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  1. "The idea of rent seeking tells us to be skeptical of government, pessimistic about reform, and morally outraged... fb.me/17kV7GxeQ
  2. Bloomberg says, "We are not taking away anybody's right to do things, we are simply forcing you to understand."... fb.me/1MARCpo6y
  3. This has nothing to do with protecting the regime, right? fb.me/1XPl6VevB
  4. A response to the "Story of Broke." Let's all remember that the gov't tends to pick losers - not winners. fb.me/16XnvqdDu
  5. "Something is seriously wrong here. Only totalitarian regimes punish people for leaving. They take everything... fb.me/1FjkzMFwk
  6. "Hey, even kids know a bad example when they see one. Why don’t banks?" fb.me/1F7H9JZV4
  7. You can also take US-5 south. fb.me/Kj88sL1G
  8. "The students are filled with love in seeing the school burn." Comments welcome... fb.me/188YzoUrG
  9. "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other peoples' money." Margaret Thatcher
  10. For the “bootleggers and Baptists,” the desire for government intervention made for some strange bedfellows. Can... fb.me/1uz3ZBVGn
  11. A lobbyist a day to keep the Fed at bay. fb.me/vzogKkcH
  12. Conservation Reserve Program: A welfare program under the guises of environmentalism. fb.me/DzNWhbt8
  13. “The plans differ; the planners are all alike.” ~ C. F. Bastiat
  14. What happens when the government decides that it wants your property? fb.me/TulHpb76
  15. "[T]here is a moral case against taxation too – and a surprisingly strong one." fb.me/1UvV52ON9
  16. Bain, Obama, and Romney: Is this "politics as usual," or an indication of a deeper divide regarding the morality... fb.me/1Gegrur9f
  17. The FDA has an annual budget of $4.4 BILLION and "sums up its advice as: 'when in doubt, don't eat it.'" fb.me/1TIw3AtE8
  18. "The importance of property rights for environmental conservation is not a new idea. It lay at the core of the... fb.me/1K0ZZo3om
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