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A Colonial Gatekeeper That Hillary Would’ve Approved Of

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“The year was 1998, when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke on The Drudge Report. Hillary Clinton famously lamented that the Internet lacked a ‘gatekeeping function’. This mentality is nothing new. Here’s a quote from way back in 1671, from Colonial Virginia. The Governor at the time was Sir William Berkeley, and he reported back to the British Crown: ‘Thank God, there are no free schools nor printing and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy and sects in the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!'”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/a-colonial-gatekeeper-that-hillary.html

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Jeffrey Tucker: How Bitcoin is Reinventing The Monetary System

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Jeffrey Tucker: How Bitcoin is Reinventing The Monetary System

“‘We’re talking about reinventing the world’s monetary system…from the ground up,’ says Jeffrey Tucker, executive editor of Laissez Faire Books, and an enthusiastic proponent of the open source peer-to-peer currency system Bitcoin. After participating in a panel discussion on Bitcoin at Freedom Fest, Tucker sat down with Reason Magazine’s Matt Welch to explain why he believes Bitcoin is an example of a new enterprise that can help create ‘a new world of liberty, despite the existence of the leviathan state.'”

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How to Fight the Modern State

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“An inventory of all public buildings, and on the local level that is not that much — schools, fire, police station, courthouses, roads, and so forth — and then property shares or stock should be distributed to the local private property owners in accordance with the total lifetime amount of taxes — property taxes —that these people have paid. After all, it is theirs, they paid for these things …   Without local enforcement, by compliant local authorities, the will of the central government is not much more than hot air. Yet this local support and cooperation is precisely what needs to be missing.”

http://mises.org/daily/6508/

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The Ron Paul Channel: libertarianism ‘unfiltered and uninterrupted’

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“Filmed in the little town of Clute, Texas, and Los Angeles, the Ron Paul Channel will publish three 30-minute shows per week. Its slogan: ‘Turn Off Your TV. Turn On the Truth’ suggests a combative tone, while those behind it say there has been an ‘outpouring of interest’ in the first few days.  It’s Paul’s first major initiative since retiring from Congress in January. He told the Guardian that he opted for a news channel ‘because the mainstream media is not telling the stories that Americans really need to know’.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/16/ron-paul-channel-new-show

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Shares in Incorporated Co-op Cities Might Be the Next Big Thing

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“Those who own property in a city—houses and businesses, say—probably come the closest to qualifying as its shareholders, but they do not own undivided interests in the city as a whole.  Perhaps then we should not be surprised that, like unowned property everywhere, many cities suffer looting, abuse, and neglect.  How can we improve this state of affairs? Here, as elsewhere, the public sector can learn from the private sector about how to tap the power of shared equity. Two lessons, in particular, bear our attention:  Workplaces resemble cities and worker-owned businesses thrive.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/want-to-own-a-city

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How Old Were the Founding Fathers?

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“While famous paintings of our America’s Founding Fathers typically portray them as middle-aged or older, most were actually much younger than we tend to think during the founding of the nation. Todd Andrlik, in a post for the Journal of the American Revolution, compiled the ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776, and the results may surprise you. For instance, Benjamin Franklin, at 70 years old, was more than twice as old as Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson, at 33 years old. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, who would later go on to write the Federalist Papers, were just 21, 25, and 30 respectively.”

http://www.citizenship-aei.org/2013/08/how-old-were-the-founding-fathers/

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Interview With Tom Woods On Nullification

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“There were popular referenda that amount to nullification, we’re not going obey this particular law and people vote and agree not to do it.  It can be the legislature.  You have a special convention you call.  Then the issue is we’ve nullified but what does that actually mean?  What it would have to mean is the people of the state would be willing to stand by what they’ve done.  I rather suspect that when we’re dealing with issues like the Second Amendment, which, even more than the Obamacare issue, the Second Amendment and the perception that Washington is hostile to the Second Amendment has done more to alert people to nullification than anything else.”

http://www.mikechurch.com/transcripts/interview-with-tom-woods-on-nullification/

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Julian Assange on Matt Drudge, Ron Paul, Rand Paul: ‘I’m a Big Admirer’

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Julian Assange on Matt Drudge, Ron Paul, Rand Paul

“Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Josiah Ryan Interviews Julian Assange about Matt Drudge and Senator Rand Paul.”

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Utah Uses Eminent Domain to Seize Land of … Uncle Sam

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“Gov. Gary Herbert (R) signed a controversial law authorizing the use of eminent domain to capture some of the millions of acres that the federal government owns here. The law was tailor-made to provoke a lawsuit, possibly reaching the US Supreme Court, and to inspire other Western states to enact similar legislation. Other states have tried similar tactics and failed. For example, the US government controls about 80 percent of the land in Nevada. In a case in the 1990s, the state argued that this violated the equal footing doctrine, which holds that states should be treated equally when admitted to the Union. A federal judge rejected the case.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/utah-eminent-domain-seize-land-uncle-sam/story?id=10584565&singlePage=true

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John Kerry, Organization Man

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“Lots of people have lots of complaints about the Internet, and some of those complaints are based in fact. One that I hadn’t heard before, until US Secretary of State John Kerry brought it up, is that the Internet makes it ‘much harder to govern, much harder to organize people, much harder to find the common interest …’  Kerry’s lamentation isn’t the first such, nor will it be the last: The American and global political classes recognize fast, cheap communication between their subjects as the death knell for their own tenuous grip on power. The bloated, bureaucratic, hierarchal, snail-paced organizations on which states rely are no match.”

http://c4ss.org/content/20817

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