Money, again

Last time, I wrote a post about Mises and money. This post is about money according to Frederic Bastiat. I found an essay at bastiat.org; the website is a good resource as far as Bastiat’s works are concerned. You can either read the html version or download it from Mises.org – “What is Money?”(pdf). And [...]

Commissions

A country that has commissions in place for the protection of human rights, women’s rights, minorities rights etc etc, regardless of their nature (quasi-judicial or not) and motives, confesses that its political and legal system is unsound. If its politics, and therefore laws, were based on individual rights, such commissions would be unnecessary. But since [...]

(e)ndtv

There are facts, and there are opinions. Facts are irrefutable statements – truths. When I say that you will die if you jump off a cliff on to the rocks below, that is a fact based on the laws of physics; you are free to prove otherwise by disregarding the statement. When I say that [...]

Victoria’s children

Fuck them all. Be it Yediyurappa, or Gehlot, or the Sri Ram Sene, or the KRV, or the MNS, or the Shiv Sena, or the Bajrang Dal, or the VHP, or any other pea-brained “leader” or group, they all have one thing in common. They are Victoria’s children. People who’s sense of history and culture [...]

You can’t deceive yourself

Read this.