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10 reasons why politics is a waste of time

You don’t drain the swamp — the swamp drains you.  The system swallows everyone whole, even someone as audacious as Trump. To get elected,...
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The Master at work

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Is intellectual property really property? (Part 3)

Continuing on part 1 and part 2 in our series on intellectual property, today we look at why the social value of patents is...
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Is Newsbud an activist group or a news organization?

This post is an edited collection of my responses to James Corbett’s article about Newsbud’s “Confront NBC” campaign in New York. I thought Newsbud...
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The globalization of politics

Something is different in politics recently.  No, not Trump.  I mean the global nature of previously domestic politics.  In the past, there was a superficial...
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WANTED: Liberty entrepreneurs

Money is a dirty word in the liberty movement.  Ironic, for a pro-free-market and free trade ideology.  But when theory becomes reality, many recoil...
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The 4 steps to political freedom

1. Philosophy – Your foundational ideology should be coherent and correspond to political reality; these are contradictory aims.  Yet the dialectical process between these...
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Twitterspeak: the shrinkage of language

Twitter is altering language, not just on Twitter, but across all media.  Everything is being compactified; short attention spans demand it.  Among the benefits...
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Trump split libertarians

The Trump phenomenon has splintered the libertarian movement into three distinct groups.  The massive political realignment taking place has exposed fractures that have existed...
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