Tag: Part of the Problem

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Ryan Rogers

I did not know Ryan Rogers. I’ve never met his family. He lived over 1300 miles away from me. For all of my ignorance of who Ryan was, I know one thing: That picture above is of a beautiful, sweet boy. That beautiful sweet boy was murdered on the night of November 15, just a…
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How to Get Absolutely Pantsed in a Debate–The Impractical Pragmatism of Andy Craig

Whether it was ad hominem attacks, circular logic, post hoc ergo propter hoc or some mixture and variation of several other logical fallacies, Andy Craig (above, right) just got crushed by actual, principled libertarian Dave Smith (above, left) in a debate in which Smith simply deconstructed Craig’s mendacious, slanderous claims about him, and Craig was…
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Maryland Hunts Its Citizens with Unaccountable Paramilitary Force

The fact that the murder of Duncan Lemp has garnered so little attention across the country and in major media outlets reveals just how precarious the state of liberty is at the moment, COVID-19 or no COVID-19. If a police force can invade the home of a 21-year old, launch stun grenades into his basement,…
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Hawks By Any Other Name and Clothing

“Soleimani” from the Farsi via the Arabic means “man of peace”. I don’t know what “Trump” means from Old Nordic, nor do I much care. What I do care about, and the rest of the world ought to care about, is that these men and their aggressor cronies, vacuous neo-cons and lap-dog yes-men talk about…
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Part of the Problem, 500–To Many, Many More

The great Dave Smith and Robbie “The Fire” Bernstein celebrated their 500th podcast episode for “Part of the Problem” doing what they do best: Combining the brilliance of libertarianism with their “funny-because-it’s-so-true” comedy. In the episode, both list the most influential thinkers who brought them to libertarianism from the left: Ron Paul, George Reisman, Tom…
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Kind of Creeped Out By the FSP

OK, so I have shared with people in the past my admiration for the Free State Project in New Hampshire. The idea itself is marvelous–get a bunch of freedom-loving libertarians to move to a state already friendly to the liberty movement and engender some significant change in advancing free markets for free people. Hell, I…
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On Taxation as Theft

This Wednesday, April 10, Dave Smith welcomes pseudo-intellectual extraordinaire Ben Burgis in studio to discuss the notion of taxation as theft. Given that Smith is the funniest and one of the brightest libertarians around today, I hope that Burgis comes prepared–he’s not going to be in the echo chamber there. I also hope that Rutgers…
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