Being a libertarian and an environmentalist (passionate though not a zealot about either) makes me – within my customary, political circles — something of a stranger in a strange land.
My usual allies were somewhat dismayed, even politely dismissive, of my expressions of concern over the looming invasion of the Great Lakes by some [...]
Shockwaves from the passage of Prop 14 in California are reverberating across the entire country, shaking political foundations and threatening to topple long-standing structures.
Called “Top Two,” the election reform creates an open primary system that advances the two candidates who garner the most votes — regardless of party affiliation – to face off in general elections. [...]
The way we libertarians are always quoting the Founding Fathers it would be easy to mistake our admiration for veneration. Not so.
Now, we certainly are awed by their philosophical insights and political innovations. Especially the ingenious protections they designed into our unprecedented, checks-and-balances system of government. It showed incredible foresight to anticipate venality even from [...]
Expect the tempest over “ObamaCare” to continue brewing in tea parties across the country. The one-party party in Washington, ostensibly to reduce the cost of health care services, ought to have been hosted by the Mad Hatter.
Now, reducing the cost of health care is a laudable goal — even in a country that already provides [...]
If we libertarians had a patron saint, it would have to be Cassandra, the mythic Princess of Troy.
I’m sure that both liberals and conservatives would readily concur, having long regarded us as the benighted, political fringe – prophesying doom at the mere suggestion of any new, government program.
But the Cassandra of Greek mythology was not [...]
As a lifelong libertarian and longtime Libertarian Party member I have stood above the mainstream fray between liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans. From gun owners’ rights to women’s reproductive rights my political bedfellows are often one-issue stands.
However, in recent years I’ve witnessed a very troubling trend peculiar to one of the old factions – [...]
Federal Reserve Board chairman, Ben Bernanke, announced in mid-March yet another cut in the key federal funds rate – the sixth in as many months – reducing the cost for major borrowers to only three-fourths of what it was just the day before.
This, fast on the heels of providing $270 million in funding, plus $30 billion (with [...]
“One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.”
– Aldous Huxley
For most Americans the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative [...]
The 10 million of us Americans who call these pleasant peninsulas home recently received some very unpleasant news from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Ours was the only state in the union where the real Gross State Product (GSP) – the market value of all goods and services produced in a state — did [...]
“He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16-17
We are now [...]
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