Daniel Suelo lives on “zero money”, according to his website, blog, and some of the news articles which have covered his story. And he’s done so for the past 8 years, living in a cave in Utah, without farming or trading in any way, or accepting government handouts. See any red flags yet? Listen here [...]
Take us to the moon or we’ll put you in jail!
Is that a fair assessment of how the space program works? After all, the space program is paid for by taxes, and taxes are collected at gunpoint under threat of jail if necessary. Even so, I think the space program is pretty cool. But wouldn’t a private sector space program work too? Listen here as [...]
Topless coffee shop burns down
In this clip I react to this news story in which a coffee shop with topless waitresses was burned down in an act of arson, presumably by someone opposed to its existence.
John sees a UFO
From California to New Mexico, people reported seeing an object in the sky. Before reading some of the news stories from across the southwest on the subject, I set the mood by recounting my own observation of it the night before. See one such news report here.
Liz Lacy on Seasteading
Ever get so fed up with government bureaucracy, stupid laws or high taxes that you just wish you could take to the high seas and form your own little country? That is, essentially, exactly what The Seasteading Institute is proposing. Here is my chat with Liz Lacy, TSI’s Director of Development, about the organization’s idea [...]
Was Jefferson a deist?
Although he never described himself that way, Thomas Jefferson was indeed a deist. Here, I respond to the conservative ideas that America was ‘founded on God’ by men like Jefferson, arguing that Jefferson’s beliefs would not remotely resemble today’s evangelical conservatism. He didn’t believe that Jesus was the son of God, nor in the Trinity, [...]
If I ruled the world: online gambling
Both the political Left and Right have their favorite freedoms to support. People on the Left wish to keep drugs and sex free, people on the Right wish to keep guns and earnings free. But both infringe on liberties by wishing to curtail the freedoms of the other side. That’s why I’m a libertarian! I [...]
Chris Eyre: We Shall Remain
We Shall Remain is a five-episode miniseries chronicling American history through Native American eyes. It’s part of the American Experience series on PBS, using the format to reject two-dimensional clichés of American Indians and explore the real, three-dimensional history of the tribes. Were they aggressive savages? Or were they noble diplomats? We Shall Remain suggests [...]
Heathen America on Easter?
Easter Monday is a public holiday in the following countries… Albania (Eastern Rite Easter), Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria (Eastern Rite Easter), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada 4, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Cook Islands, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus [...]
Santa requests bailout: audio
I recorded this spoof news story for my radio show and thought you’d like to hear the outtake.
Interview: black minister Dozier says Obama is wrong for America
Interesting tidbit here, from an interview I did on air last week with O’Neal Dozier, a black minister from the Worldwide Christian Center of Pompano Beach, Florida who says that Barack Obama may have left the church of Jeremiah Wright but not its theology, and thus is not right for President of the United States. [...]
Dolly sues Howard?
This is a gem: “Dolly Parton is threatening to sue The Howard Stern Show for manipulating recordings from one of her audio books last week into seemingly racist and sexually graphic sound bites. ‘I have never been so shocked, hurt and humiliated in all my life,’ Parton says in the statement. ‘I cannot believe what [...]
Interview: Mary Beth Brown on Condi Rice
Regardless of what you think of the Bush administration generally, Secretary of State Rice has always been exceptionally great at her job; she’s a believer in freedom, free markets and capitalism, and she’s a dependable and competent diplomat. With speculation now that John McCain may offer her a chance to run alongside him for the [...]
Interview: Marc Goldstone
This is a very ‘libertarian’ initiative, though Marc himself doesn’t describe himself or the project in that way. The Arizona Tax Revolt is a great name, too, and describes Marc’s drive to lower and cap property tax in the state of Arizona. In Arizona, property taxes are collected on every piece of real estate, based [...]
Ron Paul campaign pulls another $6m
“Ron Paul campaign donor sets new record” – LA Times “Ron Paul supporters make history with $6m online haul” – Wired News “Money bomb – $6m in 24 hours” – USA Today Ron Paul is the most exciting libertarian alive today. His presidential campaign is attracting a lot of attention despite his status as the [...]
Interview: Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
In this post I reported how this group, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, have been protesting the fact that they are prohibited from carrying their self-defence firearms on their university campuses. On this afternoon’s show, I talked with one of the group’s organisers, Stephen Feltoon, about the protest, their cause, the arguments against their [...]
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps October patrols
The issue of illegal immigration seems to have evaporated from the national news recently. But one committed group of citizens in particular remain focused on the problem. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) describe themselves as a neighbourhood watch program for the border, and their month-long October operation is in full swing. With millions of [...]
Are you living in a computer simulation?
I have lots to say on Oxford Professor Dr. Nick Bostrom’s ‘Simulation Argument‘, which postulates that there is a significant chance that we are living inside a computer simulation being run by some advanced civilisation. In the meantime a good introduction to the argument might be the interview I did with Bostrom by phone this [...]
Interview: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano
Here’s my KLPZ interview with Arizona state Governor Janet Napolitano. I started by asking her a little about the Arizona Centennial celebrations, which I wasn’t too interested in (but it was the reason she did the interview). Then, we got on to the good stuff: her horrendous proposal to saturate Arizona’s freeways with speed cameras [...]
