No time for an in depth post but I just heard Obama’s looking at Richardson for Commerce Secretary. So that’s a bit of good news. Not as good as giving him foreign policy, but it is another strong area for him from a left-libertarian perspective, him being known as a market-oriented sort but not [...]
While the content of the post is completely unrelated, the Onion somehow managed to perfectly capture the essence of the woes of Tennessee Democrats with just a title:
Phil’s Party Reminds Area Man Why He Doesn’t Go To Phil’s Parties
A friend of mine recently IM’d me a blog post arguing against the proposed bailout for Detroit — I think it was this one — with a comment to the effect of “this is why I don’t like the Democrats OR Bush”.
I didn’t answer because I wanted to respond more thoughtfully and in depth than [...]
I know I can call you Barack, since that’s how you signed all those emails asking me for money. Anyway, listen — you do remember why you got the Democratic nomination over Senator Clinton, right?
It was, as they say, war and foreign relations, stupid.
So please, please, please don’t let this be true.
Now I’m not saying [...]
In my inbox from the local chapter of Americans United:
Nashville Protest this Saturday at 12:30. Bring a sign.
Nationwide Protest Against Bans on Gay Marriage
In the recent election, Florida, Arizona, and California passed a ban on gay marriage, and Arkansas banned adoptions by gay couples. In response, there will be nationwide protests. The Nashville protest [...]
Professor Roderick Long, one of the keenest minds working the left side of libertarian purism, infiltrates CATO with some libertarian anti-corporatism 101:
Corporate power depends crucially on government intervention in the marketplace.[2] This is obvious enough in the case of the more overt forms of government favoritism such as subsidies, bailouts,[3] and other forms of corporate [...]
I damn near teared up during what may have been Keith Olbermann’s best “special comment” yet:
OK, I’ve been googling to try and find any article probing into the question of Rahm Emanuel’s intelligence, one hundred percent for the purpose of making a post with this title. I found a lot of one-liners about him being a smart guy, but nothing pointed on the subject like what I was looking for. [...]
It looks like Barr — the real politician with all that experience and groovy gravitas that was supposed to put the Libertarian Party on the map — got about 480K votes, about 100K more than the unknown party insider Michael Badnarik got last time around, and about what Harry Browne did in 1996.
So, yeah, selling [...]
I’m really hoping Al Franken pulls this one out. Because he’s good enough, and smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like him. OK OK I know I already made that joke. Shut up.
Awesome major victories in the War on the War on Drugs with Massachusetts essentially decriminalizing small possession (ehh… still a $100 fine… [...]
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