If A Politician Isn't Perfectly Comfortable With

Only Someone As Puffed Up And Demented As John Maynard Keynes, Every Left Wing Fascist's Sainted Mentor In This Connection, Could Manage To Convince Himself That Taxing America's Productive Class Can Restore It To Prosperity. In Point Of Fact, It's Like Screwing For Chastity, Guzzling Alcohol For Sobriety, Or Gorging To Fight Gluttony. It's Like Killing Indiscriminately For Peace - Oops, Democrats, Republicans And Their Moral And Spiritual Ilk Have Devoutly Believed That Particular Bit Of Perverse Nonsense Since At Least The War Of 1812.

We're All A Bunch Of Badminton Birdies Who Just Got Batted From The Republican Side Of The Court To The Democrat Side. We'll Eventually Get Batted Back Again, Of Course, Unless Libertarians Can Manage To Do Something About It. If Your Principal Concern, Like Mine, Is Freedom, There's Absolutely No Discernable Difference Between The Two 'majors,' And For All Practical Purposes, They're One Big Party - The Boot On Your Neck Party - Pretending To Be Two.

If There Were A Generic One-word Expression For 'one Whose Fear Of The Uncertainties Of Success Moves Him To Surrender At The Very Moment Of Victory', It Would Be 'republican'.

A Libertarian Is A Person Who Believes That No One Has The Right, Under Any Circumstances, To Initiate Force Against Another Human Being For Any Reason Whatever; Nor Will A Libertarian Advocate The Initiation Of Force, Or Delegate It To Anyone Else. Those Who Act Consistently With This Principle Are Libertarians, Whether They Realize It Or Not. Those Who Fail To Act Consistently With It Are Not Libertarians, Regardless Of What They May Claim.

I Have Long Argued That We Need To Reopen Alcatraz To House Government Criminals, And Let Tourists On Excursion Boats In San Francisco Bay Pay To Chum The Water With Meat With An Expired Sell-by Date That Would Otherwise Have To Be Discarded.