“A man can only learn when he is free to act.”
Auberon Herbert, The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State (1885)
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Auberon Herbert
Author: Redactor
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Townhall: Black Gun Rights Matter
It is time to get serious about equal rights under the law. And republican policing.
Click on over to Townhall for the timely assessment. Then click back here for full-spectrum perspective.
- YouTube video: Falcon Heights Police Officer Kill Man Reaching for His Wallet in Front of His Girlfriend and Child
- Washington Post: In America, Gun Rights Are for Whites Only
- Star Tribune: Hours after officer Yanez is found not guilty in fatal shooting of Philando Castile, marchers close I-94
- Minneapolis CBS TV: Timeline Of Key Events In Philando Castile Shooting
- Daily Caller: The Only Two Black Jurors Were In Favor Of Acquitting The Cop In The Philando Case
- Star Tribune: Officer who shot Castile attended ‘Bulletproof Warrior’ training
- Washington Post: A day with ‘killology’ police trainer Dave Grossman
- Common Sense: Ferguson Finally Wins
- Washington Post: Charlotte police won’t make shooting video public; chief says footage is not ‘definitive’
- YouTube video: Yanez Trial Day 3: Forensic Evidence In Philando Castile’s Death
- YouTube video: Girlfriend Of Philando Castile Testifies In Trial
- YouTube video: Officer Yanez Takes The Stand In Philando Castile Case
- National Review: Our Dangerous Drift from Reason
- Daily Wire: 5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks
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Michael Ruhlman
[W]e don’t really have stores that sell only groceries, shelf-stable products, anymore. Most stores sell a variety of shelf-stable and perishable goods. So most stores should be considered, technically, supermarkets. But there is a warmth to the term grocery store that encourages one to embrace it and hold on to it. In large part this is because it sill does connote — in this era of fragmentation and impersonal service and a food world that grows ever more confusing — a place that can be depended upon, day in and day out, where you can get everything you need to nourish your family. We like to think that our grocery store is run by a grocer (not a supermarketer). And we want to believe that there are capable people in charge of our food, people who care for it and ensure that the products are good.
Michael Ruhlman, Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America (New York: Abrams Press, May 16, 2017)
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Auberon Herbert
On June 18, 1838, Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert was born.
Auberon Herbert was a Liberal Member of Parliament who, after reading the writings of Herbert Spencer, became a radical individualist and author of essays such as “The Ethics of Dynamite,” “A Politician in Trouble About His Soul,” and “The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State.”
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Capitalism: The Known-and-Loved Ideal
A slightly different take on the subject … than usual:
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Jean-Baptiste Say
A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.
J.-B. Say, A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Chapter XVII, Section I, p. 168
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The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885. On the same day in 1930, progressive Republican President Herbert Hoover — eager to please agricultural states, and confident that protectionism would yield greater wealth — signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. The Great Depression deepened, and watched up as each provision of the bill took effect.
Three years later, investment author and two-time Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne was born.
On June 17, 1944, Iceland declared independence from Denmark.
On this day in 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” which steadily decreased civil liberty and the rule of law in America.
Exactly one year later, five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon more than two years later.
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Michael Ruhlman
We tend to use grocery stores without thinking about them, or if we do think about them, it’s with mild annoyance, the thought of shopping itself a chore. What we rarely reflect on is what a luxury it is to be able to buy an extraordinary variety and quantity of food whenever we want every day of the year.
Michael Ruhlman, Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America (New York: Abrams Press, May 16, 2017), as quoted at Cafe Hayek, June 14, 2017
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Nureyev & Adam Smith
On June 16, 1961, dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union.
The great Scottish moral philosopher, political economy pioneer, and Enlightenment intelectual Adam Smith (1723-1790), best known for authoring the 1776 masterwork The Wealth of Nations, was born on June 16.
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Henrik Ibsen
“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People (1882), Dr. Stockmann, Act V