Yesterday, Pope Francis (or whoever controls his account) logged on to Twitter and posted this: Do we really want peace? Then let’s ban all weapons so we don’t have to live in fear of war. There’s a lot wrong with this one, so we break it down in this week’s episode. Further reading A response […] The post Episode 89 – Pope Francis wants to “ban all weapons” appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

We were minding our own business when suddenly we got an email from our hosting service that we were being hit with a DMCA takedown notice for an alleged copyright violation.  It was for a picture we used for an article that we posted a few years ago about a conspiracy theory about the Sandy […] The post Episode 88 – Responding to Lenny Pozner’s DMCA accusation appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Remember when Donald Trump said that it was a huge mistake for Obama to get involved in Syria?  Remember when people supported Donald Trump with the excuse that he’d keep us out of the wars that Hillary Clinton was dying to get involved in? Yeah. Related #9 – Art Bell: The End of an Era; […] The post Episode 87 – Reactions to the US-led act of war against Syria appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Nothing beats a home and home series for two heated rivals, so we decided to have Round 2 with the boys from the Friends Against Government podcast.  After being guests on their show last week, this time, it’s on our turf. Rollo and Slappy get the homefield advantage. On Car and Bird’s podcast, we put […] The post Episode 86 – The libertarian airing of grievances with CarCampIt and birdarchist appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

On the heels of any tragedy or disaster, especially when it deals with guns, everyone focuses on the groups making the most noise about what to do.  Everyone’s talking about David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, and the March For Our Lives crowd and how they want to have the state take drastic measures to put an […] The post Episode 85 – The government claims to have prevented two mass shootings, so how would the free market handle them? appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

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.