Posts Tagged ‘ libertarians ’

The Free State Project: Political Migration in Our Time

Mar 1st, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
If you are willing to look past mainstream media coverage of American politics, you can actually find exciting and interesting activities taking place that rise above lobbying, voting, graft and corruption. Consider the Free State Project. It is an attempt, and a surprisingly successful one, to inspire a political migration by ...read more


Why Capitalism Is Worth Defending

Jul 29th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
As Obama demonizes the wealthy and pitches a dozen plans to restructure the economy, opponents of this program need a reminder of what exactly we're fighting for. We are resisting bureaucracy, central planning, and encroachments on our freedom and communities. Yet this does not get to the heart of the ...read more


PorcFest 2011

Jul 8th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
I recently spent five days in Lancaster, NH, home of the annual Porcupine Freedom Festival, or "PorcFest." Although PorcFest may not be for everyone, libertarians - especially younger ones - who have never attended should definitely consider adding it to their summer vacation plans. Libertarians Just Wanna Have Fun … I'm a ...read more


The Free-Market Lesson of the Web

Jun 27th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
The World Wide Web was invented in 1992 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee as a simple mechanism to share scientific papers with colleagues. The key innovation of the web was the use of hypertext - the mechanism by which we click on a link, such as a chunk of highlighted text, ...read more


Charlie Brown Conservatives and a Lucy GOP

May 11th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
In the famous Charles Schulz comic strip, Peanuts, Charlie Brown is enticed every year by Lucy to placekick a football that she volunteers to hold for him. Charlie runs down the field toward his beguiling friend, who is holding the football on the ground, and swings his leg in a ...read more