Quantcast
Channel: Free Markets – BarelyABlog
Browsing all 77 articles
Browse latest View live

More Busybody, Know-Nothing, Know-It-All Brownian Motion From Barack

He knows very little about his professed field of expertise, the US Constitution. And he knows absolutely nothing about the workings of the free market. These credentials are more than enough to allow...

View Article



Government Motors (GM) Is Reckless? You Don’t Say!

The greater the incursion of government into markets, the less quality control consumers are able to exert over the products they purchase. GM (Government Motors) has been propped up by...

View Article

The Paltrow Of Politics (Minus Looks & Ethics)

“The Paltrow Of Politics (Minus Looks & Ethics)” is the current column, now on WND. An excerpt: Hillary Rodham Clinton has done some “conscious uncoupling” from reality. The term was disgorged by a...

View Article

Some Americans Are Worth More Than Others

You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who will commiserate with your loss or dub it “dangerous and bad for the morale”—a risk to your family—in the event that you get the pink slip while serving nobly...

View Article

Eric Garner: Peaceful Entrepreneur, Killed By Cop

Liberty’s quixotic hero, William Norman Grigg, documents and deconstructs the murder by cop of Eric Garner, chocked to death by Officer Daniel Pantaleo, for doing nothing naturally illicit. Arguably,...

View Article


A Bad Business: Avoid ‘Kimberley’s Tailoring & Alterations’ Like The Plague

The fact that the proprietor of “Kimberley’s Tailoring & Alterations” has received some good reviews suggests that she has a clientele that expects little, is easily intimidated and has no qualms...

View Article

Can’t Appreciate The Private Economy? You Don’t Deserve The Plenty It Provides

If you fail to distinguish the blessings of the private economy from the curse of government—you deserve none of the former and all of the latter. Like all liberals (and that includes most...

View Article

Wal-Mart’s Good For The Health

To ameliorate the effects of the Obamacare wrecking ball, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is venturing into the business of providing primary health care. For $40, the price of a copay (mine are way more), “you...

View Article


NASA And The Neocon National Greatness Agenda

Hungry to sustain the National Greatness agenda, Republicans, who pose as the party of free-market capitalism, were furious when Barack Obama and his posse privatized aspects in the operation of NASA,...

View Article


Gruber Or Curveball?

By Myron Pauli Ann Coulter, columnist and perpetual Republican apologist, recently wrote an article [1] contrasting “health care expert” Jonathan Gruber with the row over memos leading the US to War...

View Article

Who You Gonna Call? Oath Keepers

If there’s something strange in Ferguson Who you gonna call? Oath Keepers!—adapted from Ghostbusters Sam Andrews, “Yale-educated attorney and former army paratrooper,” is the heroic founder of “The...

View Article

UPDATED: Eric Garner: 100% Innocent In Libertarian Law (Note On Natural Law)

To the libertarian, the case of Eric Garner is as simple as it is sad. In libertarian law, Eric Garner is innocent as a newborn babe. It all boils down to the distinction between the natural and the...

View Article

Republicans, As Always, Reject George Washington’s Vision For A Foreign Policy

Conservatives are huffing and puffing because the US has inched slightly closer in its official relationship with Cuba to George Washington’s vision of a foreign policy for the future—one which Ron...

View Article


Garner: Innocent Actor In Sovereign’s Snuff Film

“Garner: Innocent Actor In Sovereign’s Snuff Film” is the current column, now on WND. An excerpt: Despite its elegant simplicity, the libertarian law is difficult to grasp. This I realized pursuant to...

View Article

‘How Economic Inequality Is Essential for Successful Economic Competition by...

Republicans, Democrats and conservatives—come to think of it, most people—do not fear flaunting their inveterate ignorance of economics. Thus almost all have railed against economic inequality to boost...

View Article


UPDATED: Boycott Bean-Burning Big Brother STARBUCKS (Corey DuBratha)

Unless you like your java beans burned, Starbucks makes crap coffee. You don’t burn your food; why would you burn the building blocks of a wonderful beverage? Now there’s another reason to hate...

View Article

The Grotesquely Stalinist FDR

“The Grotesquely Stalinist FDR” is the current column. It questions the current libertarian support (my own included) for Russia, and recounts how ‘grotesquely Stalinist’ Franklin Delano Roosevelt was....

View Article


Dr. Mehmet Oz Vs. Mainstream Medicine

So he often advocates what a Vox.com writer terms derisively “simple tricks and natural remedies.” (Come to think about it, isn’t good health about some very simple things?) But has Dr. Mehmet Oz ever...

View Article

HOLA, Ann Coulter!

“HOLA, Ann Coulter!” is the current column, now on WND. An excerpt: “Adios America” is the apropos title of Ann Coulter’s latest book. It details how mass immigration is killing America, as Bill...

View Article

Ordered Liberty (Capitalism) Versus Chaotic Tyranny (Socialism)

Thanks, George, for sending this magnificent essay. It’s a privilege to help popularize it. CAPITALIST PLANNING AND SOCIALIST CHAOS By George Reisman, Ph.D. Most of this essay has been extracted from...

View Article
Browsing all 77 articles
Browse latest View live


Latest Images