No Phony Gold Standards
Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Kansas City. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/kansascity/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS When you hear talk about returning to the “gold standard,” be sure you know what the speaker means by the term. There are plenty of phony gold standards out there. The supply-sider/neocon version, [...]
Progressive Half Gets It
Adam Serwer at the American Prospect writes: Recently, Cato’s C. Bradley Thompson wrote about neoconservatism, saying that neoconservatives “are and always have been, by contrast, defenders of the post–New Deal welfare state.” Other than David Frum, I’m not aware of too many conservatives who have offered forceful defenses of the New Deal welfare state. Rather, as [...]
There Is More to Life than Elephants and Jackasses
This article is example #8,933 of the importance of Jack Hunter as an Old Right, non-neocon writer and speaker. Jack discusses his meeting with Kirkpatrick Sale, the radical decentralist who had enough principle to have his name removed from the masthead of The Nation when that magazine began drooling over Obama. Sale, whom I have also met, [...]
Want to Understand the World? Read These Books
Here’s my short list of books I would recommend to someone who is interested in the ideas on this site and wants to learn more. If you read and absorb these books you will never look at the world the same way again. If you’re like me, you are annoyed by books that teach you [...]
The Great American Political Spectrum. All 2.7 Inches
Noam Chomsky correctly observes, “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the [...]
Am I Too Hard on the Left?
Having watched the video of my recent speech in L.A., a critic writes: Woods isolates himself by insulting the “Left,” since he’s still brainwashed by that false Left-Right paradigm. I don’t know anyone – Left or Right – who appreciates being groped by the TSA, or who wants their food genetically modified, or wants to bailout [...]
Tea Party Express: We’ll Take the Plastic Man
Amy Kremer, who chairs the Tea Party Express, told FOX News the other day, “Whoever the Republican nominee is will have to have the support of the Tea Party movement, the entire Tea Party movement.” She went on to say that this included Mitt Romney. (Thanks to Anthony Gregory for the link.) Some kind of sociological [...]
Obama to Congress: It’s Constitutional to Ignore You
You’re going to be shocked to hear this, I know, but the president says he doesn’t need congressional authorization for the mission in Libya, since it is “limited.” Of course, he is wrong, as he is on everything. See my piece “The Phony Case for Presidential War Powers.” Watch for Mark Levin, my erstwhile sparring partner, to [...]
Foreign Policy, Conservatives, and Ron Paul
NOTE: Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Los Angeles on May 28th. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles/ or by calling 888-71-TICKETS ******* This is my reply to those who say, “I like Ron Paul except on foreign policy.” And here’s theresource page I mention in the video.
Heritage Foundation to Nullifiers: Drop Dead
Once again, the Heritage Foundation, pretending we hadn’t refuted its arguments last time, is adopting the establishment position against state nullification. (It would violate “common sense,” the Constitution, and the “rule of law” for the states to fail to implement a law that violates the Constitution, Heritage tells us with a straight face.) People are [...]
Good vs Bad Progressives
I had a nice chat recently with Sibel Edmonds (who describes herself as leaning libertarian) and left-progressive Peter B. Collins. Entirely civil, and Collins was more than receptive to what I said (consistent with Roderick Long’s discussion about making inroads with the Left). But then there are the thought controllers, who would see the whole world burn down before [...]
Nullification and the Thought Controllers
I spoke to Judge Napolitano about Nullification last night on FOX Business Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com NOTE: Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Los Angeles on May 28th. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles/ or by calling 888-71-TICKETS
ThinkSoros on Gary Johnson
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Los Angeles on May 28th. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS ******* Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson launched his 2012 presidential campaign last week. The commissars of approved opinion instantly condemned him for deviating from the Biden/Romney spectrum. Like [...]
Rachel Maddow: Obey Your Overlords, Citizen
In a discussion whose every syllable one could have predicted in advance, left-nationalist Rachel Maddow covers nullification, and you’ll never guess: it’s an idea only “racists” and “neo-Confederates” (there’s that agitprop term again) would support! Of course, her viewers are too delicate to have their worldviews confused by any mention of northern nullification of the Fugitive [...]
Upcoming Travels
Next Wednesday, April 13, I’ll be speaking at Minnesota State University on topics raised in my book Rollback. (Read or listen to a free chapter!) Then, on Saturday, April 16, I’ll be speaking at a big event in Austin, Texas, where the topic of discussion will revolve around themes in my book Nullification. (Read a free chapter, and take a [...]
The Heroic Mike Church
The Woods/Levin affair has doubtless grown tiresome, but special thanks to Mike Church, host of the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM, for having me on to discuss the war powers issue, along with what I would tell Levin listeners if I had their attention. (I’m not quite at the top of my game at that hour of [...]
Mark Levin Wrong on War Powers
Yes, I’m as shocked as you are. Let’s go down the list of fallacies: “We’ve been involved in many military engagements; we’ve had very few declarations of war. And I’m including military engagements that were involved in by people you consider Founders of this nation. It’s because they’ve never, ever, required as a requisite—to defending this [...]
Operation Enduring Narcissism
That’s what the great radio host Brian Wilson calls Obama’s Libyan intervention. I spoke to him about it this week. By the way, be sure to follow me on Twitter and Facebook; on Facebook in particular we get some good discussions going.
Report from New Hampshire
The Nullify Now event at Southern New Hampshire University was, as expected, a big success. This was the first time protesters showed up to one of our events. They thought we were funded by Koch money or something. (That’s typical of how tone-deaf I generally find the Left to be: the Kochs would not touch [...]
See You in New Hampshire (and Something for Michigan)
This Saturday I’ll be speaking at Nullify Now’s New Hampshire event, along with a bunch of very good speakers. Get the details. For those of you in or around Kalamazoo, Michigan, there’s a free seminar on economics for high school students this Saturday. Two Mises Institute scholars, Mark Brandly and Harry Veryser, are running it. Details here. [...]
The Myth of the Anti-Fed U.S. President
I mentioned the fake quotation phenomenon not long ago, and this is in that tradition. Some opponents of the Fed, usually those whose opposition derives more from political than economic concerns, like to cite twentieth-century U.S. presidents as alleged opponents of the Fed. The main one is Woodrow Wilson himself, who is portrayed as somehow having [...]
Et tu, Heritage?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at upcoming Nullify Now! tour stops in New Hampshire, Austin, and Los Angeles.. Get your tickets at http://www.nullifynow.com or by calling 888-71-TICKETS ******* The Heritage Foundation is opposed to state nullification. The peons have evidently latched onto an idea that has not been approved for them [...]
News Alert: People Having Unconventional Thoughts
My latest videoblog. It is a riot to observe the Establishment’s reaction when people think outside the Biden/Romney box.
Montana Governor: Federal Government Can Take a Hike
Missoulian writes, “Defying federal authority over gray wolves, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Wednesday encouraged ranchers to kill wolves that prey on their livestock — even in areas where that is not currently allowed — and said the state will start shooting packs that hurt elk herds. “Schweitzer said he no longer would wait for [...]
