Thursday, August 26, 2010

A Pastor’s Provocative Attack on Islam

by on August 26, 2010 @ 10:00 am · 9 comments

in The Right, Vulgar Politics

The New York Times is reporting the story of  Terry Jones’ plan to commemorate the 9/11 attacks by burning 50 Qur’ans. While I find his actions repulsive, and needlessly offensive to me and every other Muslim, irrespective of our political views, I must say that he nonetheless has every right to burn his own property or that which is voluntarily donated to him. In a similar manner, a property owner may build a mosque on his own property. Perhaps all people can eventually learn to either ignore such actions, or use them as springboards for conversation rather than conflict.

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Mimi & Eunice: Libertarian Debate

by on August 26, 2010 @ 5:00 am · 3 comments

in Humor, Language

[Here's another strip that isn't about IP but we picked it out anyway because it's good for a movement to laugh at itself once in a while. This strip brings to mind the famous incident related by Milton Friedman in which Ludwig von Mises -- during a discussion about the progressive income tax at a Mont Pelerin Society meeting in 1947, comprised of Friedrich Hayek, Friedman, and others -- stood up, announced "You're all a bunch of socialists!" and stormed out. (Also recounted in Lew Rockwell’s Mises and Liberty; Long’s Mises as Radical, and in Guido Hülsmann’s Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, p. 871.) -- GAP]

The Libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute produces some of the finest, most lucid writing against Intellectual Pooperty anywhere. This cartoon is more about what happens in its blog comments.

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This is a syndicated post, which originally appeared at Mimi and Eunice. View original post.

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