Larry Hunter Blog Posts
Below are the 10 Latest Blog Posts by Dr. Larry Hunter
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May 12, 2012 02:45 PM
 Government clogs the arteries and gums up the works. Stress builds up in the system; potential energy accumulates seeking release. Politics makes continuous adjustment impossible to achieve. Markets are prevented from adjusting but the system must adjust to relieve the pressure. Zugzwang! Inflation! It’s coming. Prepare for it.
Apr 27, 2012 03:00 PM
 The Republican Party should change its moniker from the Grand Old Party (GOP) to FUP, the Fixing-the- Unfixable Party. FUP-Red is distinguished from FUP-Blue, which identifies the Democratic Party as the Fomenting Unrest Party because all it does is incite race resentment and class warfare so the people clamor and vote for destructive political solutions to fix things up. FUP-Red comes along trying to fix up the foul up FUP-Blue creates but alas all it accomplishes is to foul up the foul up even more, fomenting more discontent and inflicting more hurt as its geniuses attempt to convert the sinking ship into a flying ark. Red or Blue, both FUP parties are designed to keep politics in control of our lives and the people under the heel of government. Politics, red or blue, is not the answer to what ails us. Freedom is.
Apr 17, 2012 11:48 AM
 The virtue of a true federalism has nothing to do with the virtue, competence, or trustworthiness of local officials and the parasites they nurture but everything to do with the ability of people to escape their grimy little reach. Restrict the sphere of the monopoly to initiate violence (which is the true definition of government), and you increase the possibility of escape. Farmers in human cattle, which is all governments are, cannot survive if the livestock all walks off the plantation.
Apr 09, 2012 10:52 AM
 Congress’s appalling handling of Social Security makes Hoffa’s misuse of Teamster pension fund monies pale by comparison. Just because it’s Congress, however, doesn’t make it any less criminal than what Hoffa and company did. And, it certainly doesn’t justify compounding the felony by means testing Social Security and stealing workers’ paid-in contributions and cutting their earned Social Security benefits in the name of some higher “national need. . .something the nation does for its collective good” as Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson demands.
Mar 30, 2012 03:46 PM
 The best and most practical solution to the Social Security dilemma is simply to allow workers the freedom to choose to opt out of the program or remain in the current Social Security program unadulterated by benefit cuts, COLA chiseling, means testing, higher minimum retirement ages and other re-engineering devices. The federal government has become so bloated that the cost of allowing anyone who wants to remain in the program easily could be paid for without having to alter the program by cutting and reallocating other federal spending, still leaving plenty of room to reduce overall spending. Because Social Security has become such a bad deal, and gets worse everyday, an increasing number of younger workers will opt out, and the program will go the way of the horse and buggy.
Mar 23, 2012 04:24 PM
 My conservative and libertarian friends think me a wee bit inconsistent and some go so far as to say downright hypocritical when it comes to Social Security, which is supposed to be the bête noire of all freedom-loving conservatives and libertarians. I consider Social Security to be an irrevocable political and moral obligation of the U.S. Government, a commitment to workers and retirees it is bound to discharge fully and without dilution or tampering in the name of “reform” or “deficit reduction.”
Mar 08, 2012 07:41 PM
 As the nation fast approaches the Supreme Court’s deliberations on the fate of ObamaCare, the Obama Administration is pumping up a campaign to hoist the Court on the petard of conservative justice Antonin Scalia’s words. Scalia’s expansive view of federal commerce powers, which many legal scholars consider one of the broadest ever declarations of federal power under the Commerce Clause, combines with his constricted view of individual rights to raise the odds against his voting to strike down ObamaCare as unconstitutional.
Mar 04, 2012 06:25 PM
 Since the end of World War II, the balance of power has been tipped against the individual in favor of the state, and liberty has yielded to grasping government. Now, however, we may be approaching a tipping point. As the state becomes increasingly muscle bound with its technological capabilities to spy and employ violence against its citizens to force them to comply with its illegitimate dictates, that same technological capacity might soon be turned back on the state jujitsu style as that technology becomes available to individuals. Two such technological developments are Internet cloud computing (logistics) and drone technology (weaponry).
Feb 25, 2012 09:45 AM
 Democracy is fatally flawed as a social-choice mechanism, a victim of time's arrow, unable to repair itself and destined to produce chaos. Contrary to Winston Churchill’s famous quip, democracy is not the best of bad alternatives. One alternative stands head and shoulders above it: Liberty, a system in which people are left alone to do whatever they please except where they unanimously agree to restrict themselves under a precisely limited code of conduct that has stood the test of time and has evolved through a common-law process that reveals nature’s truths about human relationships (it used to be called Natural Law) rather than imposing the will of the majority in the name of the greater good (it used to be called Tyranny).
Feb 11, 2012 12:17 PM
 Upholding ObamaCare's individual mandate would leave no principled limit on the federal government’s powers. It would demolish two of the most fundamental doctrines of the Constitution: 1) The federal government is limited to delegated, enumerated powers; and 2) All powers not delegated to it are reserved to the states respectively or the people. Upholding the individual mandate would require tearing down these two fundamental pillars of the entire constitutional architecture, like blind Sampson pushing over the pillars of the temple, causing it to collapse on the heads of everyone inside.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Congressional Republicans are back up to their old shenanigans on ObamaCare. Politico reveals that Republicans would try to replicate popular parts of Obama’s health care law if the Supreme Court overturns the law this summer.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Source: ABC News
The Food and Drug Administration has warned doctors to watch for fractures of the upper thigh bone in patients taking several popular drugs designed to prevent hip fractures and fight osteoprothesis. The FDA warns that Fosamax and Boniva in particular, if taken unnecessarily or for too long, may actually be causing the bone fractures they are prescribed to prevent. Watch ABC News video.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
 Exit Not An Option In Chuck Schumer's America. New York Senator Chuck Schumer has introduced the Fugitive Taxpayer Act of 2012 to re-impose taxes on expatriates after they flee the United States and take up residence in a foreign country. Proposal also would impose a mandatory 30 percent tax on the capital gains of anybody who renounces their U.S. citizenship and would bar such individuals from ever reentering the United States again.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Whether President Obama gets his second term or Romney enters the Oval Office, there’s a third candidate no one’s paying much attention to, and that candidate is guaranteed to be the one clear winner of election 2012: the U.S. military and our ever-surging national security state.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
According to the New York Federal Reserve, two million US seniors age 60 and over have student loan debt, on which they owe a collective $36.5 billion; and 11.2 percent of this debt is in default. 4.2 percent of all student loan debt is held by people over the age of 60, and that share grows with each passing year.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Across the U.S. economy, anxiety is rising about the potential for widespread disruptions after the November election, when a lame-duck Congress will have barely two months to resolve a grinding standoff over taxes and spending.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Two-thirds of Republicans and nine in 10 Democrats polled support making immediate cuts to the military across the board -- a position at odds with the leaderships of both political parties.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Video revealing the circumstances of how a mentally ill homeless man in Fullerton, Calif. died last July was finally published Monday, revealing a stunningly brutal police assault that left Kelly Thomas bleeding, broken and near death.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
The number of people with jobs declined for the second month in a row, falling by 169,000 in April after easing by 31,000 in March. This means that there were 200,000 fewer Americans with jobs in April than there were in February. Additionally, the percentage of working-age adults who either have jobs or are looking for work, fell to 63.6%, which is the lowest level since December 1981.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
In November 2010, a police lieutenant from Parma, Ohio, asked Vanguard Defense Industries if the Texas-based drone manufacturer could mount a “grenade launcher and/or 12-gauge shotgun” on its ShadowHawk drone for U.S. law enforcement agencies. The answer was yes.
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