by Runaway Slave | Aug 16, 2004 | Democracy, Essays & Articles, Freemarket, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Voting
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out...
by Runaway Slave | Aug 3, 2004 | Essays & Articles, Freemarket, History, Human Interest, Libertarian Curmudgeon
Many of my schoolboy days I spent in the thrall of NASA’s first heady leaps into space. Classes were interrupted so the whole school could watch the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo launches on TV. My classmates and I would cheer encouragement, repeating “go… go… go…”...