It takes a Gun Free Nigerian Village to raze a child
IT TAKES A VILLAGE"I chose that old African proverb to title my book because it offers a timeless reminder that children will thrive only if their families thrive and if the whole of society cares...
View ArticleThe wrongs of the wrongs of libertarianism
When non-libertarians attack libertarians they commonly cherry-pick the easiest targets and triumphantly smash them to smithereens. One recent smithereen-smasher is Orlando Liberal Examiner Robert...
View ArticleClueless Rand haters sharpen their knives again
From time to time the left-liberal emoting classes – those who make millions in the multibillion dollar entertainment industry by reading memorized words in front of cameras – find it fashionable to...
View ArticleSupport your local friendly neighborhood voluntaryist superheroes
C'mon all you red white and blue-blooded comic book babes and bad boys! Fetching female freedom fighters are zapping zombies in the strife-stricken streets of America and they need your help! The...
View ArticleIf this is Libertarianism 3.0 let's keep counting
In a major article for The Daily Beast about libertarianism and the Koch Brothers Reason.com/Reason.tv's Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie turns his focus on what he touts as "Libertarianism 3.0."...
View ArticleReset The Net: Say 'Nay' to the NSA
June 5, 2014, is the one year anniversary of the first NSA surveillance leak revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. It's also the day a worldwide coalition of tens of thousands of Internet users,...
View ArticleEdward Snowden patriot or traitor? How about 'Hero?'
June 5 was the one year anniversary of Edward Snowden's public outing of the NSA spying into every minute particle of our personal lives.Yet a year later people are still debating whether Snowden...
View ArticleThe 'Primary Shortcoming' of the Non-Aggression Principle is a shortcoming
Adam Knott's article at liberty.me purports to see a primary shortcoming for the non-aggression principle. "Many libertarians, Knott begins, "define their libertarian philosophy in terms of the...
View ArticleMurder by government: Remembering Peter McWilliams
On June 14, 2000, multitalented poet, writer, dramatist, author, marijuana rights activist and libertarian died at the hands of murderous government thugs. In 1993 McWilliams came to the attention of...
View ArticleTroll trope: How can libertarians sleep at night?
The website Libertarian Money got a troll letter that asked how libertarians can sleep at night "knowing the people you could hurt with the [expletive deleted] you write?" meaning that libertarians...
View ArticleThe Blue Collar Economist: Libertarian economics for the rest of us
Here's food for thought. Even as libertarians chew out the general public for being economic ignoramuses, thereby swallowing Marxist ideology and Keynesian economics by the mouthful, it's equally true...
View ArticleSorry Prof. Black, Hayek's police state is really here
In an awkwardly embarrassing video, at least to libertarians, one Professor Bill Black expounds on Fredrick Hayek's explanation in The Road to Serfdom of why the worst people always prevail in a...
View ArticleChildren of the borderlands; a crisis created by US
What do you think about the migrant children crisis – the thousands that are coming into the US to Arizona and Texas? From a Libertarian standpoint, what should be done? I can't figure out a fair or...
View ArticleWho is John Galt? Post a Post-it on every post and post office
Objectivists, libertarians, right wing conservatives, those three holdout liberal civil rights champions and all Ayn Rand fans know that Round Three of the 3-part Atlas Shrugged movie is scheduled to...
View ArticleCan 4th of July fireworks become a Libertarian Phoenix?
Another year of expanded government domestic spying, expanded global empire overreach, expanded police state with its growing incarceration rates, expanded micromanagement of Americans' private lives...
View ArticleAmericans have more in common with libertarians than government
One of the great things about mousing randomly around in the libertariansphere is the serendipitous relational discoveries that might otherwise go unnoticed. Take, for example, a Dennis Trainor Jr....
View ArticleAnti-libertarian 'grownups' embrace political coercion, intimidation and fraud
Even though the majority of people committed to the Modern American Libertarian Movement don't see Rand Paul as particularly "libertarian," anti-freedom ideologues are desperately eager to use him as...
View ArticleIt's a Police state problem, not a race problem
rac·ismnoun \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race: the belief that some races of people are better than others– Merriam-Webster A blogger wrote...
View ArticleWhen privatization isn't privatization
Joe Kent, a Hawaiian Libertarian running for US Congress, recently wrote a glowing report for the International Society for Individual Liberty on a town that privatized "everything." In 2005 Sandy...
View ArticleFinally: Legit Libertarian criticism from mainstream media
Without understanding the many faces of libertarianism – minarchists, anarchists, partyarchs, non-voters, consequentialists, moralists, realists, idealists, agorists, voluntaryists -- syndicated...
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