Granite Grok has FTL’s Ian in-studio for 30 minutes. They discuss the Free State Project and other topics.

Lew Rockwell from Mises.org gives us a rundown on what went wrong during Hurricane Katrina.

Watching the Capitol Hill hearings on what went wrong after Hurricane Katrina provided a glimpse of what it must have been like in the Politburo in the 1950s. The Soviet bureaucrats would gather with the party officials and factory managers to figure out why grain production was down or why shop shelves were empty or why the bread lines were ever longer and the quality ever worse.

They gathered under the conviction that they had a workable system that was being rendered unworkable because of the incompetence of certain key players in the chain of command. No one was permitted to say that the command system itself was the problem; this would too contrary to the prevailing political ethos. Instead, they had to place blame on someone, as if all problems could be reduced to issues of obedience. It was always a scramble. Whoever was finally said to be at fault faced certain ruin.

From: Ludwig von Mises Institute

Forget about statistics. We all know the statistics for government schools are in our favor, but that doesn’t seem to make any difference. Stefan from Free Domain Radio gets to the heart of the matter.

From: Free Domain Radio

In this classic essay by Henry David Thoreau, he stresses that individuals should not allow governments to rule over their conscience by forcing them to contribute to injustices through taxes or other support. Thoreau advocates breaking laws in a civil manner if one believes they are unjust. This essay would go on to influence Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others.

A response to those who say that moral/political theories are a waste of time.

Robert LeFevre explains how collective ownership is a contradictory concept.

From Lew Rockwell, Jr. at Mises.org. Lew Rockwell discusses a few rationals used to justify government growth.