Hanauer and Liu: False premises beget false conclusions (Video)
Like so many others, Nick Hanauer and Eric Liu base their disdain for libertarianism on a false premise of their own devising when they write in Bloomberg, "Libertarians Are the New Communists:"...
View ArticleGreens and Libertarians in bed with clean energy (Video)
The big buzz in the world of Green websites is that some Libertarians agreed with some clean energy environmentalists about solar power. When the Wisconsin Libertarian Party joined a local clean...
View ArticleInsect spy drones? VALIANTS to the rescue! (Video)
According to various sources the American ruling class is developing remotely controlled insect-sized drones that can, when equipped with miniature cameras, spy on you like the fabled fly-on-the-wall...
View ArticleJury nullification going vertical in DC
How would you like to see more than 18,000 potential jurors receive an introduction to jury nullification every day in Washington DC? Longtime freedom activist Jim Babb is always looking for a way to...
View ArticleAnarchist vs. Minarchist: A Libertarian parable
All of the unhappy denizens of Governmentstan who call themselves "libertarians" gathered at the old rundown Hall of Freedom. "We've all agreed," their chosen spokesperson said, "that if we begin the...
View ArticleA hypocrite's guide to libertarian hypocrisy
It's an old Salon/AlterNet article that's been kicking around for over a month and libertarians everywhere have addressed it already (Salon has 775 comments at this writing, AlterNet 1008) but the...
View ArticleRand Paul just doesn't get 'libertarian'
In case there was ever any doubt about it, Rand Paul clearly showed that he is no Ron Paul 2.0. Asked if he would consider being anything other than a Republican the elder Paul joined the Libertarian...
View ArticleHigh School civics class vs. the politics of reality
Sometimes when people try to talk to one another on subjects like politics they end up talking past each other because they begin from different premises. This happened recently when an Obama...
View ArticleAlways trust a politician ... to be a politician
If every educated American were asked to choose between Al Capone and John Dillinger as their primary protector almost everyone would reject both. Yet when they're asked to choose between a Democrat...
View ArticleRace-baiting Hate-Tweeter Chris Noth is the new FAIL
Why do so-called "experts" scratch their heads wondering where bullying comes from? It seems obvious to libertarians. It comes from the same places all other mindless prejudices – racism, sexism,...
View ArticleComic fans: Are you ready for Voluptuous Voluntaryist Vixens?
Superhero comic Voluntaryist #2 hits the virtual news stands on October 31 just in time for Halloween. Jaime Sherman, mastermind behind the Voluntaryist superhero comic, is no dummy. Following the...
View ArticleNo libertarian would ask government to track and tax drivers
The Los Angeles Times recently ran an article by Evan Halper, "A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue," that included the following sentence: "Libertarians have joined environmental...
View ArticleDefining Libertarianism by irrelevancies
If you can't smear freedom-loving people with legitimate issues why not smear them with irrelevancies? The latest smear comes from the Salon/Alternet article, "Libertarians are even whiter and...
View ArticleAmerican politics is just high school in the real world
There's a website called Taki's Magazine. They call themselves non-ideological. A friend of Libertarian News Examiner calls them "the Libertarian archequivalent of Salon" but adds, "They sometimes...
View ArticleThe Zero Aggression Principle: morality vs. sociopathy
The Zero Aggression Principle (ZAP) has been expressed in many ways with many different words on many different websites and blogs since the beginning of the Internet. This version, written by Perry...
View ArticleChris Christie won't upset the ruling class applecart
NOTE: For young people who have never read history, or were never taught history in their public schools, "Upsetting the applecart" is an old American idiom that means spoiling someone's plans. As...
View ArticleSalon's Libertarian-baiting marketing gimmick
Libertarian-baiting is such a well established marketing ploy for Salon that it's becoming both embarrassing and predictable. Their latest libertarian-bating article in an endless slurry of...
View ArticleMitt admits minorities lost him the election
Mitt Romney popped up on the CBS This Morning show recently to announce that he lost the 2012 presidential election because "We didn't get as many African-American voters as we should have, didn't...
View ArticleMilitary spending isn't the same as defense spending
One simple fact that few Americans understand and virtually all politicians, bureaucrats and top military officialdom don't want Americans to understand is that there's a very big difference between...
View ArticleActively advocating libertarianism? Then forget labels
People who openly advocate libertarianism might as well quit using political, social and cultural labels because virtually no one can agree on what any of them mean anymore. Many People don't even...
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