Would You Like to Play in the Majors?

Here’s a personal story about my brief involvement in the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts (LPMA). I want to say up front that I value the friendship and good will of my colleagues in the party. The people I worked with were good to me and offered me a lot of encouragement. My remarks in this [...]

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A fully private healthcare system

Although it appears that Obama may be dumping the public option (for now) many of his supporters both in and out of government are still pushing for a taxpayer funded public option. Allegedly this public option would be a Government Sponsored Enterprise, after the fashion of such success stories as FNME or FDMC. It is [...]

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Crossfertilizing on the left and right, and what is effective outreach

— In GrassrootsLibertarians@yahoogroups.com, marc guttman wrote:
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> Maybe Root would have joined the crowd in shouting down a candidate for the LPCT nomination for US Senate, Vincent Arguimbau, at a July 4th Rally in Hartford, with chants of “USA, USA, USA,” we he discussed cutting defense spending:
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> I consider this my finest four minutes.
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> Vincent
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West Virginia Libertarians raising funds for 2010, 2012 ballot access

Howdy folks, first, a few brief personal notes:
1. I’m in West Virginia working on the ballot access drive mentioned below
2. My birthday is today. I still have very little internet access, and would appreciate hearing from you all at 415-690-6352. Email will not reach me again for several days.
3. Today is also IPR’s first birthday. [...]

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West Virginia Libertarian Party kicks off ballot access drive

Posted in Donny Ferguson’s blog at LP.org:
Message from the Libertarian Party of West Virginia:
The LPWV has just kicked off our 2010 and 2012 ballot access drive. This will require some 20,000 total signatures state-wide. This isn’t cheap, and we need your help! Our petitioning team is on the ground right now in Morgantown collecting [...]

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Hitting the road again…finally!

After the longest dry spell of work that I’ve had in my business since I’ve been in it (1998), where I have been sitting on my hands and pretty much living at IPR (not an actual paying job) since September, I’m finally hitting the road today. I don’t know how much internet I will have [...]

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It HAS happened here

Posted at Progressive Historians by Winter Rabbit:

The sterilizations of indigenous women were covert means of the continuation of the extermination policy against the Indian Nations. At least three indigenous generations from 3,406 women are not in existence now as the result. The sterilizations were not unintentional or negligible. They were genocide. [...]

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Angry dude is right…

h/t Cork

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The Obama “cuts”

I’m not going to do the LP’s work for them, but the gist of it is that they called the Obama cuts out as bullshit in their latest Monday message. And indeed it is:
Obama’s budget calls for around $11,755.00 in spending for every man, woman and child in America. But his “cuts” — [...]

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LPWV Gets Cryptic Letter from D-Lake

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random flicks

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Kubby: new stock certificate

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Some of my IPR posts today….

Tom Knapp for President campaign update
Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

It should have been obvious to me that using KN@PPSTER as a presidential campaign site wasn’t going to work, even from the start. That became more clear to me when I began planning campaign events and had to think [...]

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Tea Party roundup

Posted at IPR here and here:
From The Raw Story by David Edwards and John Byrne:

As conservatives coalesce in nationwide protests against rising taxes, government spending and what they call the “bailout mentality” of President Barack Obama’s Administration, the ship appears to have sprung a leak.
Speaking on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show Tuesday evening, Rep. Ron Paul’s [...]

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I’m back.

Hi dudes. I’m Stu, the guy who founded Last Free Voice. After an extended sabbatical from blogging, I’m back and ready to rumble.
I’ll be blogging here and on my new personal blog, and maybe, God willing, on Last Free Voice too. Politically, I guess I’d be best described as a left-leaning geolibertarian. [...]

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Libertarian Party HQ: Outreach at Left of Center Conferences

Posted at IPR. See comments/discussion there.

From: Robert Kraus
Subject: LPHQ Attendance at Left of Center Conferences
All:
Please feel free to share this email.
We have been asked by several LP Members to look at “left of center” or “alternative” conferences in the DC area which we could attend to counter the image that we only attend CPAC [...]

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How restrictive will location control get?

The former colonial powers of the world are feeling a consequence of colonialism in the relocation of formerly colonized people to their own shores: Asians and Africans to Europe, Latin Americans to the United States.
In Russia, many of the people who are the scapegoats and bogeymen of the anti-migration nationalists come not only from [...]

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Copywrong

h/t Delaware Libertarian

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My April Fools post at IPR: Former US President Bill Clinton joins Libertarian Party

In a move that few, if any, people saw coming, former US President William J. Clinton is set to announce today that he is joining the Libertarian Party. Clinton first hinted at his new political direction back in 1997, but Libertarians didn’t believe him, and not long afterwards called for his impeachment.
“What really did [...]

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Kubby sent me this…

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odds and ends

Brad Spangler sent a message to the members of Center For a Stateless Society: Supporters.
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Subject: C4SS Fundraising Drive Success and More Good News
Dear Supporters of the Center for a Stateless Society,
THANK YOU! You’ve stepped up to the challenge and made us reach our fundraising goal! There’s also more good news!
CARSON IS BACK!
Your financial support has [...]

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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
Here are a few things [...]

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The Money Pit

H/T Knappster

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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 [...]

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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. I still [...]

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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 [...]

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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 hold [...]

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From Russia with Sex and Violence

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Circle Jerks: Killing for Jesus

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Santa Claus bailout hearings

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Personal note: of saints and sinners

A certain former Libertarian Party employee has chosen to violate my well-considered privacy, using my full real name in an article (thus placing my life in more danger); I’m thinking of deleting my online presence as a result, but I haven’t made a final decision.
Sean’s article reveals a portion of my criminal past [...]

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Brother Ali – Uncle Sam Goddamn

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Green-Libertarian Exchange

Exchange with Dave Schwab at GreenChange.
Subject: Libertarian Greens?
Hi Paulie,
I just read the commentary you posted about the Libertarian Party turning into a free-market conservative vehicle. Very interesting. I’ve noticed that you post both Green and Libertarian related articles – do you belong to both?

p] I’m a [...]

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LP.org poll: ‘Should more troops be sent to Afghanistan?’

The poll is at
http://www.lp.org/poll/should-more-troops-be-sent-to-afghanistan.
The LNC resolution which “calls on the government of the United States to withdraw the armed forces of the United States from Afghanistan, without undue delay”, is at http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/lnc-passes-afghanistan-resolution:
At the September meeting of the Libertarian National Committee, the following resolution was passed:
WHEREAS the government of the United States should return to [...]

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Ron Paul on the auto bailout

H/T disinter

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Archived video: Murray Rothbard and Murray Bookchin at Libertarian Party conferences

Found at
The Austrian Economists

Murray Rothbard, delivering a presentation at the Texas State Libertarian Conference in 1989.

Murray Bookchin also at a Libertarian Party conference.

Interview with Murray Bookchin.

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LNC Votes to Form Committee to Handle Angela Keaton Affair

The Libertarian National Committee (LNC), at its December 6 meeting in San Diego, voted to form a committee that would deal with the Angela Keaton affair, which entails a pending resolution calling for the suspension of LNC At-Large Representative Angela Keaton. The vote, which was triggered by a motion made by LNC Vice Chair Mike [...]

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Video montage for LNC in Sandy Eggo

Videos after the jump. Youtube sometimes takes down music videos
at the requests of record companies, prudes, etc., so catch ‘em while you can and if you get a “video no longer exists message” that is probably why.

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LP Membership Update

Thanks to Marc Montoni
membership2008-11

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End the Fed Rally

Philly. Thanks to James Babb for pointing me to the video.

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