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Freedom Newspapers in Bankruptcy

Butler Shaffer on the difficulty of sustaining enterprises devoted to liberty.

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9/4/2009

It’s the End of the World as We Know It

And Butler Shaffer feels fine.

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8/3/2009

The State Is Anti-Life

See, for example, the suicides of its soldiers.

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8/1/2009

Is Man a Killer Ape for the Government?

No, so we better prove that notion wrong, says Butler Shaffer.

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7/17/2009

Who Should Have a Date With the Hangman?

Butler Shaffer on justice and American politics.

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7/13/2009

War = Tyranny

Butler Shaffer on the secret of state growth.

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6/23/2009

Human Life Is Destroying the Planet!

Butler Shaffer on the essence of environmentalism.

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6/16/2009

Beyond Obama’s Probationary Period

Time to hold him up to examination, says Butler Shaffer.

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5/9/2009

Keeping People in Manageable Herds

A lesson in politics from Butler Shaffer.

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3/11/2009

Watching the Collapse of Western Civilization

It's interesting, if not pleasant.

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2/16/2009

An Outbreak of Order in NYC

Butler Shaffer on spontaneous order vs. dead-handed coercion.

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1/21/2009

Plagiarizing Ron Paul

Butler Shaffer on the National Republican "Trust."

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12/6/2008

The Real World Order Is Chaotic

Much as it bothers the god-kings.

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11/28/2008

The World Is Bankrupt

But we don't need to follow it, says Butler Shaffer.

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10/27/2008

The Siege of San Francisco

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10/20/2008

Reject State Lies

Starting with "national defense," says Butler Shaffer.

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8/29/2008

Why Won’t They Say No?

Butler Shaffer on the people and the parasite.

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8/12/2008

The Evil Greenspan

Butler Shaffer on the arrogance of a depresssion-starter.

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7/31/2008

The Deeper Meaning of the Ron Paul Campaign

And the Kent Snyder fundraising effort.

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7/8/2008

The July 4th Lie

Butler Shaffer on the evil of state holidays.

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7/4/2008

Reds and Fascists Hate Speculators

Butler Shaffer on some of our most valuable fellow beings.

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6/26/2008

George Carlin, Libertarian Hero

Like Lenny Bruce, he was hounded by the state.

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6/24/2008

Enough of the Tim Russerts

Butler Shaffer on stenographers for the regime.

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6/16/2008

Totalitarian Republicans

Butler Shaffer attends an anti-Ron Paul convention in Minnesota.

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6/9/2008

The Case for Starvation

Butler Shaffer on the environmentalists.

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5/24/2008

The Immigration Question

Butler Shaffer on private property rights.

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5/15/2008

A Greater Threat Than Global Warming!

Butler Shaffer on colliding galaxies.

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4/30/2008

One Way To Weaken Government

Butler Shaffer on meticulous obedience.

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4/16/2008

Ozymandias USA

Butler Shaffer on where matters stand.

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3/28/2008

The State Lynch Mob

Butler Shaffer on why so many want to kill and torture.

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2/18/2008

‘Support the Shopping Mall Killers’

Butler Shaffer offends you.

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12/12/2007

Neocon Projection

Butler Shaffer on neo-fascist accusations against Ron Paul donors.

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11/16/2007

Global-Warming Neurosis

Butler Shaffer on cloud-cuckoo-land.

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10/31/2007

What Debates?

Butler Shaffer on an establishment fraud vs. Ron Paul.

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10/12/2007

The Emperor Has No Humor

Butler Shaffer on the MIT student, airport security, and the sweatshirt "bomb."

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9/25/2007

Where the State Is Competent

Butler Shaffer on mass murder.

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9/19/2007

Sy Leon, RIP

Butler Shaffer remembers a libertarian original.

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9/11/2007

Why They Won’t Impeach

It would endanger the whole scam, says Butler Shaffer.

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7/17/2007

Identifying With the State

Butler Shaffer on a crime against self and society.

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6/29/2007

The War Against Learning

Butler Shaffer on the American university.

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6/21/2007

The Remnant and Ron Paul

Butler Shaffer on the shape of the future.

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6/7/2007

For Your Antiwar Film Festival

More choices, from Butler Shaffer.

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5/21/2007

Memorial Day Alternative

For Memorial Day.

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5/16/2007

Civilization in Free Fall

Butler Shaffer on what the state has wrought.

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5/1/2007

The Control Cult

The total state is zero protection, says Butler Shaffer.

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4/21/2007

Resist the Jihad

Of the global-warmites.

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4/12/2007

Americans Don’t Believe in Private Property

Butler Shaffer on a Cold War-era myth.

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2/26/2007

Riding a Dead Horse

Butler Shaffer on the statists.

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1/25/2007

Alternative Medicine

It's libertarian medicine, says Butler Shaffer.

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12/5/2006

Impeach the American People

Not just the White House sociopaths, says Butler Shaffer.

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11/17/2006

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