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Initiative, Referendum and Recall (refresh for more)

The Gig Is Up
Eventually, champions of government intervention, of all forms of thwarting …
Are They Out of Session Yet?
While Americans readily share power with their representatives, those representatives …
Votes Without Poison
Strange election. So … round up the usual suspects! Immediately after …
Real Change at the Ballot Box
It’s time to face the fact: We don’t have much …
Video: Music Man?
Last year at this time, I was in Omaha, Nebraska, testifying …

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

He Tries Harder
He’s the Avis Rent A Car of authoritarianism. Russian President Vladimir V. …
Voters Need Not Apply
Colorado politicians have hatched a scheme, Senate Concurrent Amendment 1, that …
Knock Down the Incumbency
Over the weekend, I suffered through Knock Down the House … …
Market Power vs. Political Power
Critics of term limits on elected officials sometimes say: “You …
Ida-Heave-Ho
“Is there any chance the vetoes can be overridden?” asked …

Today in Freedom

On January 6, 1907, Maria Montessori opened her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.

In 1912 on this date New Mexico became the 47th state of America’s United States.

On this date in 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech, emphasizing vague “freedoms” that enabled government to usurp definable freedoms.

On January 6, 2021, lame duck President Donald John Trump gave a speech in Washington, D.C., aiming to rouse his supporters to pressure the U.S. Senate not to certify some states’ Electoral College votes in Election 2020, to address “election fraud.” Before his speech ended, some of his supporters (along with false flag agents) broke into the Capitol to set off one of the great political controversies of our time.

Thought of the Day

Man’s concern is not with government; he should look on government as no more than a very secondary thing — we might almost say a very minor thing. His goal is industry, labour and the production of everything needed for his happiness. In a well-ordered state, the government must only be an adjunct of production, an agency charged by the producers, who pay for it, with protecting their persons and their goods while they work. In a well-ordered state, the largest number of persons must work, and the smallest number must govern. The work of perfection would be reached if all the world worked and no one governed.
Charles Dunoyer, De la liberté du travail (1845), David M. Hart, translator.

— Dunoyer

Memes (refresh for more)

Edmund Burke — “The people never give up their liberties but…”
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” …
Don’t think legislators deserve a 150% pay raise?
The Arkansas legislature is on track to receive a massive pay …
There must be…
There must be a less excruciating way to find the least …
Government Flow Chart
Government incentives and market incentives are quite different. This explains …
All Those Egos, One Basket
In Tuesday night’s debate, Democrats put all their egos in …