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15 Things to Teach Kids that Government Schools Never Will – Epi-3082

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Today we discuss 15 things we should be teaching our children that government run schools never will.  Most adults by the way likely need to learn at least half of them.  We are not attacking the school system today though, rather pointing out how valuable this knowledge is and why the state doesn’t want a population to have them. In fact the entire point of this episode is to make you think about what to teach your kids so they can have in the words of every parent ever, “have more than I did when I was growing up” or … Continue reading →

Ron Paul on Fighting for Liberty – Episode-2964

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Today I am honored to have Dr. Ron Paul on TSPC as my special guest.  Dr. Paul is a big part of why TSPC even exists.  In the early 2000s I discovered Dr. Paul and began my journey deeper into libertarian thought.  He was an inspiration in so many ways but mostly due to his 100% unwillining to compromise his principles.  Something largely unheard of from a politicians, especially one constantly reelected to the US House of Representatives. Since retiring as a US Congressman in 2013 Dr. Paul has remained an uncompromising voice for liberty in the modern world.  Now … Continue reading →

Episode-2663- Developing Your Personal Counter Economics Game Plan

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Two guys I really like (Vin Armani and Pete Quinones) have been trading some thoughts on counter economics recently.  Pete said something like, “Any strategy to defeat the expanding technocracy that does not include counter-economics should be rethought, or abandoned.” Which Vin responded to with, “A successful countereconomics strategy won’t defeat the expanding technocracy, but it will enable individuals to avoid the worst of its effects.” My response to Vin was, “Bingo! Agorism is not going to save the world, it is innate to the human condition. It is something you do, not something you create as a system. It … Continue reading →

Episode-2348- Self Ownership Over Political Activism

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Today I was chatting with Nicole Sauce on facebook and discussing what to do for today’s show.  One thing she suggested was perhaps, “why libertarians often come off as assholes and what they can do to better serve their marketing push“.  It didn’t slip by me that Nicole said libertarians vs. Libertarians. In libertarian circles capital L means the LP, as in the official Libertarian Party.  Like most liberty minded individuals I had my time considering the LP a viable option.  I even ran for Congress in Texas as an LP party member.  That one stint at running taught me … Continue reading →

Episode-2201- Lyn Ulbricht on Silk Road Going to the Supreme Court

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Lyn Ulbricht is a political activist and advocate for individual freedom, privacy and criminal justice reform. She is also the mother of Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to double life without parole for all non-violent charges associated with his role in the Silk Road website. This was a “dark web” marketplace designed to protect the privacy of its users. The site was product agnostic: buyers and sellers determined what was anonymously exchanged using the little-known currency bitcoin. This included both legal and illegal goods, including drugs, although involuntary things that created victims, such as child porn and stolen goods, were … Continue reading →

Episode-1480- What Might a Free Market Education System Look Like

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Note – There will be ZERO teacher bashing in this show.   Well zero teacher bashing as a wholesale group anyway, I promise. Yesterday I pointed out how many problems and divisions in society would not even exist if the state were not involved in key issues.  Once again I dared touch the sacred cow of pubic education.  Once again my inbox is crammed full of hate mail because I am “bashing teachers” when the truth is the word teacher wasn’t even used in yesterday’s show. Why this reaction?  Because logical and other wise intelligent and sane people become irrational even … Continue reading →

Episode-1428- Libertas a Virtual Nation

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In Episode 1421 I discussed both the Estonian E-Citizen Program and Ecuador’s new Digital Currency and asked a simple question, could digital currencies and the concept of E-Citizenry be used to create a virtual nation. I think this is a valuable thought experiment and I have some ideas I want to share today.  The goal is to get a discussion going about what can be done, vs. what can’t be done.  What might work vs. why nothing can work. As part of this I created a forum thread to discuss a Virtual Nation’s Constitution would be like.  There has been … Continue reading →

Episode-1199- Personal Libertarian Living Can it be Done

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I call myself a personal libertarian.  What do I mean by that?  I mean that I simply accept society isn’t ready for some of the changes I have experienced in my life, they are not ready to be responsible for themselves.  Many people do want the governmetn to solve their problems. I have seen it and not just from people living on welfare and off government jobs.  I have had intelligent and fairly successful people look me strait in the eye and say things like, “well if the government isn’t there to pass laws and solve our problems why are … Continue reading →

Episode-1176- Shawn Hipskind – Libertarian Candidate for Arkansas Governor

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I am joined today but the first ever political candidate on TSP.  Shawn Hipskind my long time friend is running for Governor of the State of Arkansas as a Libertarian.  Shawn’s real goal isn’t so much winning but to bring awareness to problems in our political system, how votes are bought and paid for and the concept of zero dollar campaigns. I want to warn some of our audience that today you are likely to hear many things you disagree with.  Specifically on many libertarian issues like the use of force, the war on drugs and gay marriage.  Note that … Continue reading →

Episode-1097- How A Libertarian Society Would Function

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We have had some pretty good discussions about libertarian concepts on the blog here in a very old article I posted almost 4 years ago.  I guess something  happened a lot of new people found it.  What I am coming to understand is many see libertarianism, objectivity and anarchism as the same things, they are not the same things. Many how would ______ get accomplished questions about libertarianism don’t actually apply to minarchist libertarianism.  So today I am going to discuss how a society that is at least moving in the direction of libertarianism would function and how things would … Continue reading →