1335. (3-4-2011) (Why is Thomas Hobbes not a good political philosopher, and be on the watch for these names in college? Because he...

1331. (3-3-2011) (The book “On Power” is going to be much more cerebral and feel abstract, but lend your mental faculties to it and bits...

1326. (3-2-2011) Your party man, however excellent his intensions may be, is always opposed to any limitation of sovereignty. He...

1320. (3-1-2011) (In understanding the progression of the power of government consider historically) ATJ War in those days (the twelfth...

1315. (2-28-2011) Power changes its appearance but not its reality. -Bertrand de Jouvenel, 1903-1987 1316. (2-28-2011) Politics are about...

1311. (2-28-2011) The very magnitude of the power over men’s minds that a highly centralized and government-dominated system of education...

1306. (2-24-2011) (Consider this next comment.)ATJ A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding [sic] people to be...

1304. (2-23-2011) (This will finish up monetary policy and inflation.)ATJ There are two points which cannot be stressed enough: first,...

1302. (2-21-2011) (Inflation, one of the mechanisms of bad government.)ATJ We have seen how every one of the chief features of the...

Consider quote 1299 posted yesterday and this quote and know that socialism and communism have the same goal and the bed fellows are well...

1296. (2-18-2011) Unlike proportionality (in tax burden)ATJ progression (in tax burden)ATJ provides no principle which tells us what the...

1293. (2-17-2011) In 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels frankly proposed “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” as one of the...

1277. (2-8-2011) What competition actually means is simply the freedom of the individual to ‘deal’ with any and all other individuals and...

1270. (2-7-2011) If government wants not merely to facilitate the attainment of certain standards by the individual but to make certain...

1262. (2-3-2011) (To reaffirm the definition)ATJ The rule of law stands for the view that decisions should be made by known principles or...

1249. (2-1-2011) It is those of a socialist mentality that would have us be taxed heavily at death so as not to be able to assist our...

1244. (1-31-2011) Strictly speaking, then, there are two reasons why all controls of prices and quantities are incompatible with a free...

1237. (1-27-2011) The house of representatives…can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as...

1232. (1-27-2011) Nobody disputes the fact that, in order to make efficient use of the means at its disposal, the government must...

1221. State v. Boloff, Oregon reports 138 (1932), p. 611: “A legislative act creates a rule for all: it is not an order or command to...