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Forbes magazine has an extensive article out today by Peter Reilly about my favorite political prisoner.
 
It includes two video clips, very well worth watching. The first is an interview with Peter Schiff and the second is a Fox TV segment showing Irwin at his best.
 
Reilly manages (with some effort) to reach the wrong conclusion, but it's good to see such a prestigious magazine treating the subject seriously.

A most interesting article from the Scientific American, with its obvious implications for the advancement of Voluntaryism:
 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=psychological-power-satan

Peter Klein is not a fan of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

A good place to join the intellectual debate, and from which to refer new visitors to STR, is The Guardian.
 
It began as an English newspaper early in the 19th Century and was a backer of the "Manchester School" of the free-market liberals. After the latter turned coat to statism around 1909 the journal followed, so today it has a left-of-center political bias. But its open forum, called "Comment Is Free" or CIF, is very well designed and run. The managers are actively courting US-based contributors, so there's a refreshing international flavor.
 
Additionally it was a Guardian reporter, Glen Greenwald, who broke the Ed Snowden story.
 
Opportunity knocks.

By German regulators, not American.  Maybe the Germans want to find out why it will take seven years for the NY Fed to return their gold.  After being caught manipulating LIBOR, forex rates and energy prices and selling fraudulent mortgages, surely the banksters wouldn't manipulate the price of precious metals when they meet twice a day in the Rothschild offices to set the fix, right?  link

Something similar happened to me after my recent 2.5-hour wait at the DMV office...not!  link

Thamsanqa Jantjie has admitted gesticulating gobbledigook instead of translating the Mandela speeches for deaf people. Two thoughts arise:
 
1. How come nobody noticed for two or three days?
2. Perhaps he wasn't really mistranslating. What else do Pols speak?
 
 

are reportedly no longer on the White House menu.
 

Government is a myth, a religion of sorts; having no rational basis for existence whatever, it functions as a matter of faith, and in the teeth of abundant and ever increasing evidence that it is a disaster for the human race.
 
So it has heroes and saints, such as are memorialized by statues in and near the National Mall. Worldwide, it has a kind of canonization procedure for heroes of any nation; and this week we have witnessed just such a fest.
 
Nobody said anything negative about Mandela. That itself is highly suspicious. Where was the advocatus diaboli? Was there nothing wrong with this man?
 
There's plenty to admire, in what he endured and did; most notably, that after release he encouraged his fellow South Africans not to take revenge. But... this article shows him to have been a long-term Communist. Oops!

Jeffrey Tucker discusses libertarian strategy.