Dude, where’s my bailout?

h/t Delaware Libertarian.

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Stimulus without happy ending

Posted by Jim Davidson at bostontea.us Jim is signed up to write here, but says this site is crashing his computer. Anyone else having access issues? Please comment if you are able to get that far with the site. Chris Wood over at CaseyResearch.com has done the yeoman’s work of analysing the current act. http://www.caseyresearch.com/pra1.php?id=108&ppref [...]

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The Money Pit

H/T Knappster

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Indianapolis councilman quits GOP for Libertarians

City-County Councilman Ed Coleman is leaving the Republican Party to become a Libertarian. Coleman will make his official announcement today during a speech at the Columbia Club, where he will be flanked by members of the Libertarian Party of Indiana. “This is not a decision I take lightly, nor did I come to it without [...]

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Rope, Dope, Hope, Nope, Cope, Mope, Pope

“This is not change,” ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero correctly told the Associated Press. “Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue.” Rope… A Gallup Poll released February 12 revealed that 62 percent of Americans [...]

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Free and Sexy

One of the things that has come out of meeting Doug Casey and participating in several of the Eris Society conferences over the years was getting to meet, in Aspen in 2005, Scott and Cyan Banister. My friend Sean Hastings and his wife Jo introduced us. Fun people. Last year, Cyan started a new project [...]

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Site updates, new authors – updated

I’ll just quote the old post, and add stuff. I’m looking for more bloggers to write here. If you are interested, drop me a note in the comments. I’ve already added Less Antman, Robert Mayer, Matt Harris and Jim Davidson. Michelle is still signed up to write here, but has not in quite some time. [...]

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Liberaltarian Dialog – February 2009

A bit of background about the term, “Liberaltarian”. In December 2006, Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute’s vice president for research, penned an essay in which he posited that Contemporary Conservatism had betrayed its own roots, and no longer truly represented a libertarian worldview. Lindsey went on to muse that liberals had at least, and probably more [...]

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Taxpayers get the dog knot in Cali

“Artist Scott Donahue of Emeryville, Calif., was paid $196,000 by Berkeley’s public arts program to create two large statues, which feature small, artistic medallions that show dogs doing what dogs do best. “‘Various things,’ Donahue said. ‘Biting each other, chasing each other…. One dog is defecating, two dogs are fornicating.’ All that spending comes with [...]

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Rethinking Alan Greenspan

Like many libertarians, I’ve come to hold a low opinion of Alan Greenspan. Austrian libertarians loathe him. Objectivists regard him as a traitor. Those who hate the free market alternate between thinking him a genius for allegedly giving us prosperity and saying that the current downturn is the result of his alleged free market ideas. [...]

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Stimulis: Because All Economies Have Performance Issues

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Facilitate Change – a nonviolent communication program with a focus on social change

Email From Kimberly Wilder. I know Kimberly through writing at Independent Political Report. She is the source of a good chunk of our Green news, although she recently resigned from the Green Party. (I am not sure it they might extend the deadline. But, ideally, I think people are supposed to sign up today or [...]

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Lincoln’s Legacy

The more you learn about Abraham Lincoln, the more you learn to admire him. He deserves his praise. Today is the two hundredth anniversary of his birth day, February 12, 1809. February 12, 2009, is only twenty-three days after another leader from Illinois stepped into Lincoln’s large shoes. We all know that Lincoln managed to [...]

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Supreme Court ruling effectively opens floodgates for unlawful searches

Syndicated from my weekly column in the Mountaineer Jeffersonian, a weekly paper publication in Morgantown, West Virginia: A supreme court ruling from mid-January could impact the legality of thousands of police searches each year. At issue is the admissibility of evidence obtained where the possibility of police misconduct or negligence exists. Called the Exclusionary Rule, [...]

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