There’s a panel discussion tonight on John Stossel’s program on the topic, “Just what is a libertarian?” Prominent libertarians including P.J. O’Rourke and David Boaz of Cato will offer answers to that question. My own quick answer would rely on the Cato Institute’s motto: advocacy of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace. Still,…
Libertarians
Development, Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv: Encourage Bottom-Up Redevelopment – Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 5
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Here’s the next episode of Drew Carey’s series on ideas to save Cleveland, and by implication lots of other places, too. Cleveland has spent billions on big-ticket urban redevelopment efforts including heavily subsidized sports stadiums and convention centers that have utterly failed to revitalize the city’s economy. Should the city be pouring even more money…
Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians
Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey (Take Care of Business), Episode 4
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s a discussion of how hard it can be to use one’s own money profitably to establish a business. In the video below, many business owners are even unwilling to discuss their frustrations on camera, from concern that spiteful bureaucrats will retaliate against them. Unfortunately, that’s a problem in many cities, including ones far smaller…
Free Markets, Government Spending, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians, Planning
Reason.tv – Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey: Privatize It (Episode 3)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s episode three of the Reason.tv series on saving Cleveland, and by implication lots of other cities, too. In this episode, viewers see how government doesn’t manage produce markets or golf courses very well. Should cities be in the business of running businesses ranging from convention centers to farmers markets? Selling off golf courses, contracting…
Laws/Regulations, Libertarians, School District
Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 2 (Fix the Schools)
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’ve posted before on the Reason.tv series from Drew Carey, entitled, “Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey.” Today, I’m posting Episode Two from that series, about the Cleveland public schools. I’ve not posted recently on our schools, and for that lack of attention, I’m surely culpable. (There are no column-inch limitations in cyberspace — there…
Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians, Planning, Poverty
Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey — The Decline of a Once-Great City
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Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey — The Decline of a Once-Great City Here’s the first full episode of Drew Carey’s series on Cleveland, and ways to revitalize the city. Sixty years ago, Cleveland was a booming city full of promise, opportunity, and people. Today, the city’s population is less half of what it…
Free Markets, Government Spending, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians, Poverty
Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey — Introduction
by JOHN ADAMS •
Drew Carey has a series at Reason.tv about his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland’s a big place, but Carey’s proposals for revitalizing his town would apply to other places in the Midwest, including far smaller ones. Here’s an introduction to his series: Click …to watch Drew introduce the series that just might save his hometown.…
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv: Gov. Gary Johnson on His Economic Vision for “Our America”
by JOHN ADAMS •
From Reason.tv, here’s a half-hour presentation from former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson on free market economic solutions for America. Here’s a description from Reason: On Tuesday, February 9, in the midst of one of the biggest snowstorms in recent Washington, D.C. memory, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and Harvard economist (and Reason contributor)…
Libertarians
Libertarianism Is Real Conservatism
by JOHN ADAMS •
Jack Hunter writes at The American Conservative that libertarianism is real conservatism. That’s true, as a conservatism before the right became interested in big public programs and meddlesome interference with private lives. (There’s a way, of course, that we seem bold compared with a stodgy, government-dependent right. That’s why those unfamiliar with libertarian principles think…
Economy, Libertarians
From Cato@Liberty: “Six Reasons to Downsize the Federal Government”
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Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute offers Six Reasons to Downsize the Federal Government, and by doing so, assure Americans more freedom and greater prosperity: 1. Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the economy. 2. As federal spending rises, it creates pressure to…
Libertarians
The Libertarian Message
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There’s an essay online from W.E. Messamore entitled, We’re All Libertarians Now. Of course, we’re not, and Messamore’s not being literal — he’s observing the power of a libertarian message — a message he supports and shares. The libertarian message of limited government and respect for individual liberty is a powerful one, always but especially…
City, Free Markets, Libertarians
“Quiet Libertarian Victories”
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Jeremy Lott has a brief essay entitled, Quiet Libertarian Victories, about how the last year has proved libertarians right about their core principles, and some successes effecting change toward more liberty. Lott observes that The last several years have not been easy for libertarians to stomach. The U.S. government, which had bloated under President George…
Cartoons & Comics, Libertarians
Reason Online: Dramatic Olbermann vs. Dramatic Chipmunk
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Over at Reason, Nick Gillespie writes about Keith Olbermann, in a post entitled, Dramatic Olbermann vs. Dramatic Chipmunk. Gillespie writes of Olbermann: No one is more self dramatizing on cable news than male hysteric, unsolicited janitor of Cooperstown, and Countdown host Keith Olbermann, who includes more special effects during his Castro-length “Special Comment” segments than…
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Libertarian Cato Institute Deservedly Named One of World’s Leading Think Tanks
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Congratulations to the Cato Institute, named one of the leading policy institutes in the world, following a major academic survey. Libertarians have reason for confidence in their views in any event, but the policy scholars at Cato are admirably advancing ideas for “individual liberty, free markets, and peace.” Now you know, and I know, that…