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Political, Legal & Financial Muddles
The political scene is getting more and more important to the average American, whether they know it or not. At the same time, issues are getting more and more muddled.
As the countdown to the Democratic National convention ticks on, Hillary Clinton has joined Barack Obama on his fundraising tour. My understanding is that, in return for [...]
Libertarianism has some of the answers
Dear LFAT, I understand where you are coming from when you ask how libertarians would have dealt with the Baby P situation. However, it isn’t libertarians who have some serious questions to answer, rather the very opposite. It is the statists who have some serious questions to answer - how were they unable to stop these things despite state supervision? As a libertarian Conservative, I want the government to be small but strong. There are some areas where the government is essential. But what
20,000 Troops To Be Used as U.S. Policemen
"WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Defense plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to terror or nuclear attacks and emergencies, The Washington Post said Monday". more... The newpaper said that civil liberties groups and libertarians had expressed concern that the plan could undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement. read more digg story [[ This is a content summary only
Will Conservatives Get Their Wind Back?
Richard Posner on conservatism’s gut punch: The financial crisis has hit economic libertarians in the solar plexus, because the crisis is largely a consequence of innate weaknesses in free markets and of excessive deregulation of banking and finance, rather than of government interference in the market. Believers in a strong foreign policy have been hurt by the protracted and seemingly purposeless war in Iraq (the main effects of which seem to have been discord between the United States and it
Who is Less Free than 40 Years Ago?
Over at Reason [h/t Instapundit], Veronique de Rugy asks: Many libertarians, eyeing the relentless expansion of the state, worry that freedom is marching backward. But are we really worse off than we were 40 years ago? She surveys many aspects of freedom in modern life and concludes that on the whole we have gained more freedom than we have lost. Missing from this survey, however, is one critical area in which freedom has shrunk dramatically. Economic freedom, especially the freedom of econ
Bob Barr endorses Chambliss
Bob Barr endorses Chambliss Posted by TPW News Items --- December 2nd, 2008 According to the Political Insider blog in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, former Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr has endorsed Republican Saxby Chambliss in today’s Senate runoff. Political Insider reprints the text of a Barr letter “presumably distributed to Libertarians in Georgia.” Ironically, Barr claims Chambliss is for “ending the government bailouts,” when much of the conservative and libe
How will Georgia libertarians vote today?
How will Georgia libertarians vote today? Posted by TPW News Items --- December 2nd, 2008 How will Georgia libertarians vote today? That will probably decide who wins the Senate runoff—Republican incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss or Democrat Jim Martin. And the Georgia race may decide whether the Democrats get their filibuster-proof supermajority of 60 in the Senate. Chambliss fell just short of the majority he needed November 4 to avoid a runoff. W. James Antle III, writing in The American Sp
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