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Gilbert<br><br>"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker<br><br> "You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison<br><br> "Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman</span></p> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> <div id='content-wrapper'> <div id='crosscol-wrapper' style='text-align:center'> <div class='crosscol section' id='crosscol'><div class='widget Image' data-version='1' id='Image10'> <h2>More Timely Than Ever!</h2> <div class='widget-content'> <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Palestine-Sheldon-Richman/dp/1733647325/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PJVSYA7NR2WZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.JZlM63IcHZJgQhQ8j98olcpilFl_camtT8_LhWn9sZzGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.-yztpMhZshPYG6G5n-PiVhguz9kShVAHyWURma7DWBw&dib_tag=se&keywords=coming+to+palestine+sheldon&qid=1709813240&sprefix=coming+to+palestine%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-1'> <img alt='More Timely Than Ever!' height='743' id='Image10_img' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRGhrYWA_3j9WoAkvD4K1GBXjT3pyqq98MGv6Z07SEKZeYHmtKUQJAfQ1M04_2CFlTXIg2pN3o9-xZDdz7Ao4oFL-bbeeUCZuoYL2Gh6EVGGXOBIKsAqUVEJfqAXcdVEieRtaUcYEmRFY6V-iO3l4KcWdi16XCwpb2JXS8jSxCgMSjCc7Gf8pWSQ=s743' width='660'/> </a> <br/> </div> <div class='clear'></div> </div></div> </div> <div id='main-wrapper'> <div class='main section' id='main'><div class='widget Blog' data-version='1' id='Blog1'> <div class='blog-posts hfeed'> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, December 31, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7099112103400121619'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/german-physicists-reject-greenhouse.html'>German Physicists Reject Greenhouse Effect</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>I'm not a climate scientist. I don't even play one on TV. There do seem to be serious problems with the catastrophic anthropogenic global-warming (AGW) thesis, but I remain an <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/peripatetics-global-warming-and-the-layman/" mce_href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/peripatetics-global-warming-and-the-layman/"><b>agnostic</b></a>, and I refuse to use political-economic criteria to judge scientific credibility.</p> <p>Nevertheless, <a href="http://www.climategate.com/german-physicists-trash-global-warming-theory" mce_href="http://www.climategate.com/german-physicists-trash-global-warming-theory"><b>this interesting article</b></a> about German physicists who insist that AGW is bunk is worth reading.</p> <p>From the physicists' paper:</p> <blockquote><p>(a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference of 33 degrees Celsius is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified.</p></blockquote> <p>HT: Brad Spangler</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/german-physicists-reject-greenhouse.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-31T09:25:00-06:00'>9:25 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7099112103400121619' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 214px;" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/stossel-55168-liberty-free.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tibor Machan</span></a> takes John Stossel to task for not espousing the pure libertarian position during his recent Fox Business Network show on the health-insurance overhaul. A proponent of Obamacare, Russel Mokhiber, challenged Stossel, an opponent of government-run medicine, by asking if he also opposes government parks and schools. Machan is unhappy with how Stossel responded, because instead of invoking the libertarian principle against government parks and schools, Stossel said "the issue is big versus limited government."</div><blockquote>[S]o that in the last analysis [Machan writes] John Stossel and [guest] John Mackey were trapped in a dilemma: they either embrace a pure libertarian position in which there is no room for any wealth redistribution and public works--everything must be privatized apart from the judicial system and the military--or they have to accept the socialist health-care proposals of the liberal Democrats, better known as Obamacare, as just another task the government can take over.<br /></blockquote>But hold on. Machan is stuck in his own dilemma. If he opposes socialist health care, why does he favor a socialist judicial system and military? As he says, "It isn't the size of government, really, that is of concern but its proper scope." He's right. But why does he want a government whose scope includes the judiciary and military?<br /><br />He responds, "Matters pertaining to the protection of the basic and derivative rights of the citizenry are the government's purview but nothing else, including parks, forests, lakes, roads and so forth."<br /><br />This seems wholly arbitrary. What does it mean to say that protecting rights is the government's purview? Historically that has not been the case; government has been the greater killer of liberty. Rulers may have claimed they were protecting people, but that doesn't make it true or proper, since it routinely coerced innocents in the process. More fundamentally, who says that rights protection is government's--and <span style="font-style: italic;">only</span> government's--purview? Is that carved on a tablet somewhere?<br /><br />Machan might say that everything <span style="font-style: italic;">but</span> judicial and military (by which I presume he means bona fide defense) functions can be provided in the competitive market. But that's mere assertion, belied by theory and history.<br /><br />Enforced monopoly is bad for everything--except the production of security? Why?<br /><br /><a href="http://praxeology.net/GM-PS.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Gustave de Molinari</span></a> thought this through more clearly:<br /><blockquote>It offends reason to believe that a well established natural law can admit of exceptions. A natural law must hold everywhere and always, or be invalid. I cannot believe, for example, that the universal law of gravitation, which governs the physical world, is ever suspended in any instance or at any point of the universe. Now I consider economic laws comparable to natural laws, and I have just as much faith in the principle of the division of labor as I have in the universal law of gravitation. I believe that while these principles can be <i>disturbed</i>, they admit of no exceptions.<br /><br />But, if this is the case, the production of security should not be removed from the jurisdiction of free competition; and if it is removed, society as a whole suffers a loss.<br /><br />Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid...<br /><br />In the entire world, there is not a single establishment of the security industry that is not based on monopoly or on communism.<br /><br />In this connection, we add, in passing, a simple remark.<br /><br />Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?<br /></blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/hoist-by-his-own-petard.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-30T14:02:00-06:00'>2:02 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/2014098580985598026' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>5 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/2014098580985598026' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2014098580985598026&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anarchism' rel='tag'>anarchism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Stossel' rel='tag'>John Stossel</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/limited%20government' rel='tag'>limited government</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Molinari' rel='tag'>Molinari</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tibor%20Machan' rel='tag'>Tibor Machan</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2014098580985598026&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2014098580985598026&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 170px;"></a><br />A blow for freedom...<br /><br />From <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8428126.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BBC News</span></a>:<br /><br /><div class="headline">Hacker cracks Kindle's copyright </div> <p> <b> An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon's Kindle e-reader, reports say. </b> </p><p> The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any other device. </p><p> The hacker, known as Labba, responded to a challenge posted on Israeli hacking forum, hacking.org. </p><p> It is the latest in a series of Digital Rights Management hacks, the most famous being the reverse engineering of iTunes. </p><div class="bo"> <p> The Kindle e-book reader has been very successful since it was launched in the US in 2007. </p><p> Amazon hopes to have sold a million devices by the end of the year. </p><p> It leaves it to individual publishers whether they want to apply DRM but books in its main proprietary format .azw, cannot be transferred to other devices. </p><p> It did not immediately respond to the news but it is likely it will attempt to patch its DRM software. </p><p> DRM has long divided opinion. While rights holders regard it as a crucial tool to protect copyright, consumers tend to hate it because it limits what can be done with content. </p><p> "DRM is not an effective way of preventing copying nor is it a good way of making sales. There isn't a customer out there saying 'what I need is an electronic book that does less," novelist and co-editor of the Boing Boing blog Cory Doctorow told the BBC when the Kindle was launched. </p><p> As soon as a new DRM system is active, hackers begin to try and break it. </p><p> Most famously Jon Lech Johansen, known as DVD Jon, cracked the copy protection on DVDs in 1999. </p><p> He went on to break the copyright protection on iTunes, leading Apple to offer DRM-free music. </p><p> DVD Jon now runs a company with an application to take the pain out of moving different types of content between devices. </p></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/kindle-drm-cracked.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-24T11:25:00-06:00'>11:25 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1121483350382626662' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1121483350382626662' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1121483350382626662&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/copyrights' rel='tag'>copyrights</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/DRM' rel='tag'>DRM</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/IP' rel='tag'>IP</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1121483350382626662&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1121483350382626662&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1121483350382626662&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1121483350382626662&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1121483350382626662&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7455953107362273945'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/karl-hess-just-because.html'>Karl Hess -- Just Because</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Hess"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418845716193174018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dgLpA4DcFrNuQGZVMsPMjX6emjTICX3p2wWWpI2c2P5h6NbZSSwNeBPphKkh5OTQqZuYnSv4-cDp2pV_uAol7DUbqIAdW9BdcZJ5nnv5lNg4U-bFiXB4uuM2D9EmcTiedquGeQ/s320/Karl+Hess.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 232px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Karl Hess -- friend, mentor, libertarian folk hero</span><br /></div><br />Click photo for bio. And don't forget <a href="http://fare.tunes.org/books/Hess/dop.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"The Death of Politics."</span></a> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/karl-hess-just-because.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-24T10:48:00-06:00'>10:48 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7455953107362273945' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7455953107362273945' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7455953107362273945&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anarchism' rel='tag'>anarchism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Karl%20Hess' rel='tag'>Karl Hess</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/libertarianism' rel='tag'>libertarianism</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7455953107362273945&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7455953107362273945&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. (I'm more skeptical about anthropogenic catastrophic global warming than he is -- but I'm not climate scientist and I refuse to choose which scientists to believe on the basis of their political-economic convictions.)<br /><br />Check out the comments section, too, if you have the stomach for it. Hang in there, Kevin! <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-ddt-global-warming-junk-science-and.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-23T10:48:00-06:00'>10:48 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6352486034237145175' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6352486034237145175' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6352486034237145175&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/DDT' rel='tag'>DDT</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20warming' rel='tag'>global warming</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/junk%20science' rel='tag'>junk science</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kevin%20Carson' rel='tag'>Kevin Carson</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/libertarianism' rel='tag'>libertarianism</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6352486034237145175&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6352486034237145175&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6352486034237145175&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6352486034237145175&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6352486034237145175&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6725111900407561484'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/curiously-missing-words.html'>Curiously Missing Words</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Compare this sentence from Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1221"><span style="font-weight: bold;">acceptance speech</span></a>:<br /><blockquote>But perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars.</blockquote>with how it was posted at <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34360743/ns/politics-white_house/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MSNBC</span></a>'s website:<br /><blockquote>But perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars.</blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>So-called progressives couldn't stand the thought that George W. Bush was commander-in-chief of the country -- neither could I -- but they have no problem with Obama's filling that position. "We're awaiting our orders, sir!" Of course Obama had it right. The Constitution says the president runs the military not the country. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/curiously-missing-words.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-23T10:36:00-06:00'>10:36 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6725111900407561484' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6725111900407561484' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6725111900407561484&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Commander%20in%20chief' rel='tag'>Commander in chief</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Constitution' rel='tag'>Constitution</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nobel%20Peace%20Prize' rel='tag'>Nobel Peace Prize</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama' rel='tag'>Obama</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6725111900407561484&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6725111900407561484&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6725111900407561484&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6725111900407561484&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6725111900407561484&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Sunday, December 20, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='5450099628960462829'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/leave-left-behind.html'>Leave the "Left" Behind?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> In the comments section of <a href="http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/carson-good-reading.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">my recent post on Kevin Carson's new book</span></a>, the value of the "left" prefix in "left libertarian" was questioned. I responded that there are historical reasons that makes the prefix valid. The terms <span style="font-style: italic;">left</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">right</span> come from the French National Assembly after the 1789 revolution. The right side was populated with defenders of mercantilism and aristocracy, while the left, where Bastiat and Proudhon sat, were liberals and republicans (loosely defined, of course; it was a disparate group, including state socialists). Thus radical liberals were among the <a href="http://mises.org/story/3425"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">original leftists</span></a>.<br /><br />There are also good strategic reasons for associating libertarianism with the left and not with the right. The modern movement has, despite futile protests that we are "neither left nor right," been placed on the right as sort of a hip variant of conservatism. Some of this comes from the observers' lack of perceptiveness, but much of it is the movement's own fault. A good deal of libertarian commentary sounds like corporate apologetics. Kevin Carson's term "vulgar libertarianism" -- the attitude that despite government intervention, business today is essentially what it would be in a free market -- is valuable because it identifies a serious and alarming phenomenon.<br /><br />Being tagged "right-wing" has not helped the libertarian movement. It's hurt. How so? By making libertarians appear indifferent to real misery. We need not deny that general living standards have certainly increased over the decades when we acknowledge that corporatist intervention in the economy has real, not just theoretical, victims. Many people in the United States still live and work in crappy conditions -- and it's not always their fault. Government creates unemployment, abominable "schools," and unlivable inner cities. It erects barriers to self-employment and unorthodox forms of enterprise. It inflates what Charles Johnson calls the fixed costs of subsistence -- the minimum price of decent housing and food is artificially high, and various interventions (zoning and other land-use controls, artificial land scarcity, government economic development, road subsidies) make owning a car nearly indispensable. Let's not forget building codes, patents, trade restrictions, licensing, ubiquitous taxes, and the rest of the weights that government imposes on people.<br /><br />In sum, the State cuts off the lower rungs of the ladder and pushes people into an oligopsonistic labor market, subjecting many to ugly conditions and arbitrary authority that likely could not endure in a truly free and competitive economy where alternative self-employment and small-scale farming would be unburdened by government.<br /><br />When libertarians mimic conservatives and address this hardship by saying in effect, "Tough shit," they stifle the growth of the libertarian movement. It's as if they were saying: This is an upper-middle-class college-educated corporate-oriented white movement. No others need apply.<br /><br />I want no part of <span style="font-style: italic;">that </span>libertarian movement. I prefer the one envisioned by Richard Cobden, John Bright, Frederic Bastiat, Thomas Hodgskin, Herbert Spencer, Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, Voltairine de Cleyre, Karl Hess, Murray Rothbard (at times), and others who saw true liberalism as a movement for working people and the disfranchised as well.<br /><br />Lots of people feel pushed around by big institutions, government and otherwise. They should! We need to speak to those people. What's to lose? 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font-style: italic;">Wall Street Journal</span></a>:<br /><blockquote>Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.</blockquote>The U.S. government says it will fix the problem, but my money would be on the leap-frogging hackers scattered around the world.<br /><br />By the way, we should stop the equating enemies of the U.S. occupation forces with enemies of the American people. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/all-empires-crumble.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-18T10:41:00-06:00'>10:41 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/2423752469919096772' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); 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Unfortunately, nonlibertarians don’t know this. They think libertarians are simply pro-business (and anti-labor). We can set the record straight by acknowledging that government-business collusion hurts working people.</p></blockquote> <p>The rest of TGIF is <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/workers-of-the-world-unite/"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/tgif-workers-of-world-unite-for-free.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-18T08:15:00-06:00'>8:15 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/203478295503417076' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/203478295503417076' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=203478295503417076&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Amazon' rel='tag'>Amazon</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/capitalism' rel='tag'>capitalism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20market' rel='tag'>free market</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/labor' rel='tag'>labor</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/state%20capitalism' rel='tag'>state capitalism</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=203478295503417076&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=203478295503417076&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=203478295503417076&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=203478295503417076&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=203478295503417076&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, December 16, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='8102738801852612811'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/carson-good-reading.html'>Carson: Good Reading!</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> I'm reading Kevin Carson's <a href="http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective</span></a>, and I couldn't be more enthusiastic about it. I'll have more to report in the coming weeks, but for now let me leave it at this: When I read Carson I get have the same positive reaction I used to get when reading or listening to my libertarian hero and friend the late <a href="http://fare.tunes.org/books/Hess/dop.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Karl Hess</span></a>.<br /><br />P.S. I can't resist saying a bit more. I'm not far into the hefty book yet, but what I have covered confirms through massive evidence what my previous reading led me to believe: that the modern American economy is far more the product of government-business collusion than of free markets. Contrary to the way free-marketeers tend to talk, we don't have an essentially free economy except for a thin interventionist crust that needs to be scraped away. Instead, intervention is woven deeply throughout the economic fabric. Thus our economy would have looked very different had laissez faire been the rule. 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It is distressing to know that so many people are vulnerable to bankruptcy-threatening medical bills or to raw deals from State-cartelized insurance companies. Who wouldn’t change that if he could? The question is: Which approach has a better chance of changing it? Centralized bureaucratic decision-making by self-serving politicians and their “private sector” patrons? 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Don't Mend Them</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p><i>Freeman</i> authors David Levine and Michele Boldrin call for an end to patents in this <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1208/p09s06-coop.html" mce_href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1208/p09s06-coop.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Christian Science Monitor</span> article</a>. A taste:</p> <blockquote><p>[I]ntellectual property does not increase innovation and creation. Extending IP rights may modestly boost the incentive for innovation, but this positive effect is wiped away by the negative effect of creating monopolies. There is simply no evidence that strengthening patent regimes increases innovation or economic productivity. In fact, some evidence shows that increased protection even decreases innovation. The main finding is that making it easier to get patents increases … patenting!</p></blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/patents-end-them-dont-mend-them.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-09T07:18:00-06:00'>7:18 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1549550681121370771' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1549550681121370771' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1549550681121370771&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/IP' rel='tag'>IP</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/patents' rel='tag'>patents</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1549550681121370771&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1549550681121370771&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1549550681121370771&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1549550681121370771&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1549550681121370771&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, December 07, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7315914078127119611'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/scott-horton-interview.html'>Scott Horton Interview</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> I was Scott Horton's Antiwar Radio guest recently to talk about libertarian class analysis. You can listen to or download the show <a href="http://www.scotthortonshow.com/2009/11/24/antiwar-radio-sheldon-richman-4/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/scott-horton-interview.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-07T08:27:00-06:00'>8:27 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7315914078127119611' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7315914078127119611' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7315914078127119611&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Left-libertarianism' rel='tag'>Left-libertarianism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/libertarianism' rel='tag'>libertarianism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Marxism' rel='tag'>Marxism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ruling%20class' rel='tag'>Ruling class</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7315914078127119611&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7315914078127119611&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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The summit was based on the magic theory of government: Say the right incantations and reality will be reshaped according to one’s desires. There are no economic laws. There is only will. If we all think good thoughts and exude the spirit of cooperation, we’ll end these hard times and get the economy moving again.</p> <p>This is the sign of a primitive mentality. In reality economic laws exist, reality sets limits, and good feelings can’t create prosperity out of nothing, especially when government stubbornly stands in the way.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>The rest of this week's TGIF is <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/snow-job/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>.<br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/tgif-snow-job-summit.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-04T15:34:00-06:00'>3:34 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/8736645988090523899' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/8736645988090523899' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8736645988090523899&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/jobs' rel='tag'>jobs</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/recession' rel='tag'>recession</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/unemployment' rel='tag'>unemployment</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8736645988090523899&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8736645988090523899&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8736645988090523899&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8736645988090523899&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8736645988090523899&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4869463975366800313'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/op-ed-kill-insurance-mandate.html'>Op-ed: Kill the Insurance Mandate</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote>Everyone who believes he lives in a free country should be asking himself, By what authority do the Congress and the president force me to buy insurance? </blockquote>My latest FFF op-ed is <a href="http://www.fff.org/comment/com0912c.asp"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/op-ed-kill-insurance-mandate.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-04T15:32:00-06:00'>3:32 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/4869463975366800313' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/4869463975366800313' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4869463975366800313&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health%20insurance' rel='tag'>health insurance</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mandate' rel='tag'>mandate</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4869463975366800313&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4869463975366800313&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4869463975366800313&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4869463975366800313&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4869463975366800313&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, December 03, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='2534899986478603333'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/civil-war-president.html'>Civil War President</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Barack Obama's intensification of the occupation of Afghanistan is nothing less than a full commitment to one side in the civil war raging there. What he calls a threat of a Taliban takeover is actually a Pashtun resistance to the U.S. occupation and the corrupt Karzai government it backs. Obama's and Hillary Clinton's spin cannot change those facts.<br /><br />Obama's story isn't even coherent. Al-Qaeda is in Pakistan, he says, not Afghanistan. (Obama's speech said nothing about the continuing "secret" drone assault that the U.S. military is conducting there. See <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04drones.html?hp"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">this</span></a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120400391.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">this</span></a>.) Yet he insists that we must see Afghanistan through because that's where the 9/11 attacks were planned. Well, not actually. You can just as easily say they were planned in Germany and Florida. Why are those terrorist sanctuaries not feeling the wrath of the U.S. military?<br /><br />Obama vows to defeat al-Qaeda, but what does that mean in the case of a highly decentralized "organization" under whose banner anyone anywhere may claim to be operating? How do you defeat an idea?<br /><br />Obama promises that U.S. forces will <span style="font-style: italic;">begin </span>leaving in July 2011--maybe, depending on conditions on the ground.<br /><br />Our only hope is that opposition will keep growing--where is that antiwar movement anyway?--and that the looming 2012 presidential election will prompt Obama to get out.<br /><br />But in the meantime, Afghan people, expect more U.S.-sponsored violence, more maimed and dead babies and children, compliments of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.<br /><br />I don't know about you, but I don't regard someone as my enemy merely because he refuses to recognize the legitimacy of Karzai's gang. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/civil-war-president.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-12-03T06:20:00-06:00'>6:20 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/2534899986478603333' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/2534899986478603333' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2534899986478603333&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Afghanistan' rel='tag'>Afghanistan</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama' rel='tag'>Obama</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/terrorism' rel='tag'>terrorism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war' rel='tag'>war</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20on%20terror' rel='tag'>war on terror</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2534899986478603333&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2534899986478603333&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2534899986478603333&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2534899986478603333&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2534899986478603333&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, November 27, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='2963947622931774026'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/tgif-power-to-tax-is-power.html'>TGIF: The Power to Tax is <i>the</i> Power</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>The authority for forcing us to buy health insurance is said to be the Commerce Clause and the taxing power. TGIF looks at these claims.</p> <p>Read TGIF <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/power-to-tax/"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/tgif-power-to-tax-is-power.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-27T10:36:00-06:00'>10:36 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/2963947622931774026' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/2963947622931774026' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2963947622931774026&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Commerce%20Clause' rel='tag'>Commerce Clause</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Constitution' rel='tag'>Constitution</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health%20insurance' rel='tag'>health insurance</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/taxation' rel='tag'>taxation</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2963947622931774026&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2963947622931774026&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2963947622931774026&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2963947622931774026&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=2963947622931774026&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, November 25, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='704619236650272148'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/america-corporate-state.html'>America: Corporate State</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>At <a href="http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/seizing-the-commanding-heights-2/"><strong>ThinkMarkets, Gerald O’Driscoll</strong></a>, building on a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703932904574511243712388988.html"><strong><em>Wall Street Journal </em></strong></a>column by George Melloan, describes how Fed policy is leading America further down the corporatist road. Here’s a sample:</p> <blockquote><p>Melloan doesn’t state it, but there is a name for this economic policy: corporatism. Big government favors selected big business and rewards big labor as a junior partner. It’s not socialism, but the economic component of a fascist political program. Credit administered on a favorable terms is the narcotic that anesthetizes businessmen to the creeping government control of their firms. To paraphrase Lenin, government seizes control of the commanding heights of the economy.</p> <p>After the loss of economic liberty, can political liberty survive? As Melloan concludes, “it’s not unlike what we witnessed in the depression of the 1930s.”</p></blockquote> <p>Serious stuff with far-ranging consequences.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/america-corporate-state.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-25T10:41:00-06:00'>10:41 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/704619236650272148' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/704619236650272148' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=704619236650272148&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/corporate%20state' rel='tag'>corporate state</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Federal%20Reserve' rel='tag'>Federal Reserve</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=704619236650272148&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=704619236650272148&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=704619236650272148&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=704619236650272148&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=704619236650272148&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, November 23, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7883320620422794976'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/mysteries-of-universe.html'>Mysteries of the Universe</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> If I bribe a congressman, it’s a crime. If a <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/22/john-king-dems-obamacare-important-enough-buy-votes"><strong>congressman bribes a congressman</strong></a>, it’s glorious democracy in action. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/mysteries-of-universe.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-23T09:45:00-06:00'>9:45 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7883320620422794976' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7883320620422794976' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7883320620422794976&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Congress' rel='tag'>Congress</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/democracy' rel='tag'>democracy</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7883320620422794976&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7883320620422794976&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7883320620422794976&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7883320620422794976&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7883320620422794976&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, November 20, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7607389875539517583'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/tgif.html'>TGIF</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Want to know how the politicians justify forcing us to buy health insurance? I discuss their screwball grounds in this week’s <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/the-mandated-health-insurance-outrage/">TGIF</a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/tgif.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-20T09:21:00-06:00'>9:21 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7607389875539517583' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7607389875539517583' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7607389875539517583&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health%20insurance' rel='tag'>health insurance</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7607389875539517583&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7607389875539517583&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Last night on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," Arianna Huffington of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Huffington Post</span> suggested that Glenn Beck might properly be silenced by the State. She claimed that an exception to the free-speech doctrine is yelling "fire" in a crowded theater and that Beck every day commits the political equivalent of yelling "fire." A few minutes later she sort of backed off, saying that while he may not be legally liable if his viewers commit violence, he would be morally liable. Olbermann ate this stuff up.<br /><br />Of course, Huffington got it wrong. The "fire in the crowded theater" matter is not an exception to free speech but a recognition of property rights, of which free speech is but a derivative. There's no right to "free speech" on someone else's property. If you buy a theater ticket and then endanger the audience by falsely yelling "fire," you have (among other things) violated the terms of your being in the theater. There's no need to claim an exception to the free-speech doctrine. Properly conceived, free speech is ultimately a property right.<br /><br />What's with the progressives? 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For a blowup of the cover click <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Dec-front-only.jpg"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/freeman-december-2009-now-online.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-18T15:44:00-06:00'>3:44 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/776115996081608830' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/776115996081608830' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=776115996081608830&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Freeman' rel='tag'>The Freeman</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=776115996081608830&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=776115996081608830&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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They don't look like acts of war. They were not launched by an aggressor nation with the intention of invading and conquering the United States, or overthrowing the government. Despite the enormity of the crimes, the viability of our society is not at risk in the least. Life has gone on rather normally, even allowing for all the ways politicians have exploited the situation in their quest for power. There just seems no good reason to respond by pretending "America is at war." Indeed, the reasons against this response could fill volumes.<br /><br />So why the insistence that this is war? I think one big reason is that conservatives are, first and foremost, nationalists, and nothing makes nationalism (a form of collectivism) more real than war. Throw in the doctrine of "American exceptionalism" and you have a rationalization for an open-ended "war on terror" in which the world is the battlefield and civil liberties are a luxury we just can't afford.<br /><br />The war footing also makes it easier to take attention off U.S. interventionist foreign policy, which has seeded the ground for terrorism directed at Americans. One need not excuse the inexcusable acts of September 11 to see how they fit into the big picture. Every empire was struck by terrorists because terrorism is the only low-cost means of retribution available to those who feel aggrieved by imperialism. Most Americans have no clue about what "their" government has been doing in the Middle East for the last couple of generations. It takes shocking ignorance or willful blindness to regard the United States as a gentle sleeping giant until September 11.<br /><br />So . . . try the criminals in civilian courts. Meanwhile, bring the troops, the CIA, and the meddling diplomats home so this doesn't happen again. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/war-crimes-or-only-crimes.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-17T09:56:00-06:00'>9:56 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/5839272940147189207' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>4 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/5839272940147189207' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5839272940147189207&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/September%2011' rel='tag'>September 11</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/terrorism' rel='tag'>terrorism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war' rel='tag'>war</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20on%20terror' rel='tag'>war on terror</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5839272940147189207&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5839272940147189207&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5839272940147189207&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5839272940147189207&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5839272940147189207&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, November 14, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1067921974053435678'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-insurance-scam.html'>Health Insurance Scam</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote><p>How can you get insurance for a volitional act? Regardless of one’s position on abortion, there is no denying that it is something a woman chooses. It doesn’t <i>happen </i> without her initiative and consent. My objective here is not moral judgment but precision. For all kinds of reasons a pregnant woman might feel she needs an abortion, but that does not change the fact that it is an action not a happening (as Thomas Szasz would put it).</p></blockquote> <p>The rest of TGIF is <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/health-insurance-scam/" mce_href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/health-insurance-scam/"><b>here</b></a>.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-insurance-scam.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-14T07:11:00-06:00'>7:11 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1067921974053435678' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1067921974053435678' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1067921974053435678&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health%20insurance' rel='tag'>health insurance</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1067921974053435678&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1067921974053435678&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1067921974053435678&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1067921974053435678&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1067921974053435678&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, November 11, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7973031721425653396'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/veterans-day.html'>Veterans Day</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> As I've done many times before, I quote a passage from the great antiwar movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Americanization-Emily-James-Garner/dp/B0007TKNGU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1243170073&sr=8-1"><b><i>The Americanization of Emily</i></b></a>.<br /><blockquote>I don't trust people who make bitter reflections about war, Mrs. Barham. It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a Hell it is. And it's always the widows who lead the Memorial Day parades . . . we shall never end wars, Mrs. Barham, by blaming it on ministers and generals or warmongering imperialists or all the other banal bogies. It's the rest of us who build statues to those generals and name boulevards after those ministers; the rest of us who make heroes of our dead and shrines of our battlefields. We wear our widows' weeds like nuns and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">perpetuate war by exalting its sacrifices</span>....<br /><br />My brother died at Anzio – an everyday soldier’s death, no special heroism involved. They buried what pieces they found of him. But my mother insists he died a brave death and pretends to be very proud. . . . [N]ow my other brother can’t wait to reach enlistment age. That’ll be in September. May be ministers and generals who blunder us into wars, but the least the rest of us can do is to resist honoring the institution. What has my mother got for pretending bravery was admirable? She’s under constant sedation and terrified she may wake up one morning and find her last son has run off to be brave. [Emphasis added.]</blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/veterans-day.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-11T06:39:00-06:00'>6:39 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7973031721425653396' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7973031721425653396' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7973031721425653396&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20state' rel='tag'>the state</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war' rel='tag'>war</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7973031721425653396&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7973031721425653396&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7973031721425653396&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7973031721425653396&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7973031721425653396&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Tuesday, November 10, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='891059139443258903'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/insurance-for-abortion-whats-wrong-with.html'>Insurance for Abortion: What’s Wrong with This Picture?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>The health-insurance nationalization bill that passed the House Saturday night has a lot of enemies. One reason for this is that in order to get a majority to support the bill, House Speaker Pelosi had to accept an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak that would ban tax-funded abortions (except for rape, incest and danger to the mother’s life) under the “public option.” It would also bar people who get government insurance subsidies from buying policies with abortion coverage. However, <strong><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/08/politics/main5574329.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody">AP</a></strong> reports: “Under the Stupak amendment, people who do not receive federal insurance subsidies could buy private insurance plans in the exchange that includes abortion coverage. People who receive federal subsidies could buy separate policies covering only abortions if they use only their own money to do it.”</p> <p>To all those people who are upset by the amendment, I say: That’s what you get for inviting government to become involved in a personal matter like medical care.</p> <p>But there’s a more fundamental point: How can there be such a thing as insurance coverage for elective abortions? Insurance emerged to protect one’s financial well-being against unlikely catastrophic <em>happenings</em> (as Thomas Szasz likes to call things that befall people). But an elective abortion (whatever your position on the issue) is not a happening. It’s a volitional act (which follows previous volitional act). How does a company insure against a volitional act? It can’t, but that doesn’t mean firms which we call insurance companies aren’t willing to appear to cover abortion by collecting payments from customers in advance. They are happy to do so, but only under the right circumstances. The key factor is that someone other than the insured person, such as an employer, must be willing to pay the premium. Of course when an employer pays the premium he reduces the employee’s cash wages, but most employees don’t understand that. So they think their insurance is paid for by someone else. But if the employee had to pay for her own insurance against elective abortion, I suspect she wouldn’t think it worth the price. That’s because the premium would consist of prepayment for possible future services <em>plus</em> costly administrative overhead. It would be a bad deal. What would she do if she decided she wanted an abortion? She’d pay out of savings or borrow the money. Insurance is a costly way to pay for things you (and the insurance company) know you may <em>choose </em>to buy one day.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/insurance-for-abortion-whats-wrong-with.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-10T17:24:00-06:00'>5:24 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/891059139443258903' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>7 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/891059139443258903' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=891059139443258903&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/abortion' rel='tag'>abortion</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/insurance' rel='tag'>insurance</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=891059139443258903&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=891059139443258903&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=891059139443258903&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=891059139443258903&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=891059139443258903&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, November 09, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7603326294622994107'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/two-decades-since-fall.html'>Two Decades Since the Fall</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>From <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/archive/issues/?issue=9&volume=59&Type=Issue" mce_href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/archive/issues/?issue=9&volume=59&Type=Issue"><b>"Perspective,"<i> The Freeman</i>, November 2009</b></a>:</p> <blockquote><p>On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall effectively ceased to exist. Remember the sequence: Communist Hungary started letting people pass into Austria and to freedom. Captives of the Soviet bloc left in droves. East Germans, too—thousands of them. The Hungarian government tried to stanch the flow, but the dam had been breached. With one dictator having resigned, a panicky East German regime began making concessions, hoping to mollify the people. They would not be placated. Thousands—and in one case, a million—took to the streets, shouting, “We want out!” Things were getting out of hand. So, on November 9, the government fumblingly announced it would lift travel restrictions to West Berlin and West Germany. It was all over but the demolition.</p> <p>I don’t know why it seems so much longer ago that we saw those inspiring celebrations, when East Berliners, joined by their countrymen from the western side, danced on the wall while others whacked at it with axes and sledge hammers. The crowds, the singing, the joyful cries of “Freedom!”, the sections of wall toppling—I remember watching the scenes on television with my then-six-year-old, Jennifer. If you can watch them on <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1URzkk-oa28" mce_href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1URzkk-oa28"><b>YouTube</b></a> today without tearing up, I don’t know what to say.</p> <p>It’s hard to believe that today’s 19-year-olds were born into a world without a Berlin Wall and 17-year-olds were born into a world without the Soviet Union. When my generation was growing up, the Iron Curtain and USSR seemed like permanent fixtures of life.</p> <p>Yes, we really did have air-raid drills in school. (Looking back, I can see they were insidious, ridiculous propaganda stunts.) Some of us wished, at most, for what was called peaceful coexistence. Others thought “we” could roll “them” back. War—which a few, amazingly, actually welcomed—would have been catastrophic beyond imagination. We dared not hope for a bloodless dissolution of totalitarianism. Yet that, more or less, is what we got.</p> <p>Those of us who believe in full individual liberty have been dismayed to learn that revulsion with dictatorship does not equate to a wholehearted embrace of freedom. None of the former Soviet-bloc countries has thoroughly foresworn state-capitalist welfarism, and some have traveled only a short distance along the road from serfdom. Central planning is dead as an ideal, but the regulatory state lives, as does what Thomas Szasz calls the Therapeutic State. This is disappointing, but it would be difficult for a resident of the United States to criticize others for failing to resist overbearing government. The longing for security, combined with the absurd notion that only ignorant and force-wielding bureaucrats can provide it, dies hard.</p> <p>The fall of the Iron Curtain has been heralded as the failure of socialism, but this is a more complicated matter. Strictly speaking, there has been much less socialism in the world than it might appear since Lenin gave it up for the New Economic Policy in 1921. Remember, Marx envisioned the abolition of the market, including money and exchange. The economy was to be centrally planned—literally. But when the Bolsheviks tried it, they ended up, as Trotsky said, “staring into the abyss.” Lenin was savvy enough to back away from oblivion and reintroduce aspects of the market, including a gold ruble. What followed for the next seven decades was a heavily bureaucratized, de facto quasi-market economy, existing in a world of prices in which The Plan was adjusted ex post to reflect reality and black-market “corruption” kept things going. Ludwig von Mises could not have been surprised.</p> <p>Such an economy was doomed to fail, but perhaps with a little less intervention and a dollop of political freedom, it might have muddled through a bit longer. The market can put up with a lot of harassment, which means people can resourcefully get around a lot of government obstacles when they want to. Look at the U.S. economy.</p></blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/two-decades-since-fall.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-11-09T06:32:00-06:00'>6:32 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7603326294622994107' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7603326294622994107' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7603326294622994107&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Berlin%20Wall' rel='tag'>Berlin Wall</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/communism' rel='tag'>communism</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7603326294622994107&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7603326294622994107&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7603326294622994107&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7603326294622994107&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7603326294622994107&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, October 31, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4185053570258875834'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/pelosi-health-insurance-bill-summarized.html'>Pelosi Health-Insurance Bill Summarized</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Happily, you need not invest the next few weeks of your life reading the 1,990-page House overhaul of the health-insurance -- and by implication, the healthcare -- industry. A convenient summary has been provided, compliments of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon#Quotes" mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon#Quotes"><b>Pierre-Joseph Proudhon</b></a>.</p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align: center;" mce_style="text-align: center;">To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans<br />and reduce the growth in health care spending, and<br />for other purposes.</p> <p style="text-align: center;" mce_style="text-align: center;">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that the American people shall henceforth be:</p> <p>Watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. ... [A]t every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. ... [U]nder pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, ... place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.</p></blockquote> <p>All in favor say aye. The rest of you can go to hell.<br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/pelosi-health-insurance-bill-summarized.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-31T06:53:00-05:00'>6:53 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/4185053570258875834' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/4185053570258875834' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4185053570258875834&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/government' rel='tag'>government</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20state' rel='tag'>the state</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/welfare%20state' rel='tag'>welfare state</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4185053570258875834&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4185053570258875834&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4185053570258875834&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4185053570258875834&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4185053570258875834&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, October 30, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1616872222131972979'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-welfare-state-corrupts-absolutely.html'>TGIF: The Welfare State Corrupts Absolutely</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote>Let’s begin at the beginning. Medical care is not a free good found in nature. Of course, no one really thinks it is. But that doesn’t keep most people from wanting to pretend otherwise, and the current institutional setting makes that possible. After a while, one forgets one is pretending. Yet medical care goes on being a collection of <em>produced </em>goods and services — subject to the laws of supply and demand, and requiring resources and labor that come with opportunity costs. Therein lies the problem.</blockquote>The rest of TGIF is <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/welfare-state-corrupts/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-welfare-state-corrupts-absolutely.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-30T09:39:00-05:00'>9:39 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1616872222131972979' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1616872222131972979' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1616872222131972979&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/welfare%20state' rel='tag'>welfare state</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1616872222131972979&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1616872222131972979&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1616872222131972979&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1616872222131972979&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1616872222131972979&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4853502173875476247'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-grand-proposal.html'>My Grand Proposal</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Here's my idea for a constitutional amendment: Limit congressional bills to five pages. 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Click on the cover at the right. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/freeman-november-2009.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-24T08:53:00-05:00'>8:53 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/8779817822872050265' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/8779817822872050265' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8779817822872050265&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Freeman' rel='tag'>The Freeman</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8779817822872050265&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8779817822872050265&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8779817822872050265&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8779817822872050265&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8779817822872050265&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='8463626495754648455'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-getting-in-deeper.html'>TGIF: Getting in Deeper</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Should the Treasury and Fed regulate executive pay, even when a company is on the dole? Thats the subject of TGIF. Read it <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/in-deeper/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-getting-in-deeper.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-24T08:51:00-05:00'>8:51 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/8463626495754648455' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/8463626495754648455' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8463626495754648455&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/bailouts' rel='tag'>bailouts</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/executive%20pay' rel='tag'>executive pay</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/TARP' rel='tag'>TARP</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/TGIF' rel='tag'>TGIF</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8463626495754648455&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8463626495754648455&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8463626495754648455&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8463626495754648455&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8463626495754648455&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, October 21, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7459975537174665193'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/read-it-and-weep.html'>Read It and Weep</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Once again, NYU's <a href="http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/planning-and-democracy-redux/" mce_href="http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/planning-and-democracy-redux/"><b>Mario Rizzo at ThinkMarkets</b></a>, a FEE summer seminar lecturer, exposes the sham democracy that is the welfare state. The latest example? The <a href="http://finance.senate.gov/press/Bpress/2009press/prb101909.pdf" mce_href="http://finance.senate.gov/press/Bpress/2009press/prb101909.pdf"><b>Senate Finance Committee health-insurance bill (pdf)</b></a>.</p> <blockquote><p>It is 1,502 pages long and it is in legislative language. If passed, it will affect our lives in important ways. Let me suggest that you all read it carefully and then let your senators know what you think.</p> <p>Of course you won’t do that and neither will I. We are rationally ignorant and we shall remain that way.</p> <p>Will the senators, not on the committee, read it? I doubt it. They will be too busy giving their opinions on selected portions. However, special interests will know about the particular provisions that affect them. As to the senators on the committee, staffers will give summaries. How much they understand or care about provisions that affect the general interests in contrast to the interests that elect them is unknown.</p></blockquote> <p>But why worry? As the bill states at the top, its purpose is "To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes."</p> <p>We're even told that "This Act may be cited as the 'America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009'."</p> <p>What's the matter? 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He’d be incredulous to hear that, but if he ever comes to understand it, libertarians might end up with an unlikely ally.</blockquote> The rest of TGIF is <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/frustrating-michael-moore/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-frustrating-michael-moore.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-16T08:13:00-05:00'>8:13 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/5366891808191058306' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/5366891808191058306' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5366891808191058306&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/capitalism' rel='tag'>capitalism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/corporate%20state' rel='tag'>corporate state</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20market' rel='tag'>free market</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Moore' rel='tag'>Michael Moore</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/state%20capitalism' rel='tag'>state capitalism</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5366891808191058306&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5366891808191058306&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5366891808191058306&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5366891808191058306&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5366891808191058306&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Tuesday, October 13, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='265315551263172396'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/missing-point.html'>Missing the Point</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Reporting on this year's Nobel Prize winners in economics, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/business/economy/13nobel.html?adxnnl=1&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1255438896-YNIFujIrp0zD4B6/cXJ7hg"><strong><em>New York Times </em>said</strong></a>:<br /><blockquote>Neither Ms. Ostrom nor Mr. Williamson has argued against regulation. Quite the contrary, their work found that people in business adopt for themselves numerous forms of regulation and rules of behavior — called “governance” in economic jargon — doing so independently of government or without being told to do so by corporate bosses.</blockquote>Note the key equivocation over the word <em>regulation</em>. Most people use that word to mean <em>government </em>interference with private market activity. So the <em>Times </em>at first seems to be saying that Ostrom and Williamson do not oppose such government interference. Maybe they don't, but that's not what the <em>Times </em>goes on to say. Instead, it says that both have shown that people often generate their own efficient rules -- governance -- <em>independent</em> of the State (and corporate authority).<br /><br />It's as though the reporter said, "Neither has argued against taxation. Quite the contrary, they found that people use market prices to pay producers for their efforts."<br /><br />What the <em>Times </em>reporter<em> </em>misses is that spontaneously evolved bottom-up rules are to be <em>distinguished </em>from top-down government regulation, which statists believe is indispensable. The former results from voluntary interaction by people on the spot, the latter from coercion by a central elite. The reporter seems more interested in getting in a subtle dig at the free market, which is alleged to be "unregulated." Of course it isn't, as I point out <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/regulation-red-herring/"><strong>here</strong></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/missing-point.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-13T15:03:00-05:00'>3:03 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/265315551263172396' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/265315551263172396' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=265315551263172396&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ostrom' rel='tag'>Ostrom</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/regulation' rel='tag'>regulation</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/spontaneous%20order' rel='tag'>spontaneous order</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=265315551263172396&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=265315551263172396&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=265315551263172396&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=265315551263172396&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=265315551263172396&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, October 12, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='2247091926327809284'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/insurance-companies-want-mandate-with.html'>Insurance Companies Want a Mandate with Teeth</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>The health-insurance lobbyist <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/health/policy/12insure.html?ref=todayspaper" mce_href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/health/policy/12insure.html?ref=todayspaper"><b>complains</b></a> that under the proposed healthcare overhaul the penalties on individuals who don't buy coverage would be <i>too mild</i> and would encourage people to wait until they are sick before buying a policy -- at which point they couldn't be turned down or charged more than healthy people.</p> <p>That's right. The industry wants the government to force us to buy its product and to impose harsh penalties on those who refuse. The companies, which oddly are demonized by the "reform" crowd, are happy to accept all kinds of coverage rules in return for captive customers and guaranteed income.</p> <p>If I may be so presumptuous as to edit Adam Smith:</p> <blockquote><p>People of the same trade seldom meet together <i>with government officials</i>, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.</p></blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/insurance-companies-want-mandate-with.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-12T09:46:00-05:00'>9:46 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/2247091926327809284' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); 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display: block; height: 242px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /></a><br /> <blockquote> So David Brooks, the<em> New York Times</em>‘ resident conservative intellectual,<em> </em>must think he’s a pretty clever fellow. In trying to characterize “the choices we face on issue after issue,” he presumes to enlist the aid of philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and David Hume (1711-1776). Considering that Bentham believed human beings could consciously design society and Hume did not, this might have been a worthwhile approach. Unfortunately, Brooks got Hume wrong — unforgivably so — and missed a chance to present a fresh alternative in the stale political debate.</blockquote> The reset of TGIF is <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/liberty-social-engineering/"><strong>here</strong></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-liberty-versus-social-engineering.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-09T07:51:00-05:00'>7:51 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/9197249341988357927' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/9197249341988357927' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=9197249341988357927&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bentham' rel='tag'>Bentham</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hume' rel='tag'>Hume</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20engineering' rel='tag'>social engineering</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/spontaneous%20order' rel='tag'>spontaneous order</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/TGIF' rel='tag'>TGIF</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=9197249341988357927&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=9197249341988357927&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=9197249341988357927&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=9197249341988357927&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=9197249341988357927&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Sunday, October 04, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4098282300781438288'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/unemployment-keeps-rising.html'>Unemployment Keeps Rising</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Unemployment hit 9.8 percent last month (a conservative estimate, to be sure). The Obama administration once said it would approach 9 percent -- if the "stimulus" did not pass. With the "stimulus" it was supposed to be less than 8 percent by now. (See <a href="http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/the-counterproductiveness-of-stimulus/" mce_href="http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/the-counterproductiveness-of-stimulus/"><b>graph</b></a>.)</p> <p>When do we declare the "stimulus" a failure? 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It was almost easy to forget that the United States maintains a worldwide empire, but the reminders came leaping off the front pages and the television screens.<p></p>Word that the U.S. commander in Afghanistan wants 40,000 more troops and that Iran has a hitherto undisclosed uranium-enrichment facility gave the empire enthusiasts something to get excited about. The advocates of Pax Americana tell us that we must “win” in Afghanistan and be ready to bomb Iran if the leaders there don’t prostrate themselves to the U.S. government forthwith.<br /></blockquote>The rest of my FFF op-ed is <a href="http://www.fff.org/comment/com0910a.asp"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>.<br /><p></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/op-ed-exit-afghanistan-and-leave-iran.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-04T06:36:00-05:00'>6:36 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/3771053577700335542' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/3771053577700335542' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3771053577700335542&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Afghanistan' rel='tag'>Afghanistan</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/empire' rel='tag'>empire</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran' rel='tag'>Iran</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3771053577700335542&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3771053577700335542&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3771053577700335542&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3771053577700335542&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3771053577700335542&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='3610737794249855939'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-being-for-free-market-isnt-enough.html'>TGIF: Being for the Free Market Isn't Enough</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote>Harold Meyerson, an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, this week launched a devastating attack on what he calls "mainstream economists." 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They would have been in for a terrible time with the impositions produced by government's idea of security and other acts of political opportunism. Especially lucky are the city's poor, who would have been removed to spare the elite embarrassment when the world cast its eyes upon the games.<br /><br />Had I been a resident of Chicago, I would have said, Barack, Michelle, Oprah, mind your own business.<br /><br />Rio, you have my condolences. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/chicago-dodges-bullet.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-10-02T16:08:00-05:00'>4:08 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/3033337140934841694' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/3033337140934841694' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3033337140934841694&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Olympics' rel='tag'>Olympics</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3033337140934841694&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3033337140934841694&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3033337140934841694&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3033337140934841694&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3033337140934841694&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, September 30, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='3476140357244410439'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/excusing-polanski.html'>Excusing Polanski</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> It is truly sickening to see Hollywood types make excuses for Roman Polanski, the slimeball director who drugged and boozed up a 13-year-old girl 30 years ago before committing a variety of sexual assaults on her. For example, witness <a href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/reproductivejustice/142973/the_view_takes_on_roman_polanski%2C_whoopi_comes_up_with_new_definition_of_rape"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Whoopi Goldberg's attempt</span></a> to distinguish what Polanski did -- and pleaded guilty to before fleeing the country -- from "rape-rape." <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/excusing-polanski.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-30T14:03:00-05:00'>2:03 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/3476140357244410439' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/3476140357244410439' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3476140357244410439&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rape' rel='tag'>rape</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Roman%20Polanski' rel='tag'>Roman Polanski</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Whoopi%20Goldberg' rel='tag'>Whoopi Goldberg</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3476140357244410439&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3476140357244410439&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3476140357244410439&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3476140357244410439&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3476140357244410439&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Tuesday, September 29, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='322087951385385055'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/here-we-go-again.html'>Here We Go Again</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> I saw a television commercial today in which a lending company urged people to refinance their homes. It made a special appeal to those who have been unable to refinance: FHA (Federal Housing Administration) now requires <span style="font-style: italic;">less documentation</span> than before and <span style="font-style: italic;">no appraisal</span> of the property.<br /><br />Isn't this the sort of thing that caused so much trouble just a short while ago? 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I can report now that the conference, sponsored by PAFERE, was a smashing success.</blockquote>The rest of TGIF is <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/bastiat-poland/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-bastiat-in-poland.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-26T11:04:00-05:00'>11:04 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1332851503068058266' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1332851503068058266' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1332851503068058266&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bastiat' rel='tag'>Bastiat</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1332851503068058266&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1332851503068058266&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1332851503068058266&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1332851503068058266&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1332851503068058266&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, September 23, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1619247426224220033'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/october-freeman.html'>October Freeman</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> The October <span style="font-style: italic;">Freeman</span> is now online. Contributors include Jim Powell on government incompetence, Kevin Carson on intellectual property, James Payne on government impediments to volunteerism, Ross Levatter on free-market medicine, Todd Zywicki on consumer debt, and Andrew Morris on Curacao.<br /><br />Click on the cover at the right for the table of contents. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/october-freeman.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-23T15:44:00-05:00'>3:44 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1619247426224220033' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1619247426224220033' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1619247426224220033&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Freeman' rel='tag'>The Freeman</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1619247426224220033&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1619247426224220033&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1619247426224220033&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1619247426224220033&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1619247426224220033&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Sunday, September 20, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7334569403007742370'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-monsieur-bastiat-call-your-office.html'>TGIF: Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Office</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote>Tomorrow [i.e., yesterday] I’ll lecture at the Liberty Weekend Dedicated to Fr<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">茅</span>d<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">茅</span>ric Bastiat, sponsored by the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education (PAFERE) in Warsaw. Preparing for my visit, I reread Bastiat’s great book <i>The Law</i>. Oh we do we need Bastiat today! </blockquote>The rest of TGIF is <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/monsieur-bastiat-call-office/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-monsieur-bastiat-call-your-office.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-20T11:33:00-05:00'>11:33 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7334569403007742370' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7334569403007742370' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7334569403007742370&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bastiat' rel='tag'>Bastiat</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama' rel='tag'>Obama</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20engineering' rel='tag'>social engineering</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7334569403007742370&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7334569403007742370&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7334569403007742370&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7334569403007742370&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7334569403007742370&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, September 16, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4259878448174419660'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/modest-health-care-proposal.html'>A Modest Health-Care Proposal</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote>Enough dithering! President Obama says it’s time to act on health care. I agree.</blockquote>Read the rest of my latest FFF op-ed <a href="http://www.fff.org/comment/com0909d.asp"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/modest-health-care-proposal.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-16T10:48:00-05:00'>10:48 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/4259878448174419660' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>6 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/4259878448174419660' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4259878448174419660&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4259878448174419660&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4259878448174419660&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4259878448174419660&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4259878448174419660&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4259878448174419660&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, September 11, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7069952793485729647'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/lets-hear-it-for-one-party-autocracy.html'>Let's Hear It for One-Party Autocracy</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote>One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.<br /></blockquote>Who wrote that? Thomas Friedman of the <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html?partner=rss&emc=rss"><span style="font-weight: bold;">New York Times</span></a>. Is any comment necessary? Possible? <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/lets-hear-it-for-one-party-autocracy.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-11T13:47:00-05:00'>1:47 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7069952793485729647' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>3 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7069952793485729647' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7069952793485729647&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/autocracy' rel='tag'>autocracy</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/China' rel='tag'>China</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20Friedman' rel='tag'>Thomas Friedman</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7069952793485729647&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7069952793485729647&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7069952793485729647&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7069952793485729647&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7069952793485729647&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7327231559503336360'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-obamacare-status-quo-on-steroids.html'>TGIF - ObamaCare: Status Quo on Steroids</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote><p>Let’s begin by noting that the so-called health-insurance companies deserve little sympathy. As they exist today, they are very much creatures of the State. In fact, there’s a sense in which it can be said that if we didn’t have health-insurance companies, we wouldn’t need them.</p></blockquote> <p>Read the rest <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/obamacare/"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-obamacare-status-quo-on-steroids.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-11T13:06:00-05:00'>1:06 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7327231559503336360' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7327231559503336360' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7327231559503336360&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health%20insurance' rel='tag'>health insurance</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obamacare' rel='tag'>Obamacare</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7327231559503336360&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7327231559503336360&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7327231559503336360&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7327231559503336360&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7327231559503336360&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4027448022985255694'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/ten-lessons-from-911.html'>Ten Lessons from 9/11</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> 1. Killing one or many innocents, regardless of one's grievances, is monstrous. This elementary principle would seem to apply to George Bush, and now Barack Obama, as much as to Osama bin Laden. Can someone say why it doesn't?<br /><br />2. Despite all its guarantees -- contrary to its ideological justification for existing -- the state can't protect us -- even from a ragtag group of hijackers. Trillions of dollars spent over many years built a "national security apparatus" that could not stop attacks on the two most prominent buildings in the most prominent city in the country -- or its own headquarters. That says a lot. No. That says it all. The state is a fraud. We have been duped.<br /><br />3. The shameless state will stop at nothing to keep people's support by scaring the hell out of them. (<a href="http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1510"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Higgs</span></a> writes about this.) That people take its claims about "why they hate us" seriously after 9/11 shows what the public schools and the mass media are capable of doing to people. But the people are not absolved of responsibility: they could think their way out of this if they cared to make the effort.<br /><br />4. Blowback is real. Foreign-policy makers never think how their decisions will harm Americans, much less others. They never wonder how their actions will look to their targets. That's because they are state employees.<br /><br />5. As Randolph Bourne said, getting into a war is like riding a wild elephant. You may think you are in control -- you may believe your objectives and only your objectives are what count. If so, you are deluded. Consider the tens of thousands of dead and maimed Iraqi and Afghanis. What did they have to do with 9/11?<br /><br />6. No one likes an occupying power.<br /><br />7. Victims of foreign intervention don't forget, even if the perpetrators and their subjects do.<br /><br />8. Terrorism is not an enemy. It's a tactic, one used by many different kinds of people in causes of varying moral hues, often against far stronger imperial powers. Declaring all those people one's enemy is criminally reckless. But it's a damn good way for a government to achieve potentially total power over its subjects.<br /><br />9. They say the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Maybe, maybe not. But it seems abundantly clear that the enemy of my friend is also likely to be <span style="font-style: italic;">my</span> enemy. See the U.S.-Israel relationship for details.<br /><br />10. Assume "your" government is lying.<br /><br />(Adapted and re-posted from 2006.) <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/ten-lessons-from-911.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-11T05:49:00-05:00'>5:49 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/4027448022985255694' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/4027448022985255694' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4027448022985255694&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/blowback' rel='tag'>blowback</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/empire' rel='tag'>empire</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/imperialism' rel='tag'>imperialism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/September%2011' rel='tag'>September 11</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20state' rel='tag'>the state</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4027448022985255694&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4027448022985255694&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4027448022985255694&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4027448022985255694&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4027448022985255694&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, September 10, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='8155077121158457154'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/forcing-insurance-companies-to-cover.html'>Forcing Insurance Companies to Cover Preexisting Conditions Is Immoral</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> The <em>Christian Science Monitor</em> today published my op-ed on the fundamental dishonesty of President Obama’s healthcare proposals. Read “Forcing insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions is immoral”<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0910/p09s02-coop.html"> <strong>here</strong></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/forcing-insurance-companies-to-cover.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-10T19:09:00-05:00'>7:09 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/8155077121158457154' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>14 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/8155077121158457154' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8155077121158457154&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/insurance' rel='tag'>insurance</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama' rel='tag'>Obama</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8155077121158457154&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8155077121158457154&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8155077121158457154&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8155077121158457154&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8155077121158457154&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, September 09, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1759687234902217044'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-speech.html'>Obama Speech</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Predictable crap. How many times does it have to be demolished?<br /><br />It was nothing but theater. The objective was to get good reviews from the pundits. He was no less ambivalent about the "public option" than he has been, so the "Progressives" shouldn't be terribly happy.<br /><br />But I am curious why all these employers are buying health plans for their employees that drop them when they get sick? What's up with that? <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-speech.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-09T20:09:00-05:00'>8:09 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1759687234902217044' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1759687234902217044' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1759687234902217044&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama' rel='tag'>Obama</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1759687234902217044&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1759687234902217044&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1759687234902217044&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1759687234902217044&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1759687234902217044&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7538381491504197161'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/obamas-message-to-kids.html'>Obama's Message to Kids</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>From Barack Obama's <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/07/raw-data-obama-speech-american-school-children/" mce_href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/07/raw-data-obama-speech-american-school-children/"><b>speech to schoolchildren</b></a>, which even many conservatives praised:</p> <blockquote><p>And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you -- don't ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.</p></blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/obamas-message-to-kids.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-09T08:40:00-05:00'>8:40 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7538381491504197161' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7538381491504197161' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7538381491504197161&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/collectivism' rel='tag'>collectivism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama' rel='tag'>Obama</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7538381491504197161&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7538381491504197161&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7538381491504197161&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7538381491504197161&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7538381491504197161&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, September 04, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='294146410134240739'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/health-care-reformers-duck-hard.html'>Health-Care “Reformers” Duck the Hard Questions</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote>Advocates of what is called health-care “reform” must lack confidence in their case. Were they sure that more government control of medicine and medical insurance was a good thing, they would answer the opposing arguments rather than marginalize their adversaries as corrupt or crazy.</blockquote>The rest of this week's op-ed is at <a href="http://www.fff.org/comment/com0909a.asp"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">FFF website</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/health-care-reformers-duck-hard.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-09-04T19:34:00-05:00'>7:34 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/294146410134240739' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/294146410134240739' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=294146410134240739&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=294146410134240739&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=294146410134240739&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=294146410134240739&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=294146410134240739&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=294146410134240739&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='34094702759298229'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-from-1944-to-nineteen-eighty-four.html'>TGIF: From 1944 to <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i></a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote>I’m inclined to think of George Orwell and F. 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You stayed around far too long, spending our money and finding ways to run our lives. For this you were dubbed the compassionate "lion of liberalism." You disgraced a noble word.<br /><br />Hopefully, somewhere there is justice. You'll prefer mercy. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/bye-teddy.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-26T11:36:00-05:00'>11:36 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/3603817806783236754' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/3603817806783236754' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3603817806783236754&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ted%20Kennedy' rel='tag'>Ted Kennedy</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3603817806783236754&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3603817806783236754&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3603817806783236754&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3603817806783236754&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=3603817806783236754&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, August 21, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6530052059095837188'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-health-insurance-cartel.html'>Obama's Health-Insurance Cartel</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote><p>President Obama and other advocates of nationalized health insurance have tried a variety of sales pitches, which indicates their difficulty in getting traction with the public. The latest is”competition and choice.” Who could be against those things? Barack Obama for one.</p></blockquote> <p>The rest of TGIF is <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/obamas-healthinsurance-cartel/"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-health-insurance-cartel.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-21T12:45:00-05:00'>12:45 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6530052059095837188' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>4 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6530052059095837188' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6530052059095837188&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/competition' rel='tag'>competition</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20market' rel='tag'>free market</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/profit' rel='tag'>profit</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6530052059095837188&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6530052059095837188&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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It is well worth reading. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/now-i-am-finally-scared-of-white-house.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-20T05:46:00-05:00'>5:46 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1195391042247054749' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1195391042247054749' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1195391042247054749&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nat%20Hentoff' rel='tag'>Nat Hentoff</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1195391042247054749&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1195391042247054749&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1195391042247054749&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1195391042247054749&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1195391042247054749&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Tuesday, August 18, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6701760793467326443'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/has-medicare-extended-life.html'>Has Medicare Extended Life?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Here are some facts that champions of Medicare are either ignorant of or hope <i>you </i>remain ignorant of. They leave the impression that before Medicare (pre-1965), life for "seniors" (hate that term) was unenviable because of lack of access to medical care. Since then, thanks to a government program that really "works," things have turned around.</p> <p>Leaving aside whether a program with a $37 trillion unfunded liability can be said to be working, look at this:</p> <p>In 1930 average life expectancy for Americans at age 60 was 74.5 years. (Infant mortality pulls down average life expectancy, hence the measure "at age 60.") In 1960 -- five years before Medicare began -- the average jumped 2.6 years, to 77.1. By 1990 -- 25 years after Medicare began -- it had jumped to 79.7 -- <i>again 2.6 years</i>.</p> <p>Medicare did not make the upward-sloping life-expectancy curve any steeper!</p><p>For historical context, from 1900 to 1960, overall life-expectancy increased 22.4 years, from 47. 3 to 69.7.</p> <p>I hasten to add that the medical system may be the least important factor in life expectancy, and one must never judge a country's health care by that measure. (Too many other factors -- lifestyle, genetics, culture -- play more important roles.) Nevertheless, it is interesting to know that <i>Medicare did not improve the rate of progress in life expectancy that was occurring before the program started</i>.</p> <p>(Source: Derived from data presented in Sue A. Blevins, <i>Medicare's Midlife Crisis</i>, Cato Institute, 2001.)</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/has-medicare-extended-life.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-18T13:56:00-05:00'>1:56 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6701760793467326443' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>3 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6701760793467326443' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6701760793467326443&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/life%20expectancy' rel='tag'>life expectancy</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Medicare' rel='tag'>Medicare</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6701760793467326443&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6701760793467326443&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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He wrote this in a Wall Street Journal article. Keith Olbermann of MSNBC reported this and pointed out that since Whole Foods specializes in organic products, many of its customers probably favor Obama's plan. (Let that dubious leap pass.) In fact some advocates are calling for a boycott of Whole Foods.<br /><br />So did Olbermann praise Mackey for putting conviction before (short-term) profit? (He often criticizes business for putting profit first.)<br /><br />Of course not. He implied that Mackey must be an idiot who doesn't know his own interests.<br /><br />That's the sign of a demagogue. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/keith-olbermann-demagogue.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-15T11:13:00-05:00'>11:13 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/4044238136498404470' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/4044238136498404470' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4044238136498404470&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4044238136498404470&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4044238136498404470&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4044238136498404470&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4044238136498404470&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4044238136498404470&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='8258858295322076715'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/oh-injustice.html'>Oh the Injustice!</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> The house of a friend caught on fire. While his home was aflame he called an insurance company to buy fire insurance. Honest fellow that he is, he told the company rep that his house was on fire as they spoke.<br /><br />The company refused to issue the policy.<br /><br />When will we finally get homeowner's insurance reform so that companies will stop this cruel practice of refusing to cover preexisting conditions?<br /><br />After that we should move against the life insurance companies' vicious discrimination against dead people. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/oh-injustice.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-15T07:32:00-05:00'>7:32 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/8258858295322076715' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>3 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/8258858295322076715' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8258858295322076715&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/insurance' rel='tag'>insurance</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8258858295322076715&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8258858295322076715&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8258858295322076715&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8258858295322076715&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8258858295322076715&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, August 14, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6127442362480055330'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/dont-missthis.html'>Don't MissThis</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Keith Hennessey answers President Obama’s case for health-care nationalization point by point <a href="http://keithhennessey.com/2009/08/14/debating-the-presidents-portsmouth-pitch/"><strong>here</strong></a>. You won’t want to miss this. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/dont-missthis.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-14T16:18:00-05:00'>4:18 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6127442362480055330' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6127442362480055330' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6127442362480055330&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6127442362480055330&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6127442362480055330&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6127442362480055330&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6127442362480055330&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6127442362480055330&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6841223401620583400'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/rigging-debate.html'>Rigging the Debate</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Calling something"reform" biases the discussion from the start. 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Whether the proposed changes actually amount to reform -- that is, improvement -- is precisely what is in dispute.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/rigging-debate.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-14T15:22:00-05:00'>3:22 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6841223401620583400' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6841223401620583400' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6841223401620583400&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health%20care' rel='tag'>health care</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/language' rel='tag'>language</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6841223401620583400&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6841223401620583400&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6841223401620583400&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6841223401620583400&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6841223401620583400&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7391495678552047836'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/health-care-interview-on-antiwar-radio.html'>Health-Care Interview on Antiwar Radio</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Scott Horton interviewed me about health care on Antiwar Radio. The audio is <a mce_href="http://www.scotthortonshow.com/2009/08/07/sheldon-richman/" href="http://www.scotthortonshow.com/2009/08/07/sheldon-richman/"><b>here</b></a>.<br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/health-care-interview-on-antiwar-radio.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-14T15:22:00-05:00'>3:22 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/7391495678552047836' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/7391495678552047836' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7391495678552047836&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7391495678552047836&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7391495678552047836&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7391495678552047836&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7391495678552047836&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=7391495678552047836&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1982304159043423534'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-life-rigmarole-ii.html'>The End-of-Life Rigmarole II</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> I'd like to take this matter a step further and to make explicit what was only implicit in the original post. It should be a matter of concern that people paid by the State -- doctors treating Medicare patients -- would be authorized under the House legislation to venture into end-of-life issues when the government's priority is to control medical costs. One need not be an alarmist to connect those dots and wonder how the source of the paycheck might influence the advice given. Whom exactly is the doctor working for?<br /><br />But this is a general problem that plagues any government intervention in health care, and the advocates of increased government intervention have no answer. Worse, most of them do not even acknowledge that the agent-principal problem exists.<br /><br />For whom does the doctor work? The patient, whom medical ethics would seem to designate as the principal, or the State, which pays the bills?<br /><br />I can't blame anyone for finding the end-of-life issue ominous in the context of healthcare "reform." Still, we must get our facts straight. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-life-rigmarole-ii.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-14T06:25:00-05:00'>6:25 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1982304159043423534' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1982304159043423534' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1982304159043423534&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rationing' rel='tag'>rationing</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1982304159043423534&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1982304159043423534&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1982304159043423534&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1982304159043423534&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1982304159043423534&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, August 13, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='5715474964046878691'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-life-rigmarole.html'>The End-of-Life Rigmarole</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Sometimes I almost believe that the right-wing critics of Obama <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">healthcare</span> "reform" are moles working for Obama. Take the end-of-life controversy. There is nothing in the House bill that would <span style="font-style: italic;">require</span> Medicare recipients to have end-of-life counseling, much less submit to some kind of euthanasia process. All I can find is a requirement that Medicare pay for end-of-life counseling if requested. Not that I like this; I don't want government anywhere near medical care or end-of-life <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">decisionmaking</span>. But nothing is imposed on the elderly. (By the way NBC reported tonight that this provision has been dropped from the House bill.)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Correction: It's the Senate Finance Committee that has removed the provision from its bill.</span><br /><br />Here's why I <span style="font-style: italic;">almost </span>believe the right-wing critics are moles: By raising the phony "death panel" claim, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Palin</span>, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Beck and the others have taken <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">everyone's</span> eye on the ball. Defenders of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Obama's</span> scheme had an easy time demolishing the inventions of the right-wing simpletons, enabling Obama defenders to evade the real problem with"reform," which continues to fly under the radar.<br /><br />The problem is not that the bill calls for death panels--it doesn't. The problem is that the expansion of medical coverage by government decree and taxpayer subsidy, along with a determination to keep prices from rising, <span style="font-style: italic;">logically requires </span>rationing of medical services. How else can you expand demand without raising costs? Through government efficiency? Get real. (Price controls would lead to shortages and then rationing.)<br /><br />With rationing the government would decide how medical resources would be distributed. Bureaucrats would have to make choices, and they'd have to have standards by which to make those choices. Is it outlandish to suggest that they would want to divert scarce resources from people who are near the end of life and with little chance of recovery to those who are not? This wouldn't be euthanasia; but it might well be a refusal to pay for some medical procedures for older people. It might even include a prohibition on paying for services privately. (The alternative to rationing is bankruptcy, to which Medicare has already put us on the path.)<br /><br />Obama has already said he wants Medicare to pay for the value not volume of services. <i>Value to whom?<br /><br /></i>Instead of conjuring up phantom death panels and compulsory counseling, the right wing should have been demanding that the defenders of "reform" explain how they can avoid rationing if they are serious about pumping up demand without pumping up prices. They should have been using their access to the media to point out that rationing in an inevitable implication of a government limit on total <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">healthcare</span> spending.<br /><br />Maybe some advocates of "reform" really haven't thought about this. Maybe they believe that <span style="font-style: italic;">somehow </span>costs can be controlled without rationing and bureaucratic triage. (This can't be said about others, such as <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=peter%20singer&st=cse"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Peter Singer</span></a>.) But their premises <span style="font-style: italic;">logically commit </span>them to rationing whether they know it or not and whether they like it or not.<br /><br />By the way, do not accept the glib comeback that the market rations too, only by price. As I point out <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/markets-ration-health-care/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">the market does not ration</span>. The market is not a conscious, decision-making entity. It's a process in which <span style="font-style: italic;">people exchange </span>money for goods and services, and vice versa. That is not rationing. Economists talk about markets rationing, but that is only a metaphor. Our choice is between rationing by bureaucrats (including insurance clerks empowered by government tax policy) and individual self-determination through free exchange. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-life-rigmarole.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-13T20:27:00-05:00'>8:27 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/5715474964046878691' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>5 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/5715474964046878691' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5715474964046878691&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rationing' rel='tag'>rationing</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5715474964046878691&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5715474964046878691&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Very good. Is the government in any other kind of insurance? As a matter of fact, it is: flood insurance. It essentially has a monopoly. Here's a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56S6V320090729" mce_href="http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56S6V320090729"><b>Reuters story</b></a> about the House last month extending the "troubled [i.e., broke] program" for six months while postponing a comprehensive overhaul. Why does it need an overhaul?</p> <blockquote><p>The program has been deep in debt ever since the costly hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005. Repeated rescue efforts have failed....</p> <p>[T]he administration said it favors forgiving the 40-year-old program's $19 billion debt.</p></blockquote> <p>This would not be the first time the program was bailed out by Congress or had its huge debt forgiven. This trouble did not begin with Katrina. See <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv16n3/v16n3-2.pdf#page=9" mce_href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv16n3/v16n3-2.pdf#page=9"><b>this article </b></a>I wrote 16 years ago. (Scroll down.)<br /></p> <p>About the postponement of comprehensive reform, Reuters reports that Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank "said discussion on repairing the program needed to be put off due to other pressing matters, including healthcare and financial regulation reforms."</p> <p>Translation: Government can't fix what it's already screwed up right now because it's too busy screwing up some other things.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/governments-track-record-in-insurance.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-13T10:00:00-05:00'>10:00 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6817286522529640390' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6817286522529640390' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6817286522529640390&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/flood%20insurance' rel='tag'>flood insurance</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public%20option' rel='tag'>public option</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6817286522529640390&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6817286522529640390&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6817286522529640390&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6817286522529640390&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6817286522529640390&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, August 12, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='422558188030521854'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/healthcarereform-protests.html'>The Healthcare-Reform Protests</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Many of the people attending congressional district meetings to protest the emerging healthcare reform harm the cause of freedom when they are unruly and, more importantly, when they repeat unfounded rumors they’ve heard on the radio or read on the Internet. My advice is to get your facts straight and act in a dignified way. Reason should be in for forefront. Passion too prominently displayed looks like blind emotion and alienates those who might be persuaded by calm argument. Don’t call people names. Coolly state the moral and economic reasons against government control. Remember: Statism did not begin with Obama.<br /></p> <p>That said, I must point out that the critics of the protesters — those who want to continue the status quo of government-dominated health care but even more so — are off base in their sneering dismissal of the people who are worried about the so-called reform. Why <em>would </em>anyone have confidence in an 1,000-page-plus piece of legislation, obscurely written, that would give <em>not-fully-defined powers </em>to the secretary of Health and Human Services? Because Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Henry Waxman, Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd say so? Excuse me, but that’s not good enough.</p> <p>Anyone who <em>doesn’t</em> have an instinctual revulsion at such a bill needs to read some history.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/healthcarereform-protests.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-12T13:36:00-05:00'>1:36 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/422558188030521854' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>4 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/422558188030521854' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=422558188030521854&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=422558188030521854&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=422558188030521854&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=422558188030521854&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=422558188030521854&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=422558188030521854&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Tuesday, August 11, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4072687240835993105'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/healthcare-thoughts.html'>Healthcare Thoughts</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Random thoughts on healthcare reform:<br /></p><ul><li>The core of "healthcare reform" is the principle that what one takes out of the system should have no necessary relationship to what one pays in. Aside from the injustice of the inevitable coercive subsidies, this principle is economically nonviable.<br /><br /></li><li>Healthcare reformers must think they've repealed the law of unintended consequences. Can't be done.<br /><br /></li><li>Healthcare reform rests on a pretense of knowledge (Hayek): viz., that bureaucrats know the just price of medical services, drugs, and insurance coverage.</li></ul> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/healthcare-thoughts.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-11T12:17:00-05:00'>12:17 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/4072687240835993105' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/4072687240835993105' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4072687240835993105&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4072687240835993105&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4072687240835993105&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4072687240835993105&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4072687240835993105&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4072687240835993105&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, August 07, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1498677972541990247'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/law-does-not-predate-commerce.html'>Law Did Not Predate Commerce</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Best quote I've seen today:</p><blockquote><p>Law and commerce were indelibly linked in the thought of David Hume, who argued that it is <i>commerce itself</i> that gives rise to notions of justice between people and peoples. Although commerce is today typically seen as something which is proactively enabled by law, it is much more accurate historically to see law as something which emerges because of its vital importance in commerce – and particularly commerce involving foreigners. Within the Roman Empire, it was the <i>ius gentium</i>, the “law of nations,” derived from custom rather than legislation, and applying specifically to noncitizens, that governed most types of commercial transactions.</p><p>The modern notion that law is inseparable from the will of a ruler or ruling body, antithetical to the idea of a universal natural law or a ius gentium, has, in parts of the world and during epochs where it has actually been applied, been devastating to economic development.</p><p style="text-align: right;">--Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds, <i>Money Markets, and Sovereignty</i><br /></p></blockquote><p>Hat tip: Don Boudreaux, <a mce_href="http://cafehayek.com/" href="http://cafehayek.com/"><b>Cafe Hayek</b></a><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/law-does-not-predate-commerce.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-07T11:29:00-05:00'>11:29 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1498677972541990247' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1498677972541990247' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1498677972541990247&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/commerce' rel='tag'>commerce</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20market' rel='tag'>free market</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/law' rel='tag'>law</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1498677972541990247&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1498677972541990247&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1498677972541990247&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1498677972541990247&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1498677972541990247&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='8855442202052859454'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/tgif-market-doesnt-ration-health-care.html'>TGIF: The Market Doesn't Ration Health Care</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote><p>Healthcare reformers say they have two objectives: to enable the uninsured and under-insured to consume more medical services than they consume now, and to keep the price of those services from rising, as they have been, faster than the prices of other goods and services. Unfortunately, Economics 101 tells us that to accomplish those two things directly — increased consumption by one group and lower prices — the government would have to take a third step: rationing. The reformers are disingenuous about this last step, and for good reason. People don’t like rationing, especially of medical care.</p></blockquote><p>The rest of TGIF is <a mce_href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/markets-ration-health-care/" href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/markets-ration-health-care/"><b>here</b></a>.<br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/tgif-market-doesnt-ration-health-care.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-07T10:25:00-05:00'>10:25 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/8855442202052859454' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/8855442202052859454' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8855442202052859454&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20market' rel='tag'>free market</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rationing' rel='tag'>rationing</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8855442202052859454&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8855442202052859454&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8855442202052859454&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8855442202052859454&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8855442202052859454&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, August 06, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='338201745933520277'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/hiroshima.html'>Hiroshima</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOlOuKvYZCgj7KxA3gkt9LZzfznLR2d0Sm4fPP3rzJwPpqMzD94B6Cih_S00NonHUS5Ax3R1ja0yvqDTNXP5OF6gG0Df5bjdu7afic9MiRHnlvPIo93_OvD4DDPK7tuQ-Tq0tNQ/s1600-h/Hiroshima.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095733706541816466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOlOuKvYZCgj7KxA3gkt9LZzfznLR2d0Sm4fPP3rzJwPpqMzD94B6Cih_S00NonHUS5Ax3R1ja0yvqDTNXP5OF6gG0Df5bjdu7afic9MiRHnlvPIo93_OvD4DDPK7tuQ-Tq0tNQ/s320/Hiroshima.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />Today is the 64th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, one of President Harry Truman's two acts of butchery against Japan in August 1945. There isn't much to be said about those unspeakable atrocities that hasn't been said many times before. The U.S. government never needed atomic bombs to commit mass murder. It's "conventional" weapons have been potent enough. But considering how the "leaders" saw The Bomb, its two uses against Japan stand out as especially heinous acts. The U.S. government may not have used atomic weapons since 1945, but it has not yet given up mass murder as a political/military tactic. Presidential candidates are still expected to say that, with respect to nuclear weapons, that "no options are off the table."<br /><br />The anniversary of the Nagaski bombing is Sunday.<br /><br />Rad Geek People's Daily has a poignant post <a href="http://radgeek.com/gt/2007/08/06/815_am/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. Rad says: "As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which deliberately targeted a civilian center and killed over half of the people living in the city, remains the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of the world."<br /><br />[This post appeared previously.] <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/hiroshima.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-06T06:51:00-05:00'>6:51 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/338201745933520277' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/338201745933520277' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=338201745933520277&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/atomic%20bomb' rel='tag'>atomic bomb</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hiroshima' rel='tag'>Hiroshima</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=338201745933520277&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=338201745933520277&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=338201745933520277&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=338201745933520277&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=338201745933520277&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, August 01, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6462340381413100292'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/market-does-not-ration.html'>The Market Does Not Ration!</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Why do economists, even those who favor the free market, call what the market process does "rationing." When <strong style="font-style: italic;">you</strong><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>choose, because of the price, to buy four pounds of hamburger rather than eight, that is <strong style="font-style: italic;">not</strong><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>rationing. Rationing is when <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">an authority </span>says you can only buy four. It indicates a conscious process of allocation of other people's property. The market is not a conscious process. Rather it's a bunch of people engaging in conscious exchanges involving their own property to improve their situations. That's very different.<br /><br />I think it does the case for the market harm to call what it does rationing. The other side can say: "I agree. But the market is a cold, impersonal rationer. We need a kinder, gentler rationer: the State."<br /><br />I don't think we should want those to be the terms of the debate.</p><p>Later thought: When I enter a store and spend $50 rather than all I have, would we say I rationed my money to the store owner? Who would talk like that?</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/market-does-not-ration.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-01T09:33:00-05:00'>9:33 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6462340381413100292' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6462340381413100292' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6462340381413100292&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20market' rel='tag'>free market</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rationing' rel='tag'>rationing</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20state' rel='tag'>the state</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6462340381413100292&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6462340381413100292&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6462340381413100292&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6462340381413100292&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6462340381413100292&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1055983698596595563'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/rachel-maddow-demagogue.html'>Rachel Maddow, Demagogue</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> I know, I know. Why am I wasting time on her? Good question. But I can't let this get by me.<br /><br />The other night she and state-socialist congressmen Anthony Weiner had a good laugh because all the Republicans on a congressional committee voted <span style="font-style: italic;">against </span>his trick amendment to end Medicare. What hypocrites, they sneered. Republicans say they are against socialized medicine, but when their political careers are at stake, they won't vote to end the socialized medicine we already have for retirees. (Clip <a href="http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rachel-maddow-show-calling-republicans-blu"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>.)<br /><br />I am the last person to want to defend the Republicans. The charge of hypocrisy is easy to make, and no doubt Maddow and Weiner are right about many or most of them in this case. But they were engaging in demagoguery, and they must have known it. The principle of charitable interpretation is worth applying not only because it's decent but also because it forces oneself argue against your opponent's strongest possible case. Going for the weakest case is a wimpy thing to do--a confession you lack confidence in your own.<br /><br />Someone can nonhypocritically and coherently say, "I'd vote against creating Medicare today. But since after 44 years people on fixed incomes have come to rely on it, I would not just kill it in one shot now. I favor some kind of gradual transition to a private system."<br /><br />Agree or disagree with that position, it shows that voting no on an up-or-down vote to kill Medicare is not necessarily hypocrisy for one who opposes government-controlled medical care.<br /><br />Maddow's schlocky program is little more than a series of conversations with guests who agree with her so she can distort the positions of those she diagarees with. She might have brought on a someone to argue the point I make above, but she wouldn't know what to do with someone who intelligently disagrees with her. That speaks volumes about her intellectual heft or confidence, or something. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/rachel-maddow-demagogue.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-01T09:03:00-05:00'>9:03 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1055983698596595563' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1055983698596595563' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1055983698596595563&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Medicare' rel='tag'>Medicare</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/socialized%20medicine' rel='tag'>socialized medicine</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1055983698596595563&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1055983698596595563&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-we-spend-on-health-care-is-none-of.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-01T08:59:00-05:00'>8:59 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/831365747707591631' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/831365747707591631' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=831365747707591631&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=831365747707591631&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=831365747707591631&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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No, we don't have a free market here, and see what's happening in Germany and France.</p> <p>Money quote:</p> <blockquote><p>The point is that there is no health care model, whether privately or publicly financed, that can offer unlimited access to medical services while containing costs. Ultimately, such a model arrives at a cross roads where it has to either limit access in an arbitrary way, or face uncontrolled cost increases.</p></blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/read-this-article.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-08-01T08:57:00-05:00'>8:57 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/5913071627827755535' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/5913071627827755535' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5913071627827755535&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20market' rel='tag'>free market</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5913071627827755535&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5913071627827755535&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5913071627827755535&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5913071627827755535&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5913071627827755535&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, July 31, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='5613038782559600131'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/tgif-are-we-really-all-healthcare.html'>TGIF: Are We Really All Healthcare Collectivists Now?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p></p><blockquote><p>“We have to do something about health care.”</p> <p>The scariest word in that sentence is not <em>something</em>. It’s <em>we</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>TGIF is <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/healthcare-collectivists/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/tgif-are-we-really-all-healthcare.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-31T08:54:00-05:00'>8:54 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/5613038782559600131' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/5613038782559600131' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5613038782559600131&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/collectivism' rel='tag'>collectivism</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/individualism' rel='tag'>individualism</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5613038782559600131&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5613038782559600131&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5613038782559600131&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5613038782559600131&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=5613038782559600131&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4131343268811122454'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/appearance-on-mike-beitlers-free-market.html'>Appearance on Mike Beitler's Free Market Program</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <a href="http://www.mikebeitler.com/freemarkets/freemarkets073009.mp3"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Here's the link</span></a>. It's mostly about health care, but we covered cap and trade also. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/appearance-on-mike-beitlers-free-market.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-31T06:32:00-05:00'>6:32 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/4131343268811122454' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/4131343268811122454' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4131343268811122454&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/environment' rel='tag'>environment</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4131343268811122454&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4131343268811122454&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4131343268811122454&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4131343268811122454&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4131343268811122454&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, July 29, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6615206155808958069'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/gates-incident-as-free-speech-case.html'>The Gates Incident as a Free Speech Case</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Harvey Silverglate, a founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), has an <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/gates-crowley-arrest-first-amendment-free-speech-harvard-opinions-contributors-harvey-a-silverglate.html" mce_href="http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=129967699873&h=CnLWE&u=_OBgj&ref=nf">excellent article in Forbes</a> on the arrest of Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates. For Silverglate -- and I agree with him -- this is entirely a free-speech matter. Gates was arrested exclusively for what he said to a policeman and for how he said it. The incident is less about race and more about a police attitude toward "civilians" that free people should not tolerate. That attitude is exemplified in the current practice of not including police personnel in the term "civilian." This is a recent change. "Civilian" used to mean everyone but the military. This is another sign of the militarization of the police, which is stimulated by the "wars" on drugs, guns, and other things that are not directly connected with crimes against person and property.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/gates-incident-as-free-speech-case.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-29T13:40:00-05:00'>1:40 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6615206155808958069' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>4 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6615206155808958069' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6615206155808958069&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20speech' rel='tag'>free speech</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Henry%20Louis%20Gates' rel='tag'>Henry Louis Gates</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/police' rel='tag'>police</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6615206155808958069&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6615206155808958069&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6615206155808958069&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6615206155808958069&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6615206155808958069&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4572056884301978644'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/medicare-and-socialized-medicine.html'>Obama, Medicare, and Socialized Medicine</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>At his <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-in-AARP-Tele-Town-Hall-on-Health-Care-Reform/" mce_href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-in-AARP-Tele-Town-Hall-on-Health-Care-Reform/"><b>AARP event</b></a> yesterday, President Obama derided those who in the 1960s called Medicare "socialized medicine." Yet later in the event he conceded the point. See for yourself:</p> <blockquote><p>I got a letter the other day from a woman; she said, I don't want government-run health care, I don't want socialized medicine, and don't touch my Medicare. And I wanted to say, well, I mean, that's what Medicare is, is it's a government-run health care plan that people are very happy with.</p></blockquote> <p>As he read this, he and the audience laughed condescendingly as if to say, "What a dolt. She hates socialized medicine but she loves Medicare. Doesn't she realize they are the same thing?"</p> <p>As for people being happy with Medicare, Obama might have pointed out that retirees receive far more in medical benefits than they ever paid into the system. At the moment they can basically have all they want for free or for low cost. Now they even have drug coverage. But that will change if Obama gets his way, because he's decided "we" spend too much on m medical care and he is determined to do something about that. Part of that "something" will be to scale back Medicare, which Obama himself says is, along with Medicaid, the biggest source of the budget deficit. Anyone who thinks that "reform" won't start denying options to retirees is dreaming. It's already happening. Wait until the government inserts itself in to end-of-life decisions. I guess the earlier critics of Medicare weren't wrong, they just had their timetable off.</p> <p>If government were really interested in seeing a rational medical system, it would stop forcing the taxpayers to pick up the tab for other people's medical care. How could that do anything <i>but </i>send costs through the roof and then "justify" government control?</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/medicare-and-socialized-medicine.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-29T11:26:00-05:00'>11:26 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/4572056884301978644' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/4572056884301978644' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4572056884301978644&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Medicare' rel='tag'>Medicare</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama' rel='tag'>Obama</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/socialized%20medicine' rel='tag'>socialized medicine</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4572056884301978644&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4572056884301978644&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4572056884301978644&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4572056884301978644&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=4572056884301978644&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, July 27, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1333715629025313546'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/tgif-cornucopia-of-healthcare-fallacies.html'>TGIF: A Cornucopia of Healthcare Fallacies</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote><p>The effort to reinvent medical care is so full of fallacies and bad logic that it would take volumes to properly expose them. Nevertheless, in this short space, let’s take a crack at some of the problems.</p></blockquote> <p>The rest of TGIF is <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/goal-freedom-cornucopia-healthcare-fallacies/"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/tgif-cornucopia-of-healthcare-fallacies.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-27T10:39:00-05:00'>10:39 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1333715629025313546' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1333715629025313546' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1333715629025313546&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1333715629025313546&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1333715629025313546&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1333715629025313546&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1333715629025313546&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1333715629025313546&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, July 24, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6431645320403640115'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/for-gates-and-against-police.html'>For Gates and Against the Police</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Professor Henry Louis Gates was perfectly justified in being pissed at the cops who ordered him out of his own home. The police sergeant who cuffed and arrested him for disorderly conduct, after he knew who Gates was, was retaliating against him, a black man, for not showing proper deference to a representative of the State. How dare he yell at a policeman who treated him like a street thug? 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Can we at least get that much straight? <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/george-orwell-call-your-office.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-20T12:32:00-05:00'>12:32 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1455333275192208704' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1455333275192208704' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1455333275192208704&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1455333275192208704&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1455333275192208704&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Because this advocate of "representative government," like many others, is a big fraud. He wants the vote to occur <span style="font-style: italic;">before </span>the members go home and get an earful from their "constituents" about how intrusive and costly the "reform" will be. In other words, he fears he will lose votes over the recess. This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened.<br /><br />Wouldn't a true democrat insist that congressmen consult with the people they allegedly represent back home before voting?<br /><br />There are many reasons for agreeing with Joseph Schumpeter that representative democracy is a "sham." Here is the latest proof that even its advocates don't really believe in it. As historian Edmund Morgan argues the "sovereignty of the people" is a principle that developed as a mean of controlling not government but the people.<br /><br />(For more on Morgan see <a href="http://fee.org/articles/tgif/goal-freedom-healthcare-misrepresentation/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">this</span></a>.) <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-rush-on-health-care.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-19T04:54:00-05:00'>4:54 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/6861007309482436818' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>6 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/6861007309482436818' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6861007309482436818&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Congress' rel='tag'>Congress</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/democracy' rel='tag'>democracy</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Representative%20Government' rel='tag'>Representative Government</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6861007309482436818&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6861007309482436818&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6861007309482436818&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6861007309482436818&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=6861007309482436818&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1251904741805865995'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/amazon-promises-not-to-trespass-and.html'>Amazon Promises Not to Trespass and Steal Again</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Here's what Amazon has to say about its trespass against Kindle owners and its forced "buy-back" of copies of <span style="font-style: italic;">1984</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Animal Farm</span>:<br /><blockquote>These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books. When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers. We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers’ devices in these circumstances.</blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">"[I]n the future we will not remove books from customers' device</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">in these circumstances." </span>We have them on the record now. Let's see what happens.<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br /></span>HT: <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090717/amazon-rethinks-its-george-orwell-removal-policy/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Peter Kafka</span></a>.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/amazon-promises-not-to-trespass-and.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-19T04:43:00-05:00'>4:43 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1251904741805865995' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>4 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1251904741805865995' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1251904741805865995&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/copyright' rel='tag'>copyright</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/IP' rel='tag'>IP</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kindle' rel='tag'>Kindle</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1251904741805865995&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1251904741805865995&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1251904741805865995&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1251904741805865995&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1251904741805865995&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, July 18, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='8480225785007709345'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/books-vanishing-from-kindles.html'>Books Vanishing from Kindles</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <a href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/">David Pogue of the <em>New York Times</em> </a> reports:<br /><blockquote>This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid -- for thought they owned.<br /><br /><p>But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people's Kindles and credited their accounts for the price.<br /><br /></p><p>This is ugly for all kinds of reasons. Amazon says that this sort of thing is "rare," but that it can happen at all is unsettling; we've been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, we've learned that they're not really like books, in that once we're finished reading them, we can't resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final.<br /><br /></p><p>As one of my readers noted, it's like Barnes & Noble sneaking into our homes in the middle of the night, taking some books that we've been reading off our nightstands, and leaving us a check on the coffee table.<br /><br /></p><p>You want to know the best part? The juicy, plump, dripping irony?<br /><br /></p><p>The author who was the victim of this Big Brotherish plot was none other than George Orwell. And the books were "1984" and "Animal Farm."<br /><br /></p><p>Scary.</p></blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/books-vanishing-from-kindles.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-18T07:53:00-05:00'>7:53 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/8480225785007709345' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>5 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/8480225785007709345' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8480225785007709345&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/copyright' rel='tag'>copyright</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/IP' rel='tag'>IP</a>, <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kindle' rel='tag'>Kindle</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8480225785007709345&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8480225785007709345&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8480225785007709345&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8480225785007709345&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=8480225785007709345&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, July 17, 2009</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1316135682093492999'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/healthcare-arrogance.html'>Healthcare Arrogance</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>The conceit of a handful of congressmen is truly astounding. They actually think they know enough to design a medical marketplace. Do they have any idea what they are up to, any idea of the havoc they will wreak, the hardship they will inflict?</p> <p>Anyone interested in freedom should read as much as they can about the bills working through the House and Senate. They can be found online, though of course they are not easy to read. The authors don’t want us looking too close. That also means most members of Congress won’t be reading them either. Par for the course.</p> <p>They call this “representative government”? This is what Joseph Schumpeter had in mind when called political representation a “sham.”</p> <p>I would advise that no one believe the cost figures the Obama administration and the bills’ sponsors are throwing around. We know the real costs will be far higher. Read the history of Medicare for proof. Today Medicare has an unfunded liability of over $30 trillion.</p> <p>I would further advise everyone to doubt all the promises about keeping your doctor and medical coverage. The fact is that all medical plans will have to comply with detailed government regulations or they will not qualify for tax exemption. All new policies will have to be bought through government-created “exchanges.” When the government’s own “insurance” plan puts the screws to its rivals and to doctors, they will leave the market and abandon their customers and patients. We’ll be stuck with either the government plan or “private” plans that ape it. Some choice. Some competition. What a cruel hoax on the American people. But they won’t realize it until it’s too late.</p> <p>No, the alternative is not to do nothing, though that would be far better than what these cretins are about to do. The alternative is to free the market, deregulate top to bottom, and let freedom work for a change.</p> <p>There is no free market in medical care or insurance. It’s about time we’ve had one.</p> <p>When will these vain, power-lusting politicians leave us alone?</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Sheldon Richman</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/healthcare-arrogance.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2009-07-17T15:13:00-05:00'>3:13 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/20077444/1316135682093492999' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=500"); return false;'>9 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/20077444/1316135682093492999' title='Email Post'> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1929462245'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1316135682093492999&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform' rel='tag'>healthcare reform</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> <div class='post-share-buttons'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1316135682093492999&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=20077444&postID=1316135682093492999&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2023/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2023/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2023/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2023/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2023/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2023/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2023/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2023/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/'> 2022 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(98)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(22)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/'> 2021 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(67)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2021/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/'> 2020 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(74)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2020/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/'> 2019 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(33)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2019/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/'> 2018 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(84)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2018/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/'> 2017 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(119)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2017/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/'> 2016 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(168)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2016/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/'> 2015 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(153)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2015/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/'> 2014 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(158)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(22)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2014/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/'> 2013 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(159)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2013/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/'> 2012 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(233)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(42)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(25)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2012/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/'> 2011 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(190)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(22)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2011/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/'> 2010 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(215)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(27)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2010/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/'> 2009 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(226)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/german-physicists-reject-greenhouse.html'>German Physicists Reject Greenhouse Effect</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/hoist-by-his-own-petard.html'>Hoist by His Own Petard</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/kindle-drm-cracked.html'>Kindle DRM Cracked</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/karl-hess-just-because.html'>Karl Hess -- Just Because</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/do-you-really-want-to-know.html'>Do You Really Want to Know?</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-ddt-global-warming-junk-science-and.html'>On DDT, Global Warming, Junk Science, and Libertar...</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/curiously-missing-words.html'>Curiously Missing Words</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/leave-left-behind.html'>Leave the "Left" Behind?</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/all-empires-crumble.html'>All Empires Crumble</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/tgif-workers-of-world-unite-for-free.html'>TGIF: Workers of the World Unite for a Free Market</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/carson-good-reading.html'>Carson: Good Reading!</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-in-oslo.html'>Obama in Oslo</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/tgif-perverse-health-care-incentives.html'>TGIF: Perverse Health Care Incentives</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/op-ed-theres-no-such-thing-as-free.html'>Op-ed: There's No Such Thing as a Free Mammogram</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/patents-end-them-dont-mend-them.html'>Patents: End Them. Don't Mend Them</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/scott-horton-interview.html'>Scott Horton Interview</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/like-it-is.html'>Proudhonian Corollary</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/tgif-snow-job-summit.html'>TGIF: Snow Job Summit</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/op-ed-kill-insurance-mandate.html'>Op-ed: Kill the Insurance Mandate</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/12/civil-war-president.html'>Civil War President</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/tgif-power-to-tax-is-power.html'>TGIF: The Power to Tax is the Power</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/america-corporate-state.html'>America: Corporate State</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/mysteries-of-universe.html'>Mysteries of the Universe</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/tgif.html'>TGIF</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/she-left-me-for-jesus.html'>"She Left Me for Jesus"</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/progressives-against-free-speech.html'>Progressives Against Free Speech?</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/freeman-december-2009-now-online.html'>The Freeman, December 2009, Now Online</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-trial-for-cory-maye.html'>New Trial for Cory Maye!</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/war-crimes-or-only-crimes.html'>War Crimes or Only Crimes</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-insurance-scam.html'>Health Insurance Scam</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/veterans-day.html'>Veterans Day</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/insurance-for-abortion-whats-wrong-with.html'>Insurance for Abortion: What’s Wrong with This Pic...</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/two-decades-since-fall.html'>Two Decades Since the Fall</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/pelosi-health-insurance-bill-summarized.html'>Pelosi Health-Insurance Bill Summarized</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-welfare-state-corrupts-absolutely.html'>TGIF: The Welfare State Corrupts Absolutely</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-grand-proposal.html'>My Grand Proposal</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/freeman-november-2009.html'>The Freeman, November 2009</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-getting-in-deeper.html'>TGIF: Getting in Deeper</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/read-it-and-weep.html'>Read It and Weep</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-frustrating-michael-moore.html'>TGIF: Frustrating Michael Moore</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/missing-point.html'>Missing the Point</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/insurance-companies-want-mandate-with.html'>Insurance Companies Want a Mandate with Teeth</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-youre-not.html'>No You're Not</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/war-is-peace.html'>War Is Peace</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-liberty-versus-social-engineering.html'>TGIF: Liberty versus Social Engineering</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/unemployment-keeps-rising.html'>Unemployment Keeps Rising</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/op-ed-exit-afghanistan-and-leave-iran.html'>Op-ed: Exit Afghanistan and Leave Iran Alone</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/tgif-being-for-free-market-isnt-enough.html'>TGIF: Being for the Free Market Isn't Enough</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/richman-bastiat-in-poland.html'>Richman & Bastiat in Poland</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/10/chicago-dodges-bullet.html'>Chicago Dodges the Bullet</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/excusing-polanski.html'>Excusing Polanski</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/here-we-go-again.html'>Here We Go Again</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/take-it-off-table.html'>Take It Off the Table</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/art-of-politics.html'>The Art of Politics</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-bastiat-in-poland.html'>TGIF: Bastiat in Poland</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/october-freeman.html'>October Freeman</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-monsieur-bastiat-call-your-office.html'>TGIF: Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Office</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/modest-health-care-proposal.html'>A Modest Health-Care Proposal</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/lets-hear-it-for-one-party-autocracy.html'>Let's Hear It for One-Party Autocracy</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-obamacare-status-quo-on-steroids.html'>TGIF - ObamaCare: Status Quo on Steroids</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/ten-lessons-from-911.html'>Ten Lessons from 9/11</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/forcing-insurance-companies-to-cover.html'>Forcing Insurance Companies to Cover Preexisting C...</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-speech.html'>Obama Speech</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/obamas-message-to-kids.html'>Obama's Message to Kids</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/health-care-reformers-duck-hard.html'>Health-Care “Reformers” Duck the Hard Questions</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tgif-from-1944-to-nineteen-eighty-four.html'>TGIF: From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(26)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-latest-future-of-freedom-foundation.html'>Kennedy Op-ed in Star-Tribune</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/tgif-proposers-versus-producers.html'>TGIF: Proposers versus Producers</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/bye-teddy.html'>Bye, Teddy</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-health-insurance-cartel.html'>Obama's Health-Insurance Cartel</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/coming-soon.html'>Now at TheFreemanOnline.org</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/now-i-am-finally-scared-of-white-house.html'>"Now I Am Finally Scared of a White House Administ...</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/has-medicare-extended-life.html'>Has Medicare Extended Life?</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/must-read-on-health-care.html'>Must-Read on Health Care</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/keith-olbermann-demagogue.html'>Keith Olbermann, Demagogue</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/oh-injustice.html'>Oh the Injustice!</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/dont-missthis.html'>Don't MissThis</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/rigging-debate.html'>Rigging the Debate</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/health-care-interview-on-antiwar-radio.html'>Health-Care Interview on Antiwar Radio</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-life-rigmarole-ii.html'>The End-of-Life Rigmarole II</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-life-rigmarole.html'>The End-of-Life Rigmarole</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/government-logic.html'>Government Logic</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/governments-track-record-in-insurance.html'>Government's Track Record in the Insurance Business</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/healthcarereform-protests.html'>The Healthcare-Reform Protests</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/healthcare-thoughts.html'>Healthcare Thoughts</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/law-does-not-predate-commerce.html'>Law Did Not Predate Commerce</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/tgif-market-doesnt-ration-health-care.html'>TGIF: The Market Doesn't Ration Health Care</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/hiroshima.html'>Hiroshima</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/market-does-not-ration.html'>The Market Does Not Ration!</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/rachel-maddow-demagogue.html'>Rachel Maddow, Demagogue</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-we-spend-on-health-care-is-none-of.html'>What We Spend on Health Care Is None of the Govern...</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/08/read-this-article.html'>Read this Article!</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/tgif-are-we-really-all-healthcare.html'>TGIF: Are We Really All Healthcare Collectivists Now?</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/appearance-on-mike-beitlers-free-market.html'>Appearance on Mike Beitler's Free Market Program</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/gates-incident-as-free-speech-case.html'>The Gates Incident as a Free Speech Case</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/medicare-and-socialized-medicine.html'>Obama, Medicare, and Socialized Medicine</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/tgif-cornucopia-of-healthcare-fallacies.html'>TGIF: A Cornucopia of Healthcare Fallacies</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/for-gates-and-against-police.html'>For Gates and Against the Police</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/george-orwell-call-your-office.html'>George Orwell, Call Your Office</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/true-marxism.html'>We're All Marxists Now</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-rush-on-health-care.html'>Why the Rush on Health Care?</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/amazon-promises-not-to-trespass-and.html'>Amazon Promises Not to Trespass and Steal Again</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/books-vanishing-from-kindles.html'>Books Vanishing from Kindles</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/healthcare-arrogance.html'>Healthcare Arrogance</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/tgif-sotomayor-freedom-and-law.html'>TGIF: Sotomayor, Freedom, and the Law</a></li> <li><a href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/07/novelist-gagged-by-judge.html'>Novelist Gagged by Judge</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2009/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/'> 2008 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(163)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2008/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/'> 2007 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(211)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2007/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/'> 2006 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(331)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(32)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(31)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(32)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(34)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a 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href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Al%20Jazeera'>Al Jazeera</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/al%20Qaeda'>al Qaeda</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Al%20Sabawi'>Al Sabawi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/al-Shabaab'>al-Shabaab</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Alan%20Grayson'>Alan Grayson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Alan%20Wolfe'>Alan Wolfe</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Albert%20Einstein'>Albert Einstein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Albert%20Jay%20Nock'>Albert Jay Nock</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/alcohol'>alcohol</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Alejandro%20Mayorkas'>Alejandro Mayorkas</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Aleppo'>Aleppo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Alex%20Epstein'>Alex Epstein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Alexander%20Cockburn'>Alexander Cockburn</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Alexander%20Hamilton'>Alexander Hamilton</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/alibi'>alibi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Alito'>Alito</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/alliances'>alliances</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Alston%20report'>Alston report</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/alt-right'>alt-right</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/altruism'>altruism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Amazon'>Amazon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/America%20First'>America First</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/America%20First%20Committee'>America First Committee</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/America%27s%20Counter-Revolution'>America's Counter-Revolution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Committee%20on%20East-West%20Accord'>American Committee on East-West Accord</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20exceptionalism'>American exceptionalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Health%20Care%20Act'>American Health Care Act</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Herald%20Tribune'>American Herald Tribune</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20history'>American history</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Revolution'>American Revolution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Sniper'>American Sniper</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20System'>American System</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Americanism'>Americanism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Amherst%20Political%20Union'>Amherst Political Union</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/amnesty'>amnesty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/amusement%20parks'>amusement parks</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anarchism'>anarchism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anarchy'>anarchy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Andrea%20Rich'>Andrea Rich</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Anthony%20de%20Jasay'>Anthony de Jasay</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Anthony%20Weiner'>Anthony Weiner</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anti-authoritariaism'>anti-authoritariaism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Corn%20Law%20League'>Anti-Corn Law League</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Federalists'>Anti-Federalists</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anti-imperialism'>anti-imperialism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anti-politician%20politician'>anti-politician politician</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anti-Semitism'>anti-Semitism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(31)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism%20Awareness%20Act'>Anti-Semitism Awareness Act</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/anti-Zionism'>anti-Zionism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/antidiscrimination%20law'>antidiscrimination law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Antifa'>Antifa</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/antimilitarism'>antimilitarism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Antiterrorism%20and%20Effective%20Death%20Penalty%20Act%20of%201996'>Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/antitrust'>antitrust</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/antiwar'>antiwar</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Antiwar%20Radio'>Antiwar Radio</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Antonin%20Scalia'>Antonin Scalia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Anwar%20Sadat'>Anwar Sadat</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/apartheid'>apartheid</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/APEE'>APEE</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Apple'>Apple</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Arab%20Spring'>Arab Spring</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Arab-Jews'>Arab-Jews</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Arabs'>Arabs</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Argentina'>Argentina</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/argument'>argument</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Arianna%20Huffington'>Arianna Huffington</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ariel%20Sharon'>Ariel Sharon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/aristocracy'>aristocracy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Aristotle'>Aristotle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Armistice%20Day'>Armistice Day</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/arms%20makers'>arms makers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/arms%20sales'>arms sales</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Articles%20of%20Confederation'>Articles of Confederation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/assassination'>assassination</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/assimilation'>assimilation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ate'>ate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/atomic%20bomb'>atomic bomb</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Audit%20the%20Fed'>Audit the Fed</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Australia'>Australia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Austrian%20economics'>Austrian economics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/authoritarianism'>authoritarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/authority'>authority</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/auto%20bailout'>auto bailout</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/auto%20industry'>auto industry</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/autocracy'>autocracy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/automation'>automation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/automobile'>automobile</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/autonomy'>autonomy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ayn%20Rand'>Ayn Rand</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Azov%20Sea'>Azov Sea</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/background%20checks'>background checks</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Badenoch%20Kemi'>Badenoch Kemi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/bailouts'>bailouts</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bain%20Capital'>Bain Capital</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/balance%20of%20trade'>balance of trade</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Balfour%20Declaration'>Balfour Declaration</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Balkans'>Balkans</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bangladesh'>Bangladesh</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Banking'>Banking</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Barack%20Obama'>Barack Obama</a> <span dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Barry%20Lando'>Barry Lando</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bashar%20al-Assad'>Bashar al-Assad</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bastiat'>Bastiat</a> <span dir='ltr'>(28)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Batya%20Ungar-Sargon'>Batya Ungar-Sargon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/BCE'>BCE</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/BDS'>BDS</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bedouins'>Bedouins</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Beinart'>Beinart</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ben%20Bernanke'>Ben Bernanke</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ben%20Carson'>Ben Carson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ben%20Gurion'>Ben Gurion</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Benjamin%20Constant'>Benjamin Constant</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Benjamin%20Franklin'>Benjamin Franklin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Benjamin%20Netanyahu'>Benjamin Netanyahu</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Benjamin%20Tucker'>Benjamin Tucker</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bentham'>Bentham</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Berlin%20Wall'>Berlin Wall</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bernad%20von%20NotHaus'>Bernad von NotHaus</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bernard%20Madoff'>Bernard Madoff</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bernie%20Sanders'>Bernie Sanders</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bible'>Bible</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Biden'>Biden</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Big%20Insurance'>Big Insurance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Big%20Tech'>Big Tech</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/bigotry'>bigotry</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bill%20Clinton'>Bill Clinton</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bill%20of%20Rights'>Bill of Rights</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/billionaires'>billionaires</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/biology'>biology</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/bipartisanship'>bipartisanship</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Birthright%20citizenship'>Birthright citizenship</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bitcoin'>Bitcoin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bjorn%20Lomborg'>Bjorn Lomborg</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/black%20community'>black community</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/black%20lives%20matter'>black lives matter</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/black%20market'>black market</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Black%20Sea'>Black Sea</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Blakeley'>Blakeley</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bleeding%20Heart%20Libertarians'>Bleeding Heart Libertarians</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Blinken'>Blinken</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/blowback'>blowback</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Boeing'>Boeing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bohm-Bawerk'>Bohm-Bawerk</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Boko%20Haram'>Boko Haram</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bolshevism'>Bolshevism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/bond%20rating'>bond rating</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/books'>books</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/border%20control'>border control</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/border%20wall'>border wall</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/border-adjustment%20tax'>border-adjustment tax</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/borders'>borders</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Boston%20Marathon%20bombing'>Boston Marathon bombing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Boudreaux'>Boudreaux</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/bourgeoisie'>bourgeoisie</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bowe%20Bergdahl'>Bowe Bergdahl</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/BP'>BP</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bradley%20Manning'>Bradley Manning</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Brett%20Kavanaugh'>Brett Kavanaugh</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Brexit'>Brexit</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Brian%20Williams'>Brian Williams</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/broken-window%20fallacy'>broken-window fallacy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bruce%20Cumings'>Bruce Cumings</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bruno%20Leoni'>Bruno Leoni</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bryan%20Caplan'>Bryan Caplan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/budget%20deficit'>budget deficit</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/budget%20deficits'>budget deficits</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/bump%20stocks'>bump stocks</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bundys'>Bundys</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/burden%20of%20proof'>burden of proof</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bureaucracy'>Bureaucracy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Bush'>Bush</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/business'>business</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/business%20cycle'>business cycle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Buy%20America'>Buy America</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/C4SS'>C4SS</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/CAFE'>CAFE</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cafe%20Hayek'>Cafe Hayek</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/CAIR'>CAIR</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cambridge%20Analytica'>Cambridge Analytica</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/campaign%20finance'>campaign finance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Canaan'>Canaan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cancel%20rent'>cancel rent</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cannon%20Michael'>Cannon Michael</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cantillon%20effects'>Cantillon effects</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/capital'>capital</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/capital%20punishment'>capital punishment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/capitalism'>capitalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(35)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Capitol'>Capitol</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/capitulate'>capitulate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Carden%20Art'>Carden Art</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Carl%20Menger'>Carl Menger</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Carly%20Fiorina'>Carly Fiorina</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Carrier'>Carrier</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Carson%20v.%20Makin'>Carson v. Makin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Castro'>Castro</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/catallactics'>catallactics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Catholics'>Catholics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cato%20Institute'>Cato Institute</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/CBP'>CBP</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/censorship'>censorship</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Center%20for%20a%20Stateless%20Society'>Center for a Stateless Society</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Centers%20for%20Disease%20Control'>Centers for Disease Control</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/central%20banking'>central banking</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/central%20planning'>central planning</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/centralization'>centralization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/centrism'>centrism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/certaity'>certaity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chagossians'>Chagossians</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chalmers%20Johnson'>Chalmers Johnson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chandran%20Kukathas'>Chandran Kukathas</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/character'>character</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Charles%20Krauthammer'>Charles Krauthammer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Charles%20Ponzi'>Charles Ponzi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Charleston'>Charleston</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Charlie%20Hebdo'>Charlie Hebdo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chelsea%20Manning'>Chelsea Manning</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/chemical%20weapons'>chemical weapons</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cheney'>Cheney</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chesterton'>Chesterton</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/children'>children</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/China'>China</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Christie'>Chris Christie</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Coyne'>Chris Coyne</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Hayes'>Chris Hayes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Kyle'>Chris Kyle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Matthews'>Chris Matthews</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Sciabarra'>Chris Sciabarra</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Christianity'>Christianity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Christopher%20Hitchens'>Christopher Hitchens</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Chuck%20Hagel'>Chuck Hagel</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Church%20and%20State'>Church and State</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/CIA'>CIA</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cigarette%20tax'>cigarette tax</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cigarettes'>cigarettes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ciivil%20commitment'>ciivil commitment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Citizens%20for%20Constitutional%20Freedom'>Citizens for Constitutional Freedom</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/citizenship'>citizenship</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/civil%20commitment'>civil commitment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/civil%20forfeiture'>civil forfeiture</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/civil%20liberties'>civil liberties</a> <span dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Civil%20Rights'>Civil Rights</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Civil%20Rights%20Act%20of%201964'>Civil Rights Act of 1964</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Civil%20War'>Civil War</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Clarence%20Thomas'>Clarence Thomas</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/class%20analysis'>class analysis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/class%20conflict'>class conflict</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/class%20struggle'>class struggle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/classical%20economics'>classical economics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/classical%20liberalism'>classical liberalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/climate%20change'>climate change</a> <span dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/clouds'>clouds</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cluster%20bombs'>cluster bombs</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/CNN'>CNN</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/CO2'>CO2</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/coercion'>coercion</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/COIN'>COIN</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cold%20War'>Cold War</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/collective%20security'>collective security</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/collectivism'>collectivism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/colonialism'>colonialism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/colonization'>colonization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Coming%20to%20Palestine'>Coming to Palestine</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Commander%20in%20chief'>Commander in chief</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/commerce'>commerce</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Commerce%20Clause'>Commerce Clause</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Committee%20on%20Public%20Information'>Committee on Public Information</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/common%20law'>common law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/communism'>communism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/community%20organizing'>community organizing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Community%20Reinvestment%20Act'>Community Reinvestment Act</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/competition'>competition</a> <span dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Competitive%20Enterprise%20Institute'>Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/concealed%20carry'>concealed carry</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Condillac'>Condillac</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Condoleezza%20Rice'>Condoleezza Rice</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/conflict'>conflict</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Conflict%20of%20Interest'>Conflict of Interest</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/conformity'>conformity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Congress'>Congress</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Congressional%20Review%20Act'>Congressional Review Act</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/conscription'>conscription</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/consent%20of%20the%20governed'>consent of the governed</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/consequentialism'>consequentialism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/conservatism'>conservatism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Conservative%20Keynesians'>Conservative Keynesians</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/conservatives'>conservatives</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/conspiracy%20theories'>conspiracy theories</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Constitution'>Constitution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(69)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/consumer'>consumer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Consumer%20Financial%20Protection%20Bureau'>Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/consumer%20spending'>consumer spending</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Consumption'>Consumption</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/contraception'>contraception</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cooperation'>cooperation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cooperatives'>cooperatives</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/COP26'>COP26</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/copyright'>copyright</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/copyrights'>copyrights</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cordoba%20House'>Cordoba House</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Coronavirus'>Coronavirus</a> <span dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Corporate%20Average%20Fuel%20Economy'>Corporate Average Fuel Economy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Corporate%20income%20tax'>Corporate income tax</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/corporate%20state'>corporate state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(103)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Corporate%20tax'>Corporate tax</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/corporate%20welfare'>corporate welfare</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/corporation'>corporation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Corporation%20for%20Public%20Broadcasting'>Corporation for Public Broadcasting</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/corporatism'>corporatism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/corruption'>corruption</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cory%20Maye'>Cory Maye</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cosmopolitanism'>Cosmopolitanism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cost-benefit%20analysis'>Cost-benefit analysis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/costs'>costs</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/counterinsurgency'>counterinsurgency</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Counterpunch'>Counterpunch</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/COVID-19'>COVID-19</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/CPAC'>CPAC</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Credit%20cards'>Credit cards</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/crime'>crime</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Crimea'>Crimea</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Crimean%20War'>Crimean War</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Critical%20Race%20Theory'>Critical Race Theory</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/critical%20studies'>critical studies</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/critical%20theory'>critical theory</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cronyism'>cronyism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Crosskey'>Crosskey</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cryptocurrency'>cryptocurrency</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cuba'>Cuba</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cuban%20Embargo'>Cuban Embargo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/cultural%20evolution'>cultural evolution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/culture'>culture</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Curran'>Curran</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Cyberwarfare'>Cyberwarfare</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Daesh'>Daesh</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Daniel%20McCarthy'>Daniel McCarthy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Daniel%20Webster'>Daniel Webster</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Darren%20Wilson'>Darren Wilson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Darwin'>Darwin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Dave%20Rubin'>Dave Rubin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Bernstein'>David Bernstein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Boaz'>David Boaz</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Brooks'>David Brooks</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Cross'>David Cross</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Friedman'>David Friedman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Hume'>David Hume</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Masciotra'>David Masciotra</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Petraeus'>David Petraeus</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Davos'>Davos</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/DDT'>DDT</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/death%20penalty'>death penalty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Debt'>Debt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/debt%20ceiling'>debt ceiling</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/decentralization'>decentralization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Declaration%20of%20Independence'>Declaration of Independence</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/decolonization'>decolonization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Deeming%20regulations'>Deeming regulations</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/default'>default</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Defend%20the%20Guard'>Defend the Guard</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/defense'>defense</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/deficit%20spending'>deficit spending</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Deir%20Yassin'>Deir Yassin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/deLiberation'>deLiberation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/democracy'>democracy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(52)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Democrats'>Democrats</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/deontology'>deontology</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Department%20of%20Commerce'>Department of Commerce</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/deportation'>deportation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/depression'>depression</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/deregulation'>deregulation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/derivatives'>derivatives</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/DeSantis'>DeSantis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Desrochers'>Desrochers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Destutt%20de%20Tracy'>Destutt de Tracy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/determinism'>determinism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/developing%20world'>developing world</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/dialectical%20libertarianism'>dialectical libertarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Dick%20Cheney'>Dick Cheney</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/dictatorship'>dictatorship</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Diego%20Garcia'>Diego Garcia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Dinesh%20D%27Souza'>Dinesh D'Souza</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/disagreement'>disagreement</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/discrimination'>discrimination</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/diversity'>diversity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/division%20of%20labor'>division of labor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/divots'>divots</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Dobbs%20v%20Jackson'>Dobbs v Jackson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Doctor%20Who'>Doctor Who</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Dodd-Frank'>Dodd-Frank</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/DOGE'>DOGE</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Donald%20Trump'>Donald Trump</a> <span dir='ltr'>(140)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Douglas%20Den%20Uyl'>Douglas Den Uyl</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/draft'>draft</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/DRM'>DRM</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/drones'>drones</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/drug%20war'>drug war</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/due%20process'>due process</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Durkheim'>Durkheim</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Dylann%20Roof'>Dylann Roof</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/dynamic%20analysis'>dynamic analysis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economic%20development'>economic development</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economic%20freedom'>economic freedom</a> <span dir='ltr'>(39)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economic%20growth'>economic growth</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economic%20liberty'>economic liberty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economic%20nationalism'>economic nationalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economic%20security'>economic security</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economics'>economics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economies%20of%20scale'>economies of scale</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/economy'>economy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/education'>education</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Edward%20Snowden'>Edward Snowden</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Edwin%20Montagu'>Edwin Montagu</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/efficiency'>efficiency</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/egoism'>egoism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Egypt'>Egypt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Eisenhower'>Eisenhower</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/election'>election</a> <span dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/elections'>elections</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/electric%20vehicles'>electric vehicles</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Elena%20Kagan'>Elena Kagan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/elitism'>elitism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Elizabeth%20Warren'>Elizabeth Warren</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Elmer%20Berger'>Elmer Berger</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Elon%20Musk'>Elon Musk</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Elvis%20Costello'>Elvis Costello</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/embargoes'>embargoes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/eminent%20domain'>eminent domain</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/empire'>empire</a> <span dir='ltr'>(165)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Empiricism'>Empiricism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/enclosure'>enclosure</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/encryption'>encryption</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/energy'>energy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Energy%20policy'>Energy policy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/English'>English</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/English%20student%20protests'>English student protests</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Enlightenment'>Enlightenment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/enterprise'>enterprise</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/entrepreneurship'>entrepreneurship</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/environment'>environment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/environmentalism'>environmentalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Epistemology'>Epistemology</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/equal%20pay%20for%20equal%20work'>equal pay for equal work</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/equality'>equality</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/equity'>equity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Eric%20Garner'>Eric Garner</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/error'>error</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ethnic%20cleansing'>ethnic cleansing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ethnicity'>ethnicity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/eudaimonism'>eudaimonism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/euphemism'>euphemism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/eviction%20moratorium'>eviction moratorium</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/evolution'>evolution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/executive%20pay'>executive pay</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/expertise'>expertise</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/explanations'>explanations</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/exploitation'>exploitation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Export-Import%20Bank'>Export-Import Bank</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/extraordinary%20rendition'>extraordinary rendition</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/extremism'>extremism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Facebook'>Facebook</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/fairness'>fairness</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Faisal%20Shahzad'>Faisal Shahzad</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Family%20Leave'>Family Leave</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fannie%20Mae'>Fannie Mae</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Farrah%20Fawcette'>Farrah Fawcette</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/fascism'>fascism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/fast-food%20workers'>fast-food workers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fatal%20Conceit'>Fatal Conceit</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fauci'>Fauci</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/FBI'>FBI</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/FDA'>FDA</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Federal%20Reserve'>Federal Reserve</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Federal%20Trade%20Commission'>Federal Trade Commission</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/federalism'>federalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Federalist%20Papers'>Federalist Papers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Federalists'>Federalists</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/FEE'>FEE</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/feelings'>feelings</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ferguson'>Ferguson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fiddler%20on%20the%20Roof'>Fiddler on the Roof</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/financial%20regulation'>financial regulation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Finkelstein'>Finkelstein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/First%20Amendment'>First Amendment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/fiscal%20cliff'>fiscal cliff</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/fiscal%20crisis'>fiscal crisis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/flag'>flag</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/flag-burning'>flag-burning</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/flood%20insurance'>flood insurance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/force'>force</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/foreign%20aid'>foreign aid</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/foreign%20policy'>foreign policy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(64)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/founding%20fathers'>founding fathers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fourteenth%20Amendment'>Fourteenth Amendment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fourth%20Amendment'>Fourth Amendment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fox%20News'>Fox News</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Franklin%20Roosevelt'>Franklin Roosevelt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Franz%20Oppenheimer'>Franz Oppenheimer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Freddie%20Mac'>Freddie Mac</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Frederic%20Passy'>Frederic Passy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20banking'>free banking</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20exchange'>free exchange</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20inquiry'>free inquiry</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20market'>free market</a> <span dir='ltr'>(91)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20press'>free press</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20speech'>free speech</a> <span dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20trade'>free trade</a> <span dir='ltr'>(54)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free%20will'>free will</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free-market%20anti-capitalism'>free-market anti-capitalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Free-market%20socialism'>Free-market socialism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/free-rider%20problem'>free-rider problem</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/freed%20market'>freed market</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/freedom'>freedom</a> <span dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Freedom%20Act'>Freedom Act</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Freeman'>Freeman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/FTX'>FTX</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fuhrer%20Principle'>Fuhrer Principle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Fuhrerprinzip'>Fuhrerprinzip</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/full-body%20scans'>full-body scans</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Furkan%20Dogan'>Furkan Dogan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Future%20of%20Freedom%20Foundation'>Future of Freedom Foundation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/G-20'>G-20</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gale%20Pooley'>Gale Pooley</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gandhi'>Gandhi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Garet%20Garrett'>Garet Garrett</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gareth%20Porter'>Gareth Porter</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gary%20Chartier'>Gary Chartier</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gary%20Johnson'>Gary Johnson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/gaslighting'>gaslighting</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/gay%20marriage'>gay marriage</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/gay%20rights'>gay rights</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gaza'>Gaza</a> <span dir='ltr'>(33)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gen.%20Petraeus'>Gen. Petraeus</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/gender'>gender</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gene%20Sharp'>Gene Sharp</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Motors'>General Motors</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/genocide'>genocide</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20Carlin'>George Carlin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20H.%20Smith'>George H. Smith</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20Kennan'>George Kennan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20Reisman'>George Reisman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20Romney'>George Romney</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20W.%20Bush'>George W. Bush</a> <span dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20Washington'>George Washington</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20Zimmerman'>George Zimmerman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Georgia'>Georgia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Geraldine%20Ferraro'>Geraldine Ferraro</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/gig%20economy'>gig economy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gilad%20Atzmon'>Gilad Atzmon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gilbert%20and%20Sullivan'>Gilbert and Sullivan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gilbert%20Ryle'>Gilbert Ryle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gilded%20Age'>Gilded Age</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/giving%20back'>giving back</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Glass-Steagall'>Glass-Steagall</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Glazer'>Glazer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Glenn%20Beck'>Glenn Beck</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Glenn%20Greenwald'>Glenn Greenwald</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Glenn%20Loury'>Glenn Loury</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20warming'>global warming</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/globalization'>globalization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/GM'>GM</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gold'>Gold</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Golda%20Meir'>Golda Meir</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Goldman%20Sachs'>Goldman Sachs</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Goldstein'>Goldstein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/golf'>golf</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20Gekko'>Gordon Gekko</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20S.%20Wood'>Gordon S. Wood</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20Tullock'>Gordon Tullock</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/government'>government</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/government%20failure'>government failure</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/government%20schools'>government schools</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/government%20spending'>government spending</a> <span dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/government%20subsidies'>government subsidies</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/government%20unions'>government unions</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gramm'>Gramm</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/grand%20jury'>grand jury</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20Barrington%20Declaration'>Great Barrington Declaration</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20Depression'>Great Depression</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20Recession'>Great Recession</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/great%20replacement'>great replacement</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20War'>Great War</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Greece'>Greece</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/greed'>greed</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Green%20New%20Deal'>Green New Deal</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/greens'>greens</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/gridlock'>gridlock</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Grover%20Cleveland'>Grover Cleveland</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Guantanamo'>Guantanamo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/gun%20buyback'>gun buyback</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/gun%20control'>gun control</a> <span dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/guns'>guns</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Gunter%20Grass'>Gunter Grass</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Guterres'>Guterres</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/habeas%20corpus'>habeas corpus</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hacking'>Hacking</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Halloween'>Halloween</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Halper'>Halper</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Haman'>Haman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hamas'>Hamas</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hammonds'>Hammonds</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/handguns'>handguns</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hannah%20Arendt'>Hannah Arendt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hanover%20College'>Hanover College</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/happiness'>happiness</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/hardliners'>hardliners</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Harold%20Berman'>Harold Berman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Harris%20Kamala'>Harris Kamala</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Harry%20Truman'>Harry Truman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hasan%20Minhaj'>Hasan Minhaj</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/hasbara%20culture'>hasbara culture</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hawley'>Hawley</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hayek'>Hayek</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hayes%20Carll'>Hayes Carll</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hazlitt'>Hazlitt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health%20care'>health care</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health%20insurance'>health insurance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/health-care%20summit'>health-care summit</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare%20reform'>healthcare reform</a> <span dir='ltr'>(46)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Helen%20Pluckrose'>Helen Pluckrose</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Helen%20Thomas'>Helen Thomas</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Henry%20George'>Henry George</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Henry%20Kissinger'>Henry Kissinger</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Henry%20Louis%20Gates'>Henry Louis Gates</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Henry%20Veatch'>Henry Veatch</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Herbert%20Hoover'>Herbert Hoover</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Herbert%20Spencer'>Herbert Spencer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Herzl'>Herzl</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hezbollah'>Hezbollah</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/higher%20education'>higher education</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hilaire%20Belloc'>Hilaire Belloc</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hillary%20Clinton'>Hillary Clinton</a> <span dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hiroshima'>Hiroshima</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/history'>history</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hitler'>Hitler</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hobbes'>Hobbes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hoffer'>Hoffer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Holocaust'>Holocaust</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/homophobia'>homophobia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hong%20Kong'>Hong Kong</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/housing'>housing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/housing%20bubble'>housing bubble</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Houthis'>Houthis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Howard%20Gutman'>Howard Gutman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Howard%20Zinn'>Howard Zinn</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Human%20Action'>Human Action</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/human%20nature'>human nature</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/human%20right'>human right</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/human%20rights'>human rights</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Human%20Rights%20Watch'>Human Rights Watch</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hume'>Hume</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Hunter%20Biden'>Hunter Biden</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/I%20Pencil'>I Pencil</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ICE'>ICE</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/identity'>identity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/identity%20politics'>identity politics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ideology'>ideology</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ignorance'>ignorance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/illiberalism'>illiberalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ilya%20Somin'>Ilya Somin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/immigrants'>immigrants</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/immigration'>immigration</a> <span dir='ltr'>(63)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/imperialism'>imperialism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(52)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Implied-Powers%20Doctrine'>Implied-Powers Doctrine</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/incentives'>incentives</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/inclusion'>inclusion</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/income'>income</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/income%20gap'>income gap</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/income%20tax'>income tax</a> <span dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/indefinite%20detention'>indefinite detention</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/independence'>independence</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/India'>India</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Indians'>Indians</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/individualism'>individualism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/industrial%20policy'>industrial policy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/inequality'>inequality</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Inflation'>Inflation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Inflation%20Reduction%20Act'>Inflation Reduction Act</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Infrastructure'>Infrastructure</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/institutions'>institutions</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/insurance'>insurance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/integration'>integration</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/intel%20community'>intel community</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Intellectual%20property'>Intellectual property</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/intellectual%20revolution'>intellectual revolution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/interest'>interest</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/International%20Monetary%20Fund'>International Monetary Fund</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Internet'>Internet</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/intervention'>intervention</a> <span dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/interventionism'>interventionism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/intolerance'>intolerance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/intuition'>intuition</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/invasion'>invasion</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/investment'>investment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Invisible%20Hand'>Invisible Hand</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/involuntary%20hospitalization'>involuntary hospitalization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/IP'>IP</a> <span dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/IPCC'>IPCC</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran'>Iran</a> <span dir='ltr'>(107)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Iraq'>Iraq</a> <span dir='ltr'>(112)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/IRS'>IRS</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ISIL'>ISIL</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ISIS'>ISIS</a> <span dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Islam'>Islam</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Islamic%20State'>Islamic State</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/isolationism'>isolationism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Israel'>Israel</a> <span dir='ltr'>(286)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Israel%20Kirzner'>Israel Kirzner</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Israel%20Lobby'>Israel Lobby</a> <span dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ivanka%20Trump'>Ivanka Trump</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/J.D.%20Salinger'>J.D. Salinger</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jack%20Ross'>Jack Ross</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacob%20T.%20Levy'>Jacob T. Levy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacobinism'>Jacobinism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jamal%20Khashoggi'>Jamal Khashoggi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Bond'>James Bond</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Boyle'>James Boyle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Buchanan'>James Buchanan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Garner'>James Garner</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Kilpatrick'>James Kilpatrick</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Madison'>James Madison</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Sadowsky'>James Sadowsky</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jane%20Cobden'>Jane Cobden</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/January%206'>January 6</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Japan'>Japan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Japanese%20internment'>Japanese internment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jared%20Kushner'>Jared Kushner</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jared%20Lee%20Loughner'>Jared Lee Loughner</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jason%20Brennan'>Jason Brennan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jason%20Greenblatt'>Jason Greenblatt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jeanette%20Rankin'>Jeanette Rankin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jeb%20Bush'>Jeb Bush</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jeff%20Sessions'>Jeff Sessions</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jeff%20Tucker'>Jeff Tucker</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jeffrey%20Rogers%20Hummel'>Jeffrey Rogers Hummel</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jerusalem'>Jerusalem</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jewish%20Anti-Zionism'>Jewish Anti-Zionism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jewish%20Lobby'>Jewish Lobby</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jewish%20people'>Jewish people</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jewish%20State'>Jewish State</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jewish%20vote'>Jewish vote</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jews'>Jews</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jim%20Crow%20laws'>Jim Crow laws</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jimmy%20Carter'>Jimmy Carter</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jimmy%20Lai'>Jimmy Lai</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/jobs'>jobs</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Joe%20Lieberman'>Joe Lieberman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Batchelor'>John Batchelor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Blundell'>John Blundell</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Bright'>John Bright</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20F.%20Kennedy'>John F. Kennedy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Hasnas'>John Hasnas</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Hospers'>John Hospers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Kasich'>John Kasich</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Kerry'>John Kerry</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Lewis'>John Lewis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Locke'>John Locke</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Mearsheimer'>John Mearsheimer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Millar'>John Millar</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Nash'>John Nash</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Philpot%20Curran'>John Philpot Curran</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Pilger'>John Pilger</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Quiggin'>John Quiggin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Quincy%20Adams'>John Quincy Adams</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Reed'>John Reed</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Stossel'>John Stossel</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Stuart%20Mill'>John Stuart Mill</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Joint%20Comprehensive%20Plan%20of%20Action'>Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jon%20Stewart'>Jon Stewart</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonah%20Goldberg'>Jonah Goldberg</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Jordan'>Jordan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Joseph%20Stromberg'>Joseph Stromberg</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Joshua'>Joshua</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Journalism'>Journalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/JPMorgan%20Chase'>JPMorgan Chase</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Juan%20Williams'>Juan Williams</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Judah%20Magnes'>Judah Magnes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Judaism'>Judaism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Judge%20Doughty'>Judge Doughty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Julian%20Assange'>Julian Assange</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Julian%20Simon'>Julian Simon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/July%204'>July 4</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/July%204th'>July 4th</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/junk%20science'>junk science</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/justice'>justice</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kant'>Kant</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Karl%20Hess'>Karl Hess</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Keith%20Olbermann'>Keith Olbermann</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenneth%20Marcus'>Kenneth Marcus</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenneth%20Roth'>Kenneth Roth</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenya'>Kenya</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kerch%20Strait'>Kerch Strait</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kevin%20Carson'>Kevin Carson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Keynes'>Keynes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Keynesian%20economics'>Keynesian economics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Khan%20al-Ahmar'>Khan al-Ahmar</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Khan%20Lina'>Khan Lina</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Khazars'>Khazars</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kim%20Davis'>Kim Davis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kim%20Jong-un'>Kim Jong-un</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kindle'>Kindle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/King%20John'>King John</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kissinger'>Kissinger</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/knowledge'>knowledge</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/knowledge%20problem'>knowledge problem</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Koch%20Brothers'>Koch Brothers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Korean%20War'>Korean War</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Kosovo'>Kosovo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/L.%20Francis%20Cissna'>L. Francis Cissna</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/La%20Boetie'>La Boetie</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/labor'>labor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(25)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Labor%20Day'>Labor Day</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/labor%20theory%20of%20value'>labor theory of value</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/labor-saving'>labor-saving</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/laissez%20faire'>laissez faire</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/land'>land</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/land%20reform'>land reform</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/land-use%20restrictions'>land-use restrictions</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/landlordism'>landlordism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/language'>language</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Laos'>Laos</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/law'>law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/law%20of%20cost'>law of cost</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/law%20of%20parsimony'>law of parsimony</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/law%20of%20the%20jungle'>law of the jungle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/law%20of%20unintended%20consequences'>law of unintended consequences</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lawrence%20O%27Donnell'>Lawrence O'Donnell</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lawrence%20White'>Lawrence White</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Leap%20Year'>Leap Year</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lebanon'>Lebanon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Left-libertarianism'>Left-libertarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(36)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Leon%20Panetta'>Leon Panetta</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Leonard%20Liggio'>Leonard Liggio</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Leonard%20Peikoff'>Leonard Peikoff</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lewis%20book'>Lewis book</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/liberalism'>liberalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(27)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/libertarian%20brutalism'>libertarian brutalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Libertarian%20Institute'>Libertarian Institute</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Libertarian%20Papers'>Libertarian Papers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Libertarian%20Party'>Libertarian Party</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/libertarianism'>libertarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(76)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/libertarians'>libertarians</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Libertopia'>Libertopia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/liberty'>liberty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Liberty%20Dollar'>Liberty Dollar</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Liberty%20Fund'>Liberty Fund</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Liberty.me'>Liberty.me</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Libya'>Libya</a> <span dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/licensing'>licensing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Life'>Life</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/life%20expectancy'>life expectancy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Likud'>Likud</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/limited%20government'>limited government</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lincoln'>Lincoln</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/LIons%20of%20Liberty'>LIons of Liberty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/loaded%20question'>loaded question</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/lobbyists'>lobbyists</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/lockdown'>lockdown</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Locke'>Locke</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/logic'>logic</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Logical%20Atheist'>Logical Atheist</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lon%20Fuller'>Lon Fuller</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/love'>love</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/low-wage%20workers'>low-wage workers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lucy%20Steigerwald'>Lucy Steigerwald</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ludwig%20Wittgenstein'>Ludwig Wittgenstein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lysander%20Spooner'>Lysander Spooner</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Maccabees'>Maccabees</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Madeleine%20Albright'>Madeleine Albright</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Madness'>Madness</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Madoff'>Madoff</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/magna%20carta'>magna carta</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mahoud%20Ahmadinejad'>Mahoud Ahmadinejad</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mainstream%20media'>mainstream media</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Make-work'>Make-work</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Malheur%20National%20Wildlife%20Preserve'>Malheur National Wildlife Preserve</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mali'>Mali</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/management'>management</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Manchin-Toomey'>Manchin-Toomey</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mandate'>mandate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mandates'>mandates</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mandatory%20voting'>mandatory voting</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Manufacturing'>Manufacturing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Marco%20Rubio'>Marco Rubio</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/marginal%20utility'>marginal utility</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Marian%20Tupy'>Marian Tupy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mario%20Rizzo'>Mario Rizzo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mario%20Savio'>Mario Savio</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/market%20anarchism'>market anarchism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/market%20failure'>market failure</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/market%20forces'>market forces</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/market%20process'>market process</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Marketplace%20of%20ideas'>Marketplace of ideas</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/markets'>markets</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Markets%20Not%20Capitalism'>Markets Not Capitalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/marriage'>marriage</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/martial%20law'>martial law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Feldstein'>Martin Feldstein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Indyk'>Martin Indyk</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Luther%20King'>Martin Luther King</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Marx'>Marx</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Marxism'>Marxism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mask%20mandate'>mask mandate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/materialism'>materialism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Matt%20Bruenig'>Matt Bruenig</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Matt%20Ridley'>Matt Ridley</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Maus'>Maus</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mavi%20Marmara'>Mavi Marmara</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Max%20Blumenthal'>Max Blumenthal</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/McCain'>McCain</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/McCloskey%20Deirdre'>McCloskey Deirdre</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/media%20appearance'>media appearance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Medicaid'>Medicaid</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/medical%20care'>medical care</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/medical%20research'>medical research</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Medicare'>Medicare</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Medicare%20for%20all'>Medicare for all</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/medicine'>medicine</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Memorial%20Day'>Memorial Day</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Menachem%20Begin'>Menachem Begin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mencken'>Mencken</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Menger'>Menger</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mental%20illness'>mental illness</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/menthol%20ban'>menthol ban</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mercantilism'>mercantilism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/merchants%20of%20death'>merchants of death</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Brown'>Michael Brown</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Flynn'>Michael Flynn</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Liebowitz'>Michael Liebowitz</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Moore'>Michael Moore</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Michele%20Bachmann'>Michele Bachmann</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Microsoft'>Microsoft</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Middle%20East'>Middle East</a> <span dir='ltr'>(34)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mika%20Brzezinski'>Mika Brzezinski</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mike%20Huckabee'>Mike Huckabee</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mike%20Johnson'>Mike Johnson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Miko%20Peled'>Miko Peled</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Milei'>Milei</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/militarism'>militarism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/military%20budget'>military budget</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Military%20parade'>Military parade</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/military-industrial%20complex'>military-industrial complex</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Milton%20Friedman'>Milton Friedman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/minarchism'>minarchism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/minimum%20wage'>minimum wage</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Miranda%20Warnings'>Miranda Warnings</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mises'>Mises</a> <span dir='ltr'>(32)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mission%20creep'>mission creep</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mitt%20Romney'>Mitt Romney</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mixed%20economy'>mixed economy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mobility'>Mobility</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mohammed%20bin%20Salman'>Mohammed bin Salman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Molinari'>Molinari</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mondoweiss'>Mondoweiss</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/monetization%20of%20debt'>monetization of debt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/money'>money</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/money%20power'>money power</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/monopoly'>monopoly</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/morality'>morality</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mortgage%20interest%20deduction'>mortgage interest deduction</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Most%20Dangerous%20Derivative'>Most Dangerous Derivative</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/motivation'>motivation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/MSNBC'>MSNBC</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mubarak'>Mubarak</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Muhammad%20Atta'>Muhammad Atta</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Muhammad%20Youssef%20Abdulazeez'>Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/multilateralism'>multilateralism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Murr%20v.%20Wisconsin'>Murr v. Wisconsin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Murray%20Rothbard'>Murray Rothbard</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Muslim%20Brotherhood'>Muslim Brotherhood</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Muslims'>Muslims</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mussolini'>Mussolini</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mutual%20aid'>mutual aid</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/mutualism'>mutualism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/myth'>myth</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/NAFTA'>NAFTA</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nagasaki'>Nagasaki</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nakba'>nakba</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nancy%20Pelosi'>Nancy Pelosi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/NAP'>NAP</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nat%20Hentoff'>Nat Hentoff</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nathaniel%20Branden'>Nathaniel Branden</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nation'>nation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nation-state'>nation-state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/national%20conservatism'>national conservatism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/national%20debt'>national debt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(22)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/national%20defense'>national defense</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/National%20Endowment%20for%20the%20Arts'>National Endowment for the Arts</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/National%20Endowment%20for%20the%20Humanities'>National Endowment for the Humanities</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/national%20ID'>national ID</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/National%20Review'>National Review</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/national%20security%20letters'>national security letters</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/national%20security%20state'>national security state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/national%20service'>national service</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nationalism'>nationalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Native%20Americans'>Native Americans</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/NATO'>NATO</a> <span dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/natural%20law'>natural law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/natural%20resources'>natural resources</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/natural%20rights'>natural rights</a> <span dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Navy%20Seals'>Navy Seals</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nazis'>Nazis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/NDAA'>NDAA</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nelson%20Mandela'>Nelson Mandela</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/neoconservatives'>neoconservatives</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/neoliberalism'>neoliberalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Net%20neutrality'>Net neutrality</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/new%20cold%20war'>new cold war</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Deal'>New Deal</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20York%20Times'>New York Times</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/News%20media'>News media</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Newt%20Gingrich'>Newt Gingrich</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/NFL'>NFL</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Niger'>Niger</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ninth%20Amendment'>Ninth Amendment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nirvana%20Fallacy'>Nirvana Fallacy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nixon'>Nixon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nobel%20Peace%20Prize'>Nobel Peace Prize</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nominalism'>Nominalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nonaggression%20obligation'>nonaggression obligation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nonbinary'>nonbinary</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/noninterventionism'>noninterventionism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(46)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nonviolent%20resistance'>nonviolent resistance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Norberg%20Johan'>Norberg Johan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/North%20Korea'>North Korea</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Northern%20Paiute'>Northern Paiute</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/NPR'>NPR</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/NSA'>NSA</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nuance'>nuance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Nuclear%20Non-Proliferation%20Treaty'>Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/nuclear%20weapons'>nuclear weapons</a> <span dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama'>Obama</a> <span dir='ltr'>(79)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obamacare'>Obamacare</a> <span dir='ltr'>(35)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Obergefell'>Obergefell</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Objectivism'>Objectivism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/objectivity'>objectivity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Occam%27s%20Razor'>Occam's Razor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Occupied%20Territories'>Occupied Territories</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Occupy%20Wall%20Street'>Occupy Wall Street</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/oil%20spill'>oil spill</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/oil.%20energy%20independence'>oil. energy independence</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Old%20Testament'>Old Testament</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Oliver%20Wendell%20Holmes'>Oliver Wendell Holmes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Olympics'>Olympics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Omar%20Khadr'>Omar Khadr</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/On%20Liberty'>On Liberty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20borders'>open borders</a> <span dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Open%20Marketplace%20of%20Ideas'>Open Marketplace of Ideas</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Operation%20Cast%20Lead'>Operation Cast Lead</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Operation%20Odyssey%20Dawn'>Operation Odyssey Dawn</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Operation%20Wetback'>Operation Wetback</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/opting%20out'>opting out</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ordered%20liberty'>ordered liberty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/organization'>organization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Organization%20Theory'>Organization Theory</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/original%20liberalism'>original liberalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Orwell'>Orwell</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Osama%20bin%20Laden'>Osama bin Laden</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ostrom'>Ostrom</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ottoman%20Empire'>Ottoman Empire</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/outsourcing'>outsourcing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Overtime%20rule'>Overtime rule</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/ownership'>ownership</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/P.T.%20Bauer'>P.T. Bauer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/P5%2B1'>P5+1</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pacificism'>pacificism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pacifism'>pacifism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/package%20deal'>package deal</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Paddy%20Chayefsky'>Paddy Chayefsky</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Pakistan'>Pakistan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Palestine'>Palestine</a> <span dir='ltr'>(198)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Palestine%20Papers'>Palestine Papers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Palestinian%20Authority'>Palestinian Authority</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Palestinians'>Palestinians</a> <span dir='ltr'>(159)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/panarchism'>panarchism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pandemic'>pandemic</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Paris%20Climate%20Accord'>Paris Climate Accord</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Partition'>Partition</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Pascal%27s%20Wager'>Pascal's Wager</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/patents'>patents</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/paternalism'>paternalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Patriot%20Act'>Patriot Act</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Patriot%27s%20Lament'>Patriot's Lament</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/patriotism'>patriotism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Paul%20Greenberg'>Paul Greenberg</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Paul%20Krugman'>Paul Krugman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Paul%20Ryan'>Paul Ryan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/PBS'>PBS</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Peace'>Peace</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Peace%20through%20Strength'>Peace through Strength</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Pearl%20Harbor'>Pearl Harbor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Penn%20Jillette'>Penn Jillette</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Pentagon'>Pentagon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/personal%20liberty'>personal liberty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/persuasion'>persuasion</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Peter%20Boettke'>Peter Boettke</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Peter%20Hitchens'>Peter Hitchens</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Peter%20King'>Peter King</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Peter%20Klein'>Peter Klein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/PeterMac%20Show'>PeterMac Show</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Phil%20Donahue'>Phil Donahue</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Philip%20Wicksteed'>Philip Wicksteed</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Philosophy'>Philosophy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/phobia'>phobia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Pi%20Day'>Pi Day</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/piracy'>piracy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/plagiarism'>plagiarism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Planned%20Parenthood'>Planned Parenthood</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Plato'>Plato</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pluralism'>pluralism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/polarization'>polarization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/police'>police</a> <span dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/police%20brutality'>police brutality</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/police%20reform'>police reform</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/police%20state'>police state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/political%20authority'>political authority</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/political%20economy'>political economy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/politicians'>politicians</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/politics'>politics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(35)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pollution'>pollution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/polycentric%20law'>polycentric law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Pope%20Francis'>Pope Francis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/populism'>populism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/positive%20law'>positive law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/postmodernism'>postmodernism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/poststructuralism'>poststructuralism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/poverty'>poverty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/power'>power</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pragmatism'>pragmatism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/praxeology'>praxeology</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Predators'>Predators</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Presidency'>Presidency</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/presidential%20debate'>presidential debate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/presidential%20election'>presidential election</a> <span dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/presumption%20of%20innocence'>presumption of innocence</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pretence%20of%20knowledge'>pretence of knowledge</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/preventive%20detention'>preventive detention</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/price'>price</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/price%20controls'>price controls</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/price%20gouging'>price gouging</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/price%20system'>price system</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/privacy'>privacy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/private'>private</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Private%20equity'>Private equity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/private%20property'>private property</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/privatization'>privatization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/privilege'>privilege</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/problem-solving'>problem-solving</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/production'>production</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/profit'>profit</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/progress'>progress</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Progressives'>Progressives</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/progressivism'>progressivism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/prohibition'>prohibition</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/prolonged%20detention'>prolonged detention</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Propaganda'>Propaganda</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/property'>property</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/property%20rights'>property rights</a> <span dir='ltr'>(22)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Prophets'>Prophets</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/protectionism'>protectionism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(46)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/protest'>protest</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Proudhon'>Proudhon</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pseudoscience'>pseudoscience</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/psychiatry'>psychiatry</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public'>public</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public%20choice'>public choice</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public%20goods'>public goods</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public%20health'>public health</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public%20option'>public option</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public%20policy'>public policy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public%20property'>public property</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/public%20schools'>public schools</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/punishment'>punishment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Purim'>Purim</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/pursuit%20of%20happiness'>pursuit of happiness</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Putin'>Putin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Qaddafi'>Qaddafi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Quincy%20Institute'>Quincy Institute</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rabbi%20Outcast'>Rabbi Outcast</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/race'>race</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/racecraft'>racecraft</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rachel%20Corrie'>Rachel Corrie</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rachel%20Maddow'>Rachel Maddow</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/racial%20polarization'>racial polarization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/racism'>racism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/radicalism'>radicalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rahm%20Emanuel'>Rahm Emanuel</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/RAISE%20Act'>RAISE Act</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ralph%20Nader'>Ralph Nader</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ralph%20Raico'>Ralph Raico</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rand%20Paul'>Rand Paul</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Randolph%20Bourne'>Randolph Bourne</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rape'>rape</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rational%20Egoist'>Rational Egoist</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rationalism'>rationalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rationing'>rationing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Razan%20al-Najjar'>Razan al-Najjar</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Read'>Read</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/reading'>reading</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/REAL%20ID'>REAL ID</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Realism'>Realism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/reality'>reality</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/reason'>reason</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/recapitulate'>recapitulate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/recession'>recession</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/reform'>reform</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Reform%20Judaism'>Reform Judaism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Refugees'>Refugees</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/regime%20change'>regime change</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/reglation'>reglation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/reglion'>reglion</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/regulation'>regulation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(27)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/regulatory%20takings'>regulatory takings</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/relativism'>relativism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/religion'>religion</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/religion%20freedom'>religion freedom</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Renan'>Renan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rent'>rent</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rent-seeking'>rent-seeking</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Representative%20Government'>Representative Government</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/republicanism'>republicanism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Republicans'>Republicans</a> <span dir='ltr'>(37)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/resources'>resources</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/respect'>respect</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/restitution'>restitution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/reverse%20scapegoating'>reverse scapegoating</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Revisionist%20History'>Revisionist History</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Revisionist%20History%20Day'>Revisionist History Day</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Revolution'>Revolution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/revolving%20door'>revolving door</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rhetoric'>rhetoric</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Richard%20Cobden'>Richard Cobden</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Richard%20Dawkins'>Richard Dawkins</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Richman%27s%20Law'>Richman's Law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Right%20of%20return'>Right of return</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/right%20wing'>right wing</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/right-to-work%20laws'>right-to-work laws</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rights'>rights</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rights%20of%20Man'>Rights of Man</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rights%20theory'>rights theory</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Road%20%20to%20Serfdom'>Road to Serfdom</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Robber%20Barons'>Robber Barons</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Robert%20Gates'>Robert Gates</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Robert%20McNamara'>Robert McNamara</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Robert%20Nozick'>Robert Nozick</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Robin%20Williams'>Robin Williams</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rockingham%20Whigs'>Rockingham Whigs</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Roderick%20Long'>Roderick Long</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Roe%20v%20Wade'>Roe v Wade</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rogan'>Rogan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rogen'>Rogen</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Roger%20Pielke'>Roger Pielke</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Roman%20Polanski'>Roman Polanski</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Romney'>Romney</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ron%20Paul'>Ron Paul</a> <span dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ronald%20Hamowy'>Ronald Hamowy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ross%20Ulbricht'>Ross Ulbricht</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Roy%20Childs'>Roy Childs</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rule%20of%20Law'>Rule of Law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/rules'>rules</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ruling%20class'>Ruling class</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Rupert%20Murdoch'>Rupert Murdoch</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Russia'>Russia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(54)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Russiagate'>Russiagate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Russian%20spies'>Russian spies</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Russophilia'>Russophilia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ryle'>Ryle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Saddam%20Hussein'>Saddam Hussein</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/safety'>safety</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sam%20Harris'>Sam Harris</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sam%20Husseini'>Sam Husseini</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/same-sex%20marriage'>same-sex marriage</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/same-sex%20spaces'>same-sex spaces</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/sanctions'>sanctions</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sandra%20Bland'>Sandra Bland</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sarah%20Palin'>Sarah Palin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/satire'>satire</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Saudi'>Saudi</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Saudi%20Arabia'>Saudi Arabia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/saving'>saving</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Say%27s%20Law'>Say's Law</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/scarcity'>scarcity</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/school%20choice'>school choice</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Schumer'>Schumer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/science'>science</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/science%20denial'>science denial</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/scientism'>scientism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Scott%20Gottlieb'>Scott Gottlieb</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Scott%20Horton'>Scott Horton</a> <span dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/secession'>secession</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Second%20Amendment'>Second Amendment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/sectarianism'>sectarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/secular%20faith'>secular faith</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/security'>security</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Securties%20and%20Exchange%20Commission'>Securties and Exchange Commission</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/segregation'>segregation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Seinfeld'>Seinfeld</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/self-defense'>self-defense</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/self-determination'>self-determination</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/self-interest'>self-interest</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/self-love'>self-love</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/self-ownership'>self-ownership</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/self-reliance'>self-reliance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/self-responsibility'>self-responsibility</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/selfish%20gene'>selfish gene</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/selfishness'>selfishness</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/sep'>sep</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/separation%20of%20school%20and%20state'>separation of school and state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/September%2011'>September 11</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/sequestration'>sequestration</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Serbia'>Serbia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Service%20economy'>Service economy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Servile%20State'>Servile State</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/sex'>sex</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/sexism'>sexism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/sexual%20assault'>sexual assault</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Seymour%20Hersh'>Seymour Hersh</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sharmine%20Narwani'>Sharmine Narwani</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Shays%27%20Rebellion'>Shays' Rebellion</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sheikh%20Jarrah'>Sheikh Jarrah</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Shelley%20Berman'>Shelley Berman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Shiites'>Shiites</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Shimon%20Peres'>Shimon Peres</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Shlaim'>Shlaim</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/short-selling'>short-selling</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/shutdown'>shutdown</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Silk%20Road'>Silk Road</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/single-payer'>single-payer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Six-Day%20War'>Six-Day War</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/skepticism'>skepticism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Skousen'>Skousen</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Slate'>Slate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/slavery'>slavery</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/smartphone'>smartphone</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Smedley%20Butler'>Smedley Butler</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/smoking'>smoking</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20contract'>social contract</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20cooperation'>social cooperation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20democracy'>social democracy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20engineering'>social engineering</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20media'>social media</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20networks'>social networks</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20science'>social science</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Social%20Security'>Social Security</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/socialism'>socialism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(33)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/socialist%20calculation%20debate'>socialist calculation debate</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/socialized%20medicine'>socialized medicine</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Socrates'>Socrates</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/soldiers'>soldiers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Soleimani'>Soleimani</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Somalia'>Somalia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sonia%20Sotomayor'>Sonia Sotomayor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/SOPA'>SOPA</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/South%20Africa'>South Africa</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/sovereignty'>sovereignty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Soviet%20Union'>Soviet Union</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sowell'>Sowell</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Spain'>Spain</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/special%20ops%20forces'>special ops forces</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Spencer'>Spencer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Spinoza'>Spinoza</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/spontaneous%20order'>spontaneous order</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/spying'>spying</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Stand%20your%20ground'>Stand your ground</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/standing%20army'>standing army</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Stanley%20McChrystal'>Stanley McChrystal</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/state%20capitalism'>state capitalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/State%20of%20the%20Union'>State of the Union</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/state%20socialism'>state socialism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/statelessness'>statelessness</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/static%20analysis'>static analysis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/statism'>statism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen%20Cohen'>Stephen Cohen</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen%20Kinzer'>Stephen Kinzer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen%20Metcalf'>Stephen Metcalf</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen%20Miller'>Stephen Miller</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen%20Walt'>Stephen Walt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Steven%20Nadler'>Steven Nadler</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/stimulus'>stimulus</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/stop-and-frisk'>stop-and-frisk</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/strategy'>strategy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/subjectivism'>subjectivism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/subprime%20mortgage'>subprime mortgage</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/subsidies'>subsidies</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/suicide'>suicide</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Sunnis'>Sunnis</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Superabundance'>Superabundance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/supply%20and%20demand'>supply and demand</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Supreme%20Court'>Supreme Court</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/surveillance'>surveillance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/surveillance%20state'>surveillance state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/syndicalism'>syndicalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/synonyms'>synonyms</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Syria'>Syria</a> <span dir='ltr'>(37)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/systemic%20risk'>systemic risk</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tacit%20consent'>tacit consent</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tactical%20nuclear%20weapons'>tactical nuclear weapons</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Taft'>Taft</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Taliban'>Taliban</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tanakh'>Tanakh</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tariffs'>tariffs</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/TARP'>TARP</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tax%20cuts'>tax cuts</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tax%20expenditures'>tax expenditures</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tax%20reform'>tax reform</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tax-denial%20movement'>tax-denial movement</a> <span dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tax-protester%20movement'>tax-protester movement</a> <span dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/taxation'>taxation</a> <span dir='ltr'>(57)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Taxes'>Taxes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tea%20Party'>Tea Party</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tea-party%20movement'>Tea-party movement</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/technology'>technology</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ted%20Cruz'>Ted Cruz</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ted%20Kennedy'>Ted Kennedy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tennant%20David'>Tennant David</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tenth%20Amendment'>Tenth Amendment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/terrorism'>terrorism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(44)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/TGIF'>TGIF</a> <span dir='ltr'>(123)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Americanization%20of%20Emily'>The Americanization of Emily</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Freeman'>The Freeman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Libertarian%20Angle'>The Libertarian Angle</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Pirates%20of%20Penzance'>The Pirates of Penzance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Revolutioners'>The Revolutioners</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Road%20to%20Serfdom'>The Road to Serfdom</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20state'>the state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(221)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Who'>The Who</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Theodore%20Roosevelt'>Theodore Roosevelt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/therapeutic%20state'>therapeutic state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/thick%20libertarianism'>thick libertarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/thin%20libertarianism'>thin libertarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Third%20World'>Third World</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20Friedman'>Thomas Friedman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20Geoghegan'>Thomas Geoghegan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20Hodgskin'>Thomas Hodgskin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20Jefferson'>Thomas Jefferson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20More'>Thomas More</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20Paine'>Thomas Paine</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20Szasz'>Thomas Szasz</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/three-fifths%20clause'>three-fifths clause</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tibor%20Machan'>Tibor Machan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/TikTok'>TikTok</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tim%20Pawlenty'>Tim Pawlenty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/time'>time</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Times%20Square%20car-bomber'>Times Square car-bomber</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Timothy%20%20Geithner'>Timothy Geithner</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tobacco'>tobacco</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tocqueville'>Tocqueville</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Todd%20Zywicki'>Todd Zywicki</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tokyo'>Tokyo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tolerance'>tolerance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/toleration'>toleration</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tom%20Cotton'>Tom Cotton</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tom%20DiLorenzo'>Tom DiLorenzo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tom%20Lehrer'>Tom Lehrer</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tom%20Woods'>Tom Woods</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Toni%20Nathan'>Toni Nathan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/torts'>torts</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/torture'>torture</a> <span dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/trade'>trade</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/trade%20deficit'>trade deficit</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/trade%20war'>trade war</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tradition'>tradition</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/trans'>trans</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/trans%20activism'>trans activism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/transparency'>transparency</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/transphobia'>transphobia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Trayvon%20Martin'>Trayvon Martin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tribalism'>tribalism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/troops'>troops</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Truman'>Truman</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Trump'>Trump</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Trump%20Derangement%20Syndrome'>Trump Derangement Syndrome</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/trust'>trust</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/truth'>truth</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/TSA'>TSA</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tucker%20Carlson'>Tucker Carlson</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Turkey'>Turkey</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Twitter'>Twitter</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/two-party%20system'>two-party system</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Two-state%20solution'>Two-state solution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/tyranny'>tyranny</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Tyre%20Nichols'>Tyre Nichols</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/uber'>uber</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Ukraine'>Ukraine</a> <span dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/unemployment'>unemployment</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/unilateralism'>unilateralism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/unions'>unions</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/uniparty'>uniparty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/United%20Nations'>United Nations</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/United%20States'>United States</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Universal%20Basic%20Income'>Universal Basic Income</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/unseen'>unseen</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/US%20elite'>US elite</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/US%20v.%20Comstock'>US v. Comstock</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/USS%20Liberty'>USS Liberty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/utilitarianism'>utilitarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/utopianism'>utopianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/vaping'>vaping</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/veterans'>veterans</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Veterans%20Day'>Veterans Day</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/vice'>vice</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/victimization'>victimization</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/victimless%20crimes'>victimless crimes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Vietnam'>Vietnam</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/violence'>violence</a> <span dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/virtue'>virtue</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/virtue%20ethics'>virtue ethics</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Vladimir%20Putin'>Vladimir Putin</a> <span dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/voting'>voting</a> <span dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/vouchers'>vouchers</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/vulgar%20libertarianism'>vulgar libertarianism</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/W.%20H.%20Hutt'>W. H. Hutt</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/wage%20labor'>wage labor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/wages'>wages</a> <span dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Wall%20Street'>Wall Street</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Walmart'>Walmart</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Walpole'>Walpole</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Walter%20Block'>Walter Block</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/Walter%20Grinder'>Walter Grinder</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war'>war</a> <span dir='ltr'>(211)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20crimes'>war crimes</a> <span dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/War%20Is%20a%20Racket'>War Is a Racket</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/War%20of%201812'>War of 1812</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20on%20poverty'>war on poverty</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20on%20terror'>war on terror</a> <span dir='ltr'>(190)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20party'>war party</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20power'>war power</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/War%20Powers%20Resolution'>War Powers Resolution</a> <span dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/warfare-welfare%20state'>warfare-welfare state</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/warrantless%20surveillance'>warrantless surveillance</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/search/label/water%20vapor'>water vapor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' 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