Television’s favorite bumbling anti-hero Homer Simpson once described public transportation as being reserved strictly for “losers.” I used to share his sentiment. But working in what James Pinkerton calls “Powercity” with a subway stop outside my Virginian apartment, it’s much
Rabbits plague the town of Canmore. They’ve been around for years, the result of a municipal failure. Someone once had a lot of rabbits on his property; this went against the town’s by-laws. After an unsuccessful legal battle, the rabbit
Recently, the media has been abuzz with the story of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s visit to Cuba. Like Dennis Rodman’s visit to North Korea, it is beginning to appear as though the Obama administration’s new tools of foreign policy are coming
Leftists today find themselves in a terrible contradiction. On one hand, they hold to the rigged principle that society needs governing by a domineering state. The commoners are not to be trusted so it takes badges and guns to maintain
The motto of the province of Ontario is Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet which, translated from the original Latin, means: “Loyal she began, loyal she remains.” This is an homage to the province’s historical affiliation with the monarchy of Britain. However,
Justin Trudeau is the perceived front-runner for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. On Saturday, he released a public statement outlining some of his proposed policy initiatives. In this statement, he asserts that his party “must be a
Republished from the American Thinker In the libertarian sci-fi classic, “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,” Robert A. Heinlein describes a successful revolution of the individualistic, free-market-oriented residents of the Moon against the Earth’s tyrannical big government. The ins and
When state predation reaches a high degree of oppressiveness, there is no telling what the tyrannized will resort to in order to survive. A widespread lack of material sustenance or nourishment turns craven behavior into the norm. Society turns on
My high school education spanned a now unusual five years, over an even more unusual two continents and three countries. I started in the south European backwater that is Macedonia for my first two years, took my “junior year†in
Reprinted from The Daily Bell Since ancient times some people have considered the market place an unruly forum in which to determine whose work and what commodities are worth how much. With Marxism this view acquired a pseudo-scientific status. The
A spectre is haunting Ontario’s government schools – the spectre of… collective bargaining? “The public doesn’t have a clear understanding of what the current debate is about,” says John Wright, Senior Vice-President of Ipso-Reid, “half of them think it’s about
Last December, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a new standard that would force automobile manufactures to install “event data recorders†(typically known as black boxes) in all vehicles starting in September of 2014. Because Congress
For all their love of technology and science, people (mostly those comprising the middle class) have morbid fears that someday technology will make them obsolete and thus, jobless. It is one of those economic paradoxes which prevail in mainstream economics,
When one speaks of a concept it is important that it is properly qualified so as to be correctly understood. Failure to accomplish that makes impossible for either the problem to be identified or a desired solution to be found.
When I posted my views on the issue of First Nations on my Facebook wall last week, I received mixed feedback from my friends. Those on the left accused me of being racist and those on the right said harsh
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 12 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995). Reprinted from Mises.org] Even Marx must dimly recognize that not “material productive forces,” not even “classes,” act in the real
A great article by Peter Foster over at the Financial Post Keynesianism has extended Âdownturn, despite recent praise We are now approaching the fourth Christmas of the great debate between the benign supporters of Santa Keynes and the walnut-hearted acolytes
Reprinted from Peter Hichen’s Blog at U.K. Mail Online Some time ago I decided to write a book about the damaging and deluded cult of national victory which has done this country so much damage since 1945. No doubt it
The anarcho-capitalist movement appears to be tweaking the interest of the young leftist movement, which historically represents the radical side of the political spectrum. Maybe the time has come for “revolutionary politics.†In his 1969 essay, “The Death of Politicsâ€,
Reprinted from International Man Defining Equality The free-market system is, in one sense, equal. Anyone with ideas, abilities or ambition has the opportunity to improve upon his lot in life. Therefore, at any given time, there are people in a
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