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The institution of Government is a weapon, not a charity.
--Stuart

This is Stuart's attempt at an infographic to explain how Open Immigration works in a night watchman state.

John Stossel's official Twitter account quoted me. When I took this screenshot, the quotation of me had already been retweeted 167 times and favorited 121 times.

I learned about this from Mark Wickens.

--Stuart

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151178516121851&set=a.324873261850.162720.188622516850&type=1

The screenshot is from the 2014 movie "God's Not Dead." Pictured on the left is actor Shane Harper and on the right is Kevin Sorbo.

Please note that opinions and sentiments expressed in the memes on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of everyone associated with the Reason Club.

--Stuart

Edward Snowden's appearance at TED, and conversation with World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, is now on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY

via The Reason Club.

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a p...

Ronald Coase, the economist whose paper "The Problem of Social Cost," explained how privatization maximizes economic efficiency, died today. He was 102 years old.

Dr. Coase, Rest in Peace.

--Stuart

Ronald Coase, the important Chicago-school economist whose paper "The Problem of Social Cost" showed the economic efficiency of privatization, died today. He was 102 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase

--Stuart

Ronald Coase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ronald Harry Coase (/ˈkoʊs/; born 29 December 1910) is a British economist based in the United States. He is the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. After studying with the University of London External Programme in 1927–29, Coase entered the Lo...

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The photograph above, of the Statue of Liberty, was taken by "Iolaire" in 2005. Iolaire permits reproduction and modification of the photograph on the conditions that attribution is given and that it is understood that Iolaire does not necessarily agree with the message behind any modification of the photo. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Liberty.jpg

The work that Edward Snowden did for Booz Allen Hamilton was in close geographic proximity to Hawaii Pacific University. To think -- such sinister operations commencing so near to us!

Anyhow, Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers and helped bring down the Nixon White House, expresses admiration for what Edward Snowden did.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-united-stasi-america

--Stuart

Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden's whistleblowing gives us a chance to roll back what is tantamount to an 'executive coup' against the US constitution

On May 5, 2013, President Barack Obama gave a commencement address imploring graduating students to trust the government (translation: him).

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/05/remarks-president-ohio-state-university-commencement

A week later, the news media learned about the extent of the Obama administration's spying.

Technically, Stuart does not know of the executive branch using surveillance cameras in these cases. But a picture of surveillance cameras serves as a symbol for what has been going on.

Given the recent passing of Dr. Robert Edwards, the co-founder of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) technology with Patrick Steptoe, I should once again point out that Edwards and Steptoe actually pioneered this technology without using tax money.

In the late 1950s, religious lobbies in both the United Kingdom and United States fretted over how horrible it would be to experiment on human embryos. For that reason, lobbies in both the U.K. and USA successfully persuaded their national governments to refrain from spending tax money on IVF research.

Fortunately, in the U.K., Edwards and Steptoe succeeded with the technology anyway. Likewise in the United States, the married doctors Howard and Georgianna Jones developed IVF technology in the absence of federal funding.

I learned about this from the PBS documentary series *The American Experience*, which bemoaned the national governments' refraining of tax funding. I certainly think that the IVF pioneers' ability to succeed without national tax funding is proof that they never should have received tax funding. The experts interviewed on the program proclaim the opposite: the fact that they succeeded in their mission is held as proof that they *should have* gotten national tax funding. The PBS program's experts sniffed that had the IVF pioneers been funded by the national governments, they would have developed the technology sooner.

I find this striking, because it's normally an enterprise's failure that is cited as evidence of the need for tax funding.

If a government school fails to educate, supporters of statism proclaim that the enterprise failed on account of not receiving enough tax funding. This is touted as evidence that more tax funding of the enterprise is needed.

By contrast, when an enterprise like IVF succeeds, supporters of statism proclaim that the enterprise would have succeeded sooner and faced fewer obstacles had it received national tax funding. This is touted as evidence that more tax funding of the enterprise is needed.

Both the failures *and successes* of enterprises are considered proof of the need for more tax subsidies.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/babies-government-funding/

WGBH American Experience . Test Tube Babies | PBS General Article: Government Funding of IVF