For all the talk about where different groups stand on collective bargaining and the right of freedom of association, a bit of clarity on where Libertarians stand. (Not where conservatives or liberals think Libertarians stand, but where we truly and wholeheartedly stand.) Here’s a message from the chair of the LP, excerpts of which I…
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Libertarian Group Wants Cleveland Native Drew Carey to Run Against Sherrod Brown for US Senate Seat in 2012
by JOHN ADAMS •
A group of libertarian conservatives is trying to convince “Price is Right” host and comedian Drew Carey to run in the Ohio Republican senate primary and then hopefully defeat Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown. So far, no major Republican candidates have surfaced. Conservative activist Josiah Schmidt has already set up a website and a Facebook fan…
Free Markets, Libertarians, Liberty
Lessons from Atlas Shrugged
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s a fine video about what the videographer learned from Atlas Shrugged. I’m a libertarian, rather than an Objectivist (as I’d guess the videographer is), but the video offers an appeal to both groups. (Libertarianism is a political view, of individual rights and limited government, and has no inherent suspicion of religion, as Objectivism does.…
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Fox News War on Libertarianism?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Fox Business Channel is still significantly libertarian, but Fox News does seem to have turned. No matter: Fox News pretended to support true conservatism [libertarians] for a while. But when they discovered that libertarians and conservatives alike will never respect their [Fox’s] neo-conservative tendencies, they tried to convince everyone else libertarians probably didn’t taste too…
Film, Libertarians
More about Atlas Shrugged, Part I
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Here’s a broad description of the upcoming film Atlas Shrugged, hitting theaters in April: “The whole theme of the movie is, really, human evil,” says Brian O’Toole, the screenwriter behind Atlas Shrugged Part I, the feature adaptation of Ayn Rand’s influential novel. “And human evil springs from good intentions.” O’Toole and producer Harmon Kaslow tell…
Freedom of Speech, Libertarians, Liberty
Wendy Kaminer: Free Speech, Free Markets, and Barriers to Civil Liberties Coalitions
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Libertarians, Politics
Why Scott Walker’s Not a Libertarian
by JOHN ADAMS •
This post’s title is a bit of a joke: it should be obvious that Gov. Walker’s not a libertarian. (He’s certainly not a Libertarian; he’s a career, and careerist, Republican.) Libertarians advocate liberty, individual rights, limited government, and peaceful international relations. Libertarians place liberty first. Walker talks little about individual rights, about freedom of the…
City, Free Markets, Libertarians, Liberty
Sundry Libertarian Themes
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’ve had an eclectic set of posts lately, perhaps more even than usual. Someone asked me if there’s a theme to them, and there is. These recent posts reflect a libertarian view (although not exclusively a libertarian one.) I’ll list some posts, with a few remarks on each. First, what do we believe? Libertarians support…
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Catholicism and Libertarianism | Cato @ Liberty
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’ve met Catholics who’ve expressed interest in libertarianism, but have been concerned that libertarian positions might be inimical to Catholic teaching. They need not be worried, as Cato’s Michael F. Cannon explains: Michael Gerson’s claim that “Catholic social teaching is simply not libertarian” [“A Catholic Test for Politics,” Feb. 8], reveals that Gerson either does…
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The Libertarians at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2011
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Libertarians, Politics
Crybaby Whiner Upset About Libertarian Popularity
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Over at FoxNews.com, Kevin McCullough disparages libertarians, and whines that libertarians somehow ‘hijacked’ the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, a survey in which libertarian Ron Paul took first place. McCullough sees libertarians as both disrespectful and dangerous. Oh, please; he should reflect on his own faction’s many shortcomings rather than cast aspersions on the…
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Libertarians spoil Donald Rumsfeld/Dick Cheney reunion at CPAC
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s the second time this week that libertarians in the GOP have done something American lefties agree with. Earlier in the week, a startling temporary coalition of liberal Dems and libertarian Republicans squelched the re-authorization of parts of the Patriot Act, in protest of the law’s disregard for Americans’ civil liberties…. Via Libertarians spoil Donald…