DRIVING WEST on I-90 – MN/SD – Last week after when in Ames, Iowa State University student David Olson (whom Jason and I knew via the formerly-anti-Statist organization for which we both worked) led MHD to 118 Hayward Ave., Suite 3 – the hq of the Ames Progressive. As we neared we heard loud instrumental [...]
Jennifer Burns, a history professor with the University of Virginia, has a new book out called Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. I don’t have time to review the entire book at this time, so for now I’ll merely make a few notes about Burns’s introduction.
The first thing to note about [...]
ST PAUL, MN – We rolled across another arbitrary line late Tuesday night and we’re now in the state of Minnesota. I was hoping for cheaper Newport prices but was immediately disappointed. It didn’t take long for me to cheer up considering we were stopped at this massive truck stop. Jason was getting MARV’s propane [...]
ST. CLOUD, WI – Back in June when the crew of the Motorhome Diaries was in Washington, DC we had the opportunity to interview many of the leaders of the libertarian movement including, Bob Ewing and Bob McNamara of The Institute for Justice, David Boaz of the Cato Institute, Steve Silverman of Flex Your Rights. [...]
The following article originally was published October 1 by Colorado Daily and October 2 by the Denver Daily News.
What was the total cost of your last doctor’s visit? If you’re like most Americans, you have no idea, because somebody else is paying most of the bill.
Patients directly pay only about 14 percent of medical bills. [...]
One thing you got to say for the rad-left: they’re good at acronyms.
Well, maybe “good” isn’t the word I’m looking for. “Stretching”? “Ridiculous”? Maybe “laughable.” Rabble.ca:
The M.U.C.K. (Movies of Un-Common Knowledge) Film Festival and Forum gets started today in Toronto. The opening gala is a screening of the film Fuel, starting at 7:30 p.m. at [...]
ST. CLOUD, MN – Yesterday we were in Mankato, MN – a college town 80 miles southwest of Minneapolis – where I happened to go to undergrad. Adam will do a more-extensive post about our time in MN this Sunday but I wanted to share a bit about how much I was struck by how [...]
SAINT CLOUD, MN – Today is Thursday, October 1st which means two things; one is that it’s Thank You Thursday and the other is today marks the start of MHD’s last month on the road. We started traveling the country in “search of freedom” back in April and will conclude this journey at the end [...]
After being on the waiting list for awhile, I checked out Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky from the Denver Public Library. Even after a few pages into it, I felt Alinsky held a dim and grim view of life in the free world. In his view, the only way to achieve the so-called [...]
