As Usual, Government Regulation as Political Payoff I heard the president’s speech at Cooper Union College today and thought it was quite bizarre that he would criticize Wall Street for bad behavior when Washington is currently running our national debt through the roof and the policies that emanated from there in the last ten years [...]
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The View from Abroad
Posted in economics, tagged bailout, dodd, federal reserve, financial reform, Obama, too big to fail on 2010.04.23 | Leave a Comment »
Starchild instrumental in putting prostitution decriminalization on the ballot
Posted in 2008 Elections, activism, awefuckingtacular, Big Brother, campaigns, civil liberties, coercion, Constitution, constitutional rights, Cops Gone Wild, corruption, Courts and justice system, crime, distress, draconian legislation, economics, Entertainment, First Amendment, free your mind, freedom, Law, law enforcement, Libertarian, Libertarian Party, local politics, nanny state, People in the news, personal responsibility, police state, politics, press release, property rights, regulation, self defense, starchild, Uncategorized, women, tagged activism, Big Brother, civil liberties, constitutional rights, Courts and justice system, crime, economics, Entertainment, First Amendment, Law, law enforcement, Libertarian, Libertarian Party, local politics, nanny state, People in the news, personal responsibility, petitioning, police state, politics, property rights on 2008.07.24 | Leave a Comment »
Press release posted on the LP Radicals yahoo group. Starchild has had various offices in the San Francisco and California LP, and is one of the spokespeople for this initiative. The San Francisco Department of Elections announced today that the measure prohibiting city officials from spending money arresting and prosecuting people for prostitution, and mandating [...]
Oklahoma is not OK
Posted in 2008 Elections, activism, Big Brother, civil liberties, coercion, communist monopoly, complete fucking stupidity, Constitution, constitutional rights, corporate welfare, corruption, Democrats, distress, draconian legislation, draft, economics, elections, First Amendment, fraud, free your mind, freedom, frickin' 'tards, government waste, human rights abuses, law enforcement, lice, local politics, Martial Law, megabitchery, oklahoma, pigs, police state, political corruption, politics, protest, Republican, taxes, Teachers Unions, terrorism, unusual behaviors, weird shit on 2007.10.16 | 6 Comments »
Something stinks in the Sooner State. Oklahoma voters were the only voters with no choices for president on their ballot except Bush Skull and Kerry Bones in 2004, and Oklahoma is one of 5 states that doesn’t permit write-ins, so Oklahoma voters who wanted to vote for someone other than Bush or Kerry in 2004 [...]
ImmiGREAT!
Posted in Canada, civil liberties, coercion, complete fucking stupidity, Department of Homeland Security, draconian legislation, economics, educational videos, immigration, Martial Law, personal responsibility, police state, politics, property rights, Real ID Act, regulation, texas on 2007.06.29 | 22 Comments »
Border wall boondoggle: even dumber than I thought! http://freestudents.blogspot.com/ So a gaggle of right-wing racists and faux libertarians want to build a wall on the border. They are going to “secure” the borders. Nice. So what does securing the borders mean? Well, one taste of it is that the historic right of Americans to cross [...]
Energy Vortex II
Posted in civil liberties, coercion, complete fucking stupidity, corporate welfare, draconian legislation, economics, environment, global warming, Gun Confiscation, health, history, homeless, Humanity, Iran, Iraq, Louisiana, Martial Law, media, Middle East, military, monopolies, NOLA, police state, political corruption, property rights, regulation, terrorism, The Katrina Fiasco, war on 2007.06.16 | Leave a Comment »
A while back I wrote about the Energy Vortex and others have commented on the same issue. The most cited instance of this is the War in Iraq (and possibly Afghanistan; it may have had a lot to do with the proposed oil pipeline through Afghanistan). This view of Operation Iraqi Liberation has worked its [...]
Let Freedom Grow! for 06/03/07
Posted in 2008 Elections, civil liberties, coercion, corporate welfare, economics, immigration, Kubby, Libertarian, Libertarian Party, police state, politics on 2007.06.04 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s radio address, Steve Kubby discusses the US Senate’s immigration “compromise.” The political community’s been abuzz this week with news of a bi-partisan “deal” on immigration law. We go through this every few years as our politicians try to satisfy everyone, end up satisfying no one, and usually make things worse than they [...]
Medical Marijuana and States Rights
Posted in awefuckingtacular, civil liberties, coercion, complete fucking stupidity, Constitution, constitutional rights, draconian legislation, drug war, economics, law enforcement, natural health products, personal responsibility, police state, regulation, terrorism, unusual behaviors on 2007.06.02 | 4 Comments »
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Adolf Giuliani: As Far From Libertarian As Possible
Posted in 2008 Elections, 9/11, Adolf Giuliani, Big Brother, censorship, civil liberties, coercion, complete fucking stupidity, constitutional rights, corporate welfare, corruption, crazy claims, Department of Homeland Security, draconian legislation, drug war, economics, fraud, free your mind, Gun Confiscation, history, law enforcement, Libertarian Posers, Martial Law, megabitchery, personal responsibility, police state, political corruption, politics, prostitution, Republican Hacks, Rudolf Mussolini, STFU, taxes, terrorism, The Second Amendment, war, weird shit on 2007.05.11 | 12 Comments »
Despite what a certain milk shake would like you to believe, Rudolf Giuliani Mussolini is As Far From Libertarian As Possible (click on the link to read about his early history as a psychotically deranged persecutor of victimless white collar “criminals”). Even some of Giuliani’s admirers admit he has fascist tendencies. The amazing record of [...]
Let Freedom Grow! for 04/15/07
Posted in 2008 Elections, economics, Kubby, Libertarian, Libertarian Party, taxes on 2007.04.18 | 1 Comment »
Sorry it’s late. Been busy with work. Tom, let me know if we can sign you up here so you can post these when I don’t have time. In this week’s “radio address,” Steve Kubby commemorates Tax Day 2007 with a campaign promise: Over the last few years, politicians in the “major” parties have put [...]
Nursing Home Greed + Alzheimer’s Patient + Dead Rat In Mouth = Lawsuit
Posted in complete fucking stupidity, corruption, crime, economics, elder abuse, fraud, health, regulation, weird shit on 2007.04.07 | 4 Comments »
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer SANTA ANA, Calif. – Staffing was so inadequate at a California senior center that a rat crawled into an Alzheimer’s patient’s mouth and died there before staff noticed, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed Thursday on behalf of 90-year-old Sigmund Bock, alleges that administrators at the Paragon Gardens Assisted [...]
Feeding Homeless A Criminal Offense In Orlando
Posted in Big Brother, censorship, civil liberties, coercion, complete fucking stupidity, crime, economics, general silliness, health, homeless, law enforcement, nanny state, personal responsibility, police action, police state, politics, regulation on 2007.04.05 | 7 Comments »
Orlando police have unbelievably arrested 21-year-old Eric Montanez, an activist with the charity “Food Not Bombs”, for feeding 30 homeless people in downtown Orlando. A city ordinance, supported by businesses which claim the homeless frighten away customers, prevents feeding more than 25 homeless persons within two miles of Orlando City Hall. The law does allow [...]
Nationwide Katrina Fraud Totals Hundreds Of Millions of Dollars
Posted in complete fucking stupidity, corruption, crime, economics, FEMA, fraud, The Katrina Fiasco on 2007.04.01 | 2 Comments »
An Illinois woman mourns her two young daughters, swept to their deaths in Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters. It’s a tragic and terrifying story. It’s also a lie. An Alabama woman applies for disaster aid for hurricane damage. She files 28 claims for addresses in four states. It’s all a sham. Two California men help stage Internet [...]
“Illegal” Immigration Quiz
Posted in civil liberties, coercion, constitutional rights, economics, immigration, law enforcement, Libertarian, Martial Law, personal responsibility, police state, politics, regulation on 2007.03.26 | 9 Comments »
Illegal Immigration Quiz by Joseph Knight The Libertarian Enterprise (1) Who will remove you from your home, job, family, and community to lock you in a cage like an animal for no reason other than what you smoke in your pipe or grow in your garden? A. Government B. Illegal immigrants (2) Who demands that [...]
There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Campaign
Posted in 2008 Elections, economics, George Phillies, Kubby, Libertarian, Libertarian Party, personal responsibility, politics, recruitment, Uncategorized on 2007.03.06 | 10 Comments »
I’ll just post this one “as is” and note only, with great relief, that Tom is once again acting de facto campaign manager, aka HMFIC, which totally gets me off the hook. Whew! by Tom Knapp via Kn@ppster The good news: Steve Kubby’s presidential campaign is “in the black.” It has money in the bank. [...]
Gene Chapman: Is The End Near?
Posted in 2008 Elections, abortion, christianity, coercion, communism, economics, law enforcement, Libertarian, Libertarian Party, obituaries, personal responsibility, police state, politics, taxes, texas on 2007.02.28 | 8 Comments »
Via ElfNinosMom today comes the sad news that one of our favorite Presidential candidates may have to drop out of the race due to government persecution. Gene Dropping Out of Presidential Race? Gene posted the following on his blog today: IRS Finds Chapman Well, the IRS has sent a letter to my employer to take [...]
The 4:20 Factor: Show them the money
Posted in 2008 Elections, civil liberties, coercion, constitutional rights, crime, drug war, economics, Kubby, Libertarian, media, personal responsibility, police state, politics, prison reform, recruitment on 2007.02.27 | 35 Comments »
We’re sending out an “open call” to drug law reform folks to support the LP and the Kubby campaign. We would like to make future appeals like this to the peace community, environmentalists, immigrants rights activists, and many others, but we have to start with a base. For anyone who is involved in drug policy [...]
Wal-Mart the (Corporate) Welfare Queen
Posted in coercion, corporate welfare, corruption, economics, personal responsibility, politics, regulation, Uncategorized on 2007.02.17 | 12 Comments »
By way of Brad Spangler Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth by Philip Mattera and Anna Purinton “The $1 billion figure we cite for total public assistance to Wal-Mart may very well be the tip of the iceberg.” Link above is to the full study. Handy summary available [...]
The Energy Vortex
Posted in 2008 Elections, drug war, economics, environment, health, Kubby, Libertarian, Middle East, platform, regulation, taxes, war on 2007.01.31 | 7 Comments »
An exchange provoked by the Libertarian Response to Bush’s State of the Union Speech Andrew L Sullivan writes… You have a choice of drilling for oil in your own damn country or fighting for it in the Persian Gulf. PICK AND CHOOSE! http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/ Well, yeah, those are a couple of choices. But there are others [...]
The State of the Union: Libertarian Responses
Posted in 2008 Elections, censorship, civil liberties, coercion, constitutional rights, corruption, crime, democracy, Democrats, drug war, economics, environment, George Phillies, internets, Kubby, Libertarian, media, personal responsibility, politics, regulation, Republican, taxes, Uncategorized, war on 2007.01.25 | 15 Comments »
The following reaction to the King George’s latest State of the Union speech at http://kubby2008.com/ got so many hits that it overwhelmed our server yesterday and caused the website to go down for most of the afternoon. We’ve got the site back up now, and Tom Knapp says we will be getting a server upgrade [...]
Steve Kubby’s MLK day message
Posted in 2008 Elections, celebrities, christianity, civil liberties, coercion, constitutional rights, corruption, crime, democracy, drug war, economics, Kubby, Libertarian, media, personal responsibility, politics, regulation, Uncategorized on 2007.01.15 | 7 Comments »
This is an MLK day Message from Steve Kubby, Libertarian for President with markup links by me, paulie cannoli. FREE AT LAST? I wonder what Martin Luther King, Jr., would think of the America we live in — how he’d feel had he and his assassin not met on that fateful April morning and if [...]
Health Care: Alternatives to Socialism and Fascism
Posted in civil liberties, coercion, corruption, Democrats, economics, health, Libertarian, personal responsibility, politics, regulation, taxes, Uncategorized on 2007.01.15 | 2 Comments »
Can liberals and libertarians find common ground on health care solutions? At http://mutualist.livejournal.com/ 01:30 pm – What is worse: socialized medicine or fascist medicine? With the democrats retaking congress socialized medicine (er, “universal healthcare”) will once again take the center stage. While I certainly expect the far left to spew more rhetoric, I do not [...]


