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Tech Central Station has an Asia Pacific page with a lot of friends writing. Browse through. The pieces are succinct and a refreshing change from the muddled leftist Indian media blatherings (Prafool and his foolowers).

Mexican Town Forgoes Law for Order: Mayor Abolishes Traffic Fines in a Bid to End Bribery by Police Officers
Park where you like, speed if you want to, run a red light, don’t bother renewing your driver’s license and let that seat belt flap in the wind. Nobody’s going to bust you as long as Mayor […]

I posted yesterday on a cult icon who was really a mass murderer. Ironically, the name is shared by the leader of a prominent Libertarian party in Costa Rica. Julian Sanchez of Reason interviewed Otto Guevara of the Movimiento Libertario — The Other Guevara.
A very interesting story of how free market ideas sprouted in a […]

The Atlas Economic Research Foundation brings news of two think tanks. The Indian Liberal Group, Kerala and the Alternate Solutions Institute in Pakistan.
The ILG, Kerala is an offshoot of the Indian Liberal Group based in Bombay but they seem to be doing some work. The site’s patchy, but does throw some light on their […]

Nice piece on how open source software has strong free market and libertarian vibes. A balanced and mature opinion, without any clutter of tech jargon.
I believe open source software development is driven by neither foolish, altruistic programmers, who could be using the time they spend giving away their source code making money working for a […]

For the last few years, I’ve been a dormant member of Bureaucrash. Some info from their “about us” page.
Bureaucrash is an international network of activists of all political persuasions who believe that bloated, sprawling governments and the bureaucrats and politicians who control them ought to be mocked. Mercilessly.
Why? Because when governments grow, our freedom to […]

The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible is perhaps the best introductory book on libertarian principles that I’ve read. The author, Ken Schoolland has teamed up with Lux Lucre to bring out a superb animated presentation based on the book that takes you through the Philosophy of Liberty. [Opens onto a new page] I loved it […]

An interesting sidelight to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bid to run for the governorship of California are his libertarian leanings. When Milton and Rose Friedman’s Free To Choose series was re-issued in 1991, Arnold introduced it, explaining why he left Austria to come to the US.

The second part of the story. Note, it’s a forward, and the “I” is the person who sent this email, not me. Comments on Alter Ego - yazad
Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess.
Exactly, I thought the same […]

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track. The train came, and you were just beside the track interchange.
You could make the train change its course to the disused track […]

Gene Callahan is someone whose opinion I respect a lot. The National Interest, his latest piece, is a must read. He writes regularly on libertarian issues, largely for LewRockwell.com.
. . . nations are not the sorts of entities that have interests, just like they don’t have crushes or daydreams or urges to go […]

Abheek Barman has an excellent piece on why even large groups can’t swing policy their way if there’s a strong lobby against it. He hones in onto a flaw in democracy (actually one of many) that is counterintuitive. One would expect the wishes of the “majority” to overcome the power of a small lobby in […]

I subscribe to many sites that send a daily email. Freedom’s Nest sends me three libertarian quotes daily. This one by historian Daniel Boorstin hits home on the unseen side of “environmentalism.”
We easily forget that smog is the price of freedom of our streets from manure, and from the flies and diseases it brought.

I share your anguish about the Iraq invasion. What amazes me is that many libertarians, particularly objectivists, are defending it. In the libertarian philosophy the basic difference between a gangster and a government is that the latter uses force that is circumscribed by rule of law.
Objective laws determine when, where, and how much force […]