Category: Dan’s Diatribes
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Economics In One Lesson
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The Moral Case For Capitalism
This two-in-one eBook from Hoover Institution fellows Russell Roberts and Ayaan Hirsi Ali analyzes the impact of capitalism and socialism on real people’s lives. In this eBook, you will read Russell Roberts’ The Humane Side of Capitalism as well as Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Democratic Capitalism Exceeds Socialism in Economic Efficiency as Well as in Morality.
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Labor, Education, Jobs and a Libertarian Opinion
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Memorial Day Vigil
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px|||||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-31px|auto||auto||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”] People have myriad different feelings about Memorial Day. For me, that’s the real lesson of the day. For some people it’s a day to honor the fallen. For some people it’s a contrived holiday to make the tragic seem heroic.
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There’s no I in team but there is “mine” in Eminent Domain.
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The Death Penalty Must Die
There are too many examples of police misconduct and falsified evidence for us to feel comfortable with the state having the authority to kill people.
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E Pluribus Unum
The American motto “Out of the many one” is meant to remind us that the founders gave us a specific name. We are meant to be state united, not unified. We are supposed to be a nation of many individuals, who come together voluntarily to do good things. That’s what the National Libertarian Day Of…