The Hot Air Machine

QUICK post today, since I've announced my plans elsewhere and just want to make a formal note of what's happened here for future reference. I've decided to begin publishing most of my articles through other sites, such as the Libertarian Christian Institute and Mises.org . My comments on politics, economics, current events, etc., will mostly appear there from now on out. However, I have not gotten rid of this blog because it will now serve an important purpose: providing me a platform for articles that I can't get published elsewhere, don't want to publish elsewhere (e.g., if I want to retain full rights to it), or which I want to get out quickly, cutting out the middleman (the editing process). So, The Hot Air Machine is not going away, it's just shifting focus. It will likely become less active, but at least this means I'll be able to open up my schedule a bit more (I was acting too much like this was a full-time journalistic commitment with thousands of...

Good afternoon, everyone. I’d just like to share with you an article of mine that I’ve published through the Libertarian Christian Institute . With Election Day less than two weeks past the topics of voting, civic duty, and a Christian’s role in worldly affairs have become relevant. The common Christian view on these matters is expressed by Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress: “God has given Christians in democratic countries a unique way to ‘salt’ the culture that Christians in other times and places did not have.” In my article I critique this common view and argue that a Christian’s true duty is not to the State but to God, which leaves no room for voting. You can find and read my article here . Enjoy!  

  SOMETHING I’ve seen socialists groan and complain about repeatedly, one of many things they find an issue with, is wage labor. They consider it coercion, theft, or slavery for someone to render their manpower to another in exchange for money. In the most recent iteration of this complaint that I have laid eyes on it went something like this: “Having to work for hours every week to barely make ends meet is slavery!” Now, there is a lot that could be said. First, we could attack the umbrella that these types of complaints fall under. That umbrella is a general abhorrence of having to work for one’s living. They are desperate for Marx’s post-scarcity society wherein we see “[t]he free development of individualities…which then corresponds to the artistic, scientific etc. development of the individuals in the time set free, and with the means created, for all of them[,]” or, i.e., a bunch of free time for people to sit around and fart around. The psychological drawbacks of excess ...

  IN political science there is a concept known as “Conquest’s laws of politics.” It is named after Robert Conquest, a conservative British historian best known for his books on the Soviet Union . Similar to Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics,” Conquest’s laws define three principles of political action that can be considered reliably accurate. These three laws are: Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. All these laws have interesting implications and can be looked at one by one. However, today the one law that I want us to focus on in particular is the second law, that, “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” It certainly sounds interesting and can have broad implications for political strategy. For libertarians in ...

  TO those who do not keep detailed tabs on me you might not have been aware that this past week I attended the Mises Institute’s 40 th anniversary summit . This was my first ever Mises event that I attended, and boy let me tell you that it was GREAT! Since not many people were able to attend it (thanks be to God that I of all people could) and it was full of captivating and endearing moments I’ve decided to talk about what happened and what I experienced, to share what it’s like to get involved with the Institute.           The summit was three days long, although the majority of events were concentrated in the second day. The first day began at 5:00, which was good for me since I arrived in Phoenix the day before meaning I had a day-and-a-half to myself, and it was to consist of a dinner and introductory talk by Jeff Deist, then two talks: one by Judge Andrew Napolitano and another by James Grant. Alas, we were rained on and the Jud...

            BOY oh boy, folks, listen to this! Remember how the Sino-Western ,   MIC-linked Wuhan biolab became indisputably identified as the source of the COVID-19 pandemic ? We’re all aware of that by now, yeah? Okay, good, just wanted to make sure. I hope we’re also aware of the eerily prophetic Gates and WEF-backed Event 201 plus the numerous Bilderbergers involved in the international COVID-19 response ? Again, great, glad we’re on the same page.           Now get this. The same Wuhan biolab, which for some time carried out gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, was just recently exposed for carrying out similar research on monkeypox. Y’know, monkeypox , that new disease that came out of nowhere and is poised to terrorize us? This is the argument of an article that was recently published by Summit News . It’s pretty fascinating, give it a look.     ...

            It was only two weeks ago when I last spoke about the Libertarian Party . My comments on the Party were entirely disapproving, believing the Party to be an embarrassment to libertarian values. From a strongly anarchist and quasi-agorist position, I viewed the LP as an illegitimate entity. In my, and others’ , view, an ideology opposed to politics and the State has no place participating in politics and the State. While this view of mine has not changed, the Libertarian Party itself has in fact changed in the past few days, and that’s why I wanted to sit down and write up this article.           To put it briefly for the outsider or whoever might be reading this, a few days ago the Libertarian Party hosted its national convention down in Reno, Nevada. The LNC brings together Libertarians across the country to discuss libertarianism (or rather, as is mostly the case in the LP, clas...

          YET another shooting has occurred and taken over the airways. 19 innocent children and two teachers have been killed in cold blood. This is by all means a tragedy, and even the people with the most depraved and politicized responses to this event acknowledge that deep down. One of the most disturbing details is how the oh-so-noble “Thin Blue Line” dilly-daddled for nearly an hour before an exasperated Border Patrol agent went in and ended it . However, just as with all tragedies, the Establishment media has not taken long to contort this one and use it to advance the abridgement of our property rights ( which justifies self-defense ). Social media is positively blowing up in response to this, and I feel obliged to make a statement regarding such a significant event.           What I feel most compelled to speak about is the root of this crime. While so many left-wing pundits and politicians are already...

          THE day that I first sat down to write this article I was scrolling Twitter and came across a tweet that read, “Why are there so many sexual deviants in Parliament?” I, of course, gave my two cents and went along my merry way. However, soon after, I paused and realized this was a very important question. To those willing to pay attention we can realize that history is littered with immoral, deviant elites, such as the Late Romans (see Miller 2004), the Habsburgs , and the numerous ones since the 20 th century who have operated sex trafficking rings that have involved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children. Why must it be that so frequently the people in charge end up being fiends?           I, therefore, want to take the time in this article to discuss, as I understand it, why our oligarchs tend towards such backwards behavior. What motivates them? What entices them? While some might have the theory t...