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The following article by Bretigne Shaffer was originally published on Lewrockwell.com, and is republished here with the author’s permission. Visit her blog at www.bretigne.com, and check out her books on Amazon. What began as amusement with the “Beat Bush” people who man the street[...]
25 Sep 2016
News/Trending
The following article by Bretigne Shaffer was originally published on Lewrockwell.com, and is republished here with the author’s permission. Visit her blog at www.bretigne.co[...]
25 Sep 2016
When I was a kid, I’d get an idea in my head, and just start doing it. More often than not, before long I found myself in trouble. Not necessarily because I was doing somethi[...]
25 Aug 2016
Liberty
Though many analogized statism to religion, for some time now I’ve held that a better analogy of statism is to addiction—with the concession, of course, that just like most a[...]
23 Jul 2016
The following video was so packed full of highly valuable information—about what to do, what not to do, what to say or not say, how to take control of the situation when/if youR[...]
02 Jul 2016
Philosophy
I am in the process of eliminating as many of the petty distractions in my life that I can, in an attempt to focus on those things I’ve wanted to do (or, more accurately, be)[...]
11 Apr 2015
Winning Is Secondary Whenever I participate in games or sporting activities, I try to focus on the ultimate purpose of experiencing happiness and enjoying the activity, rather than[...]
01 Apr 2015
Psychology
Recently, I was reading a quick little article by Robert Locke, published over on Lifehack, entitled 10 Reasons Why Some People Are Always Unmotivated. Though all ten were valid po[...]
17 Feb 2015
“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” ~ Lolly Daskal There’s a common saying: “Let go; let God.”[...]
02 Feb 2015
Addiction
Though many analogized statism to religion, for some time now I’ve held that a better analogy of statism is to addiction—with the concession, of course, that just like most a[...]
23 Jul 2016
The video below—entitled Everything We Think We Know About Addiction Is Wrong—isn’t bad, but it only covers two facets of addiction—physical addiction (when you supplant the [...]
29 Oct 2015
Spirituality
“Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck!” Yes, we’ve all heard, and chanted—and perhaps even believed—that little rhyme. But I̵[...]
14 Jun 2015
There was a time in my life when I was dealing with a lot of problems, a lot of baggage from my past, and had reached a point where I really needed to let go of all of it and move [...]
24 Apr 2015
Health & Wellbeing
Around 30 years ago, when I was in my early- to mid-twenties and working in a machine shop, I used smokeless tobacco. Everybody did, because smoking wasn’t allowed in the bui[...]
08 Apr 2016
I really liked this video (below), and it makes a very salient point toward the end: that social media (Internet/digital technology) is widening the definition of beauty, and putti[...]
10 Feb 2016
Business
The idiocy of all this anti-Amazon crap makes my head hurt…. Seems there’s another feud brewing in the publishing arena, this time between the French publisher Hachette[...]
26 Apr 2015
I just saw an idiotic post on Facebook calling the Walton family (owners of Walmart) “greedy”, because they’re “the richest family in the US, and pay their [...]
07 Apr 2015
Economics
The following article by Mark Skousen was originally published by the Foundation For Economic Education. Read the original article. Dr. Skousen is an economist at Rollins College a[...]
16 Jul 2016
I got to thinking about this the other day, thought I’d posit the question: State minimum wage mandates vastly reduce employment among inexperienced and unskilled workers, by[...]
26 May 2016
Education
The following article by Daisy Luther was originally published on her website, www.daisyluther.com, and is republished here with permission from the author. Daisy also runs the pop[...]
25 Sep 2016
I did really badly in school. And I hated it from day one. Went from straight-A’s the first couple years to poor grades, constantly being in trouble, and barely graduating. A[...]
25 Aug 2016
Science, Tech, & Gadgetry
All governments existing in the world today are based on—dependent upon—geography; the people residing in certain geographic regions, surrounded by geographic borders, are subject [...]
11 Oct 2015
Smart phones have not only changed how we communicate, they’re changing how we do things. They’re changing our culture, effecting our economy. I recently posted on Face[...]
19 Jul 2015
My Fiction
I’ve created a sample PDF of my novella The Crossing—one of the anchor novellas in my book Rolling The Bones—for free download. I hope you enjoy it! Rolling The Bones is avai[...]
30 Aug 2016
My book Rolling The Bones: 12 tales of Life, Death, Loss, & Redemption is available in trade paperback (490 pgs), from CreateSpace, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, and also now[...]
27 Jul 2016
Blog
The following article by Bretigne Shaffer was originally published on Lewrockwell.com[...]
25 Sep 2016
The following article by Daisy Luther was originally published on her website, www.da[...]
25 Sep 2016
I’ve created a sample PDF of my novella The Crossing—one of the anchor novellas[...]
30 Aug 2016
When I was a kid, I’d get an idea in my head, and just start doing it. More oft[...]
25 Aug 2016
I did really badly in school. And I hated it from day one. Went from straight-A’[...]
25 Aug 2016
Starting A Business Imagine, if you will: You decide, after sixteen years of experien[...]
25 Aug 2016
My book Rolling The Bones: 12 tales of Life, Death, Loss, & Redemption is availab[...]
27 Jul 2016
Though many analogized statism to religion, for some time now I’ve held that a [...]
23 Jul 2016
The following article by Butler Shaffer was originally published on LewRockwell.com. [...]
16 Jul 2016
The following article by Mark Skousen was originally published by the Foundation For [...]
16 Jul 2016
So Hillary Clinton walks, and people such as The Blaze blogger Matt Walsh are shocked[...]
07 Jul 2016
The following video was so packed full of highly valuable information—about what to d[...]
02 Jul 2016
In recent discussions on social media concerning my blog, and my writing in general, [...]
27 Jun 2016
I’m excited to announce that on Friday, June 17, 2016, I released my new book, [...]
19 Jun 2016
Seems whenever there’s a mass shooting, the most prominent question asked is wh[...]
13 Jun 2016
I recently shared this meme on Facebook: And of course, somebody made the following c[...]
07 Jun 2016
I got to thinking about this the other day, thought I’d posit the question: Sta[...]
26 May 2016
To me, the reason socialism always fails is quite simple: Socialism doesn’t acc[...]
01 May 2016
Recently, someone in my Facebook network shared this meme: I neglected to comment on [...]
30 Apr 2016
First of all, for all the knee-jerk reactionists out there, I want to begin with sayi[...]
26 Apr 2016
I recently cringed my way through an article entitled Sorry Libertarian Anarchists, C[...]
24 Apr 2016
Though I’ve generally extracted myself from the state/stateless debate—from the[...]
20 Apr 2016
Recently, I read an article entitled Why So Many Millennials Are Socialists by By Emi[...]
18 Apr 2016
Forgiving gets easier with practice. For one, you come to the realization that you ha[...]
16 Apr 2016
The following article was originally published on Jake’s Health Solutions, a ge[...]
11 Apr 2016
Around 30 years ago, when I was in my early- to mid-twenties and working in a machine[...]
08 Apr 2016
Another quick thought: One of the most important things I’ve learned to disting[...]
23 Mar 2016
Upon viewing a sizable portion of my Facebook posts, as well as many of my articles p[...]
15 Mar 2016
Recently, a female friend of mine shared the following meme on Facebook: According to[...]
14 Mar 2016
One of the benefits (I hope) of the advent of more and more of these app-based busine[...]
11 Mar 2016
I continue to watch in amazement as so many in the liberty community incessantly atta[...]
11 Mar 2016
Today, I’ve something stuck in my craw, and I need to vent (I know, shock!): I [...]
08 Mar 2016
I recently posted the following on Facebook: “I wonder: if we called capitalism[...]
21 Feb 2016
Note: The following essay was written by Mark Twain sometime around 1896 – 1897[...]
20 Feb 2016
Over the past few months, I’ve found that’s it’s become increasingl[...]
12 Feb 2016
I really liked this video (below), and it makes a very salient point toward the end: [...]
10 Feb 2016
On Tuesday, Feb 2 2016, at a Senate hearing on women in combat, two senior military l[...]
03 Feb 2016
I’m beginning to believe that things are about to get really ugly, all around t[...]
01 Feb 2016
Donald Trump is running for President, because he says he wants to “Make Americ[...]
21 Jan 2016
As the new year approaches, I’ve realized that 2015 saw a major leap in my blog[...]
31 Dec 2015
I recently stumbled across the following anti-Trump articled: You’re A Fool If [...]
30 Dec 2015
The fundamental flaw in non-anarchistic libertarian thought—that is, that government [...]
26 Dec 2015
I believe that when creating a work of fiction, it’s the writer’s job to [...]
13 Dec 2015
We are now several generations into government-run schooling, which, rather than prop[...]
15 Nov 2015
The following article was authored by Bretigne Shaffer for her blog On The Banks. I t[...]
09 Nov 2015
I’ve got something stuck in my craw, and I need to vent a little: I’m sic[...]
30 Oct 2015
The video below—entitled Everything We Think We Know About Addiction Is Wrong—isnR[...]
29 Oct 2015
I wrote this poem as a young man, back in 1987, after my (first) divorce (obviously, [...]
20 Oct 2015
I find it tragically ironic that Irwin Schiff’s parents immigrated to the US in[...]
19 Oct 2015
Some years ago, a co-worker asked me my thoughts on global warming (that was back bef[...]
17 Oct 2015
The “war on poverty” should be called the war on wealth, and it shouldn&#[...]
15 Oct 2015
When circumstances change in our life (which is inevitable), and therefore conflict a[...]
13 Oct 2015
Words mean things. I’ve recently been involved in two discussions on social med[...]
12 Oct 2015
All governments existing in the world today are based on—dependent upon—geography; th[...]
11 Oct 2015
I continue to be amazed at how easily people stray into the fallacy of collectivist t[...]
10 Oct 2015
This morning, my brother showed up at my place, put a gun to my head, and forced me t[...]
09 Oct 2015
The following article by John Vibes was originally published over at theAntiMedia.org[...]
21 Sep 2015
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who make[...]
20 Sep 2015
In observing the mandatory GMO labeling debate that’s been raging in the US and[...]
04 Sep 2015
Suddenly I’m being approached by people to join, or buy into, the MLM business [...]
29 Aug 2015
According to a new study by researchers at the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI)—whi[...]
23 Aug 2015
I’ve been waiting for this to happen… Transgender Fallon Fox—formerly a m[...]
12 Aug 2015
Understanding that terms such as “anarchy” and “libertarian” [...]
10 Aug 2015
I recently ranted about a female teacher who was charged with rape for having consens[...]
09 Aug 2015
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you [...]
27 Jul 2015
I feel compelled to once again address the mandatory GMO labeling issue, though it[...]
24 Jul 2015
In a recent article entitled The Nobel World by James B. Rogers, published over at Le[...]
20 Jul 2015
Smart phones have not only changed how we communicate, they’re changing how we [...]
19 Jul 2015
Recently, an undercover video was published online, which showed Dr. Deborah Nucatola[...]
18 Jul 2015
Last year, the FDA moved to ban the use of wooded boards for cheese production, a cen[...]
14 Jun 2015
“Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck!” [...]
14 Jun 2015
As a proponent of abolishing the state, and transferring the few seemingly “leg[...]
10 Jun 2015
I’ve often pondered why Christians aren’t naturally libertarians. I refer[...]
01 Jun 2015
Not only would fans of Walter E. Williams (such as myself) enjoy this video—but it sh[...]
01 Jun 2015
One day, I decided to see if I could just sit down and write a story. This was a comp[...]
24 May 2015
An unfortunate paradox that we all face is this: humanity reveres non-conformists fro[...]
01 May 2015
The idiocy of all this anti-Amazon crap makes my head hurt…. Seems there’[...]
26 Apr 2015
There was a time in my life when I was dealing with a lot of problems, a lot of bagga[...]
24 Apr 2015
I am in the process of eliminating as many of the petty distractions in my life that [...]
11 Apr 2015
I just saw an idiotic post on Facebook calling the Walton family (owners of Walmart) [...]
07 Apr 2015
Winning Is Secondary Whenever I participate in games or sporting activities, I try to[...]
01 Apr 2015
I find quantum mechanics so fascinating… This quick little video demonstrates h[...]
19 Mar 2015
Yes, I am a hypocrite sometimes. And that’s a kick in the groin for me, because[...]
18 Mar 2015
Okay, I’ll admit it: many years ago, when I was young and ignorant, I was an av[...]
06 Mar 2015
I no longer keep “stuff” around; if an item is no longer utilitarian to m[...]
27 Feb 2015
It all started in 1992, when a co-worker at my new job introduced me to Rush Limbaugh[...]
27 Feb 2015
Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept magazine and award-winning journalist—in[...]
22 Feb 2015
What I really love about stuff like this is how the internet, coupled with digital te[...]
20 Feb 2015
Recently, I was reading a quick little article by Robert Locke, published over on Lif[...]
17 Feb 2015
In a recent article by Eric Englund, Stock Buybacks and Sears’ Death Spiral, pu[...]
11 Feb 2015
As a professionally trained pilot (helicopter), I can attest that in order to become [...]
03 Feb 2015
“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to[...]
02 Feb 2015
The Wrong Definition of Wrong When it comes to resisting, protesting, or otherwise di[...]
30 Jan 2015
Private Security When discussing the idea of a free society—meaning a stateless socie[...]
19 Jan 2015
Article by Ron Paul, originally published by Ron Paul Institute For Peace and Prosper[...]
10 Jan 2015
“A Government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big e[...]
06 Jan 2015
It is often said that “Capitalism failed” or “Capitalism doesn̵[...]
06 Jan 2015
I’ve written on this topic before, and my position hasn’t changed: people[...]
03 Jan 2015
“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away…” This statement is[...]
02 Jan 2015
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