His central message is that the power of dictatorships comes from the willing obedience of the people they govern – and that if the people can develop techniques of withholding their consent, a regime will crumble.
Photo by Male Sil Flor 1983-2010 Buenos Aires
BACK TO THE FUTURE by Photographer Irina Werning
- David FrumThe Obama administration continues to repeat motions that clearly will not achieve the goal that supposedly motivated the process in the first place. They call their Middle East policy a strategy — but it looks like a twitch.
Corporate profitability has reached record highs, meaning that companies can afford to hire as demand revives. Including dividends, the stock market has gained more than 10 percent this year. If this is "socialism," what would capitalism look like?
David Frum State of the Union 2011 – Obama State of the Union Address by David Frum – Esquire
Photographer McDonald Wright explaining his process and development
Let's Enhance - Duncan Robson
"Better Nerf Gun" - Make:
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BBC News – "Outcry prompts retrial for Chinese toll dodger"
The Chinese government begins to openly listen to it's people. Great day for China as they continue on their own path to a better government.
by Michael Marantz via Daring Fireball
Politically minded Americans of the 18th century retained intense memories of what Europe had looked like before the growth of states: not a libertarian paradise, but a marauder's free-fire zone in which dynasts and warlords despoiled the weak and disorganized. The Founding generation had absorbed the Enlightenment ideals of John Locke. But Locke had taught that the state was the vindicator of natural rights, not the enemy of those rights.
Were the Founding Fathers Libertarians? by David Frum