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A Libertarian's New Year's Resolutions
Adventures of Citizen X | 7 hours ago by Marc Cato
A message from the Advocates for Self Government.A Libertarian's New Year's Resolutions by Harry Browne 1. I resolve to sell liberty by appealing to the self-interest of each prospect, rather than preaching to people and expecting them to read more
Neocons, Progressives, and the Impulse to Bully
Cato @ Liberty | December 29th 2009
By David BoazBart Hinkle makes some interesting observations in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the unfortunate similarities between neoconservatives and progressives. Progressives, he says (and of course they’re not really for progress, so t read more
Former NM Governor Gary Johnson on drug reform
kath.A.rine | December 29th 2009
Former NM Governor Gary Johnson on drug reform: sunsmudge: I think Johnson has a good perspective... read more
Market Liberalism at the Washington Post
Cato @ Liberty | December 27th 2009
By David BoazThree years ago a Washington Post editorial conceded: “Sometimes libertarians deserve to win an argument.” “Gee, thanks,” I wrote at the time. ”I’m glad libertarian arguments against over-regulation read more
The First Christmas - A Libertarian Event, Too
Truth.SC | December 22nd 2009 by Skyler J. Collins
Christmastime is arguably the best time of the year. We all know the reasons why, though many forget. My intention with this short essay is not to examine those, the most important parts. Rather, what I thought I'd share here are the details that mak read more
Leonard Read’s “I, Pencil”
Orange Punch | December 22nd 2009 by Stan
Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, published his classic essay, “I, Pencil” 51 years ago this month. It notes that not a single person in the world knows how to make a pencil, yet more than a billion a year ar read more
More Translation of Republicanese “small government values”
A Second Look | December 20th 2009 by Tom
Re: Anti-War Activist Mounts GOP Campaign for Congress « The Washington Independent The article is about a McCain heckler and an anti-war protester turned Libertarian candidate stating that, “He’s a candidate for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd d read more
Libertarian Credo
The Whited Sepulchre | December 20th 2009 by allen in fort worth
One more time....I own me.You own you.This is my stuff.That's your stuff.If you and I decide to swap stuff, the existence of an arbitrary political border between us should matter no more than the existence of a highway or a telephone line between us read more
What is Libertarianism?
The Classic Liberal Blog | December 19th 2009 by theCL
In continuing What is Conservatism?, let’s stop and take a closer look at libertarianism. I think you’ll find more often than not, libertarians and conservatives generally agree. We’ll look at excerpts from 2 essays on libertarianis read more
John Stossel's show on Healthcare
The Whited Sepulchre | December 19th 2009 by allen in fort worth
There are very few diamonds in the television dungheap.John Stossel's new show, Stossel, is one of them. Thursday's show featured John Mackey, the founder of Whole Foods, and it was excellent. It will probably repeat on FoxBusiness a couple of more t read more
Morning Links - Dec 19
Truth.SC | December 19th 2009 by Skyler J. Collins
Morning Links for December 19th, 2009: Sheldon Richman explains, "People typically become libertarians because they favor individualism and abhor seeing themselves and others abused. Unfortunately, nonlibertarians don’t know this. They think libert read more
Of course there will be rationing
Orange Punch | December 18th 2009 by Stan
This article from a few days ago helps to elucidate how health-care decisions even now, before any great “reform” legislation (or non-reform, as Howard Dean would have it now) is going to involve rationing of care. When goods and services read more
Don’t Make New Laws – Enforce the Ones We Have
Social Media Is My Middle Name | December 18th 2009 by Scott Allen
The Austin City Council recently passed a ban on texting while driving. They also voted unanimously yesterday to expand/clarify those restrictions to include playing games, shuffling through songs, or using your cell phone’s GPS system – unless read more
LORD CHRISTOPHER WALTER MONCKTON, 3RD VISCOUNT MONCKTON OF BRENCH…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | December 17th 2009 by Tom
Christopher Walter Monckton, is an anti-Anthropogenic Global Warming activist. He doesn't believe that humans have increased the global temperature by burning carbon or perhaps otherwise increasing greenhouse gases or that if they have, it isn't nece read more
Today is Bill of Rights Day
Orange Punch | December 15th 2009 by Stan
I confess I had forgotten — and you notice there hasn’t been much mention anywhere, given that the Bill of Rights is pretty tattered and torn and riddled with exceptions so nobody wants to be reminded of what it is supposed to be. Here read more
An Olive Branch
The Classic Liberal Blog | December 14th 2009 by theCL
Back to What is Conservatism? War Edition. I wanted to get into libertarianism because libertarianism is the root of conservatism. There was a time during the life of someone you know (or have known) when what we call libertarianism today was called read more
10 Tenets of Freedom
Truth.SC | December 14th 2009 by Skyler J. Collins
Fantastic list created by Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation, detailing 10 tenets of freedom. Excerpts from each tenet, read the entire 2-part article here: Income Taxation How can a person be considered truly free if the state has read more
NETHERLANDS POLITICAL PEDOPHILIA PARTY GROUP ON FACEBOOK
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | December 11th 2009 by Tom
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14 466177253 Do you think relaxing doesn't open the floodgates of Hell? That link is to a pedophilia group right on Facebook. No sooner than they gain so-called rights for little children then they start saying t read more
The Debate Continues
Truth.SC | December 11th 2009 by Skyler J. Collins
I've been involved in a small debate over at LDSFreemen.com. The introduction to my latest contribution: Gabriel Fink, Chris Brown and I have been involved in a debate of sorts regarding what the Book of Mormon says regarding tax and limited governme read more
Slagging off the entire Libertarian blogosphere
Boatang and Demetriou | December 10th 2009 by Kevin Boatang and John Demetriou
Following on from my recent piece about arrogant left wingers who don't know how to debate properly...I must, er, how do you call it?...'hat tip' a blogger called 'An Englishman's Castle' for bringing this piece from a vehemently anti-Libertarian blo read more
Revolution 21 -- Part VII
Bonzai | December 10th 2009 by Mike Farmer
It's time to stop and assess the men and women in government who have taken it upon themselves to make grand changes to our lives, and, possibly, changes which could affect the lives of generations to come. This is nothing to let slide by l read more
MR. POTTER VERSUS MR. BAILEY: SATAN VERSUS CHRIST
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | December 9th 2009 by Tom
The whole idea has been to run the middle and lower classes in the US into debt peonage. The idea has been to destroy the unions and all movements to greater egalitarianism -- destroy the people's ability or desire to throw off the evil yoke of the g read more
Gerald Celente On The Coming Fascism And Third Party
Boom2Bust.com | December 9th 2009 by Christopher E. Hill
Anyone like the comedian Jeff Foxworthy? In one routine, he shared the story of how an older couple approached him after a show with a “you know if you’re a redneck” story. Foxworthy admitted he’d thought he heard them all, but listened to th read more
Rick Santorum and Limited Government?
Cato @ Liberty | December 9th 2009
By David BoazScary news today from Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker: despite losing his reelection bid in 2006, former senator Rick Santorum is still thinking about running for president. He tells Parker that he represents the Ronald Reagan read more
Morning Links - 12/9/2009
Truth.SC | December 9th 2009 by Skyler J. Collins
Morning Links for December 9th, 2009: Richard Ebeling, "The first response that should be given when confronted with such an accusation [of being an 'extremist'] is to inquire, with what is the friend of liberty being asked to compromise? The real an read more
Palmer and Cowen on the Nature of Liberty
Cato @ Liberty | December 8th 2009
By David BoazTwo leading libertarian thinkers, Tom Palmer and Tyler Cowen, discussed Palmer’s new book, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, at a recent Cato Book Forum. You can see the video or download a podcast here. T read more
The Successful Libertarian Market Socialist Economy
Skeptical Eye | December 7th 2009 by SE
The village of Utopia was a libertarian Market Socialist society that worked when applied in practice....And unlike Marx and his big government way of Socialism, Warren’s Market Socialism was like Proudhon‘s Market Socialism, based on voluntary a read more
A Royal perspective on Climate Change
Boatang and Demetriou | December 5th 2009 by Kevin Boatang and John Demetriou
Climate Change advocates and sceptics have been clashing harshly over recent weeks. This might be because of the current Copenhagen Summit, but in all fairness, this row has been coming to a head for some time now and it is because the issue is not j read more
Libertarians and conservatives - some thoughts
Boatang and Demetriou | December 5th 2009 by Kevin Boatang and John Demetriou
Daniel Hannan has written and short but fascinating piece on his Telegraph blog, asking 'can a libertarian be a Conservative?'It is well worth a read. I am slightly annoyed, as my very next piece was going to be on just this subject, except take away read more
Rand Redivivus?
Acton Institute PowerBlog | December 4th 2009
Heather Wilhelm of the Illinois Policy Institute examines the usefulness of Ayn Rand for political engagement by friends of the market economy in a WSJ op-ed, “Is Ayn Rand Bad for the Market?” She concludes, Rand held some insight on the read more
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