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The Philosophy of Liberty: Plunder

!Welfare, #Legal Plunder          
In this follow up video to The Philosophy of Liberty: Property, we explore Frederic Bastiat’s concept of Legal Plunder. Is it ever OK for government to steal your stuff and give it to someone else? Or is government just a glorified organized crime syndicate ala Tony Soprano? Does it really make sense for citizens to Read More

▶ Correcting Some Common Libertarian Misconceptions | Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella speaks at the Students for Liberty Conference in Austin, TX. Video production by The Foundation for a Free Society, a 501c3 … This is my final video justifying libertarian property theory and the principle of self-ownership. Further reading can be found at the links below. How We Come to … Kinsella Liberty Talk. Read More

Milton Friedman: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, was one of the most recognizable and influential proponents of liberty and markets in the 20th century, and the leader of the Chicago School of economics. In this video from the grand opening of the Cato Institutes’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1993, Milton Read More

▶ TAKE IT TO THE LIMITS: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism

This interview was filmed February 10, 1999. What are the elements of the libertarian movement and how does one of its most illustrious proponents, Milton Friedman, apply its tenets to issues facing the United States today? Milton Friedman, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences discusses how he balances the libertarians’ desire Read More
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The Next Step in the Global Meltdown – LewRockwell.com

Europe will lead the world into Economic Totalitarianism because government is now desperate to retain the euro. If the euro collapses, so will Brussels. The government exists solely because of the euro. The key is the fatal design of the euro. Failure to consolidate the debts of all individual member states has been the worst possible Read More
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Railway Socialism and Safety| Mises Institute

The recent Amtrak accident in Philadelphia should lead us to ask two questions: (1) why isn’t there competition within the railway sector, and (2) what is the safety record of state-owned and run railway systems compared to private-run systems. It is often said that privatizing passenger trains would lead to more accidents because greedy capitalists Read More
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Pope Francis: Gender theory is the problem, not the solution | National Catholic Reporter

Eradicating male and female identities does nothing to solve the problem of unfair or disrespectful treatment based on people’s gender, Pope Francis said.”Getting rid of the difference is the problem, not the solution,” he said Wednesday during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square.The right way to solve the problems and conflicts in male-female relations Read More
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Governo: 10 milioni di euro per “educare” i bambini alla sodomia e alla teoria dei gender – Associazione Culturale La Torre

Gender in classe. Ecco i libri che insegneranno agli scolari italiani ad essere più moderni dei loro «genitori omofobi» Dal «ritratto dell’individuo omofobo» all’empatia con i gay fino alla teoria delle “nuove famiglie”. Abbiamo letto gli opuscoli Unar che saranno proposti nelle scuole del nostro paese È così che la teoria del “gender” verrà insegnata nelle Read More
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Che orrore il gender: confonde i diritti di tutti, anche dei gay – il Blog di Marcello Foa

Provate a chiedere a un bambino se vuol giocare alle bambole. Nove volte su dieci risponderà di no e si ritrarrà scandalizzato. Provate a domandargli se ha una fidanzatina : spesso rispondono con un espressione di disgusto : « Io non ho una fidanzatina, a me le bambine non piacciono », urlerà. E provate a Read More