…every socialist experiment is a bright new dawn in the beginning and then a “that’s not real socialism!” hellscape a few years later. Russia, China, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua — all hailed by socialists in the beginning, then ignored or dismissed once the results became visible.
Author: Libertarians of Montgomery
Montgomery County coroner issues warning about Narcan-resistant drug
The Iron Law of Prohibition strikes again. Opiates are being cut with Xylazine, a non-opiod veterinary tranquilizer which doesn’t respond to Narcan, whose side effects make fentanyl pale in comparison – one being widespread skin ulceration.
Xylazine is being used as a cutting agent for the same reason fentanyl is: the War on Drugs incentivizes a need to avoid detection, leading to drugs with less weight and volume that are easier to hide, store, and transport.
End the War on Drugs to save lives.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Joins Employers Dropping College Degree Requirements
The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking
Money blinds objectivity. When money drives decisions, controverting evidence is ignored, dissenting voices are ridiculed, open debate is suppressed, talking points are distributed, conclusions are delayed, and people die from a product with liability protection.
Vigorous Property Rights in Vermont
This is more a matter of where two property owners’ rights begin and end than of the value of property rights versus their denial.
https://ij.org/cje-post/vigorous-property-rights-in-vermont/
Let Housing Markets Work
Two stalled developments in New York City demonstrate a flawed approach to affordability. By demanding affordable “set-asides,” the city forces market-rate units to subsidize low-rent ones.
Government Keeps Meddling With Private Company Decisions
In the Twitter Files, every conversation with a government official contains the same warning: You can do it happily, or we’ll make you.
https://reason.com/2023/02/02/private-companies-public-pressure/
Natural Gas, Electricity, and Thermodynamics
As long as natural gas is used to generate electricity, bans on natural gas use in new residential construction result in reductions in CO2 emissions only if very high efficiency heat pumps are used and only if combined cycle rather than simple gas turbines are used for generation. All other uses of electricity actually increase emissions because of the heat losses in electricity generation. So why are localities in Blue America banning natural gas?
https://www.cato.org/blog/natural-gas-electricity-thermodynamics
Four Ways to Get What You Want
You can make something yourself, someone can give it to you as a gift, you can steal it, or you can trade for it. Doing it yourself is fun sometimes, but unless you’re doing it recreationally, DIY is the road to poverty and starvation.
The U.S. Probation System Has Become a Quagmire
What was originally intended as an alternative to incarceration has become a system for mass state control.
“It’s a fear that never leaves you. You could be plucked from society at any moment for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
https://reason.com/2023/01/26/the-u-s-probation-system-has-become-a-quagmire/