The best of the best featured here at PB, as chosen by your editor. The most recently posted will be placed at the top.
The Politics of Obedience, by Etienne de la Boetie
The US Is Leading Us All Down the Road to Armageddon, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Truth About Political Correctness, by The Daily Bell
Hushing Up Conspiracy Theories, by Jeff Riggenbach
The Tale of the Slave, by Robert Nozick
A Declaration of Separation, by The Free and The Unashamed
What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks, by Christopher Ketcham
I'm Tired, I'm So Tired, and Personal Declaration of Independence, by Don Cooper
America's Impending Master Class Dictatorship, by Stewart Dougherty
Just War, by Murray Rothbard
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were Anti-Slavery, by Chuck Baldwin
Inflation 101, by Puru Saxena
The Reluctant Anarchist, by Joseph Sobran
Democracy and Faits Accomplis, by Robert Higgs
The Settled Science, by James P. Hogan
Gold Is Not Going Up - Paper Money Is Going Down, by Egon von Greyerz
Pearl Harbor: Hawaii Was Surprised; FDR Was Not, by James Perloff
Requiem for the Dollar, by James Grant
The Problem with 'Free' Health Care, by Edwin Leap
The Fact That Drunk Drivers 'Choose' to Drive Drunk Is Completely Irrelevant, by Mark R. Crovelli
The Patent System: End It, Don't Mend It, by David K. Levine and Michele Boldrin
Nuclear No-Contest, by James P. Hogan
"Cardio" Causes Heart Disease, by Kurt G. Harris, MD
The Economics of Recycling, by Floy Lilley
Rabbit Hole, by Don Cooper
The Real Significance of the 'Civil War,' by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Constitutional Contempt, by Walter Williams
Why Don't Students Like School? Well, Duhhhh... by Peter Gray
Relentless Advance of Technology, by Trace Mayer, JD
Statism Is Dead, by Stefan Molyneux (Five part video series. If you must choose only one, choose Part 3.)
Gold and Freedom, by Jacob G. Hornberger
Robbery and the Welfare State, by George C. Leef
(book review of Stealing from Each Other: How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit, by Edgar K. Browning)
The Right to Remain Loud, by Phil Maymin
Marriage License & Registration, Please, by Steve Bierfeldt
American Pie, by James Quinn
Economics and Moral Courage, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
How They Are Turning Off the Lights in America, by Edwin X Berry
Armed Resistance and Hiding Are Futile, Unless..., by Mark R. Crovelli
The Lawless State, by Karl Hess
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- Free men cannot be ruled. They have no use for either major political party and little if any use for government in general. They know all too well that coercion and violence are the root of evil, that widespread acceptance of the principles of individual liberty, responsibility, and morality is the only way forward, that education and outreach are the sole means, and that it is the duty of all who comprehend and accept these truths to strive tirelessly toward these ends.
DO NOT RELY ON THE OLD MEDIA
Ludwig von Mises Institute
The home of free-market (Austrian) economics.
Lew Rockwell
Anti-state, anti-war, pro-market.
Strike The Root
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -Thoreau
Campaign for Liberty
Ron Paul's site. Daily featured articles, blog, and news wire.
The Daily Bell
A daily compendium of free-market thought. Penetrating insight from Switzerland.
Freedomain Radio
Stefan Molyneux's YouTube channel. Outstanding resource with hundreds of videos. This is the video that got me hooked.
Capitalism Magazine
The website for Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Largely common sense free-market perspectives, but the views on war can be quite hawkish.
321gold
Gold is money. Best place to educate yourself on all things gold, and then some.
SafeHaven
Aggregates the best financial articles. Do not trust your broker, or anyone other than yourself to look out for your financial future.
M.D.O.D.
Warning: caustic and often profane venting of fed-up anonymous emergency physicians. Usually spot-on in their demolition of politics and the culture of dependency.
Rebellion
The blog of a Southern secessionist. Not as radical an idea as you might imagine. Defends core American cultural premises.
Pro Libertate
An extremely well-written blog with a critical eye on the abuses of the police state. Sure to beef up your vocabulary with regular reading.
Edwin Leap
My partner, award-winning medical blogger, and published author.
Body by Science
The website of another one of my partners. The most scientifically proven, ridiculously efficient information on diet and exercise out there.
PaNu
Information on the paleolithic diet, your key to optimal health and longevity the natural way. Written by a physician with keen intellectual curiosity and honesty.
Mercola.com
The world's most popular natural health newsletter.
The Onion
A sense of humor is essential to cope with the sorry state of the world today.
Ars Technica
The site for technology news.
The home of free-market (Austrian) economics.
Lew Rockwell
Anti-state, anti-war, pro-market.
Strike The Root
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -Thoreau
Campaign for Liberty
Ron Paul's site. Daily featured articles, blog, and news wire.
The Daily Bell
A daily compendium of free-market thought. Penetrating insight from Switzerland.
Freedomain Radio
Stefan Molyneux's YouTube channel. Outstanding resource with hundreds of videos. This is the video that got me hooked.
Capitalism Magazine
The website for Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Largely common sense free-market perspectives, but the views on war can be quite hawkish.
321gold
Gold is money. Best place to educate yourself on all things gold, and then some.
SafeHaven
Aggregates the best financial articles. Do not trust your broker, or anyone other than yourself to look out for your financial future.
M.D.O.D.
Warning: caustic and often profane venting of fed-up anonymous emergency physicians. Usually spot-on in their demolition of politics and the culture of dependency.
Rebellion
The blog of a Southern secessionist. Not as radical an idea as you might imagine. Defends core American cultural premises.
Pro Libertate
An extremely well-written blog with a critical eye on the abuses of the police state. Sure to beef up your vocabulary with regular reading.
Edwin Leap
My partner, award-winning medical blogger, and published author.
Body by Science
The website of another one of my partners. The most scientifically proven, ridiculously efficient information on diet and exercise out there.
PaNu
Information on the paleolithic diet, your key to optimal health and longevity the natural way. Written by a physician with keen intellectual curiosity and honesty.
Mercola.com
The world's most popular natural health newsletter.
The Onion
A sense of humor is essential to cope with the sorry state of the world today.
Ars Technica
The site for technology news.
ESSENTIAL WISDOM
"This Act [the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Woodrow Wilson] signs the Bill; the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed. The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill. The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."
~Charles Lindbergh, Sr.
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
~ Vladimir Lenin
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people."
~ Patrick Henry
"Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
~ Frederic Bastiat
"All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
~ George Mason
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
~ George Orwell
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
~ George Orwell
"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
~Herman Goering
"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
~ Mark Twain
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
~ Voltaire
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
~ Voltaire
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- zero."
~ Voltaire
"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money."
~ Daniel Webster
"There is no subtler, surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose."
~ John Maynard Keynes
"Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws."
~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
~ Sir Josiah Stamp
"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
~ George Washington
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
~ Benjamin Franklin
"One man of courage makes a majority."
~ Andrew Jackson
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
~ Edmund Burke
"If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one."
~ Robert LeFevre
"Great men are almost always bad men."
~ Lord Acton
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
~ H. L. Mencken
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
~ H. L. Mencken
"That government is best which governs not at all, and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
~ Henry David Thoreau
~Charles Lindbergh, Sr.
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
~ Vladimir Lenin
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people."
~ Patrick Henry
"Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
~ Frederic Bastiat
"All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
~ George Mason
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
~ George Orwell
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
~ George Orwell
"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
~Herman Goering
"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
~ Mark Twain
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
~ Voltaire
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
~ Voltaire
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- zero."
~ Voltaire
"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money."
~ Daniel Webster
"There is no subtler, surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose."
~ John Maynard Keynes
"Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws."
~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
~ Sir Josiah Stamp
"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
~ George Washington
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
~ Benjamin Franklin
"One man of courage makes a majority."
~ Andrew Jackson
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
~ Edmund Burke
"If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one."
~ Robert LeFevre
"Great men are almost always bad men."
~ Lord Acton
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
~ H. L. Mencken
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
~ H. L. Mencken
"That government is best which governs not at all, and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
~ Henry David Thoreau
ENDORSEMENTS
Euro Pacific Capital
Peter Schiff's firm. Get your money to safety. Links the day's most important financial stories and features his weekly commentary (Fridays) and radio show (Wednesdays).
GoldMoney
The best way to buy gold & silver, with apologies to the Perth Mint.
Ubuntu
More reliable than Windows, and free.
Google Reader
How I stay up to date on my favorite sites.
XBMC
The best media center software.
Radio Paradise
Streaming internet radio you can actually listen to without becoming ill within five minutes. No rap, no metal, no boy bands. Turn it up to 11.
Peter Schiff's firm. Get your money to safety. Links the day's most important financial stories and features his weekly commentary (Fridays) and radio show (Wednesdays).
GoldMoney
The best way to buy gold & silver, with apologies to the Perth Mint.
Ubuntu
More reliable than Windows, and free.
Google Reader
How I stay up to date on my favorite sites.
XBMC
The best media center software.
Radio Paradise
Streaming internet radio you can actually listen to without becoming ill within five minutes. No rap, no metal, no boy bands. Turn it up to 11.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
~William Ernest Henley, "Invictus"
Act BOLDLY and unseen forces will come to your aid.
Bastiat - Jefferson - Mises - Rothbard - Paul