A "Montage": Radio, Kochtopus, War & Econ
Very sadly, I have to report that The Charles Goyette Show, at least on KFNX AM 1100 in Phoenix, is at an end. My very best wishes and prayers to Mr. Goyette and his new wife. Hands down he is the best talk radio show host in the nation.
Visit his website: CharlesGoyette.com.
The great Lew Rockwell is interviewed on AntiWar Radio. Listen here [mp3].
The Revolution Hasn't Ended: CampaignForLiberty.com.
Beltway Libertarians vs. Rothbardians:
- "Libertarianism’s Divergent Roads" by Justin Raimondo.
- "The Kochtopus vs. Murray N. Rothbard" by David Gordon.
- "The Kochtopus vs. Murray N. Rothbard, Part II" by Gordon.
Another Review of The Revolution: A Manifesto.
For those who have not read the book yet, go out and get it. It's an excellent and succinct book. Despite its short size, I believe Ron Paul covers the issues brought up in the book very well. It will bring a new generation in the Liberty movement. Among other things, he covers the foreign policy views of the founding fathers and of the traditional conservatives. He points to the work of Michael Scheuer, Philip Giraldi, and Robert Pape to document the underlying root causes of terrorism. For instance, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini tried for years to create a Jihad against the West because, as the neoconservatives say, of the "freedom" we have. That didn't work out all that well. And if we compare this to Osama bin Laden, we find that he gets recruits by different rhetoric which rallies people against the foreign policy of the U.S. government. Or if we just look at all individual suicide attacks, these individuals who became terrorists for reasons of religion is statistically low. Well, there is much more---but you will have to get the book.
Butler Shaffer is a brave soul. He attended a Republican Convention. Here he writes about it.
Some Politically Incorrect Taboos about the U.S. Government:
- "The United States has become a rogue state, a pariah nation, an evil empire.
- "The United States' military is the greatest force for evil in the world.
- "The United States is the arms dealer to the world.
- "The United States is not the world's policeman.
- "The United States cannot redeem the world through violence.
- "The United States is not the God-anointed protector of Israel that enjoys a special relationship with God.
- "The United States government is the greatest threat to American life, liberty, and property – not the leaders or the military or the people of Iraq, Iran, Syria, China, Russia, or Venezuela."
From "Christianity and War" by Laurence M. Vance.
The Empire has murdered a greater amount of persons than the terrorist organizations that originate from the Middle East. Or am I not allowed to say that? Maybe neoconservatives will follow the lead of their ideological left-liberal cousins in Canada and try to pass "Hate Speech" laws!
"War and the Common Good" by Anthony Gregory.
See "Legislating Tyranny," excerpted from The Tyranny of Good Intentions, by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton.
Now I do not relish seeing yet another administration in the White House. It is nothing but replacing one criminal gang with another. However, it will at least be nice to see the Bush nightmare administration gone. Why if only the modern version of "red state fascist" conservatism (and the whole Republican Party) would leave with him.
"The Spy Who Loves Us" by Philip Giraldi.
"You Want Change?" asks Justin Raimondo, "Me too – but don't hold your breath…"
Thomas J. DiLorenzo on Dictator Lincoln.
Dr. Wilson writes at Chronicles:
Thought experiment. According to widely accepted folklore, the Northern States fought the Southern States in 1861-1865 in order to free the slaves. If the South had freed the slaves after seceding, would the North have attacked them? (The answer is yes. The North attacked not to free the slaves but to “preserve the Union,” i.e., in order to keep the South captive for economic exploitation. The slaves being freed would have increased the incentive to attack and control the South because the Northern ruling class believed, mistakenly, that free blacks would provide cheaper and more profitable labour than slaves.)
"The ‘Good War’ and the Terrible Peace" by Patrick J. Buchanan.
Ludwig von Mises: “The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.”
"War and Inflation" by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
"What Are Just Prices?" by Jeffrey A. Tucker.
"Starving the World's Poorest" by Bogdan C. Enache.
Upcoming Book to Buy: Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century by Russell Kirk. It will be out sometime in July. Here is it at ISI Books. Besides The Essential Russell Kirk, this book stands out the most in their Kirk collection. It should be a good read.
Most "discount" book clubs are not worth it. The ISI Books Readers Club seems to be an exception to the rule. It is $15 and there are no obligations. I am a member and I'm happy with it.
Speaking of Books: If you do not have Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, then you must. The Mises Institute has a new edition out. Buy it.
In this 1998 essay Sobran asks: "Are you a Marxist?"
Did Someone Say "Blackmail in Politics"?
(Off-Topic) "'Some of us are owed an apology': Traditionalists and the Latin Mass" - An Interview with Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
