Archive | April, 2018

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If the Government Lies to You…

If a government official lies to you, it’s public service. If you lie to them, it’s a felony. From my recent Mises Institute spiel. Thanks to Frank Monaco for making the jpeg!   And here’s the speech where I tossed out those lines –

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Thomas Hobbes’ Forgotten Warning for Leviathans

On Thomas Hobbes’ birthday, this warning should be heeded by the Leviathans that now rule most of the world: “When men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin.” I used that line as the header quote for the final chapter of Freedom in Chains (1999). Now if only I […]

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The Hill: Census Poses Greater Threats than Citizenship Question

The Hill, April 4, 2018 Citizenship question won’t be most pernicious aspect of US Census by James Bovard   © Getty The hubbub over the Trump administration’s proposal to ask respondents about citizenship in the 2020 Census is mystifying because the response is so far out of proportion to the White House’s request. But the […]

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