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The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America by Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch

by Jason T. Kocher August 15th, 2011 Politics » Culture » The Written Word »

I don’t wanna be a candidate for Vietnam or Watergate…

Luckily, Reason writers Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch – they of the Free Minds, Free Markets persuasion – have co-written a new book which recognizes this preference, celebrating our modern world, one of competing luxuries and increasingly expressive and diverse individuals [...]

EconStories.tv – Keynes vs. Hayek

by Jason T. Kocher August 13th, 2011 Culture » Film and TV » Politics »

EconStories.tv is the offspring of award winning video director John Papola and Russ Roberts professor of economics at George Mason University.

I remember being skeptical when I saw a link to their first video, “Fear the Boom and Bust” an economic rap battle between John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, but after bopping through the video it was immediately clear [...]

Ironclad Pet Project Logic – North American Man Unicorn Love Association

by Jason T. Kocher August 13th, 2011 Politics » Creative » Witty Bit Eruptions »

It is an essential human right to have one’s own unicorn just as it is clearly an essential unicorn right to have one’s own human.


Case Studies in Indecency – The Burden of Proof is on the FCC

by Jason T. Kocher June 27th, 2011 Culture » Politics » Society »

The Supreme Court of the United States has decided some interesting cases in the last year. Most recently came a decision that overturned a California law banning/fining sales of violent video games to minors, leaving the moral decision of such incidents to families rather than the all-knowing Oz.

Bravo to SCOTUS for making the rational decision in response to the [...]

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