schools ∙ Google ∙ guns
Friday - 02Mar2018 Filed in:
Headlines&Free Markets&PoliticsWhy does government think it can choose someone's religion?
Disturbing
Virtue signaling…again
Chilling. Do you really want Google deciding what you can see on the 'net?
Literally taxes are theft
This is probably seven types of illegal.
Follow the money
Beyond surreal
The SPLC is heavily biased against conservatives, and moderately biased against libertarians
Why we need a free and open internet
Blacks, Hispanics, and women hit hardest
Why should any company be shielded from the taxes that other companies pay?
Yes, it's BuzzFeed which I don't like using as a source. It's also accurate.
Funny how only one side of the debate is hitting the national media
Exaggerating, but not by much
There is very little doubt that this was an attempt to derail an elected President
If the tables were turned, don't you think a business would be shamed into servicing Democrat voters?
What? You mean Brexit was not an isolated event?
“Trump's embrace of gun control is consistent with his views before he ran for president.”
There's no reason voters shouldn't know the details
“San Francisco rent control reduced affected rental housing by 15 percent while boosting citywide rents by 5 percent”
Excellent question
Capitalism holds the roots of freedom
“Telling others to 'get on the right side of history' is not just a form of intellectual bullying.”
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Morality & Modern Life&Law&LibertyI didn't realize until I was much older just how cool Ali was
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Why don’t liberals get the blame for their words and actions?
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