Since I’m out of town this week, Slappy and I decided to take the week “off” and have this episode be from a video I made back in July.  I had posted something on the Facebook page and someone replied with a list of ten reasons that we need the state.  I decided, without reading […] The post Episode 84 – Responding to ten reasons why we need the state appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Last week, we had Thaddeus Russell on the show to talk about the previous week’s episode.  The saga of natural rights continues this week as Rollo and Slappy take some time to break down the idea of self-ownership.  How can we arrive at the conclusion that you own yourself and what other conclusions can we […] The post Episode 83 – Self-Ownership appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Thaddeus Russell listened to our previous episode where Slappy and I talked about our disagreements with his views on Natural Law and war on an episode of his podcast, Unregistered, with guest Dave Smith.  He got in touch with us and offered to come on our show to talk about these ideas—and of course we […] The post Episode 82 – Discussing ideas on natural rights with Thaddeus Russell appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Thaddeus Russell, host of the podcast Unregistered, recently had David Smith on his show to talk about all sorts of topics within the world of libertarianism.  Both Smith and Russell are excellent to listen to but Slappy alerted me to this episode especially because he wanted to know my thoughts on what Russell had to […] The post Episode 81 – Discussing Thaddeus Russell’s claim that Natural Law justifies war appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

I think he meant it as hyperbole or argumentum ad absurdum, but Hans-Hermann Hoppe warned about extending the ability to vote to children in his book Democracy – The God That Failed: Imagine a world government, democratically elected according to the principle of one-man-one-vote on a worldwide scale.  What would the probable outcome of an […] The post Episode 80 – On the heels of the Parkland shooting, should kids start voting? appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

It may be a cliché, but it doesn’t make it untrue.  Conservatives and leftists are like two sides of the same coin.  Sometimes it’s as obvious as their absolute flip flopping on the issue of executive orders once Donald Trump became President.  Under the Obama years, the leftists defended his liberal use of them while […] The post Episode 79 – The left/right horseshoe of guns and terrorism appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

It just feels like it’s impossible to do anything without a partisan fight breaking out.  Maybe my expectations were warped since it’s the Olympics that’s the center of the latest political bickering, but they are supposed to be a time of peace and goodwill.  And this time each side is no better than any of […] The post Episode 78 – Ridiculous partisan bickering over North Korea appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Slappy and I had a great evening last night.  Our Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl—it’s something we’ve been waiting for our entire lives.  And it finally happened in improbable fashion.  Now Slappy and I don’t live and die with our sports teams.  If the Eagles would have lost, it wouldn’t have been very much […] The post Episode 77 – Libertarians and the world of sports appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Venezuela gets all the attention for socialism in South America, but it’s certainly not the only country that has experienced its ravages in the continent.  Brazil has suffered under the policies and practices of socialism for years.  We brought our friend, Nina Maria Bastiat, as a guest on our show to talk about political and […] The post Episode 76 – Socialism in Brazil and the movement towards libertarianism with Nina Maria Bastiat appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Universal basic income (UBI) or Basic Income Guarantee has some surprising allies: libertarians.  Libertarian supporters of a Basic Income Guarantee are quick to point to some apparently pragmatic defenses of such a program and criticize the libertarian “purists” who dig their heels into the ground to stand against it.  An article written by Matt Zwolinski […] The post Episode 75 – Should libertarians support the Basic Income Guarantee? appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.