Articles by Butler Shaffer

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Life Belongs to the Living and Not to the Corporate State

Butler Shaffer on the message of the Ron Paul movement (and LRC).

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1/6/2012

The War Propaganda Party

Only Ron Paul refuses to join.

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12/28/2011

May I Kill You More Efficiently?

Butler Shaffer on a bureaucratic worry.

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12/6/2011

Worship of Military Violence

Butler Shaffer on Joe Paterno, Ron Paul, and Leviathan.

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11/16/2011

When the State Comes After You

Butler Shaffer on responding morally.

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11/10/2011

Klaatu Barada Nikto!

Butler Shaffer on Algore, Paul Krugman, and saving the state with an "alien invasion."

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8/26/2011

A Poet Speaks of Liberty

Butler Shaffer on the extraordinary Lilija Valis.

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8/6/2011

Three Cheers for the Casey

Butler Shaffer on the Madame Defarge lynch-mob mentality vs. justice.

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7/11/2011

Green Statists at the Grocery Store

Butler Shaffer straightens them out.

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6/20/2011

The US Ministry of Truth

Bill Clinton wants one, which means even he knows the jig is up.

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6/14/2011

The State’s Foundations Are Collapsing

Butler Shaffer on its futile retaliations.

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6/9/2011

The US Post-bin Laden

America can survive, if not the regime.

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5/14/2011

How Perverted Have We Become?

Butler Shaffer on the celebration of government hit squads, and the persecution of Manning and Assange.

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5/9/2011

American Fascism

Butler Shaffer on big business vs. free markets.

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4/29/2011

The Unabomber in Washington

Terrorizing the world.

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4/11/2011

The New Definition of ‘Liberty’

Obedience to the state to keep yourself out of a cage.

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4/4/2011

Believe Nothing the Government Says

About radiation or anything else.

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3/25/2011

History Proves Nothing

That's why secession is a hot option, says Butler Shaffer.

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3/8/2011

The New Math and the New Geometry

Butler Shaffer on how they

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3/2/2011

How To Think Clearly

About the criminal State.

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1/17/2011

Violence Is the Essence of Government

Keep that in mind amidst the agitprop.

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1/11/2011

The State’s Indecencies

Will the Tea Party be one of them?

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12/28/2010

Tea Party Fraud

Butler Shaffer on the latest gang of political scam artists.

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11/11/2010

The State Is Distilled Violence

Advocates of liberty may not use such an evil tool.

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11/1/2010

Government Disrupts and Destroys

Never believe a word it says, says Butler Shaffer.

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10/13/2010

A Virulent Pathology

Butler Shaffer on the hate merchants vs. the Islamic cultural center.

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8/28/2010

This Land Is Whose Land?

Butler Shaffer on unexamined questions and illegal immigration.

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7/21/2010

Repudiate Government Debt

Every dime, says Butler Shaffer, federal, state, and local.

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7/13/2010

We Need a ‘Kill Switch’

For the state.

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6/29/2010

The Regime Is Collapsing

It's McChrystal clear, says Butler Shaffer.

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6/24/2010

How Can We Enforce ‘Rights’?

Without empowering those who long to regiment their neighbors, that is.

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5/24/2010

Listen to the Presidential Sock Puppet

And stop thinking.

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5/15/2010

The Truth About Elena Kagan

Butler Shaffer on the myth that justice is blind.

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5/12/2010

The Sociopathic Dance of Politics

Butler Shaffer on the heart of the regime.

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4/14/2010

Anarchy in the Streets

If only!

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4/7/2010

The GOP Is To Be Condemned

For its essential criminality, and its treatment of Ron Paul.

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4/5/2010

Will Boobus Wake Up?

Butler Shaffer on oblivious Americans and Obama, MD.

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3/30/2010

Another Magic Trick From Oboudini

Butler Shaffer on the health-care chimera.

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3/24/2010

With the Predator State in Charge

We are consuming our capital, which means being poor.

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3/22/2010

Running on Empty

Butler Shaffer on conservatives.

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3/9/2010

Being a Witness

Butler Shaffer on Texas tax suicide and peaceful resistance.

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2/22/2010

8th Grade, Then and Now

Butler Shaffer on the modern stupido-factories.

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2/13/2010

The Nation-State Is a Typhoid Mary

Butler Shaffer on resisting the deadly virus.

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2/10/2010

‘To Make Lies Sound Truthful’

Butler Shaffer on the purpose of political language.

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1/29/2010

The Establishment Is in Crisis

How sweet it is.

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1/22/2010

Increase Your Carbon Footprint

Butler Shaffer on what you can do for freedom.

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12/9/2009

What the Taliban Actually Think

Butler Shaffer on some of the people on the receiving end of democracy.

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10/29/2009

In Praise of Hoaxsters

Butler Shaffer on the boy-in-a-balloon family, and other heroes.

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10/23/2009

Needed: a Brobdingnagian Statue of Madeline Albright

Taller than the Washington Monument, wider than the Pentagon.

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10/2/2009

The ‘Common Good’

That's just a synonym for state collectivism, says Butler Shaffer.

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9/28/2009