Double Birds

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...

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:

In honor of Ludwig von Mises . For liberty .

Based on this meme , and the media's uncomfortable wriggling to avoid congratulating Ron Paul . They see me pollin', They hatin'.

On September 30th, 2011, an American, accused of an awful crime, was executed without trial. To put this in perspective, Nazi war criminals received a trial .   American terrorist Timothy McVeigh , who killed 168 people, received a trial.   Jared Loughner, who publicly shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and shot several other people to death, is awaiting trial . Murderers, even murderers who murder in public, get a trial. Why?  Why don't we just execute murderers on the spot? Because executing someone without evidence, merely on the word of authority, or by accusation, is dangerous.  And very stupid. Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, was put on a kill list a year ago.  His father filed a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union to get him off the list.  The suit was dismissed on a technicality . Awlaki had been posting inflammatory and anti-American videos on youtube.  The videos urged violence against the United States.  But this s...