Para especuladores

Comprar Romney a 9.5% parece-me agora uma aposta com algumas hipóteses de poder tirar partido de flutuações nas expectativas (no mínimo) durante o dia (noite) de hoje.

The Revolution: A Manifesto... true change

So long collectivist/socialist groups. The American Republic will once again be the beacon for individual liberty. The book is number one on Amazon and won't be published until April.

read more | digg story

Sobre o triste papel de alguns

Claro que o problema de alguns no Cato/Reason é que Ron Paul representa o renascer da "Old Right" e a materialização até de um certo Rothbardianismo (afinal, é o fundador do libertarianism como um sistema de ideias consistente, como o foi do Cato Institute e do Libertarian Party). Duas causas consideradas como fazendo apenas parte de segmentos ultra-minoritários. Na verdade, provaram ser o combustível certo para relançar um movimento de bases económicas sólidas e de ideologia consistente, podendo nós esperar que está agora inaugurada uma tendência bem marcada no GOP e nos libertarians em geral.

"How the Smearbund is Destroying Itself, Thomas DiLorenzo:

Young people see through the absurd lies about us coming from Cato, Reason, Steve Horwitz, and other beltway haters and losers. B.C. from Usinus College writes: "I'm a college junior and an avid reader of LRC and Mises.org, and I can safely say that I and all of the Austrians my age can see through the ridiculous claims of the 'smearbund' and their bizarre claims. We're not buying any of the beltway lies. You guys don't have to worry."

High schooler John L. writes of the smearbund: "They will destroy themselves. Ron Paul and LRC are completely obliterating them in page views [on the internet]. I am a follower of the Mises Institute and libertarianism in general and am eager to go to college where I can learn from one of the many scholars like yourself.

I wonder how many young people are writing Tom Palmer and saying: "I can't wait to visit Cato and learn from you how to accuse your intellectual opponents and institutional rivals of being Holocaust deniers and slavery defenders without being sued for slander." (Not that a slander lawsuit has been ruled out)."

Reaganesque jokes

"I am convinced the annual baseball game played by the Republicans and the Democrats must be considered one of the most productive events in which the Members of Congress participate." Ron Paul

PS: Já agora, não só teve RP o maior número de donativos de Militares, como o teve de Reverendos. Can´t be more conservative than that...

Why Not Abolish the Fed?

One of the positions of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul that mainstream pundits find "wacky" is his call to abolish the Federal Reserve System. Never mind that two Nobel Prize-winning economists -- both libertarians -- called for the same thing.

read more | digg story

Depois de Giuliani

Ron Paul Beats McCain in Maine Caucus, Primed to Win Over 1/3 of State Delegates

Ron Paul and Pius IX

John Zmirak, of Taki's Top Drawer, offers a provocative argument in favor of the Ron Paul Revolution and what could be called Tory anti-statism:

It seems clear that the public sphere in America is irretrievably secular. So the only logical response of Christians must be to try to shrink it. Instead of attempting to baptize a Leviathan which turned on us long ago, we’d do much better to cage and starve the beast. We should favor low taxes—period, regardless of the “good” use to which politicians promise to put it. We should oppose nearly every government program intended to achieve any aim whatsoever. We can make exceptions here and there: We can favor the protection of innocent lives, which would cover things like fixing traffic lights and throwing abortionists into prison. But that is pretty much that. Christian public policy should focus not on capturing the power of the State but shrinking it, to the bare minimum required to enforce individual rights, narrowly defined. Likewise, the share of our wealth seized by the state must be radically slashed, to allow for private initiatives and charities that will not be amoral, soulless, bureaucratic and counterproductive (like the secular welfare state). Instead of asking for handouts to our schools in the forms of vouchers, we should seek the privatization of public schools—which by their very nature, in today’s post-Christian America, are engines of secularism. And so on for nearly every institution of the centralized State, which has hijacked the rightful activities of civil society and the churches, and which every year steals so much of our wealth to squander on itself that we can barely afford to reproduce ourselves.

Zmirak concludes, that while he would essentially prefer a return of the Hapsburg dynasty and that the unity of the crown and altar can be persued in some communities, it cannot be done so here in the good ole USA:

In many cultural contexts, the State can fruitfully employ its power to promote the faith and morals held in common by a community. But that can’t happen here. Not in America. Several of our Founders, and generations of our lawyers, have seen to that. We have no more reason to cooperate with the secular state than Irishmen have to trust the British Crown. And that’s how I reconcile Ron Paul with Pius IX.