For making the Federal Reserve an issue. May it cease to exist. What an amazing article. Pelosi poses as for transparency, but claims to have never heard of Ron Paul's audit the Fed bill (which has more than half of the entire House signed on as co-sponsors), some nobody from the "libertarian" Cato institute complains that the Fed could lose its "independence," and Lamar Alexander compares auditing the Federal Government's central bank to taking over the auto industry. Love the picture...

A question of property. Having only scratched the surface of the literature at Mises, a single point just keeps jumping out at me. Now I was raised orthodox Jewish and had many years of education in Gemara. One of the key focuses of these ancient texts is in fact property rights. The point that I am referring to is that the fundamental right of property is the right to destroy. That is to say, in the stereotypical example of a fruit bearing tree, one who owns this tree has the right to cut it...

So, the Brownshirts at U.S. News and World Report want to ban "hate speech" and have the state "round up" any American deemed to cross that line. (Never-you-mind the 1st, 5th and 10th amendments. The Constitution, far from being the basis of all law in our society, is a joke of a long-dead letter, and we all know it.) Well I just wanted to get a head start here and recommend to any federal prosecutors out there wishing to make their stripes and move up in the world that there is an open and...