is that, in the end, they always side with the state against liberty and the free market. On the issue of gas prices, Lew Rockwell and Dale Steinreich have recently pointed out how conservatives Michael Savage and Bill O’Reilly want the feds to intervene in the market even more than now. This reminds me of the so-called conservatives in Congress described by Murray Rothbard back in 1971: There are only two major differences in content between Nixon and Kennedy-Johnson (setting aside purely stylistic differences between uptight WASP, earthy Texan, and glittering upper-class Bostonian): (1) that the march into socialism is … Continue reading The Trouble with Conservatives