Double Birds

Jack Abramoff recently gave an interview on how he had bribed at least 100 congressional offices .  He said that those numbers were pretty low when it comes to lobbying. Michael Moore entertainingly depicted the revolving doors between Goldman Sachs and Congress.  But like many on the left, he doesn't grasp that the problem isn't that the power of government can be bought and sold.  The problem is that government has power at all. Governmental power is greater than that of any corporation or individual.  Government can take money it has not earned.  No other entity can legitimately do that. The big banks that received the bailouts, received them from the government.  On their own, banks have to get their money from people who voluntarily give it to them.  But not if they lobby Congress. Notice that once lobbyists get some tax money, they can use our taxes to bribe Congress.  Congressmen and crony corporations use the revolving door of lobbying to basically pocket your tax dolla

Hawaiians—tired of waiting for bureaucrats to pull their heads out—build their own road: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html Road anarchy (building roads without government) is possible!

The Road Idea Contest got delayed like I-15 under stimulus package construction.  I learned a lot from this contest, and will make future contests even better. I received a great road idea from Scott Brusaw of Solar Roadways.  His company wants to build solar panels into our roads . A solar road could: Power the cars that drive on them. Generate heat to keep snow from forming ice "Paint" itself with lights Power the world Pretty cool idea.  I hope Scott can succeed in changing our roads.  Under our current system of state and federal control of roads, innovation is difficult to accomplish.   Check out his TEDx talk . The road contest was meant to be a mental exercise to get people out of the paradigm of socialized roads. For example: a private company would lose customers if it fined them for driving too fast.  A competitor who figured out how to let people drive safely at 200 or 300 miles per hour would gain the customers. Roads are so ubiquitous, that it is difficult to ev

How much does it cost you to drive down the road? I'm not talking gas prices.  Or car prices.  Or even how much it costs to build and maintain the roads. I'm asking, how much does the government charge you for using its roads. Everything.  All the wealth that you have, or ever will have, according to one bureaucrat. Elizabeth Warren, a woman running for Senate, recently said : "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear:  you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for ; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a

I finished a couple episodes of the cartoon I've been working on:

I'm working on a Murray Rothbard cartoon.  Here's where I'm at: