Great interview with Stefan Molyneux and Tom Woods

They talk about Libertarianism and Anarchism. There is no coming out of this (USA) without collapse and chaos; do you want a Libertarian in office when the whole thing collapses? Who would the people blame? Based on history, that is an easy answer.

Liberty Classroom

Tom Woods just announced the "Liberty Classroom" is in full operation. I would highly recommend joining!

Maybe you won't have to read all of "Conceived in Liberty" after all.

Here is the link. Liberty Classroom.

Tom Woods on the free market

Tom Woods

Tom Woods of the Mises Institute gave us some of his time and wisdom today on the radio program (Thank you, Dr. Woods!!). I will get the program posted up ASAP; in the meantime, here is a speech by Tom Woods, or you can get these and more from the Mises Institute here. .

An evening with Tom Woods.

Here is another,"What war does". Or go to the Mises Institute for these and more.

Just War theory

Here is a really good article I found on Tom Woods site.

We have to re-think our mindset of "anything America does is just" if we want to survive. Face it, folks, America is not guilt free. While I'm not a "blame America first" person, I can see a whole lot of evil that this country has done, and we need to stop. Allowing a select few to take us to war for the profit of a select few is evil. Flat out evil. We are not immune from wrongdoing, and we will be held accountable one day, of that I am certain.

If the justification for the attack were simply Iran’s imminent possession of nuclear weapons, then clearly neither the United States nor Israel would be in a position of comparative justice, since both have nuclear weapons as well. Even if the cause for war were the likely use of Iranian nuclear weapons against innocent civilians, this situation is a murky one, since the United States is the one nation that has actually used nuclear weapons against an enemy and, in at least one case (Nagasaki), against a civilian population center with no significant military installations.

Read the rest here.


I wish every American would take the time to read this. Including several "Christian" friends of mine.

Quasi-War

Today a caller stated that the so-called Quasi war (Franco-American war) showed that Congress does not have to "Declare War," they can just authorize the Use of Force.
This has been used by some to claim the Iraq war was just, even though Congress never Declared War.

Here is an article on the subject. You should note that Congress's Authorization was not used as flippantly as it is used today. And America was under attack, which was not the case in Iraq.

Quasi War

Here you can actually read the Authorization from Congress.

An act to further protect the commerce of the United states

Thomas Woods had this to say about it:

Supporters of a broad executive war power have sometimes appealed to the Quasi War with France, in the closing years of the eighteenth century, as an example of unilateral warmaking on the part of the president. Francis Wormuth, an authority on war powers and the Constitution, describes that contention as "altogether false." John Adams "took absolutely no independent action. Congress passed a series of acts that amounted, so the Supreme Court said, to a declaration of imperfect war; and Adams complied with these statutes."
Consider an interesting and revealing incident that occurred during the Quasi War. Congress authorized the president to seize vessels sailing to French ports. But President Adams, acting on his own authority and without the sanction of Congress, instructed American ships to capture vessels sailing either to or from French ports. Captain George Little, acting under the authority of Adams' order, seized a Danish ship sailing from a French port. When Little was sued for damages, the case made its way to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Captain Little could indeed be sued for damages in the case. "In short," writes Louis Fisher in summary, "congressional policy announced in a statute necessarily prevails over inconsistent presidential orders and military actions. Presidential orders, even those issued as Commander in Chief, are subject to restrictions imposed by Congress."