The Problem with Democracy

It's why we need to scrupulously limit government to the protection of non-contradictory individual rights.

"If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French historian

HT Liberty Quotes

Friedman: How Wealth Works

The Myth of "Running out of Resources"

Richard Epstein on the Benevolence of Inequality

Watch Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side? on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

Talking in Circles

The above graphic is a network analysis of linking patterns of liberal (blue) and conservative (red) blogs.
Discussing issues with people who generally agree with you can help to flesh out the details--but if you don't interact with people who disagree, you may miss a part of the skeleton required for structural stability.