Paul M. Jones | Serfdom 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 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... This Is Not How A Free Society Treats People 2012-05-17T22:46:46-05:00 This is where Eduardo Saverin comes in. The Facebook co-founder, who finds himself a few billion dollars richer this week, recently renounced his US citizenship. And, to the intelligentsia, it’s not ‘fair’. ‘Saverin needs to pay h... TSA Screeners Profit From Drug War Via Bribery 2012-04-26T14:14:56-05:00 Four current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine, methamphetamine or marijuana passed through X-ray machines at... Would Cars Be Government-Approved Today? 2011-12-17T12:34:19-06:00 ... have you considered how lucky we are that the government lets us drive cars at all? Imagine if cars hadn’t been around for a century, but instead were just invented today. Is there any way they’d be approved for individual use? ... Even... SOPA: Yet Another Reason To Keep Government Small 2011-12-17T10:27:55-06:00 A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything away from you – including your Internet freedom. ... It’s bizarre and entertaining to hear people who yesterday were all about allegedly benign... A Cuts-Only Budget -- Well, Almost 2011-08-04T11:24:34-05:00 ... here’s my back-of-the-envelope balanced budget, with no tax increases: 1.      Social Security: Yeah, they’ll say you’re throwing Granny off the cliff. But it’s her or the grandkids. So implement aggressive mean... Switching license plates is what *criminals* do 2011-06-13T11:38:49-05:00 Lying about sexting apparently isn't Rep. Anthony Weiner's only gray area. When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was clear the July 2007 registration sticker in his window... What does the Education Department need shotguns for? 2011-06-08T19:09:27-05:00 Why is the Education Department purchasing 27 Remington Brand Model 870 police 12-gauge shotguns (all new, no re-manufactured products, thank you)? The guns are to replace old firearms used by Education’s Office of Inspector General, which is th... Victims of Communism Day 2011-05-01T21:48:19-05:00 May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda tool to prop up their regimes. I suggest that we...