Ricky wants the terrorists to win.
I agree with xahrx here. This “ana-cap? No? Screw em.” attitude is really getting annoying. It sounds exactly like holier-than-thou evangelicals and leftist Janeane Garofalo types.
But to get back to the OP, I totally agree. I would love to see the Judge take the 5pm slot on the main news channel.
“But to get back to the OP, I totally agree. I would love to see the Judge take the 5pm slot on the main news channel.” - John James
Damn man, I don’t get home from work until 7 at the earliest. I’ll miss Freedom Watch if that happens. It’s the only show on TV i’ve gone out of my way to watch since Dirty Jobs came on.
That show is a great example. Not more than a year ago if Lew Rockwell had shown up on a show, it would have been for the sole purpose of asking him hatchet job questions to show the audience how kooky he was. It’s because of people like the judge and Beck being in the media and working their way into main stream shows that now Austrians and those who at least understand and respect the Austrian view will show up on TV and be treated respectfully. People like Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell laid the groundwork for this step, now people who are at least sympathetic or closer to the ancap view are on main stream media shows and being treated more or less fairly. And I don’t get the attitude against them. If you’re drowning are you going to refuse a life preserver because the guy who threw it to you disagreed with you? Some of the ideas and questions are out there thanks to these guys.
I remember seeing som third party presidential candidates being interviewed once. The reporter got to the Constitution cadidate I believe and asked him his opinion on gun rights, and then asked if that meant people could own and carry bazookas. Then they cut to commercial. fast forward to today and Beck, odd ball that he is, has a show on a main stream channel. Napolitano too, more or less. People are calling for the repeal of the Fed and being taken seriously. People are questioning the president’s current wars and being taken seriously. Police are abusing their powers and Napolitano is reporting on it and he’s being taken seriously.
I guess I’m glad I’m not the only poerson here who recognizes progress and is thankful for it. Frankly I never thought I’d live to see the day where I could publicly express my views on The Fed and not be branded a nut.
Good riddance.
^ Liberte is back 
Like Woodrow Wilson being the father of progressivism and getting us involved in a war we should have avoided and starting social programs we likewise should have avoided?
Like having an idiot caricature of the Progressive legacy and artificially separating the modern ‘conservative’ movement from it. Like obviously not understanding historical Progressivism or the figures in it, and instead spouting off the same hackneyed bullshit that Jonah Goldberg does.
I recommend you read Gottfried on Beck’s nonsense. Like Goldberg, he is incapable of serious analysis of the Progressive movement and has no real understanding of its history, he’s just using it for sectarian bullshit.
Progressivism supposedly stretched far across from 1870 to the late 1920s, according to some interpretations.
I am not American and I am not qualified to speak on American matters any more than you folks are on South Asian matters, but here’s what I (vaguely) know.
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There were a lot of Republicans involved in the Progressive Era, and these Republicans also liked to hide behind limited government rhetoric while also pushing for similar programs.
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It was more of a coalition of people with contradictory and differing ideas. One of the more racist Progressives, as Daniel Kuehn explained in his blog, disliked Teddy Roosevelt, another Progressive, and called him a “miscegenationist”.
It’s all utterly confusing to me to understand what the Progressives wanted, because there was no one type of Progressive.
Just cause the new member is female, is using some fake profile picture, and likes Stirner, doesn’t mean it’s Liberte. Though it does make it likely.
EDIT: It’s probably Liberte. Welcome back!
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Are you talking about me?
Before you, there were two sarcastic women with a very bitter style, and we assumed they were the same person - Vichy Army and Liberte.
You are not here, since she was Singaporean and quite Chinese…I think.
Why do you assume I’m a sarcastic and bitter woman?
It’s not neccesarily a bad thing. It’s just Max Stirner. This:
“Natalie spends most of her time reading old books, eating junk food, and arguing with idiots”
All very much like Vichy/Liberte. Prateek, I’m sure that Liberte’s profile picture was a false one.
Not liberte 
Dissapoint.
Well welcome new mises member!
I don’t. Others seem to have. They are sensitive to negativity.
But by all means, we don’t see many women around here. Check the gender signs under all avatars.
And sorry for the trouble, if any.
I notice your facebook profile is as brand new as your Mises account.
Exploring the internet for the first time?
Don’t stalk people, nir. 
I thought that was Ricky James.
“I recommend you read Gottfried on Beck’s nonsense. Like Goldberg, he is incapable of serious analysis of the Progressive movement and has no real understanding of its history, he’s just using it for sectarian bullshit.” - Ricky James Moore II
Already read it. And it’s irrelevant to my point, which is that now someone else might read it thanks to Beck. Goldberg and Beck aren’t capable of serious analysis? Neither is the majority of the population, who will in the end have to agree not to shoot people like you and me if we ever hope to arrive at true freedom. Which means we might occassionally be friendly and not sneer at people for not having specialized knowledge which in their opinion does them little to no practical good.
That is until people like Beck turned them on the relevancy of it, wrongly done or not.
Already read it. And it’s irrelevant to my point, which is that now someone else might read it thanks to Beck. Goldberg and Beck aren’t capable of serious analysis? Neither is the majority of the population, who will in the end have to agree not to shoot people like you and me if we ever hope to arrive at true freedom.
Except we’re not going to arrive at that, because I live in the real world full of billions of idiots who don’t care whether or not they’re right and have a vested interest in primate status games. Some imaginary future is totally irrelevant to me, once I’m dead the planet can take an asteroid hit for all I care.
Which means we might occassionally be friendly and not sneer at people for not having specialized knowledge which in their opinion does them little to no practical good.
Except it makes no difference, even if you manage to convince hundreds or thousands of people; so treating them like the herd animals they are seems appropriate and rewarding. It’s not that they don’t have specialized knowledge, it’s that they have the gumption to form opinions about subjects they are obviously totally ignorant of, such as sociology, metaphysics, etc. If they’d just shut their God damn mouths like I do about molecular biology and Armenian literature I wouldn’t care much; but as long as they’re going to spout their bullshit arbitrary opinions, screw them.
I’d like to know one ‘new freedom’ we have enjoyed since the advent of television. Much less since the advent of Beck. There is about zero chance new freedoms are going to turn up because of him. He just riles people because the Christo-fascists in this country need a Crusade. The war against Islam is too boring at this point; they need something. And abstract ‘big government’ fills that void. Until the tea party candidates are entrenched.
I think it will be funny if now that the free market has thrown him off his soap box, via advertiser boycott, if he changes his opinion about the free market. And just become a Christo-fascist like he wants to be anyway. Or maybe he will ditch politics and become a televangelist.
If you go back through the history of television, many people have tried to promote ideas and philosophy; or freedom ideas in particular. Ayn Rand was on TV many times. PJ Orourke is on Bill Maher’s programs. The list goes on. It changes nothing. People are fickle and discard things fast. When the show goes out of circulation, it is forgotten by all but those who can salvage it through youtube (and search for it on youtube). With Beck, people just associate these ideas with unintelligence. With Rand and Orourke, there is at least some style and intelligence. Beck’s fox news era will just be considered that fad when anti-government ideology was the thing to talk about on TV at night. And people will even consider the likes of Hayek and Rand, which he promoted (to their detriment), as signifiers of moronism. Rand already has the cliche tag of being for high school kids. Now Hayek has also been dragged through the mud. On top of which, people are going to quickly find Hayek’s promotion of government on some things and use it against us. Like they do with Milton Friedman.
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‘Like Woodrow Wilson being the father of progressivism and getting us involved in a war we should have avoided and starting social programs we likewise should have avoided? But, then again, Beck still worshipped Lincoln. Yeah, he was imperfect. What are you, The Terminator? As for retarded, most people would call his demeanor ‘precious’.’
And this right here is why I have an immense dislike of Glenn Beck. He doesn’t do actual historical research yet blabs about history often times making false statements and giving idealist carictures of history. Woodrow Wilson was not the father of Progressivism. Progressivism started with the Populist Party in the 1890’s, perhaps even in 1885 with Josiah Strong’s work Our Country. Beck, like other political pundits, has no business involving himself in the study of history since he is not trained to engage in such things. You see this so often in the history profession. Inept research, unverified presentation of “facts,” plagarism, forgeries held up as originals and it is almost always from amateur “historians.” Individuals who engage in history as a hobby and not as a profession. Sometimes I just want to go to the political history section of Barnes and Nobles and shred all of those idiotic books by pundits. “Democrats strangle kittens: The history of how Liberals are screwing over the kitten community and destroying our way of life”