Florida GOP politicos experience fake epiphanies
The kingpins of the Republican wing of the OneParty Cartel in Florida were showing off their politically convenient epiphanies last week according to "The News Service of Florida" wing of the National...
View ArticleLibertarians to progressives: We have a better 'social contract'
An article by The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, "Musing the social Contract," essentially claims that people like libertarians who haven't voted with their feet by leaving this country have therefore...
View ArticleAll libertarians are 'Liberators' now
With the quadrennial political playoffs now safely in the rear view mirror it's time to take a breather and consider a subject that falls into the Monty Python category "And now for something...
View ArticleGOP has a libertarian problem? Think again
Washington Post writers Aaron Blake and Sean Sullivan did an outstanding job of getting almost everything wrong in a recent article, including the headline: "The GOP's growing Libertarian problem."...
View ArticleBut who protects the workers from the union bosses?
An article from the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) celebrates a "model of networked labor activism" exercised by workers against Wal-Mart during their Black Friday protests. This model ignores...
View ArticleOn sexism, racism and racist code words
By now everyone knows that UN Ambassador Susan Rice was attacked by Republicans "only" because she is "an easy target" (Obama) and because "she’s a black woman" (a dozen liberal House women...
View ArticleLibertarians have a future because Republicans are wimps
Politicians are partners in crime. Democrat politicians take the lead on social issues and expanding entitlement programs because that's what their base wants. Republican politicians want it too but...
View ArticleWar on Obesity is war against freedom and responsibility
"Federal task force wants obese Americans placed into counseling" – RT headline. People who believe in helping people through government coercion are, whether they know it or not, admit it or not,...
View ArticleAre Ron Paul Republicans hijacking the libertarian movement?
Libertarians started the Tea Party movement and mainstream Republican Party operatives hijacked it. Dissident young liberals started the Occupy movement and mainstream Democratic Party operatives...
View ArticleWhere do libertarians come from?
A personal letter to libertarians... Some readers took exception to an article I wrote that asked, "Are Ron Paul Republicans hijacking the libertarian movement?" The libertarian movement, I said, is...
View ArticleWarning: Not all 'Liberty & Peace' is about liberty & peace
The Liberty Coalition declares "We are a Liberty & Peace grassroots group running independent candidates & causes outside the rigged Two-Party System and its Registered Parties." Their website...
View ArticleNo new taxes on the Obama faithful
A friend angrily told Libertarian News Examiner that President Obama would absolutely not raise taxes on the middleclass by a single penny. "Unless you're making over $250,000 a year," he sputtered....
View ArticleLibertarians and the Concert for Sandy Relief – a metaphor
Besides raising millions of dollars for a praiseworthy cause the second half hour of 121212 The Concert for Sandy Relief served as a metaphorical stereotype for liberals and conservatives. Both...
View ArticleHow to respond to mass shootings
UPDATE: see videoAmerica's mass shootings should be blamed on everyone and everything except the actual shooter. 1. Blame easy access to guns. Ban all guns for all citizens – except the violent...
View ArticleOrwell's Total Surveillance State is almost here
George Orwell, in his novel 1984, described a total surveillance state in which nobody was ever outside the reach of "Big Brother" government's eyes and ears. Today... In a recent article Liberty...
View ArticleMass shootings and drugs: political correctness vs. reality
The conversation over how to protect students, churchgoers, shoppers, movie audiences and others comes down to two types of thought: political correctness vs. reality. Political correctness is a...
View ArticleLibertarians to Republicans: Get over yourselves
Here's yet another Republican who thinks Libertarian Party members and libertarian activists are, or ought to be, nothing more than Republican boot-lickers. Aubrey D. Larson, writing in the Ravalli...
View ArticleGovernment, not 'gun culture,' is America's most violent culture
Ever since the Connecticut massacre of innocent children politicians have been posturing about ending the "Gun culture" that "glorifies gun violence." But libertarians know that the single most...
View ArticleEvery society is a 'Society of Individuals'
Shahid Mahmood wrote this in the International Herald Tribune under the heading "Culture of Violence:" "The gun culture in the US encourages individualism. It fosters a society of individuals –...
View ArticleClimate disruption or politics? Follow the money
Writing under the preemptively dismissive title "Climate disruption denial: a natural by-product of libertarian values" Brian Angliss says, "The problem for libertarians is that accepting human...
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