Author Archives: Ozboy

Only In America

Posted on Tuesday, 20th March 2012 by Ozboy

I’m exaggerating. It’d be de rigeur for any dictatorship worthy of the name. But the latest Executive Order of President Barack Hussein Obama, National Defense Resources Preparedness, signed last Friday with virtually no fanfare at all, is gob-smacking in its scope and … Continue reading →

Posted in United States of America | 42 Comments

More Dollars Than Sense

Posted on Sunday, 18th March 2012 by Ozboy

Still hammering away on my next thread, so I thought I’d ask you about the topic currently doing the rounds over at DT: “Quantitative Easing”, or QE.

Posted in United States of America | 13 Comments

Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of Dissent

Posted on Tuesday, 6th March 2012 by Ozboy

Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism | 60 Comments

The Darkest Debate

Posted on Thursday, 1st March 2012 by Ozboy

In this thread, LibertyGibbert will look at the topic which, more than any other, divides Libertarians. It’s a topic I have been reluctant to raise on this forum till now; indeed, I have been advised by some of you that … Continue reading →

Posted in Libertarianism, Rights | 203 Comments

A Servitude Of Convenience

Posted on Saturday, 18th February 2012 by Ozboy

Quite often while I’m explaining the meaning of Libertarianism to friends or acquaintances, I’m met with a response which runs along the lines of but Ozboy, government can do so many things for us more efficiently than we can do … Continue reading →

Posted in Libertarianism | 63 Comments

And So Say All Of Us

Posted on Friday, 3rd February 2012 by Ozboy

I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail.

Posted in Uncategorized | 74 Comments

Ugly Australia

Posted on Monday, 30th January 2012 by Ozboy

This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia | 54 Comments

A Very Selective Blindness

Posted on Saturday, 21st January 2012 by Ozboy

What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992?

Posted in United States of America | 34 Comments

Waste Not, Want Not

Posted on Wednesday, 11th January 2012 by Ozboy

A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →

Posted in Libertarianism | 89 Comments

A Few Days Yet

Posted on Friday, 6th January 2012 by Ozboy

G’day folks, I had planned a new post out today. Unfortunately, Santa’s main present for me at Christmas was a recurrence of this damn chest infection that laid me low in 2011. So I’m getting some rest, and I hope … Continue reading →

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