This is depressing as hell, but oh so true.
Political analysts frequently consider what it means to be a libertarian. In fact, in 1997, Charles Murray published a short book entitled “What It Means to Be a Libertarian” that does an excellent job of presenting the core principles of libertarian political philosophy. But almost no one […]

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A couple of quick links since I don’t have tie to write them up properly:
The scariest graph you will ever see.
Live Free or Drown, a Wired article about seasteading. I’m really into the Seasteading concept, even before I read this article and learned that the Patri Friedman behind the project is the son of […]

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This Reason article by Radley Balko sums up a lot of the reasons I like Palin. Reason as a whole has been pretty opposed to the Republicans this year, maybe because the editor in chief wrote the book McCain: Myth of a Maverick. I pretty much agree with them about McCain, but Øbama […]

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Via Reason, an article by George McGovern on personal choice.
Since leaving office I’ve written about public policy from a new perspective: outside looking in. I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
Why do we think we are helping adult consumers by […]

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I thought it would be interesting to ask my readers to take the World’s Smallest Political Quiz and post their results. Even you lurkers, come on, now.. It takes less than a minute, there are only about 10 questions. It’ll be interesting to see where you people stand on the spectrum.
My result won’t […]

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I’m going over to NY Ron Paul headquarters to watch the debate tonight. Should be interesting to say the least.. I’m wondering what kind of people they’ll have there, here in the midst of New York.
I’ll write some kind of report tomorrow on how it was.. By the way, you should all […]

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Tucker Carlson on the trail with Ron Paul, a bordello owner and a pair of prostitutes.
The first time I heard Paul talk about monetary policy, I’d felt like a hostage, the only person in the room who didn’t buy into the program. Then, slowly, like so many hostages, I started to open my mind and […]

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This is exactly why I will be voting for Ron Paul, despite disagreeing with him on such issues as abortion and Iraq :
So a Democratic, or even Republican Congress completes the appropriations process, and sends President Paul the funding bill for, say, the Commerce Department. Ron Paul doesn’t think we should have a Commerce Department, […]

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So I’ve decided to vote in the New Jersey Republican primary in February. We have what’s known as an “open primary” in NJ, which means independents can vote in a party’s primary, but once they do they are considered registered to that party. So I’ll technically be a Republican after never before belonging […]

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Frederic Bastiat, from Selected Essays on Political Economy, published 1848.
If each man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, several men have the right to get together, come to an understanding, and organize a collective force to provide regularly for this defense.
Collective right, then, has its principle, […]

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Stephen Green has a great piece on his falling out with the Libertarian party.
Next year, I’m not sure which party I’ll support for President, much less which candidate. From here, it looks as if the Republicans have become wrong and corrupt, the Democrats are stupid and corrupt, and the Libertarians have gone plain crazy.
I agree […]

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