Ever hear of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History? Well, the author - Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - also teaches through his website Liberty Classroom.
If you want an easy libertarian education on an adult level, that you can experience online and is taught my multiple skilled instructors, then Liberty Classroom is the place for you.
Tom offers courses in:
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Conflict
Austrian Economics Step by Step
The History of Conservatism and Libertarianism
Freedom’s Progress: The History of Political Thought
Introduction to Logic
John Maynard Keynes: His System and Its Fallacies.
U.S. Constitutional History
U.S. History to 1877
U.S. History since 1877
Western Civilization to 1500
Western Civilization since 1500
Trails West: How Freedom Settled the West
The History of Economic Thought
And more to come!
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I've used the Ubuntu version of Linux for a little over a year. Here's why:
I toyed with Linux a few years ago on a mini laptop that I had that had a corrupted hard drive. At that time Linux wasn't the easiest to work with, flash drives weren't that big, and the hard drive was half disk and half solid state, so the laptop was just toast.
We many, we happy millions, we basket of deplorables;
For thee to-day that shed your votes with me
Shall be my compatriot, be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlepersons in utter shock
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not apart,
And hold their morals cheap whiles any speaks
That chose with us upon Election Day.
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“nothing would be more fatal than for the
Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is
limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a
specialized character.” - Winston S. Churchill
Churchill was an avid fan of H.G. Wells, but he disagreed with Wells about humanities ability to adapt to rapidly developing technologies. Churchill felt that the generalist was much better able to determine the use of technology and run government than the focused technocrat. Wells favored the later. (Churchill's Bomb by Graham Farmelo)
In pop culture, especially in the 1950s science-fiction genre, the technocrats were seen as the saviors of the world. In the 1951 version of the "Day the Earth Stood Still," the alien Klaatu calls for a meeting of scientists, since world leaders would be impossible to assemble.
It seems nice to look to the experts on a topic to help solve a problem. But a problem arises, when one may think the expert on how to make a bomb or use a bomb is the right expert on when to use a bomb.
Robert Oppenheimer seems like a nice person to turn to, but his reservations about the nuclear weapons fell on deaf ears. And his reservations came after nuclear weapons were a reality. His discomfort with the use of nuclear weapons did not come with a convincing political argument, AND he possibly was revisionist with his timeline for concern over the bomb. (Wikipedia)
On the flip side, a generalist must be informed to make good laws. Even if he turns over all the details to bureaucrats and techocrats (which I think is a very bad idea), the lawmakers needs to, at the minimum, be able to articulate what he is trying to do while having a firm grasp on the facts.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette decided to exercise her God-given authority to rule us all by pushing for legislation to ban highstandard-capacity magazines. Either Rep. DeGette's knowledge is flat wrong, or it is limited to the original 20-round M16 magazine.
"I will tell you these are ammunition, they're bullets, so the people who have those now they're going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available." - U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO)
For some reason, our political system has descended into a reliance on experts that is so debilitating that our elected officials can't even direct them in an informed manner. This calls into question the direction of our huge bureaucracies - and not just the federal ones. This calls into question the ability of people to rule over us who's only qualifications are popularity.
And this is only one more example government should not be trying to control every minute part of our lives.
Well, they weren't all "greats." But they gave us something more organic, something more cowboysish and individualistic - American - than police procedurals and Sherlock Holmes retreads.
Even "beacons" of freedom in Hollywood, such as Joe Montoya and Tom Selleck have sided with the state in their acting careers.
Bring back the private dicks. They solved problems with less statist force.
There's just an irritating trend of calling guns what they're not.
The M&P Shield has a "single-stack" magazine. Glocks have "double-action" triggers - along with Kahrs, etc., etc., etc. But it just ain't so.
I've known for a long time that there are striker-fired pistols that are labeled as "double action" (or not), but there is a major problem with that - along with many hammer fired guns. But I just can't overlook the Smith & Wesson Military & Police Shield's magazine. Look at it!
Credit: Smith-Wesson.com
It's really a 1-1/2-stack magazine. You can definitely see it, when you load the magazine.
That's irritating, but in the end it is only about hair splitting. But "double"-action triggers? I like second-striker capability, and there is a plethora of guns out there that are marketed as "double action" that are not real double-action guns. They might have partially-cocked strikers, or a partially-cocked hammer, but that's one-and-a-half action - not double.
There are a few that bridge the gap and give you second-strike capability - like some Tauruses - but the majority are frauds, with help from the gun press and the U.S. government.
I like fortified drinks, such as port and boilermakers.
For a while, I've drinking port and making boilermakers. But the good port is expensive, and the less expensive port is always too sweet. Sandeman ports are a good alternative, but it still comes in a little bit more than I want to pay on a regular basis.
But I've just tried a marsala, and I liked it so much that I just started a second bottle ...
