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Strange things afoot at the Circle K indeed.

We have a number of sponsors already and are grateful. Sending files to printer soon for the paper version so if anyone else wants in, let me know in the next week or two. propertyandfreedom.org/2026/03/sponso… Sponsoring the Publication of Rothbard at 100

@realDavidBJr @NSKinsella sure. you talking to me?

@NSKinsella @propfreedom Does the Institute carry copies of your books?

Mises Institute email: “Rothbard’s Ideas Live On: Three Books That Defend Liberty” propertyandfreedom.org/2026/03/mises-… @propfreedom

Blast from the past. And why I am leery of the Federalist Society. Bad on IP : I pestered them over years to include more balanced treatment in their bibliography, to no avail (Anti-IP Material Needed in the IP Section of the Federalist Society’s “Conservative & Libertarian Legal Scholarship: Annotated Bibliography” c4sif.org/2012/10/anti-i… ). Though their Intellectual Property Practice Group Newsletter did reprint one of my early short articles against IP (Is Intellectual Property Legitimate? , vol. 3, Issue 3 (Winter 2000)) c4sif.org/2022/09/is-int… and local chapters have invited me a few times -- KOL079 | “Federalist Society IP Debate (Ohio State)” (2011) stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast… KOL235 | Intellectual Property: A First Principles Debate (Federalist Society POLICYbrief) stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast… KOL253 | Berkeley Law Federalist Society: A Libertarian’s Case Against Intellectual Property stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast… As I noted here: stephankinsella.com/2011/03/federa… stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast… "My host was Aman Sharma, a very staunch libertarian law student and head of the student chapter of the Federalist Society. When I was involved with the Federalist Society (lawyers chapters) in Philadelphia and Houston they were populated with mainly [low-IQ, anti-intellectual/easily-impressed] Newt Gingrich loving neocons; good to see some Austro-libertarians infiltrating their ranks. Sharma told me “I had a lot of fellow students approach me after the event with questions showing a new-found interest in the Mises/Austrian worldview.” That is cool and gratifying." Re the Newt Gingrich thing and my early experience souring on FedSoc. There was no FedSoc at LSU Law when I was there (1988-91). It was founded 1982 but I never heard of it until after law school. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalis… See the old two LewRockwell.com posts, from me and @ThomasEWoods lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/is-ev… Is every conservative organization insane? By Tom Woods February 28, 2004 Bill, I’ve never gone to the site you mention, but the problem is even worse than you suggest. Once-venerable conservative organizations are now sinecures for third-rate hacks with no principles. What principles could these people possibly have if they think George W. Bush is a great president? I don’t want to mention any names, but I got a fundraising letter not long ago from a well-known, decades-old conservative organization. It ended by noting that political correctness and ignorance of Western civilization are greater threats to freedom even than Saddam Hussein! Wow! Even greater than Saddam, the man with the “unmanned drone” program that turned out to be a single prototype of plywood and string? Surely not that great! We have sunk to quite a low when conservative organizations are sending out letters whose propaganda quotient is pretty much that of the old Pravda and the Kremlin. There are still people out there who call the nobody weakling Saddam a “threat to freedom”? As I read major conservative sites, I wonder what in the world these people have in common with me. They hate limited government, they can see no real problems with perpetual war, and the Constitution is for them a vaguely subversive document. Their principle is this: the United States is Good, so whatever the U.S. government (which to them is the same thing, of course) does is also Good, no matter how transparently dishonest its stated rationale. Things these people would laugh at if the old Soviet Union had said or done them are hailed as supreme acts of genius and goodness because the U.S. government has done them. And to think these are people who complain about moral relativism. Physician, heal thyself! My reply: lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/re-is… Re: Is every conservative organization insane? By Stephan Kinsella February 28, 2004 Thom, this reminds me of one reason I quit the Federalist Society. While they are more conservative and even more free market than most lawyers, the ones I’ve met have been woefully non-intellectual, ignorant, and completely unlibertarian. I remember a few years ago I was at a luncheon w/ some fellow members of the Houston chapter. I was sitting next to one guy who is an extremely intelligent lawyer, at a big firm, very well educated from some posh New England law school, etc. Trying to draw some interesting conversation out of him–he was kind of quiet and reserved, and I was not sure of how conservative, or libertarian, or whatever he was–I finally asked him something like, “Well, which political philosophers would you say you admire?” The answer stunned me, almost left me speechless: “Oh, I’d say Newt Gingrich.” ‘Nuff said.

! Sponsoring the Publication of Rothbard at 100 propertyandfreedom.org/2026/03/sponso…

I want also to add a special tribute to @NSKinsella for organizing this book of essays in tribute to Murray Rothbard with so many wonderful thinkers and writers, and doing so with the support of Hans Hoppe. Murray was our mentor and his spirit lives. brownstone.org/articles/the-m…

PFS 2026 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Topics PFS 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, will be held in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026. As the inaugural meeting was held in 2006 and the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions, this will be the twentieth annual meeting of the PFS held over the past twenty years. PFS Members/returning guests or those interested in obtaining an invitation for this upcoming annual meeting of our exclusive annual salon should write to the PFS secretary Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. propertyandfreedom.org/2026/01/pfs-20…

PFS 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, will be held in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026. propertyandfreedom.org/2026/01/pfs-20…

Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the inevitable result of the destruction of a centuries-old system of private property rights and its replacement by race-based state ownership. Since 1947, property rights in Palestine have been replaced by a government agency that owns the majority of land, constantly steals more, never sells, and only leases land to one racial group. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere. In 1945, the British mandate government surveyed land ownership in Palestine and found that Jews owned 5.67% of the total land, while Muslims, Christians & other denominations owned 48.31% of the land. The remaining 46.02% was public land, mainly in the sparsely inhabited desert in the south, most of which was de facto owned by the Bedouins who herded there. Among the privately-owned lands, only 10.5% was owned by Jews, while 89.5% was owned by non-Jews. There was not a single district in Palestine in which Jews owned a majority of the land, as this illustration makes clear.[1] In 1917, when the Balfour Declaration was issued, the Jewish population ranged from 4% to 13%. In 1945, the population of Palestine was 1,764,520, of which 69% were Muslim and Christian, and 31% were Jewish.[2] The majority of the Jewish population was recent immigrants from Europe, many illegal. Even after decades of legal and illegal immigration, land purchases financed by European benefactors, and terrorism against Palestinian civilians and British forces, the Zionist movement had less than a third of the population of Palestine, and owned less than 6% of its land when it established its ethnostate. To establish an ethnostate on a land in which the right ethnicity was less than a third of the population, and owned less than a twelfth of the land, Zionist terrorists engaged in a premeditated and systematic campaign of terrorism, murder, and violent expulsion, meticulously planned from the 1930s, ruthlessly executed against a largely unarmed population, and practically continuing until this day, explaining the conflict’s longevity. This has been extensively documented by Palestinian historians, such as Walid Khalidi and Rashid Khalidi, as well as by Israeli historians like Ilan Pappe and Benny Morris.[3] [Continues in next tweet]

This paper formed the basis of this talk I gave at the Property and Freedom Society youtu.be/lbks5gTcjYs?si…

@Lieboisout Agree.

And another. Either these people are blatantly lying, or they’re not very bright.

propertyandfreedom.org/2025/09/sebast… Sebastian Wang, “Bodrum 2025: Reflections on a Journey” nb @GabbSean @propfreedom

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"The Preeminent Libertarian Meeting of the Year," by Thomas DiLorenzo. Is this coming weekend... The Property and Freedom Society 2025 Annual Meeting propertyandfreedom.org/2025/01/pfs-20… lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-p… nb @propfreedom @C4SIF

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