Category Archives: Liberty

Markets Make Us More Rational

Posted on Wed, 04 May, 2011 by pmjones

People, including economists, are imperfect decision makers because of their mental limitations. But this fact does not mean that markets fail. Indeed, markets do far more than induce improved allocation of resources, given wants and resources. Markets induce market participants … Continue reading →

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Victims of Communism Day

Posted on Sun, 01 May, 2011 by pmjones

May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda tool to prop up … Continue reading →

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Massachusetts curtails public union bargaining rights

Posted on Wed, 27 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

Not only has the Massachusetts state House passed a new law barring all PEUs from collective bargaining on health care, it passed by a veto-proof majority — because Democrats pushed the bill … Yes, you read that right.  Democrats in … Continue reading →

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Hey, Jackass, Have You Not Read The 1st Amendment?

Posted on Wed, 06 Apr, 2011 by pmjones
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Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: “Brave, radical, and smart.”

Posted on Wed, 06 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

[Paul Ryan's] genuinely radical plan goes where Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich never did by terminating the entitlement status of Medicare and Medicaid. (It doesn’t touch the third major entitlement, Social Security, though Ryan has elsewhere argued for extending its … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Government, Health Care, Liberty, Politics | 1 Comment

The Social “Operating System” for Free Markets

Posted on Sun, 03 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

It turns out that free markets are not just an absence of government intervention, or even a simple and clear set of rules. Liberal market economies require a huge amount of what you might call "software" to run: not just … Continue reading →

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No Collective Bargaining for Public Servants

Posted on Wed, 23 Feb, 2011 by pmjones

Public servants — meaning government employees — don’t work for greedy miscreants exploiting them for personal profit. They work for democratically elected officials representing the will of the people. This is just one reason why there is no legitimate role … Continue reading →

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Pictures of the Socialistic Future

Posted on Sun, 28 Nov, 2010 by pmjones

The most amazing thing about the Berlin Wall is that the world didn’t see it coming. It’s easy to dismiss this as hindsight bias. But at least one man – the brilliant German classical liberal Eugen Richter – saw the … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Assassination Plan — Tyranny?

Posted on Tue, 28 Sep, 2010 by pmjones

Obama is arguing the executive has the power to execute American citizens without a trial, without even so much as an airing of the charges against them, and that it can do so in complete secrecy, with no oversight from … Continue reading →

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Government and journalists cower at threats to cartoonist

Posted on Wed, 22 Sep, 2010 by pmjones

Last week, the Seattle Weekly announced that Molly Norris, its editorial cartoonist, had "gone ghost." Put another way, she went into hiding. The FBI told her she had to because otherwise it couldn’t protect her against death threats from Muslims … Continue reading →

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