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Taking my money to fund a National Health Service is unjust interference. But at least 90 year old Betty can be saved when she hits the floor clutching her chest after a life time of burgers and fries. Taking my money to fund education is a breach of my ownership ...

Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to tonight’s “shrieking like a cat with a firework up its arse” final! In the steely grey corner…he’s known for his confrontational sandwich board style…give it up for Mr Miserablist Fundie Christian! And his opponent…in the pink fluffy corner, watch out for his/her (not sure from ...

Dr. Walter E. Williams has weighed in on the New York City trans fat ban. This is a great man. On the occasions I’ve heard him on the radio, I have found him compelling, entertaining and downright wise. His response to NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s claim that they’re “…just trying ...

This little episode made me giggle. It happened this week in Belfast: ************************ A certain law firm in Belfast has its own little in-house cafe, which recently did a deal with Starbucks to stock its coffee. A leading member of the law firm walked in and approached the counter. LAWYER: ...

On this post I made mention of my friend William’s competition on his BBC blog, Will & Testament. He is calling the competition Spirit of Lincoln (from inspiration of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address) and asked for entries that were under Lincoln’s 272 word limit. I entered my credo on the topic ...

To all the readers of this blog, to Stephen and his wife and son; peace and happiness this Christmas. John Wright

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a piece last week* in which she teased 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama about his big ears. Well it seems he can’t quite handle that. Microphones picked up a conversation he had with Dowd after a speech of his in New Hampshire last ...

An old friend of ours, William Crawley (right), has a blog here to which both Stephen and I contribute comments fairly frequently these days. I mention this because, as Libertarian Reason has been rather quiet and time hasn’t permitted Stephen or myself to blog as much as we’d like to, ...

Gwyneth Paltrow’s furious backpeddling after her comments disparaging America at a press event in Spain over the weekend is really fairly pathetic. She says she mistranslated her own words into Spanish and would “never, ever” have said what she was quoted as saying. However, as the irrepressible Michelle Malkin points ...

Today sees the release of a movie called Fast Food Nation, based on the 2001 book by Eric Schlosser of the same name. If you’ve ever read this book, you’ll know what irritates me about it. Like other leftist dross in the same vein, it’s dressed up as ‘investigative reporting’ ...

The brilliant libertarian economist Milton Friedman has died at 94 years old of heart failure. This man made strides in advocating libertarian economic principals and his work – along with that of his son, philosopher and economist David D. Friedman – has been referenced in this blog on numerous occasions. ...

A bunch of racists. . .a band of thugs. . .a pack of hate-filled bigots. I agree with all such descriptions of the British National Party (BNP), and such opinions could only be reinforced by a BBC documentary a year or so ago that brought us some rather nasty undercover ...

According to Glenn Beck, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the leader of Iran, is a fricking nutcase with an apocalypse wish on the world. This show, Glenn Beck Exposed, airs tonight on CNN Headline News network. In an interview today Beck described getting CNN to air this program as one of the biggest ...

As I write, Donald Rumsfeld has resigned. More details in the news media. Pew Research Center says that libertarians make up 9 percent of the U.S. Electorate. About 2 percent of the electorate vote for the Libertarian Party, which means that about 7 percent of the electorate are what we ...

It is almost unanimously agreed by experts that the trans fat found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is one of the most harmful foods we’re putting in our bodies. Yet, like so much else of what is unhealthy to eat, the stuff tastes so damned good; SO damned good that ...

Boobs. This is the T-shirt for the campaign for the candidate of the Libertarian Party for Governor of Alabama, Loretta Nall: I’m not altogether sure that the best place to sell sex is Alabama, considering stories like this. But it sure makes me proud to be a libertarian! John Wright ...

Without wishing to beat a dead horse, the above link is worth a click. John Wright

One should never write when one is angry. But sometimes it’s the best way to get a point across, and this lame-assed story for Rolling Stone by leftwing goon Robert Dreyfuss has given me cause to hurl something heavy through my computer screen with rage. The attention of this blog ...

On the previous post, my tribute to Colonol Jeff Cooper, a rather interesting debate was emerging in the comments section until late last night (UK time), when some comments were deleted. I’m looking into this, since the author obviously did not want their comments removed. The post is now shut ...

Colonol Jeff Cooper, philosopher, author, history instructor, adventurer, columnist – widely recognised as the father of the Modern Technique of handgun shooting – died on Monday peacefully at the age of 86. This is a man who made a mark. (Actually, he made thousands of .45 caliber holes, if we’re ...