The Current Libertarian Infighting and the Future of Libertarianism

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Marxists were notorious for infighting over the most trivial differences. One group would secede from another, reverse the word order of the group it had seceded from, and declare itself the new and pure group. The first group, the new group would declare to the world, was part of the fascist conspiracy to suppress the coming workers’ triumph, even though the differences between the two groups were completely undetectable even to an expert.

An informal debate taking place among libertarians these days, regarding whether people ought to be “thick” or “thin” libertarians, is of a different character. It strikes at

Lew Rockwell Explains the Ron Paul Revolution

Ron Paul actually has kids reading books and studying about economics and liberty!!

Was Ron Paul Robbed in Iowa?

Here's Lew Rockwell's reasoned take:

Many LRC'ers think so. I don't know, though I will have more to say. There are polling and other oddities. But I do know this: politics is a dirty, rotten affair, full of bribers, bribe-takers, liars, demagogues, and worse. Trillions are at stake in this nomination. Politicians will start a war and kill a million people for less. Are we supposed to think that they would cavil at electoral skulduggery?

The Businessman at Christmas

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

At the heart of the Christmas story rests some important lessons concerning free enterprise, government, and the role of wealth in society.

Let's begin with one of the most famous phrases: "There's no room at the inn." This phrase is often invoked as if it were a cruel and heartless dismissal of the tired travelers Joseph and Mary. Many renditions of the story conjure up images of the couple going from inn to inn only to have the owner barking at them to go away and slamming the door.

In fact, the inns were full to overflowing in the entire Holy Land because of the Roman emperor's decree that everyone be counted and taxed. Inns are private businesses, and customers are their lifeblood. There would have been no reason to turn away this man of royal lineage and his beautiful, expecting bride.

In any case, the second chapter of St. Luke doesn't say that they were continually rejected at place after place. It tells of the charity of a single inn owner, perhaps the first person they encountered, who, after all, was a businessman. His inn was full, but he offered them what he had: the stable. There is no mention that the innkeeper charged the couple even one copper coin, though given his rights as a property owner, he certainly could have.

It's remarkable, then, to think that when the Word was made flesh with the birth of Jesus, it was through the intercessory work of a private businessman. Without his assistance, the story would have been very different indeed. People complain about the "commercialization" of Christmas, but clearly commerce was there from the beginning, playing an essential and laudable role.

And yet we don't even know the innkeeper's name. In two thousand years of celebrating Christmas, tributes today to the owner of the inn are absent. Such is the fate of the merchant throughout all history: doing well, doing good, and forgotten for his service to humanity.

Read the rest here.

Rockefeller, James Altucher, Lew Rockwell, Constipation and Head Transplants

James Altucher tells us that he recently was cured of his constipation, after 40 years. His wife after grueling months of suffering with Lyme disease was cured by the same person that cured James.

Altucher explains what went down (and why head transplants are coming) here.

Once you read Altucher's story, the thought that will pop into your mind is the same that popped into Altucher's:

I wish there would be a more holistic approach and not just a knee-jerk reaction to ignore everything that is not FDA approved.

Which is why you then need to read a column by Lew Rockwell. In the Rockwell column, you will learn how Rockefeller interests maneuvered the medical industry, via the AMA, so that medicine in the United States has become nothing but a cartel run by the AMA. Read Lew's piece here.

If competition in the medical industry were allowed to flourish, as opposed to being controlled by the medical establishment, Altucher's constipation would likely have been cured decades ago, in addition to cures for ailments we may have. Now, it's all about FDA approved drugs, which is, of course, an agency bought and paid for by Big Pharma. Synthetic drugs and procedures may be important to cure some health issues, but if they were superior in all cases, what's up with Big Pharma fearing the competition of alternative treatments?

The medical establishment, bottom line, has created a cartel preventing competition, and thus impacting our standard of living in a sector that really impacts our quality of life, our health.

It's time the entire medical establishment-government cartel be broken up, for our health's sake.

Lew Rockwell Takesdown Government Apologist

Wow. Lew Rockwell recently appeared on WBAL's Ron Smith Show, when a caller defending government totalitarian tactics called into the show to attack Lew.

Lew responded with guns blazing. In the fight for liberty, we are very lucky to have Lew Rockwell in our foxhole.

The entire show is worth listening to, but the Lew's takedown of the caller starts at roughly the 13:25 mark. The show is here.