Voting Resources
Thomas Woods
November 8th, 2012
State nullification is Thomas Jefferson’s idea, derived from the Richmond Ratification Convention of 1788, that the states must refuse to allow the enforcement of unconstitutional federal laws within their borders. Here’s an...
October 11th, 2012
The Huffington Post recently published “11 Lies About the Federal Reserve.” These alleged lies are being told by Fed skeptics like me. HuffPo rushes to the aid of the Fed, with a column by a young fan of Paul Krugman.
October 7th, 2012
A reader writes:I am writing from India, a country cloaked in Socialist government policies. I came across Austrian School of Economics on the Internet, and was surprised that even after studying Economics for five years, my...
September 28th, 2012
I get a very substantial number of inquiries like this:I’m just finishing my last semester of junior college and as it stands now, I will receive my undergrad in economics. I’m a passionate austro-libertarian but as I have...
September 19th, 2012
Gary North connected some dots for me the other day.Who benefits from labor unions? Naturally, union members themselves. They forcibly keep out of an industry or a firm some group of workers who are qualified and willing to...
September 9th, 2012
I have four things to say.(1) David Weidner wrote an article critical of the gold standard.(2) The article contains gems of knowledge like this:Another problem is that rather than try to improve our currency systems, we keep...
August 14th, 2012
A quotation from Benjamin Franklin is being passed around by leftists these days:“All the Property that is necessary to a man, for the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species, is his natural right,...
August 7th, 2012
If you don’t like being taxed, etc., then leave! That’s what the totalitarians tell you. You’ve implicitly agreed to abide by the rules by your mere presence here, they say, along with other bad arguments. Here’s my answer...
June 27th, 2012
So I’m minding my own business on Twitter — where you can follow me @ThomasEWoods, by the way — and some guy starts suggesting that the Austrian School economists are just shills and apologists for the bankers.I restrained...
October 30th, 2012
Someone on my Facebook page (which I hope you will ‘like’) asked about defending the electoral college: should he make the argument that electors will have more sober and impartial judgment than the fickle masses, etc.?I...
October 8th, 2012
I’d like to quote this whole article from Yahoo News, and so I highly recommend you read it, but I especially like this passage, which considers how people might acquire knowledge in a world without the presumption that...
October 3rd, 2012
The First Lady is dead wrong about the national school lunch guidelines — the low-fat, low-calorie meals she proposes are unhealthy and inhuman. But the correct reply is not that she should suggest more satisfying food, as...
September 23rd, 2012
Just received my review copy of a book with the subtle title of Libertarian Anarchy, subtitled Against the State. Written by Gerard Casey, professor of philosophy at University College, Dublin, and who also happens to be on...
September 17th, 2012
Here’s my short conversation with Peter Slen, who interviewed some authors while covering FreedomFest in Las Vegas this year. C-SPAN has been covering events of mine for nearly eight years now.Bear in mind that the audience...
September 6th, 2012
You’ve probably seen this by now, but here’s Peter Schiff at the Democratic Convention posing as an imbecile, and finding people who think profits should be banned.Posing as an anti-business crusader, Peter Schiff found a...
August 6th, 2012
Rhetorically, anyway. Here’s a funny 13-minute condensation of a talk I gave not long ago on how I got into this whole business, and on what we need to do to win.
July 6th, 2012
Filling in for Rush Limbaugh the other day, Walter Williams spent quite a bit of time advocating the principle of state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws.
June 23rd, 2012
Historian Kevin Gutzman discusses “executive privilege.” A few snippets:The Executive Branch was intended by the Constitution’s authors and ratifiers to be precisely that – the executor of policies made by Congress, not a...
