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I attended the Wake Up America Tea Party in Fort Worth on Saturday as part of a nationwide tea party event. While volunteering at the Campaign for Liberty booth, I got a lot of positive reaction talking with attendees about conventional constitutional ideals.
I knew there would be a fair share of Republicans hitching [...]
It is typically conceded that a starving man is not free, and this marks the alleged defining flaw of a free market, the commoditization of labor. The contention is that the relationship between employers and employees is really no different than the relationship between muggers and their victims: obey or die. Typically, market opponents [...]
For context, I have written before why libertarians, and particularly libertarians committed to small government, should support open immigration as a matter of principle. Further, I have given a consequentialist argument for open immigration and what that entails.
For me, the least impactful line of argument I would think is the constitutional argument. That so [...]
In some respects, I agree with both sides in the heated L. Neil Smith-Shire Society intellectual property dispute. There has been some childish name-calling from each camp, although Smith’s has been far more harsh.
The controversy stems from the creation of the heretofore obscure Shire Society, the several dozen signatories claiming their [...]
The Center for a Stateless Society published its rather extensive political quiz Wednesday.
It turned out that I am not as entirely anti-militaristic as I thought, only 71 percent. Economically, I’m a 72 percent leftist, which is evident in my affinity with worker self-management. I had a feeling that some of the [...]
Before I had run out of excuses, as one bumper sticker chides, I was still a minarchist — whereby I believed the only purported role of the state was the defensive protection of individual rights. I was still fiercely opposed to immigration restrictions, based on my reading Ayn Rand, who was obviously sympathetic to immigrants [...]
The abiding question of government is “Who watches the watchers?” That is the question Cass Sunstein, the current regulatory czar in the Obama administration, never quite addressed in his book The Cost of Rights. In essence, the question points to an observation that if people cannot be trusted to govern themselves, they certainly [...]
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Why ‘Anarchist’
The best reason for calling yourself an anarchist is because you are one. Yet, there are still good reasons to call yourself an anarchist even if you are not quite there yet, as Brian Micklethwait pointed out in a past edition of Libertarian Alliance.
An important point about anarchism is that no political movement [...]