Carnival Of Liberty 46 Is Up
I’ve got number 48 in two weeks, but today it’s being hosted by Left Brain Female, who calls my own submission ‘delightful’ and ‘well worth the time to read’. Can’t say I disagree there. (Did I mention I’m an egomaniac?)
Anyway, I particularly like the post from Pubcrawler (go to the carnival to get the link, if I link it directly, I’m taking away from Kay’s hard work). He discusses Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms and its first application. He points out the idiocy of the reasoning for the judge’s correct ruling and goes on to discuss how the logic used by the cities suing these firearms makers ties right back into the fact that social welfare will always result in limitations on the choices we’re allowed to make.
The Radical Libertarian offers up an interesting take on ‘privatizing’ the main government responsibility (protection), could improve matters for all of us. He’s a bit extreme for me usually, but nonetheless tends to be thought provoking. This essay is no exception.
Rick Sincere has a good post up as well. Nothing new, nothing earth shattering, but a well written piece illustrative of many of the problems with ‘central planning’ and the leftist co-option of words turned on their head.
Fun times.
Thanks for the kind words. I wasn’t thinking of ‘The Road to Serfdom’ at the time of writing it but Hayek’s work there is one of my all time favorites. Hayek is correct when he observes that one govenment intrusion usually leads to more and more intrusions when the original adventure doesn’t quite work out as planned.
Comment by tkc — May 24, 2006 @ 12:06 pm
Righto, tkc. Hayek’s wisdom is in the maxim “two wrongs don’t make a right.” What they make is someone who compounds one perceived wrong with an actual one, usually that’s a leftist. Therefore, correctly rendered the maxim should be “two wrongs make a left.” It’s three wrongs that make a right - more precisely, a rightist, a misguided soul who tries to correct (what I’ll generously suppose to be) the unintended consequences of the leftist’s wrong #2 with yet another wrong put in play by an appeal to the State.
Comment by michael i — May 28, 2006 @ 1:50 am
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nice post
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