The following is a guest post by my dear friend Brian McFeathers. He says so eloquently what I was thinking. The irony is that he said it two years ago.
There is much talk today about bullying. Who's responsible and why, there seems to be a consensus in the media and with many parents that bullying is a new and terrifying phenomena that has not been going on since the beginning of time. They use big words like "Cyber-Bullying" or some other domestic terrorist like reference. Even the President Read more [...]
I often hear folks cite the level of vehicle regulation in the United States as justification to increase firearms regulation. Do they really want to regulate firearms like we do cars? I'm not so sure they understand what they are asking for.
The folks asking for gun regulation similar to vehicle registration say things like:
You have to buy insurance to drive. Why shouldn't you have to buy insurance to have a gun?
When you buy your car, you have to register it. Why shouldn't you have to Read more [...]
An article in the Boston Globe explored the idea that Laura Ingalls Wilder's books were written as anti-New Deal fables and are early documentations of Libertarian ideals.
The author Christine Woodside explores the Wilder family papers as well as letters to link the children's books to Libertarian values. She claims that not only do the stories tell of a family of self-reliant pioneers, but that they were also shaped to refute the post-depression era rapid government expansion. She describes one Read more [...]