Hell's handmaiden (Free subscription) | yesterday
Welcome to the May 11, 2008 edition of carnival of the libertarians. I was invited a month or more ago to host this carnival. I’m happy to do so. I’ve got libertarian leaning myself, as well as some not so libertarian ones as those who’ve crawled the blog might be [...]
Triablogue (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dan at Arminian Chronicles gives some necessary and sufficient conditions for ascribing "libertarian free will" to an agent. Rather than write an entire post interacting with his post, I'm just going to draw attention to two statement. Dan said, "[Libertarian Free Will is not] The ability to create ex nihilo." But God's free will has this ability. "[Libertarian free will is] Being...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Politics Bob Barr, a former congressman from Georgia, is supposed to announce Monday whether he will run. Some in the GOP worry he could take votes away from John McCain.JOHN BAZEMORE: AP FILE May 10, 2008, 11:24PMWill new Libertarian Barr run, or not'By JENNY JARVIELos Angeles Times TOOLSATLANTA — There's little evidence in Bob Barr's office that the former Republican congressman is on the...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Image via Wikipedia From Los Angeles Times: Libertarian Bob Barr: a Ralph Nader for John McCain? He lacks mass appeal, but some say Barr could nevertheless be a ’spoiler’ for Republicans — if he runs. … More than a month after Barr, 59, set up an “exploratory committee” to gauge how many Americans would [...]
Classically Liberal (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Right-wing bigot Bob Barr continues his campaign of lying to the public as to what it means to be a libertarian. This time the Village Voice questioned Barr’s bigoted anti-gay legislation and asked him how he justifies his statist legislation with seeking the Libertarian nomination. Barr answers by lying about what libertarianism is about. He says that the positions he took in...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
He lacks mass appeal, but some say Barr could nevertheless be a ’spoiler’ for Republicans — if he runs. There’s little evidence in Bob Barr’s office that the former Republican congressman is [...]
LA Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
He lacks mass appeal, but some say Barr could nevertheless be a 'spoiler' for Republicans -- if he runs. There's little evidence in Bob Barr's office that the former Republican congressman is on the verge of running for president.
Scooter The Wonder Dog of DOOM (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
"So what else is a massive, transnational corporation but a central planning agency for their fraction of the global economy? 'Okay, now, everybody grow corn and wheat! Mark, set ... go!!!' Unelected people thousands of miles away telling you how to live and what you can buy and what you and your family are worth. ... When people starve in North Korea, it's a terrible tragedy. When people starve under...
Adam's Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Dan Popkey picks up on a topic I wrote about a week back. Ron Paul's campaign is running aggressively in Idaho and his supporters are targeting local precincts: The Texas congressman and former Libertarian presidential nominee has targeted Idaho as part of his quixotic challenge to John McCain. Paul loyalists seek to yank the Idaho GOP organization up from [...]
The American Street (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Not if the statistical measures used by our government continue to be bent to make direct comparison impossible. From the Libertarian Ayn Rand, we got Objectivism , which I prefer to call ‘Capitalism Gone Wild.’ Ronald Reagan defeated Carter by using a Misery Index Carter himself had highlighted in 1976, which measured inflation and unemployment, combined. The table below comes from Wikipedia,...
Salon: Arts & Entertainment (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Former World Bank vice president Jean-François Rischard talks about the libertarian culture of the institution and the differences between business in the U.S. and Europe.
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Apparently, some Republicans have been privately trying to convince Bob Barr not to run for President as a Libertarian: Former Rep. Bob Barr says a number of Republicans have been trying to persuade him not to run for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, but none has given him a convincing reason. The former Republican congressman from [...]
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bob Barr, who is expected to officially announce his candidacy for the Libertarian Party's Presidential Nomination tomorrow, was recently interviewed by the Village Voice. Here are some of the more interesting questions and responses: Village Voice: The Libertarian Party is supportive of legalizing same-sex marriage, legalizing currently illegal drugs and keeping abortion legal. You were...
Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | yesterday
Libertarians probably shouldn't try to handicap political races. If we had any electoral instincts we wouldn't have gotten ourselves in this position. Nevertheless, I argue that Obama’s comparative weakness with white voters versus Clinton's comparative weakness with black voters makes Obama the stronger general-election candidate. No, really! Note: No post-structural theorists were harmed in...
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Phillies 2008: Libertarian Presidential candidate George Phillies today condemned ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) export restrictions as “a highly effective American subsidy for foreign manufacturers,” and said they should be repealed. “ITAR makes sense if you believe that America has a monopoly on high-tech engineering and research,” Phillies said, “and if you believe...
