Good for Mrs. Thatcher...

...for being foolishness free.

 

BTW, in her memoir, The Downing Street Years, she credits F. A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom as one of the reasons she stayed optimistic about free enterprise and liberty in the "bleak years of socialist supremacy in the 1960s and 1970s."

As a leader, of course, she was a mixed bag but much better than anything around today.

-RW

(ht Rod Dreher)

The Private Property Society and Car Theft

Michael Edelstein emails:

Bob,

I’m interested in your thoughts about this segment of my PPS debate with Bill D. We’re at a point where we’re both repeating ourselves:

1. BILL: Michael, You wouldn’t say that a thief who steals the car is the car’s owner merely because he happens to be in possession of it; and if you wouldn’t say that, then what differentiates the thief's possession of it from that of the owner?”

2. MRE: What I would say is X owns the car because he received it from Y, the conditions of which were stipulated in a mutually-agreed upon contract. Nothing about “rights."

Tulsi Gabbad Has Qualified for the 4th Democratic Debate

After failing to qualify for the September Democratic debate, Tulsi Gabbard's campaign has announced she has qualified for the October debates.

The Long and Ugly Reach of the CIA

The 2002 film, Agent of Influence, is now available on Amazon Prime.

It stars Christopher Plummer as John Watkins.

It is the true story of

Kushner to Attend Saudi Economic Conference Hosted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Jared Kushner 

Jared Kushner is expected to visit Saudi Arabia next month for an economic conference, reports The Washington Post.

The conference is the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh — unofficially known as “Davos in the Desert."

Pentagon to Send Troops, Air Defense Systems to Saudi Arabia and the UAE

So this is how President Trump is getting the U.S. out of the Middle East quagmire---by sending more equipment and troops to the area.

The U.S. is preparing to deploy troops to the Middle East as a response to what officials have deemed an Iran-based attack on Saudi Arabian oil fields last week, Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Friday in a Pentagon briefing.

If You Want to Know What the Masses Look Like....

Multiple updates below.

...check out those that are taking to the streets today to "for a day of global protest over climate change."

It is doubtful that anyone in the crowds understands the complex nature of climate. These people just ride the "in" fads. Though this is an extremely dangerous fad because the fad includes demands for laws and other regulations that will distort the economy based on weak scientific grounds. Not to mention that the Green New Deal is a socialist plan that goes well beyond "fighting global climate change."

Here is how you can show you stand independent and against crowd madness. Wear this:

This Not a Good Sign

Mark Zuckerberg was in the White House on Thursday.

Since there are reports that President Trump wants to use social media to "detect" those who should not be allowed to own guns, this meeting is downright scary.

From Vice in early August:

This is a Real Sick Copper

Back in July, Zachary Wester, a Jackson County, Florida cop, was caught planting drugs on multiple occasions during traffic stops. He has been arrested on felony charges after his own body camera revealed him planting drugs during traffic stops for at least a year.

 This is video is pretty incredible:

'Where's My Roy Cohn?'

Opens tomorrow.

Cohn was a mentor to Donald Trump and Roger Stone.

 

-RW

Trump's Direct Attack on the People's Republic of San Francisco: Who Should Libertarians Support?

Jennifer Jacobs, Sr. White House reporter for Bloomberg News reports:

DISCOVERED: New Rothbard Lectures on American History

Murray Rothbard

By Chris Sciabarra

As Jerome Tuccille famously wrote: “It usually begins with Ayn Rand.”

For me, it began in my senior year of high school. I took a year-long “Advanced Placement” course (for college credit) that offered an in-depth survey of American history, from the colonial period to the modern era. My early political views, shaped by both relatives and influential teachers, always tended toward a pro-free market stance. Invariably, the contentious discussions I was having in class were shared at home with my family. One afternoon, after listening to my tirades concerning the current events of the day, my sister-in-law told me that she’d been reading a novel called Atlas Shrugged, and that a lot of what I was saying seemed to echo the themes in this book. When she showed it to me, I took one look at it and saw that it was more than a thousand pages and said: “I have homework. I’ve got no time for that! No way!”

FINAL DETAILS: The Block-Wenzel Debate

The Block-Wenzel debate "Resolved: Humans Are Hardwired Against Freedom" will take place at the Chancellor Hotel at 433 Powell St. in the heart of the San Francisco shopping and dining district, so make a weekend of it.

I think we could make some breakthroughs in thought about advancing libertarianism at this event.

The debate will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2019, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM. There is no charge to attend the event but you must register at BlockWenzelDebate.com. I hope to see many of you.

Trump Names New National Security Advisor - Bolton Without The Mustache?

Robert O'Brien

Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, writes: 

President Trump has named Robert O'Brien, who served as foreign affairs advisor to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, as his replacement for fired National Security Advisor John Bolton. O'Brien is cut from the exact same neoconservative cloth as Bolton and represents, at most, change in style and physical appearance. 

The New York Times appears to concur:

BREAKING: Jordan Peterson Film Cancelled in Canadian Movie Theatre

The Rise of Jordan Peterson, the feature-length film by Patricia Marcoccia has been removed from its scheduled, week-long run at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto after “one or more” staff complained, reports The Post Millennial.

Social Justice Warriors aren't warriors they are just intellectually weak individuals who can't deal with opposing views.

This is All You Need to Know About Constitutions

Today is Constitution Day.

Indications US Attack on Iran Coming

This doesn't look good to people who think the United States should not be meddling in the Middle East.

Multiple reports indicate that Saudi Arabia is claiming to be increasingly confident that Iran directly launched a complex missile and drone attack from its southwestern territory on Saturday that severely damaged some of the kingdom’s oil facilities.

Oh Yeah, Corey Lewandowski Has Some Fun in Washington D.C.

Oh, this is good.  I never realized Corey Lewandowski was this sharp.

 

Here is Lewandowski's opening statement:

Joey Rothbard and the Donkeys

Murray and Joey Rothbard

David Gordon writes today at LRC:

Today would have been Joey Rothbard’s 91st birthday. She was Murray Rothbard’s “indispensable framework. ” She was a scholar in her own right, but she devoted her life to helping Murray. She was a wonderful friend, and I miss her very much.

This brings to mind a story Justin Raimondo once told me.