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Lemonade Freedom Day a Success Despite DC Arrests

Lemonade Freedom Day was last Saturday, August 20th. As many as 30 families across the country participated by selling lemonade with their kids. One stand, near the capitol in Washington, DC ended with the arrests of Meg McLain, Kathryn Dill and Will Duffield. See the excellent video above for the whole story. Their performance was […]

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“Spreading the Wealth” is a Net Loss

A commenter named Phillip over at Warren Throckmorton’s blog claims that Barack Obama’s plan to “spread the wealth around” is not socialism, but “capitalism with restraints” and that “spreading wealth is a pre-requisite for the overall wealth of a country“. An Insane Asylum is just a Hospital with Restraints Let’s explore this concept of capitalism […]

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Capitalism has NOT Failed! It hasn’t even been tried!

You’ll enjoy this excellent speech by Ron Paul. “To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense, he says. To blame capitalism for the sins of statism is an outright lie used to push us further into the muck of fascism. This is intellectual ammunition that you need. It is now […]

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When is the Right Time to Go on Strike (a la Atlas Shrugged)?

Over at Objectivist Living, Matus1976 asks When to Strike? I wonder what objective criteria … people might suggest would be a reasonable dividing line … when they themselves [feel] compelled to strike, or perhaps when we ought to be morally obligated (if ever) to strike. Perhaps we go by a general rating of economic freedom? […]