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CPAC 2010 was my first CPAC ever. For most of my life I have run in local conservative circles, but never really had any interest nor ambition to throw myself into the chaos of CPAC, but when I did, I was taken for quite a ride. The highlights of the event for [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, libertarianism
I attended the annual reunion of the 1980 Rome CIA Station last night. The group is in the sixty to seventy age range, mostly retirees with good pensions and health insurance, and a few are still working for CIA as contractors. It is 100% conservative with most voting Republican reflexively. Last year’s meeting was held [...]
Filed under: Congress, War, libertarianism
The Ron Paul-inspired youth organization Young Americans for Liberty gets a new website. The neocons have colonized the campuses almost as effectively as the Left. YAL provides a constitutionalist alternative to both. Check ‘em out.
Filed under: Conservatism, libertarianism
The truly deplorably tendency to regulate behavior by codifying and punishing inappropriate views as “hate crimes” will no doubt accelerate after the killing of the abortion doctor in Kansas and the Holocaust museum guard in Washington. What is worse, perhaps, is private sector attempts to anticipate such legislation by purging themselves of all objectionable content. [...]
Filed under: libertarianism
The single most distressing result of Barack Obama’s election is not the looting of your grandchildren’s economic prospects to pay for the new administration’s Great Lurch Forward into insolvency. It isn’t the accompanying loss of liberty. Nor is it the mass decampment of “anti-war” leftists now silent or openly supporting the escalation of the war [...]
Filed under: Culture, Politics, libertarianism
Last Friday, Jonah Goldberg wrote a post at The Corner arguing that there is something “unlibertarian” about opponents of drug prohibition who use claims about the drug war’s disproportionate effects on blacks in an attempt to demonstrate its injustice. This post prompted a lengthy response from Reason’s Jacob Sullum, who helpfully [...]
Filed under: Law, libertarianism, liberties
Burt Blumert, founder of the Center for Libertarian Studies and an indispensable help in getting Antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com (and many other anti-war, anti-state projects) off the ground, died this morning. Here’s Eric Garris’s remembrance. And here’s Lew Rockwell’s.
Blumert was an uproariously funny public speaker, and equally good on the printed page. His Bagels, Barry Bonds, [...]
Filed under: libertarianism
It’s a bit amazing in these days of burgeoning state control of the economy, but you still hear politicians–the same ones who foisted corporate-welfare stimulus and bailout plans on us–cursing protectionism and singing odes to free trade.
To be fair, many free-trade defenders these days are real laissez-faire types fighting to prevent yet another assault on [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Economics, Trade, libertarianism
(And not tears of laughter) The mobility of labor is becoming the forced march of labor: IBM offers help to displaced workers.
Filed under: Economics, Immigration, Trade, libertarianism
Bill Kauffman on the great, but much maligned, Victorian anti-statist.
Filed under: Books, libertarianism