Libertas

Laissez-Nous Faire

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Laissez faire means literally “Let do,” but it translates into “Let us do as we please.”
Embellished history has it that the term laissez faire was coined in 1680, during a meeting between Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French finance minister, and a group of businessmen. Colbert had asked these men how the government could best help the [...]

Rahm Emanuel and Compulsory Servitude

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

As you may or may not know, an explicit statist named Rahm Emanuel is who Barack Obama has chosen to be his chief of staff.
Rahm Emanuel, just to be clear, is the same person who, in his poorly written book, penned these chilling words:
“It’s time for a real PATRIOT Act that brings out [...]

Sustainable Development, Unmasked

Monday, November 17th, 2008

An angry reader writes:

Dear Sir: I’ve been asked to write this on behalf of a number of people who, for the past two months, have been reading your articles with a kind of horror. We are troubled, not because what you say doesn’t contain truth — it may or may not — but because your [...]