July 2011
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“The question must be asked, what is to be done by the antiwar Left? This...”
– John Walsh, “Ron Paul’s Challenge to the Left”
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Creepy (and unconstitutional): A House panel... →
knightofarboria:
hipsterlibertarian:
Data logged would include “customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.”
Our government is neither law-abiding nor trustworthy.
Correction: They aren’t law-abiding, trustworthy, or knowledgeable about computers in any way. What do they think will happen when (not if, but...
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Creepy (and unconstitutional): A House panel... →
Data logged would include “customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.”
Our government is neither law-abiding nor trustworthy.
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Today, Ron Paul ate for dinner cookies that a few...
And yes, they were chocolate chip. (To clarify, he doesn’t normally eat cookies for dinner, I don’t think, he’d just missed dinner tonight.)
In other, more tumblr-related news, I got to meet theyellowalien today, which was also cool! Less cool is how tired I am right now, so I think this is going to be another day without a real tumblr update. But, as promised, we’ll be...
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Open Letter to #Politics Editors
thepoliticalnotebook:
laliberty:
I know I’ve mentioned this to some of you personally, but I’d like to openly request that all editors please “like” (or “reblog”) a post before promoting it as a featured post.
It would be convenient if tumblr had a way to show what editor promoted which post.
I can’t imagine it’d be that hard to code this:
This was featured in #Politics by nameofeditor
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I may not be around much this coming week...
It’s the YAL National Convention all week, and I don’t know how much time I’ll have to tumble (to put it in perspective: It’s Saturday night, and I’m still catching up on this past week’s work to get ready for this thing).
But don’t go away! I’ll be back soon (and may not even be as busy this week as I expect — we’ll see).
P.S. did...
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My new article in the Daily Caller: 'The kids... →
The pin-striped men of morning Are coming for to dance Forty million dollars The kids don’t stand a chance — Vampire Weekend
Make that $14 trillion instead of $40 million and Vampire Weekend has the American debt-ceiling situation nailed. While the pin-striped men in Washington fiddle with the trimmings on spending extravaganzas only government could call “budgets,” the kids will...
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So you want to write for liberty? →
Here’s some solid advice from my much-published friend Wes Messamore of The Humble Libertarian on how to get published advancing the cause of liberty.
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Are Libertarian Hypocrites? →
lofiliberty:
Do you believe in free markets? Do you believe that the state should have as little a role as possible in things like education, healthcare, and various other industries? If you are following my blog, then I’m going to assume, for all intents and purposes, that you do.
Now, have you ever driven on a freeway, used public transportation, attended a public school or college, maybe...
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“As the U.S. war in Iraq winds down, we are entering a familiar phase, the season...”
– John Tirman in “1 Million Dead in Iraq?”
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culby asked: Forget PBR. Life's too short for cheap beer.
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piss-piss-piss asked: PBR isn't even american though. It's brewed in like south Africa or something like that.
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thecannabisking-deactivated2011 asked: But PBR is an American classic! They don't give a blue ribbon for nothing. and sadly it has become the hipsters anthem beer.
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logicallypositive asked: You've never had PBR? Bonny you are truly denying yourself one of the greatest lower-class pleasures known to American society!
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logicallypositive asked: are you the only hipster at YAL or are there other hipster libertarians?
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Obama Fumbles His Opportunity With The Arab World →
libertariancontrarian:
After initially warming to Obama, the Arab world has returned to hating the US as usual. I wonder why.
From the article:
[T]he Arab reaction toward Obama’s performance mirrors the reaction of Americans who thought that his foreign policy—and perhaps even his domestic economic policy—would be an improvement on the Bush years. Disillusioned supporters who have watched as...
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In 2006, EVERY GOP Senator voted in favor of... →
Only the handful of freshmen Senators can really claim a principled — or even practical — stance on this issue.
So much for not playing politics, huh?
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Ron Paul Leads All Candidates in Military... →
During the 2008 primaries, Ron Paul led the field in donations from military personnel, apparently striking a chord with his boldly noninterventionist and peaceful foreign policy.
Now, he’s duplicating this success, according to the latest financial statements from presidential campaigns. Here are the raw numbers:
Paul — $36,739.79
Obama — $28,833.99
Cain — $6,223
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Followers:
Would you prefer it if I transferred the questions I answered to text posts so they could be reblogged?
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yuppienews asked: Hey! I love your blog (especially since I'm libertarian.) My parents are hardcore republicans and they don't really understand my libertarian ways. Now that the 2012 presidential candidates are emerging, Ron Paul has been getting a lot of news coverage. My parents always coin him has a radical but I'm interested in some of his policies (although I'm not sure if he'll be...
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No more of this 'iPhone or Blackberry' crap --... →
A few of my favorites:
1 (a.)All of you who use an income tax preparer, raise your hand. (b.) If you (who raised hands) can not prepare your own taxes, how do you propose to run the country?
2. If you can not prepare your own tax returns, is it reasonable to hold the average citizen criminally liable for errors?
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4. At what ...
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I'm a new editor for the politics tag!
It looks like tumblr has done a bit of rotation of politics tag editors, and I am among the beneficiaries of the change. A couple points:
If you don’t already track the curated tag, designed to feature the best individual posts about politics on tumblr, you can do so here.
If you see posts of mine promoted, I was not the one who promoted them — I can’t, actually, promote my own...
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Moody's Suggests US Eliminates Debt Ceiling →
fareastlibertarianmovement:
“Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders.”
So let me get this straight. If I spent close to my credit limit and my credit agency is uncertain that I won’t be able to repay my debts, then they should erase my credit limit to ease that “uncertainty.”
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“When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the...”
– St. Augustine
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“A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of...”
– Sigmund Freud
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“War—after all, what is it that the people get? Why—widows, taxes,...”
– Samuel B. Pettengill
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I'm in the market for a new tumblr theme. ...
It should tend toward minimalism, probably with an all-white background. The header should be fairly large, the blog description right on the main page, and the main column at least as wide (but preferably wider) than the one on my current theme is (so as to work well for long text posts and questions). I also don’t want it to display my likes.
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