Power operates like other scarce goods, and black markets spring up in it where it is proscribed.
Aug 262019
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Aug 142019
“No friends to the right” is the bedrock principle on which left and right agree.
Jul 222019
It doesn’t matter what the rules are. What matters is that no one know what the rules are.
Jul 182019
Permissiveness is more regressive than any sales tax.
Jul 122019
The more obvious the truth, the more severely its utterance is punished.
Jul 112019
How to smash the oppressors while preserving the sponsors has yet to be demonstrated.
Jul 102019
Every license is to steal.
Jul 022019
The fundamental freedom is of association: from it all others can be derived, without it all others are moot.
Jun 262019
A bureaucracy, like a garage, should be hosed down periodically, to dislodge the stray bits of power accumulating in its crevices and corners like dust and dirt.
Jun 192019
Popular sovereignty democratizes everything but rule.