Discrimination
Paul Bonneau
2012-04-24 00:00
Column by Paul Bonneau.
Exclusive to STR
The sign in the window said, “No Firearms Allowed Inside”.
First thing that came to my mind was, “Great, now what am I supposed to do? Leave my gun out here lying on the sidewalk?” My next thought was, “I am trying to do business with morons.”
I was in front of the local office of my ISP provider, a company...
Breivik's Defense
Jim Davies
2012-04-23 00:00
Column by Jim Davies.
Exclusive to STR
Is Anders Breivik bad, or mad? If his Norwegian judges find him insane, they will lock him up at the King's pleasure with crazies until he proves he loves Big Brother, and that may be forever; but if they find him criminally liable for murdering 77 people last July, he will spend about 20 years in the company of others, about half of whom are probably...
The Ballad of Cullen Mutrie
Alex R. Knight III
2012-04-20 00:00
Column by Alex R. Knight III.
Exclusive to STR
It’s made national news by now, and so the information I’m getting is from the Washington Post: Apparently, around 6 p.m. on April 12th, members of the New Hampshire Drug Task Force went to serve a search warrant on Cullen Mutrie of Greenland. They were ostensibly searching for steroids, and if they found any in Mutrie’s...
Shadow Boxing
Paul Hein
2012-04-17 00:00
Column by Paul Hein.
Exclusive to STR
It takes two to tango. Who could deny it? Have you ever seen anyone dancing the tango, or the fox trot, or the waltz, by himself?
Would you buy a ticket to a fight if the fighter entered the ring and boxed or wrestled with himself?
And yet there are instances of fights against nobody: the War on Poverty is an excellent example. Poverty seems to...
The Gulch, Revisited
Jim Davies
2012-04-13 00:00
Column by Jim Davies.
Exclusive to STR
Perhaps the most delightful chapter in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the one describing Dagny Taggart's visit to Galt's Gulch. Exhausted and frustrated by trying to run a railroad in the teeth of bureaucrats and bloodsuckers, she drops in to see what a free society is like--and is given a vision of liberty. If Rand had never...
Help Wanted
Jim Davies
2012-03-30 00:00
Column by Jim Davies.
Exclusive to STR
The power-crazed psychopaths running government need one thing above all: a supply of employees to do their grunt work. With that, they can survive any crisis, any criticism, any revenue shortfall, any desertion by voters; but without it, they are powerless. Therefore, those wishing to enjoy life without government in practice as well as in theory need...
Who Owns What?
Paul Hein
2012-03-28 00:00
Column by Paul Hein.
Exclusive to STR
Are you the owner of some property? For many of us, the answer would be, “Of course. I own a home, and a car.” Maybe, for some, an additional home, and several cars, plus a boat. But whatever it is, it’s yours, and you own it, right? You even have impressive documents like “Title,” or “Deed.”
It is interesting...
Hyperdeflation, Hyperinflation, or Choice C?
David Calderwood
2012-03-27 00:00
Column by David Calderwood.
Exclusive to STR
When it comes to liberty, I am both idealist and pragmatist.
Ideally, I favor the notion that the cooperative, mutually voluntary way we all usually interact with each other in our daily lives is the same system that can and should govern all human social interactions.
This makes me a Voluntaryist, or individualist-anarchist, or whatever...
Terrorist Alert: Government Extremists Threaten Americans
MUST READ
Glen Allport
2012-03-26 00:00
Column by Glen Allport.
Exclusive to STR
Question: are you more terrified by Muslim extremists, by "domestic terrorists" – or by your own government? Which group is more likely to assault you? To kill you? To unjustly imprison and even torture you?
The U.S. federal government has ALREADY:
Built and is staffing a huge gulag of concentration camps [...
Star-Crossed Super Ships: Titanic, Enterprise, America
Douglas Herman
2012-03-23 00:00
Column by Douglas Herman.
Exclusive to STR
The whole world looked different one hundred years ago.
In 1912, the automobile and the airplane were curiosities. England enjoyed an enormous empire in 1912, served by freighters, tankers, liners and warships. As immigration flooded across the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of those ships ferried passengers across to America. Shipyards launched bigger...