Iconoclast Credit n: A federal tax credit for those for whom there are no other tax credits, those that smolder with terrible indignation of everyday existence, expectations and the very idea of shuffling tax credits like some morally perverse shell game. “If you stand in the dumb warmth of any dominant or sub-dominant culture, you […]

I don’t fully understand this picture, either, and I’m the one who cobbled it together. As someone with a libertarian philosophy of government, I’m often found raining on other people’s publicly-funded parades: sports arenas, the arts, environmental programs, saving that old lady down the street from herself and all those cats, parades (literally). You’re welcome. […]

It may well be true that very many self-described libertarians tend to be of a such a stubborn independent bent that they themselves might suffer from their aversion to community. However, adopting the life of a cane-shaking, iconoclastic hermit is not necessary of or necessarily connected to the philosophy of libertarianism. Libertarianism is not a […]

Inauguration Day. An emotional day. Indeed… Let us let it cloud our judgment of the president, his government, and their actions. Distracted and empowered by the horrors of the preceding King, and warmed by the kind, moral words of a forceful, confident tone – an authority that has to, just has to be true – […]