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I’ve written on this topic before, and my position hasn’t changed: people who don’t keep their time commitments, those who are perpetually late—for no substantial reason—are irresponsible, and inconsiderate. They do not respect others or their time, and worse: and they do not even [...]
20 May 2017
News/Trending
I fail to understand why all the surprise and/or outrage over people being arrested and thrown in jail simply for offensive, hateful, unpopular, politically incorrect, or otherwise[...]
15 May 2017
Some years ago, a co-worker asked me my thoughts on global warming (that was back before they re-named it “climate change”, since, you know, the globe wasn’t actu[...]
17 Oct 2015
Philosophy
At the beginning of his forward to A. G. Sertillanges’ The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, Catholic Priest and Political Philosophy Professor James V. Sch[...]
14 Nov 2016
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
Psychology
“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.”[...]
15 Nov 2016
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
Liberty
The fundamental flaw in non-anarchistic libertarian thought—that is, that government is necessary, if for nothing other than protection of its citizens (defense from attack from ab[...]
11 Nov 2016
I recently posted the following on Facebook: “I wonder: if we called capitalism “incentivism”, and socialism “disincentivism”, would it be easier for [...]
21 Feb 2016
Addiction
I recently began identifying myself as an Autarchist, rather than the more common term Anarchist, because I believe it to be a more accurate description of the ideology (at least a[...]
15 May 2017
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: addiction is not a disease. Aside from the growing body of scientific evidence, I am also confidant of this becaus[...]
11 Nov 2016
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Spirituality
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 [...]
17 May 2017
“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[...]
15 Nov 2016
Health & Wellbeing
For the sake of privacy, I’m not gonna name names or convey details; besides, that’s not what this post is about. Rather, I want to report that I just spent five days w[...]
15 May 2017
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
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
What I really love about stuff like this is how the internet and related digital technology is showing us that people, all over the world, are pretty much the same. At the time I w[...]
20 Feb 2015
My Fiction
The guys at the Seeds of Liberty Podcast recently invited me onto their show to discuss my book Rolling The bones. One of the hosts, Andrei Chira, has read the book, so we had a fa[...]
18 May 2017
My book Rolling The Bones: 12 tales of Life, Death, Loss, & Redemption is available in trade paperback (approx. 500 pgs), from CreateSpace, Amazon (also now available on Kindle[...]
27 Jul 2016
Blog
I’ve written on this topic before, and my position hasn’t changed: people[...]
20 May 2017
The other night, an idea struck me for a new short story. I couldn’t get it out[...]
19 May 2017
The guys at the Seeds of Liberty Podcast recently invited me onto their show to discu[...]
18 May 2017
There was a time in my life when I was dealing with a lot of problems, a lot of bagga[...]
17 May 2017
I recently began identifying myself as an Autarchist, rather than the more common ter[...]
15 May 2017
I fail to understand why all the surprise and/or outrage over people being arrested a[...]
15 May 2017
For the sake of privacy, I’m not gonna name names or convey details; besides, t[...]
15 May 2017
We’ve become accustomed to paying taxes. Take income taxes: It’s often sa[...]
26 Mar 2017
The following article is by Bretigne Shaffer. Bretigne writes for LewRockwell.com amo[...]
22 Jan 2017
Though the following article by Walter E. Block focuses on the problems plaguing Chic[...]
02 Jan 2017
I didn’t want to go to the gym this morning. I really, really, didn’t fee[...]
04 Dec 2016
I recently shared a pro-free-market education, anti-government school meme on Faceboo[...]
25 Nov 2016
The following article was authored by my friend in liberty Robert F. Eschauzier, and [...]
20 Nov 2016
The following article by Butler Shaffer was originally published over at LewRockwell.[...]
18 Nov 2016
“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to[...]
15 Nov 2016
“Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck!” [...]
15 Nov 2016
At the beginning of his forward to A. G. Sertillanges’ The Intellectual Life: I[...]
14 Nov 2016
The Outsider is one of my favorite stories by H. P. Lovecraft. Since it was originall[...]
14 Nov 2016
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: addiction is not a d[...]
11 Nov 2016
The fundamental flaw in non-anarchistic libertarian thought—that is, that government [...]
11 Nov 2016
I started this story many years ago, which I think is obvious, due to its naïveté and[...]
25 Oct 2016
Just wanted to let everyone know that the Kindle version of my book Rolling The Bones[...]
21 Oct 2016
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
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 get[...]
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
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
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
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