Liberty, today, is like yarn. Many disregard it as obsolete, irrelevant and generally uninteresting. But not in New Hampshire. At the Free State Project’s Liberty Forum in Nashua, NH this past weekend, I found intelligent, personable and dedicated libertarians who practice what they preach by having uprooted themselves and moved to New Hampshire to work […]
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Free for All, the movie details how the GOP stole the 2000 and 2004 elections with media collusion and shows how citizen activism, even on a small scale, can make the difference. Honest elections needs to be a top priority for the Libertarian Party.
Amazon has finally enabled Kindle owners to request that a print book be made available in Kindle format. It’s about time. For an example, see The Sagas of Icelanders. Under the picture of the book cover there is a link that says “Please tell the publisher: I’d like to read this book on Kindle”. Start […]
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Sir Harold Ridley and His Fight for Sight
A modern-day story that parallels the fictional development of Rearden Metal. First, they ridiculed Sir Harold Ridley, an ocular pathologist, for his revolutionary invention, an intraocular plastic lens to replace cataracts. Then they petitioned the FDA to outlaw his invention. Finally they accepted it. Imagine this plot for a novel: A brilliant eye surgeon performs […]
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Hazlitt’s Way to Will Power
The Mises Institute retypeset Hentry Hazlitt’s Way to Will Power. Get the beautiful PDF here: The Way to Will Power. Don’t miss out on this gem as you calculate your hierarchy of values and plan your lifelong goals. Will-Power, then, may be defined as the ability to keep a remote desire so vividly in mind […]
Remember The Milk is an excellent to-do list manager. Its clean blue and white design is stunning in its simplicity. RTM is speedy; I hardly ever need to reload the page thanks to their advanced use of AJAX. RTM is replete with shortcuts for incredibly fast adding and editing of tasks. RTM is no simplistic Ta-Da list clone. With RTM I can not only assign due dates, repeating tasks, tags, locations and notes, but I can also get notified via Jabber, GTalk, AIM, SMS or email of my pending items. Best of all, RTM is free of charge and well-supported.
The best way to learn Spanish is to spend time in a Spanish-speaking country – and fall in love.