Guy Smith | March 2, 2011
Søren Kierkegaard coyly noted: People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Interestingly, among this dower Dane’s works were theological investigations into Christian ethics. Were Kierkegaard alive today, he would be feverishly scribbling notes about the subject of today’s Supreme Court ruling that centers around a [...]
Guy Smith | February 7, 2011
Do we need (or deserve) the government pimping shysters? In modern America, our litigious land is littered with lawyers. One can nary step over a drunk obstructing the sidewalk without landing on a lawyer laying just beyond. Anyone wishing to inflict the legal system upon a neighbor need look no further than their television screen [...]
Guy Smith | November 29, 2010
Repeat a lie often enough and people start to believe it, especially if the government applies your money to feed the effluvium factory. An ugly example escaped last week when the statistical masochists at the McKinsey Quarterly surveyed people who didn’t pay their medical bills. Most were broke. Others claim to have not received their [...]
Guy Smith | November 22, 2010
One can (and should) argue that government is the source of insecurity, as will become painfully obvious in five years when the Social Insecurity cash flow runs red, and twenty years hence when the entire system goes nipples-to-the-sky. Given that overreaching government control is antithetical to freedom, it is a tiny logical step to believe [...]
Guy Smith | November 1, 2010
In France it is a crime to display contempt towards a public servant. In America it is a pastime and blood sport. Sans humour, non? Not long ago a female politician confused the words for expanding the money supply with a form of oral gratification, which is understandable since they both lead to inflation. During [...]
