Archive for N. Joseph Potts
N. Joseph Potts is a member of his local Selective Service Board. He says that in the event of a draft, the board’s primary function would be to judge claims for conscientious-objector exemptions.
The Cutting Edge of Censorship
Someone – someone very important – doesn’t like what Wikileaks is doing. So, Senator Joe Lieberman (?-Conn.) asked Amazon.com whether it had kicked Wikileaks off their server right after Wikileaks’s publication of thousands of classified US diplomatic cables. It turns out, they “had” – right after he asked. Worse by far, they’ve gotten PayPal, Visa, [...]
8Dec2010 | N. Joseph Potts | 2 comments | ContinuedA Pen That Turns into a Sword
It’s a promotional giveaway pen, a rather nice one by BIC, white with red and blue writing that at first I found puzzling: MEN: Don’t lose benefits! Use this to register with Selective Service. Benefits from (or through, or with) Selective Service? When I turned 18 several years before the Vietnam era I registered for [...]
24Nov2010 | N. Joseph Potts | 5 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
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Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
