Common Folk Using Common Sense

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False Philanthropy = Legal Plunder

April 18th, 2008 · Comments Off

Hat tip to Neal Boortz:
“The Law” is an 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was published one year after the third French Revolution of 1848. The essay was influenced by John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Government” and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”. It is the work for which Bastiat is [...]

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Tags: Christianity · Election · Guns · Money · Socialism · The Left · The US

Swimming Pool Deaths vs. Gun Deaths

April 18th, 2008 · Comments Off

Fighting For Liberty published a fascinating look at accidental deaths of children. Since there is very little that I could add or improve upon I’ll just reprint their entire post here:

Estimated guns in the United States: 275 million (roughly).
Estimated swimming pools in the United States: 2.5 million (roughly - according to Harvard Journal of [...]

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Tags: Guns