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Modern Phrenology: Reinventing 19th Century “Race Science” as 21st Century “Critical Race Theory”
Phrenology is an old debunked racial theory that “proved” Africans were mentally inferior but today we get new bunk that “proves” white people are born racist.
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A Libertarian Looks at Our Dueling Divide & Conquer Culture
Dividing Americans into superficial left collectivist vs. right collectivist worldviews has become a successful divide-and-conquer tactic for today’s powercrats
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Libertarians: Release and Pardon All Victimless Crime Prisoners
A “victimless crime” is an oxymoron since there can be no crime if there is no victim. Libertarians demand that people charged with victimless crimes be immediately released under full pardon.
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A Libertarian Society: How Do We Get There From Here?
Libertarians have many different visions of what a libertarian society should look like but getting to any one of them means marching down the same path together.
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A Libertarian Guide for Dealing with Online Trolls and True Believers
Libertarians who want to promote their peace, prosperity and freedom philosophy online should just state their case and refuse to engage with trolls and true believers
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Libertarian Peacemakers Wage Antiwar Against the Warmakers
Politics is always about power, wealth and ego. When any of those desires can be obtained through war, politicians will pursue war. Libertarians want to change that.
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The Heart of Libertarianism: Charity, Voluntaryism, Compassion
The Non-Aggression Principle against coercion, intimidation and fraud is the ultimate expression of compassion because libertarians apply it unselfishly to everyone.
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Always Questioning—a Skeptical Libertarian’s Guide to Skepticism
Skeptical Libertarians have learned to take from their existence in the real world that which works, recognize what doesn’t work, and apply the result to their lives.
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Libertarians: Be a Psywar Rebel and Change the Narrative
It’s time for all freedom-loving people to join the decentralized grassroots guerrilla psywar against the big tech big media propaganda machine that hates our freedoms.
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Forget the Trump Cult—Libertarians Reject the Statist Cult!
Government has become a big ugly defiant Cult of Power because the political classes have slipped the bonds of the Constitution and become a gang of arrogant tyrants.
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Libertarians and the Alinsky Alt-Democrat Politics of Crisis
Never let a crisis, real or contrived, go to waste. A crisis allows the political master class to “solve” the crisis by taking more of our money, rights, and freedoms
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Blue State Refugees Vote With Their Feet But Not With Their Heads
Why do people who move from over-taxed blue states to lower-taxed red states keep voting for the same types of politicians that made them move in the first place?
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The Great Do-It-Yourself Libertarian Freedom Calendar
Being individualists libertarians can express their own personal worldviews in all the areas of human interaction by creating their own Libertarian Freedom Calendars
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Libertarians: Turn the Phony Corporate Person Into a Corpse
Free market capitalism is in a fight for survival against corporatism, a political ideology in which big corporations and big government collude for mutual benefit.
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Libertarians and the Enemies of a Free Society
Government, Deep State and The Swamp are three heads of a dragon that seeks power for the sake of power and will crush all who get in its way. Can it be defeated?
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If You Didn’t Vote Libertarian You Likely Voted For a Psychopath
“Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths.” If you didn’t vote Libertarian you likely voted for a sociopath for president.
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Libertarians and the Wasted Vote Fallacy
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Who Are These Libertarians and Where Do They Come From?
Some people are born with a spark of individualism, and others find that spark later in life—but it’s that special spark that separates individualists from collectivists.
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Non-Aggression: The Libertarian Holistic Lifestyle Principle
Conservatives tend to lead with logic while liberals tend to lead with emotion, but libertarians combine both with their moral and ethical principle of non-aggression
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Election 2020: More of the Same Shame and Blame Game
For libertarians the American Right and Left political alt-parties are just two sides of the same old double-sided wooden nickel: Either way you get authoritarians.
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Where Are All the Libertarian Women? Right Where They’ve Always Been!
Women have always been active participants in the Modern American Libertarian Movement. Maybe they’re just not all being counted in those “Where are they?” surveys.
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Woke? Black Libertarians Speak for Themselves
If Black Lives Matter black libertarian lives matter too. They’re woke to the non-aggression principle against coercion, intimidation and fraud that applies to all
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The Real Woke Minds are Libertarian Minds
A strong mind-altering product on the market called “book” might corrupt good little liberal Woke Folk and turn them into raving wild-eyed mouth-foaming libertarians
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A Libertarian’s Collection of Election Reflections
A Libertarian looks at endless news cycles, mudslinging, Trump vs. Anti-Trump, and how voting for Biden for President is actually voting for his VP for President.
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Don’t Defund the Police, Create Rights Protection
Abolishing Law Enforcement and replacing it with Rights Protection would be a major step toward a free society based on individual liberty and personal responsibility.
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Libertarians: Human Nature Is Individual, Not Collective
Philosophically, ideologically, politically collectivists hone in on the universality of human nature while libertarians focus on the individuality of human nature.
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Rebuilding the Economy: We’re All Libertarians Now
The only way to reopen the economy and reopen our lives is to start thinking for ourselves the way individualist freethinking libertarians have always been doing.
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Are Libertarians Just Republicans Who Want to Smoke Pot?
Libertarians are just people who believe in the non-aggression principle and want to end marijuana prohibition, the drug war, and all other victimless crime laws. Let's take a look at the religious, social, political, legal, and commercial considerations that keep marijuana illegal.
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Jury Rights: Nullification and Abolition of Victimless Crime Laws
September 5th is Jury Rights Day. Did you know that juries have a right to judge the law as well as the accused? Learn how you can nullify victimless crime laws!
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Libertarians, Facebook Bans, and the Government-Corporatist Complex
Free speech can only justifiably be banned in the private sector. Unfortunately, there is no private sector. The Government-Corporatist Complex controls everything.
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Who Says Libertarians Don’t Have a Sense of Humor?
Some say libertarians don’t have a sense of humor. Some say they can’t laugh at themselves. But libertarians do laugh at themselves—and at you too!
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Longly Lost Libertarian Lore and Very Muchly More
How Deeply into the Ages of Legend and Lore, of Fables and Folktales, doth Our Libertarian Roots entwine? Be they as Olde as All Others? Come then, seek Sooth!
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Faces, Facts and Facets of the Libertarian Movement
There are not only many types of libertarians but many crossover shades and degrees and nuances and subtleties within each type. The facets are nearly endless.
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The Spherical Cow Theory of Libertarianism
Some people who just don’t get libertarianism create strange negative spherical cow theories about it, making themselves even more confused about libertarianism.
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Libertarian Reality: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch!
It’s high tea time to remind every chow hound and potluck politico there’s no free grubstake for a club steak and a Green New Deal won’t get you a free square meal
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Nordics to American Progressives: Stop Calling Us Socialists!
Libertarians, if you want to wean your friends off socialism explain that without a vibrant market economy nothing else is possible. The Nordics already know this.
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What Libertarians Must Do: Live Peacefully in Disagreement
Libertarianism is an individualist philosophy that should never become a dogmatic ideology. One way to prevent that from happening is to just peacefully disagree.
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Buds, Brews, Beans, and Bitcoin—That’s Anarcho-Capitalism
Meet this American libertarian voluntaryist who is a real anarcho-capitalist, someone who believes in laissez-faire free markets, not coercive crony corporatism.
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Libertarians and the Root of All Evil
Libertarians have long called government the root of all evil since the egomaniacs who run it use coercion, intimidation, and fraud to gain their power and wealth.
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Ideological Conceit: ‘I Know You Better Than You Know You’
A popular self-delusion is that we know ourselves and others better than others know us and themselves. It’s why people constantly get libertarianism so wrong.
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Lisbeth Salander: A Strong Libertarian Heroine?
Antisocial but not sociopathic, brilliant but not autistic, vengeful but not irrational; is she a libertarian hero or a victim of mental and emotional disorders?
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Voluntaryist Superhero Returns to Fight Statist Evil
Even as superhero Voluntaryist fights anti-freedom villains in the comic pages he carries the fight for Peace, Justice and Liberty against all Aggressors Online.
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Political Speech: How the English Language Divides Us
Progressives, Conservatives and Libertarians cannot communicate with one another because they all speak in different dialects of the same language. Why is that?
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Libertarians, Cultural Appropriation Bullies and Victimhood
When a culture's ideas don't get adopted into wider society, they die. The choice is cultural diversity or cultural segregation. What do most people really want?
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Libertarians and the Who Will Build the Roads Syndrome
Anything and everything can be a syndrome today. Do you have a syndrome? Do you have the Libertarian Non-Aggression Syndrome? Or the vile Saul Alinsky Syndrome? Or…
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Stop the Wine Press—Subcultural Wine Reviews for the Holidays
The holiday season is full of fun, family, festivities and, sadly, political correctness, intolerance and social triggering. But this fun article is fun of ALL!
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Libertarians, Kaepernick, and the Boundaries of Order
Whether you love him or hate him, Kaepernick’s protests never involved throwing rocks through windows or fists at people’s faces, and libertarians appreciate that.
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Why Libertarians Reject Government Building Codes and Licensing
Think government licensing stops buildings from falling down, restaurants poisoning diners and people driving on the wrong side of the road? It doesn’t. You do.
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Libertarian Queryin’: Is Evolution Evolving Exponentially?
If evolution has sped up to the extent that it has affected our racial, sexual, and gender issues does that mean the libertarian philosophy will evolve faster too?
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A Libertarian Challenges the Unlibertarian Mentality
A thought project for libertarians and everyone else: Answer your own questions—how would YOU solve society’s problems without coercion, intimidation or fraud?
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He’s Baaack! Gary Johnson Is Running for U.S. Senate
Like him or not, in this age of outsider politicians a potential Libertarian swing vote in the Senate might help offset the emerging Democratic Socialists.
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Free Trade, Fair Trade and Other Economical Comicals
This isn’t an attempt to explain economics or markets or trade, just an attempt to make sense out of the nonsense of trade in the economic world.
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Real Education Means Separation of School and State
Public education is meant to impose conformity on the young and to give the state power over them. However, the purpose of free education is to empower the individual.
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How Did You Finally Become a Libertarian?
No one was actually born libertarian. Most came from some collectivist philosophy before finding libertarianism. We all have our “Becoming” stories. What’s yours?
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Language Wars: White Privilege vs. Libertarianism
“White Privilege” betrays MLK’s dream of judging everyone by the content of their character because it calls white people racists based on the color of their skin.
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Armchair Activists: Spreading Libertarianism Without Leaving Home
How to help others understand the beauty of the libertarian philosophy of peace, freedom, and compassion for everyone without leaving the comfort of your armchair.
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Reason, Compassion, Technology: A Libertarian Take on Abortion
Libertarians are split on abortion. Here’s an opinion based on rationally defined terms and a logically applied Non-Aggression Principle, not on personal attacks.
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The Untethered Libertarian Book Review of ‘The Untethered’
Reviewer: The author describes his novel as “combining elements of advanced fighter jets and individualist freedom (Think Top Gun meets The Fountainhead).”
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Sorry Critics, Libertarianism Isn’t What You Imagine It Is
So many people have Conceptual-Reality Undifferention Disorder (CRUD) that it needs its own entry in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Cognitive Disorders.
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Libertarians vs. Labels: Real People vs. Stereotypes
Consciously or subconsciously, we all label each other until we get to know each other as individuals. But some people never get beyond their negative labeling.
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California Brews Up a New Front in the Coffee War
There’s more to your mocha than you ever imagined: The black brew perks up political, social, cultural, health, business, psychological and now even legal issues.
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Xtreme Taxpayer-Sponsored Space Sports
Without a free libertarian future the mercenary scam of fleecing taxpayers for government-corporatist profits will continue into the world of space sports.
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Alt-LiberARYANS: Going Over to the Dark Side
Finding no antidote to the SJW-left in libertarianism some went over to the alt-right Dark Side and became alt-liberARYAN, becoming no better than the alt-left.
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Voting in Minnesota? Wear Your Plain Brown Wrapper
Do T-shirts and gimmie caps and politically oriented buttons fall under free speech rights at Minnesota’s voting polls? Or must everyone obey the fashion police?
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Forget Bucks and Bitcoins, Libertarian ChocoChange Is Here!
Forget government-issued specie and online cryptocurrency. The ultimate monetary unit is finally here and it’s easily available to all—Libertarian ChocoChange!
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Libertarian Warning: Don’t Get Punked by Authoritarians
People need to stop kidding themselves; the only real alternative to the endless forms of authoritarian government is the libertarian voluntaryist free society.
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Libertarians and the Unsocial Media Game of Egos
Online debate sites are a swamp that will drown the unwary. Only those who stay calm and make their attackers defend their own insults have a chance at survival.
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Fringe No More: Libertarians Are Everywhere Now
Libertarians are everywhere, online and off, in politics, society, communities, and your neighborhood. We're fighting the culture war against the authoritarian left and right.
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Public Service Announcement: Know Your Imaginary Libertarians
People who don’t want to admit that they just don’t get libertarianism—but still want to sound informed—create endless counterfeit libertarians and pretend they’re real.
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Another “Once-a-Libertarian” Who Never Really Was
Those who claim to be “former” libertarians are simply those who never fully grasped libertarianism; they never really got beyond their old left-right politics.
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Laugh at Libertarians and They’ll Laugh Back, With, and at You
No matter how rude, crude, imbecilic and wrong anti-libertarian mockery gets on the internet, it still means this: Modern American libertarianism is here to stay!
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Orwellian Newspeak and the Six Conundrums of Socialism
"The Six Conundrums of Socialism" has been around for years. Lefties, righties and libertarians have bunked, debunked and rebunked it. Now it’s your turn, everyone.
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Social Justice? Libertarians Want Justice; Others Want Control
Libertarians want justice for everyone but too many people wear “social justice” as a mask to camouflage what they really want: Social control over everyone.
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Why Groupthinkers Can Never Understand Libertarians
Because of deeply held philosophical, psychological and emotional differences, libertarians rarely become groupthinkers and groupthinkers rarely become libertarians.
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The Non-Aggression Principle Is a Principle, Not a Philosophy!
The Non-Aggression Principle is not a philosophy, not a textbook, not a user manual, not the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything. It’s a principle!
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Voluntaryism: The Bridge Between Socialism and Libertarianism?
An exploration of why is it so difficult for socialists and libertarians to understand one another.
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Salon & AlterNet: Masters of Anti-Libertarian Fake News Hate Speech
It’s hard for libertarians to take the high road in response to fake news and hate speech when the road that Salon and AlterNet obsessively take is against them.
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Angst: The Difference Between Libertarian Cats and Socialist Dogs
Freethink and Groupthink are deeply embedded mindsets. These viscerally experienced differences can only be accommodated in a free and openly voluntary society.
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Critiquing “a Critique of Libertarian Strategy”
A libertarian advocate writes that libertarians should stop just advocating and launch a “hands-on movement.” Where has this person been for the last 70-plus years?
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Why Libertarians Should Embrace Their Infighting
Infighting keeps libertarianism viable, vital, vibrant, vigorous, virtuous and ultimately victorious. Infighting is libertarianism’s strength, not its weakness.
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Libertarianism Fights for the Soul of Latin America
Those cynics who perpetually sneer “If libertarianism is such a good idea why aren't there any libertarian countries?” will find their answer in this article.
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Libertarians and Collectivists: A Failure to Communicate
Our attempts at civil online discourse frequently devolve into insults, mockery and ridicule along with endless mutual charges of “Contrived Social Constructs.”
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Libertarian Looters: Using the State Against Itself
Some libertarians won’t touch Social Security, Medicare or other government graft; others say everyone has a moral right to loot the government looters.
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Can a Libertarian Free City Take Root and Flourish in Asia?
Could a libertarian paradise actually happen in Southeast Asia? Read on to find out more.
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Why “Former Libertarians” Quit Being Libertarians
What’s the problem with “former libertarians?” They reject freedom and responsibility, can’t get beyond the politics, and can’t kick their addiction to coercion.
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Are Free Riders Really a Problem for Libertarians?
The free-rider “problem” isn’t just a politico-economic issue but a personal and social issue as well. It’s time to discuss the non-economic aspects of free riding.
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Secession, Division, Decolonization: Who Will Be the 51st State?
Remixing America’s map: 51st states, seceding states, disjointing states, recombining states, re-entering states, 124 states – how many stars on Old Glory?
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Why All Peaceful "Anarchos" Have More in Common Than Not
Can all types of anarchists work together? Anarcho libertarians say yes if collectivist anarchists will accept property rights and the non-aggression principle.
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Free People Need Free Education, Not Government Programming
Education needs to be free and accessible to all.
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The Government-Medical Complex: Why Health and Social Services Fail
The healthcare crisis has been around for a very long time. Libertarians know its cause: The Government. Libertarians also know its cure: The Private Sector.
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Why We Shouldn't Be Afraid of Robots Stealing Human Jobs
Nobody can accurately predict the future, yet we’re being told that a humankind smart enough to create robots is too stupid to create whole new industries for itself.
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Why Does the Libertarian Party Fail Every Four Years?
Libertarians are individualistic by nature and political parties are collectivistic by nature. Trying to shoehorn individuals into a collective will always fail.
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Saving the World by Changing the Past: ‘Wayward World’ Book Review
Saving the World by Changing the Past: ‘Wayward World’ Book Review of a libertarian science fiction timetwisting, telepathing, wormholing romp through history.
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There’s More to Minimum Wage Jobs Than Wages
The problem isn’t that the minimum wage is back in the news since it’s always in the news; it’s that too many people confuse a minimum wage with a “living wage.”
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Poll Report: Do Libertarians Think Politicians Are Criminals?
A website asks, "Should a politician, who has been formerly convicted of a crime, be allowed to run for office?” Libertarians will ask, ”Is this a trick question?”
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Universal Basic Income Is Universal Basic Theft
Dueling libertarian economists: When one asks why any libertarian would take Universal Basic Income seriously, another sarcastically tells why some actually will.
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Interview: Jaime Sherman and his ‘Voluntaryist’ Superheroes
Some activists communicate their libertarian ideas through books, novels, articles, videos, webzines and social media sites. Jaime Sherman uses his comic book superhero “The Voluntaryist.”
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Being Wrong About Being Wrong About the Non-Aggression Principle
The writer of a book titled “How Libertarians Can Stop Being Wrong About the NAP” gets most of his own dogmatic views of the Non-Aggression Principle wrong.
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How Should Libertarians Deal With White Supremacy?
One antagonist challenged libertarians how they would “deal with” a system of white supremacy and then rejected all answers without offering any answers himself.
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Is a Voluntary Libertarian Government an Oxymoron?
Libertarian anarchists see a “voluntary libertarian government” as an oxymoron. But if it’s non-aggressive and voluntarily funded would it still be an oxymoron?
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Ruses for Radicals: Saul Alinsky’s Alt-Left Hate Speech
The Obama-Clinton connection with Marxist/Socialist “avatar” Saul Alinsky-may be irrelevant now that Trump is President but what about an Alinsky-Trump connection?
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Science Fiction and the Humanity of the Libertarian Ethos
Libertarianism means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve"—according to science fiction master Isaac Asimov’s rebuff of fellow SF master Robert Heinlein’s libertarianism.
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Libertarians Have 5 Tough Answers for 5 Tough Questions
Most criticisms against libertarianism are based on false assumptions or strawman arguments, but these five legitimate critiques get five legitimate “Short Answers.”
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REAL ID: The Freedom-Hating Bullies Are Back
In November the Federal REAL ID Bullies began threatening more states to adopt their national identification system or their citizens will be made to suffer.
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Exodus: Trump wins, Celebs Move, Libertarians Roll Eyes
Every time a “Not Enlightened Like Us” candidate like Trump wins the Presidency the whole Hollywood herd starts packing their bags for a move to another country.
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Libertarians and Everyone Else Blamed for Hillary’s Loss
Politicians like Hillary Clinton never accept blame for anything. Neither do psychopaths. To quote Mark Twain following a similar observation, “but I repeat myself.”
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Federal Funding: Libertarian Party Will Take the Money and Run
Five percent of the vote would have qualified the LP to receive federal funds in 2020. Would the anti-government Party of Principle take the taxpayer’s money and run again? Of course it would!
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Post-mortem: How to Run Libertarian Political Campaigns
In the process of keeping their purity the Libertarian Party captured few votes but in the process of turning the Party over to “Republican Lite Libertarians” they’ve lost their moral compass.
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Who Are Libertarians and Where Do They Come From?
Just who are these people of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, how did they get this way, and where did they all come from?
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Best 2016 Presidential Election Outcomes for Libertarians
Let’s face it, nobody, even the most zealous Big L Libertarian Party activist, really believes that Gary Johnson will be the next President of the US. Unless one of these scenarios plays out…
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Do Millennials Really Support Libertarians and the Libertarian Party?
Are Millennials really the most libertarian generation in modern American history? Are they really supporting Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson?
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5 Mistakes: A Socialist Lectures a Libertarian on Libertarianism
How many libertarians have encountered a socialist online who disdainfully presumes to know more about libertarianism than libertarians know about libertarianism?
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There’s Nothing New About Third Parties—or Fourth or Fifth or Sixth
If we’ve learned nothing else from the 2016 presidential election circus, it’s that politicians can’t be judged on the basis of their current political party labels.
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Going to Hell in an Alt-Right Handbasket of Deplorables
During this Election cycle the phrase Alt-Right was dredged up from the SPLC by Hillary and flung into mainstream America’s face like a zoo monkey flinging feces.
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Making Libertarianism Fun: The World of Comics and Graphic Novels
Are you tired of mucking through mounds of political pap in search of a little liberating sunlight? Time to escape into the Libertarian land of ink and artwork: the comics!
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The Libertarian Party Is Not Libertarian, but It Could Be
There’s a difference between the libertarian movement and the Libertarian Party, but that’s no reason for Libertarian Party candidates to compromise on principle.
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The Police State Isn’t Coming – It’s Here!
Some people think America is slowly degenerating into a police state but most libertarians know we already got there years ago; today it’s only getting worse.
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Taxes: The More You Pay the More They Steal
Some see taxation as “what we pay for civilized society” while others see it as a necessary evil and still others, like libertarians, see it for what it is; theft.
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A political safari through the wilds of Washington DC
Welcome to the Political Safari into the national preserve known as the District of Columbia, a zoological garden set aside for the country’s lower order of vertebrates.
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Only the Free Market Can Stop Government Pollution
Governments are run by psychopaths and they don’t care about pollution, they care about their own power. The only solution is a voluntary libertarian society.
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Libertarians, Idealists, Realists, and the Wasted Vote Nonsense
It’s time to get over the wasted vote nonsense. It’s your vote, not somebody else’s. Your vote is a symbol of your principles, your character, and your values...
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Libertarian Guide to the Unsocial Media Lizard Trolls
Extraterrestrial Lizard Trolls run the Online World from atop their New World Order Social Media Pyramid Facebook+Pixabay A little over a year ago Students For Liberty posted Anne Butcher’s “The Unofficial Guide to Libertarian Facebook...
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Peace & Freedom 101: the opposite of authoritarian is libertarian
There should be little doubt why the left-right hatred in America today has gotten so deeply violent: It comes from the top. It's politics as usual.
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The Non-Aggression Principle Takes Libertarianism Worldwide
The non-aggression principle of libertarianism does not only exist in the United States. In fact, the "NAP" definition continues to spread around the world!
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Stopping the violence: replace law enforcement with rights protection
Individuals are not well served by institutions that create manmade laws conjured up by a Political Ruling Class and blindly imposed on them by an Enforcer Class.
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Politically correct robots: Where are the PC police?
Political correctness is an obsession with America's political left. They had better get ahead of the offensive term "robot" before those life forms become sentient...
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Reason is the enemy of the left, friend of the libertarian
The anti-freedom anti-individualist anti-voluntaryist crowd sees libertarians as their enemy yet knows absolutely nothing about libertarianism.