Posted by onesquarelight on 03/16/09
Last updated 03/17/09

My car was in the shop today so I was home from work. I decided to have some fun mocking up a new Campaign for Liberty website. I'm sure nothing will ever come of it but I thought I'd share to see what you all think.

Click on the image below to see a full scale version.

Posted 03/17/09 Kyle Plymouth, MI

That's a really nice clean look! Good job! +1

Posted 03/17/09 sunfiresarah Peoria, AZ

I like it too!

Posted 03/17/09 onesquarelight Mechanicsburg, PA

Thanks, I'd love to help revamp our community here. We'll see if this draws any attention from the powers that be.

Posted 03/17/09 ChadSweigert Annville, PA

Hey if not you can always mirror with it. I mean with permission of course!

Posted by onesquarelight on 03/17/09

By now you've probably heard about the police document (MAIC strategic report) from Missouri that leaked to the public earlier this year. It outlines trends in malitia members - Ron Paul bumper stickers, Libertarian and 3rd party supporters, Constitution imagry and the like - to help Police profile possible terrorists and malitia members. If not look into it. Pretty scary stuff.

Here is a nice follow up article from kansascity.com - read the comments too.

http://www.kansascity.com/116/story/1086524.html

Posted by onesquarelight on 03/17/09
Last updated 03/17/09

Harvard just completed their 2009 conference entitled "The Free Market Mindset: History, Psychology, and Consequences"

Here is Harvard's own introduction to the conference via (The Project on Law and Mind Sciences) website - http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k13943&pageid=icb.page240731

The market collapse has brought not only financial crisis but a crisis of faith in what Ronald Reagan famously called “the magic of the market place.” If the current state of the U.S. economy makes clear that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's faith in free markets was misplaced, the question remains: what was it about free markets that proved -- and still continues to prove -- so alluring to economists, scholars, and policy-makers alike?

THE FREE MARKET MINDSET: History, Psychology, and Consequences, the March 7 conference to take place at Harvard Law School, brings together leading scholars in law, economics, social psychology, and social cognition to present and discuss their research regarding the historical origins, psychological antecedents, and policy consequences of the free market mindset. Their work illustrates that the magic of the marketplace is partially an illusion based on faulty assumptions and outmoded approaches.

 Read Supporters of Capitalism Are Crazy, Says Harvard by Thomas E. Woods Jr. at mises.org for a wonderful commentary regarding the ridiculousness of this conference.

Posted 03/17/09 Haystacks Calhoun NEW YORK, NY

Yes I'll grant you it is a little annoying, to say the least. The problem is when you take what these professors say to heart, even though THEY"VE NEVER ACTUALLY SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN THE REAL WORLD. As an example, I give you the "I agree with Obama -- doing actual work for a living is for suckers" resume of Anne Allstot, one of the profs to be attending. -- Anne Alstott is the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at Havard Law School. After graduating from law school in 1987, Professor Alstott spent three years as an associate at a Wall Street law firm and two years as an attorney-advisor in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Legislative Counsel. In 1992, she joined the faculty of the Columbia University School of Law as an associate professor. At Columbia, she won the Professor Willis L.M. Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1997, she became a tenured professor of law at Yale, where she twice won the Yale Law Women teaching award. In 2004, Yale named her the Jaquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation. She arrived at Harvard in 2008. -- Lots of teaching, lawyering, and professoring -- but has she ever MADE anything of value? Done anything outside of teaching (read: complaining and whining) or the government (read: burden on society, as Schiff says in his most recent lecture)? I think not. This reminds me of Akhil Amar, a liberal professor at Yale Law School, WHO NEVER ACTUALLY PRACTICED LAW. Are you kidding me??? Happens a bit of the time, sure, but why would I listen to anything these people say without some skepticism? Don't get me wrong; I don't have a problem with the big H. Didn't they basically fire Larry Summers? At least they got one thing right?

Posted 03/17/09 Haystacks Calhoun NEW YORK, NY

Now that I think about it, anyone who has the nerve to condemn the free market should only do so after they've actually had some EXPERIENCE IN IT. Like bagging some groceries at the local market for a few years, or building something in a plant, or how about doing a one year visiting fellowship at one of those factories in Latin America, for goodness' sake. These people basically live not on governmental welfare or corporate welfare -- but on a kind of educational welfare (they're overpaid because parents want their kids to get these 'prestigious' degrees). OF COURSE they would think it's great and want welfare for others -- that's what they KNOW, that's what they KNOW.

Posted 03/17/09 Haystacks Calhoun NEW YORK, NY

Moreover these professors have a big scam going -- it's called the "This crap is way too complex for you so let me in my infinite wisdom break it down for you" scam. If things were simple (like, say, the aforementioned "government is a burden" rule), why would we need professors? Why? Why why why? They are useless. They hide behind a mask of complexity so we don't realize how shallow and pointless all their theorizing is. Just saying.

Posted 03/17/09 illuminati hater Las Vegas, NV

They're probably going to be talking about the same Keynesian economic crap that we've been hearing about for God knows how long. As long as the information they talk about is in their favor, it doesn't matter how flawed their plan will be for us.

Posted 03/17/09 onesquarelight Mechanicsburg, PA

"it's called the "This crap is way too complex for you so let me in my infinite wisdom break it down for you" scam." I think you nailed it HC.

Posted 03/17/09 Major C Sharp garden grove, CA

The anti-intellectualism here deeply saddens me. Rather than attacking the acedemic community, why not actually debate using one's real-life experience with them instead rather than complaining about how useless they are? In any case, we all can agree that their conclusions are flawed. Simply put, free-market capitalism follows human nature of selfishness and thus, the most logical. I am still interested what they had to say at the conference though and how they came up with their conclusion.

Posted 03/18/09 onesquarelight Mechanicsburg, PA

Just a little rallying of the troops Major C. You can go read a bunch of stuff about the lectures if you want - http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k13943&pageid=icb.page240731

Posted by onesquarelight on 03/13/09
Last updated 03/15/09

I have a question for all who will listen. Where do you get your news? Do you have a favorite online source? If so, please share. Particularly those that shed a light of truth on modern day econominc/political events.

I spend a lot of time at the following sites.

http://www.mises.o
rg
http://www.youtube.com/user/misesmedia
http://www.fee.org
http
://www.feeblog.org

Most of these sites expound on Austrian theory and Libertarianism in general as apposed to a Libertarian view of current events.

What I'm interested in is a list of trustworthy news sources online.

Posted 03/14/09 Scott from PA Hopwood, PA

http://finance.yahoo.com/ Closing Bell and Fast Money on CNBC http://dollarcollapse.com/ http://www.drudgereport.com/ http://www.globa lresearch.ca/ Then do a search using http://www.ixquick.com/ (better than Google - ixquick doesn't record your IP address) to see what the rest of the story is

Posted 03/15/09 onesquarelight Mechanicsburg, PA

Thanks for your feedback Scott. I've bookmarked each of your suggestions for future use. I had never heard of ixquick. Thanks for the info. fyi - url correction: http://www.globalresearch.ca/ I'd love to hear from more individuals on where you get your news. Thanks

Posted by onesquarelight on 02/09/09
Last updated 03/17/09

Many of us hear at C4L understand the core principles of a healthy economy and sound money. We understand that huge cash injections from the federal government may have a short term positive effect on the economy, but in the long run will further weaken the dollar, drive up costs and burden many future generations to come. We understand that the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional and thier medling in interest rates and money creation has caused, not reduced the severity of the economic cycles. We see all the evils that have robbed our fellow citizens of liberty and freedom and we detest them. From what I've witnessed, our intentions here at Campaign for Liberty are overwhelmingly positive and noble.

Why is it then, I ask, that speaking out against the bailout and stimulous package is so often miconcieved as uncompassionate?  There are after all millions of American out of work and loosing their homes. They are our brothers and sisters. What is our answer to them? We believe that the Government should not interviegn in the economy. We denounce Keynesisan theories that the market cannot function without Government intervention. We see that the problems with the economy are due to Government intervention. On account of this knowledge, our answer to what should be done is, "Nothing". Or perhaps we wax on poetically about ending the Fed.

If "Nothing" is done the markets will correct themselves. Prices will find their natural balance and barring any futher medling of interest rates and cash creation, we will once again find a stable economy. But what is our answer to those out of work now? What is our unified answer to those who face looseing their home. I ask because I truely don't know. Many people here are far more versed in the Libertarian/Austrian philosophies than me. I ask you, "What should we be doing? I'd honestly like to have something better to say than, "Nothing".

Thanks and God Bless.

Posted 02/09/09 Felegund Jonesville, KY

Charity. THat is the answer. Instead of trusting in the government to set everything right for us, we stand up and do it ourselves. People don't have a lot of money. I know that. I'm a colleg kid. I was poor before the economy died. And I did not grow up in a rich home. But from time to time, we would take a little money down to the Salvation Army collection bins, or throw a few cans of vegetables in the local food drive, or volunteer at a soup line. If everybody contributes a little time or money or stuff to those who need it more, voluntarily and without the threat of imprisonment (which will breed laxity, resentment, and evasion), then those who are hurting among us will be a lot better off. Charity. Human Goodwill. Love thy neighbor. That's all it takes.

Posted 02/09/09 constraint Columbus, IN

Bob Murhpy on "what to do" to fix the economy. http://mises.org/story/3316 I was also listening to Scott Horton interviewing Lew Rockwell on the lewrockwell.com podcast yesterday. Lew was asked the same thing about what to say to those who are currently unemployed. His answer was somewhat to parts: 1) that economics is value free. Economics will tell you that if you increase unemployment insurance payment amounts and the time that indiviuals are eligible to receive them more the result will be more unemployment. Economics itself doesn't say that more unemployment is good or bad. Beyond economics he stated that: 2) you have to ask "where does this money comes from?" For example if a state wanted to sell a park or something and then use those funds to finance the unemployment payments that's fine, but to steal it from someone else is wrong.

Posted 02/10/09 onesquarelight Mechanicsburg, PA

Thank you for your thoughts.

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