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How The Constitution Was Ratified (A Simplified Analogy)

Imagine you live in a territory with a population of 100. Someone says: >"We need some rules. A few of us got together and drafted a constitution to set the rul...

Nazi Fighter to Die in US Federal Prison

Dr. Henri Wetselaar, 93, fought the Nazis in his native Netherlands during WWII, then he fought them again in 2017, but this time he lost. Wetselaar will go to ...

The Bitcoin Hard Fork

So Bitcoin (BTC) dominance of the cryptocurrency markets is back up over 50% after recently being as low as 40%. This means that today the market cap of Bitcoin...

Coinbase or "Conbase"? More Purposeful Delays and Obstruction from an Untrustworthy Exchange

Last night I wrote about the new 72 hour delay that Coinbase is purposefully subjecting their customers to in order to keep us from withdrawing our cryptocurren...

Coinbase 72 Hour Delay of Withdrawals Until Aug 1st BTC User Activated Hard Fork

This is why you need to hold your crypto - or most of your crypto - in private wallets. Coinbase is holding up withdrawals of all types, including Ether and Lit...

Against Euclidianism in Moral Philosophy

Philosopher Michael Huemer describes a regrettable detour in the history of philosophy: >Something unfortunate happened early in the history of philosophy, whic...

Who Would Jesus Jail For Peaceful Dissent?

As an ex-catholic it seems to me the teachings of Jesus are on their face flatly incompatible with advocacy of any coercive government policy. I’d really love t...

Mr. JTK3 Goes To Washington

Well not Washington really, but I went to county sponsored community meeting which is almost as bad. Lynette and I recently attended a community meeting where t...

The Invisible Hand of Spontaneous Corruption

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith observed that markets spontaneously generate unintended order, as if an invisible hand were at work in the free market. He ...

Look Ma: Invisible Hands

Brink Lindsey of the Cato Institute once wrote: >"The invisible hand of spontaneous order works its wonders only because it rests on a foundation of rules coerc...

The Fallacy of Control

At The Libertarian Enterprise, Patrick K. Martin offered a standard objection to market anarchism. The quote is from 2002 but it's an example of a common miscon...

Review of The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer

With this book philosopher Michael Huemer has delivered the most persuasive and comprehensive refutation of the supposed legitimacy of the state. This book shou...