Paul M. Jones | Collapse 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 The Rise of Crown Government in America 2014-05-28T17:38:57-05:00 ... once you have a chief executive chosen by popular election, you are in trouble. The “extreme” measure of the legislature removing the head of state happens much more readily in parliamentary systems ... we are just about the only countr... Finally, A Positive Take On The Future -- "America 3.0: The Coming Reinvention of America" 2013-09-03T13:01:30-05:00 As the 2.0 state fails, we are seeing increasing awareness, urgency, and activism in response to a deepening crisis. The emerging America 3.0 will reverse several key characteristics of the 2.0 state: decentralization versus centralization; diversity... NSA, Gen X, and Gen Y 2013-08-18T13:56:06-05:00 the NSA and their fellow swimmers in the acronym soup of the intelligence-industrial complex are increasingly reliant on nomadic contractor employees, and increasingly subject to staff churn. There is an emerging need to security-clear vast numbers o... Schneier on Security: Blowback from the NSA Surveillance 2013-06-17T10:22:38-05:00 ... when countries like Russia and Iran say the US is simply too untrustworthy to manage the Internet, no one will be able to argue. We can't fight for Internet freedom around the world, then turn around and destroy it back home. Even if we don't see... Government is never "us." It is always "them." 2013-06-11T22:28:51-05:00 Repeat after me: Government is power. Government is not to be trusted. Ever. Even if you believe that some government is and will always be necessary, that ‘necessary’ piece of government should always be regarded as a prudent lion tamer... We should know much about *public* servants; they should know little about *private* citizens. 2013-06-11T22:25:36-05:00 The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private indivi... The Impossible Dream Of Classical Liberalism 2013-05-31T13:32:41-05:00 I have had increasing difficulty in understanding why someone would remain a classical liberal, rather than making the further move to embrace genuine self-government in place of the classical liberal’s objective, “limited government.”... Tyranny in our time 2013-05-24T13:44:10-05:00 Both parties have luxuriated in the drunken power of government, at our expense. Mr. Obama did not build the IRS, nor did Richard Nixon, but both wielded it as a weapon. Now the IRS is poised to become the hammer of even our health care. Democrats ar... Cyprus Update: You Won't Vote The Way We Tell You? OK, Here's A Scheme That Doesn't Require A Vote 2013-03-25T10:15:38-05:00 Germany, the ECB and rest of the EuroThieves did something innovative. They simply ignored Parliament and came up with a scheme that didn't require a vote. We'll see how this works out for them. This, incidentally, is exactly what happened here with ... On Human Evil: Concrete Down the Drain Edition 2013-03-25T10:02:34-05:00 the most important lesson of economics is that no one has ever washed a rental car.  An excellent point, but the problem is worse than that: Without an incentive to preserve, many of us will gleefully destroy.   via On Human Evil: Concrete Down...