pete eyre | August 31, 2009
NASHVILLE, TN – When talking with folks we meet along the way and in a lot of our content here we extol the harms that stem from Big Government and instead encourage a society based on voluntary interactions, which we believe is moral and wealth-creating, thereby bettering standards of living and lifting people out of [...]
ari | August 31, 2009
The following article originally was published by the August 31 edition of Grand Junction’s Free Press.
Debunking health reform myths
by Linn and Ari Armstrong
Advocates of Barack Obama’s health proposals claim they want to debunk myths surrounding the health reform debate. We’re happy to oblige.
Myth #1: Opponents of Obamacare are the ones creating myths.
True, some have made [...]
ari | August 30, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WHO IS JOHN GALT?SURGING INTEREST IN AYN RAND’S ATLAS SHRUGGED SPURS STUDY GROUPS
In response to record-breaking sales of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, readers will form study groups in Longmont, Denver, and Colorado Springs this fall.
Sales of Atlas Shrugged topped 300,000 for the first half of 2009, a 250 percent increase over that [...]
jason talley | August 30, 2009
NASHVILLE, TN – Last month we drove MARV down some unpaved roads and through some of Vermont’s beautiful countryside to speak with John McClaughry at his picturesque log home. John is the founding President of the Ethan Allen Institute (EAI) and is very experience in political matters. In the interview he discusses the entitlement mentality [...]
pete eyre | August 29, 2009
Pete, Kathy and Adam in Wisconsin
NASHVILLE, TN – A couple of days ago when I was still in St. Paul working remotely I saw that the MHD inbox had received an email from Kathy Breidel, Adam’s mom, whom we’ve hyped up in the past for good reason. It gives me yet another reason to hype [...]
ari | August 28, 2009
This is the fourth of a four-part series on rationing.Rationing I: Price Distribution Is Not RationingRationing II: The Definition and Application of RationingRationing III: The Harm of Conflating Price Distribution with RationingRationing IV: Politically-Controlled Insurance and Rationing
The Big Lie in the modern health policy debate is that the current system represents a free market and [...]
jason talley | August 28, 2009
One of the best things about being a crew member of the Motorhome Diaries is the chance to meet so many great people along all over america. They may not have motorhomes but they are searching for freedom in their own ways. The crew and I joke that we’re “community organizers” for freedom and nothing [...]
jason talley | August 28, 2009
THE HOLLER, TN – The morning we were stopped by the Jones County Sheriff’s Department (and put in chains and later a cage) changed things for me and the rest of the MHD crew. Back then our plan was to make a few stops that day before attending a meetup in Nashville, Tennessee. We were [...]
ari | August 27, 2009
This is the third of a four-part series on rationing.Rationing I: Price Distribution Is Not RationingRationing II: The Definition and Application of RationingRationing III: The Harm of Conflating Price Distribution with RationingRationing IV: Politically-Controlled Insurance and Rationing
Whether price distribution counts as a type of rationing is not merely some semantic dispute. Conflating price distribution with [...]
adam mueller | August 27, 2009
HOLLER, TN- Well here we are at yet another Thank You Thursday. This past week has brought many surprises and new things to MHD. We got to meet the wonderful Debbie the “Suburban Voluntaryist” who we encounted in southern Indiana. There have been some new aspects introduced to MHD also. We also have been without [...]
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