Limited government is good government. The ACLU’s efforts to limit government power, power that often denies rights of oversight, have been useful for America. At the ACLU’s website, there’s a program entitled, “Actions for Restoring America,” listing steps a new federal administration can take on its first day, within 100 days, and beyond. Here are…
Libertarians
Libertarians
Contrasting Barr and Nader on Obama’s Victory
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr had this to say about Obama’s election victory: It just illustrates the tremendous demographic changes, generational changes in this country. This really is a very different country, in some ways much better country, than it was several years ago. Grandstanding septuagenarian crackpot independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader had a different…
Libertarians
Remembering Marshall Fritz, Defender of Liberty
by JOHN ADAMS •
You may not have heard of Marshall Fritz, who passed away in California this week after a battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 65. Fritz was no ordinary Californian, or American — he was a proud member of the libertarian movement, having fought for its principles for over three decades decades since coming up from liberalism.…
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv: Economist Lee Ohanian Explains the “Bailout Puzzle”
by JOHN ADAMS •
Note 1: Ohanian and colleague Harold Cole calculated in 2004 that “FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years,” as announced in a UCLA press release. Note 2: The actual study — not a press release — is considerable. Although the University of Chicago’s online version of the Journal of Political Economy is a subscription-only journal,…
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv Asks: “Where’s My Bailout?”
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians
Live from Barr Campaign Headquarters on Election Night
by JOHN ADAMS •
Live from Barr Campaign Election Headquarters on Tuesday Evening — 11/4/08. It’s not the posh Phoenix Biltmore where the McCain campaign’s set up, nor the half of Chicago that the Obama campaign rented for its celebration, but it’s a place of clear principle. Update — 8:06 PM — Characteristic of this year for the LP,…
Libertarians
Barr for President: Liberty for America
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians
Reagan ’84: Against Inflation
by JOHN ADAMS •
In this campaign commercial from 1984, entitled, “Inflation,” Reagan reminds Americans — as if they needed a reminder– that under Carter America suffered extraordinary inflation and interest rates, destructive to the economic well-being of every American. The next administration can, through regulation and excessive spending, bring those miserable conditions back again. From the Museum of…
Libertarians
Reagan ’80: Podium
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians
Reagan ’80: Door Slam
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians
Reagan ’80: Reagan’s Record
by JOHN ADAMS •
Less than a generation ago, against considerable scorn, a major party candidate defended the confident message of limited government and free choice through markets. He defeated an incumbent president, and brought his party to control in the Senate. That party has since drifted far from these sound principles, and in the years ahead, there may…
Libertarians
Goldwater ’64: Symbols
by JOHN ADAMS •
> Libertarians, be confident in this troubled season — here’s a video in which John Wayne narrates a Goldwater commercial entitled, “Symbols.” The commercial is directed, principally but only by implication, against communism. Johnson branded Goldwater a warmonger, but Johnson’s own foreign policy record from his inauguration in 1965 to leaving office in January 1969…
Libertarians
Goldwater ’64: Reagan’s Time for Choosing for Goldwater
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians, here is a direct and clear address, the antidote to empty rhetoric in this troubled season. Reagan speaks on behalf of Goldwater against the many errors of the Johnson Administration, in an address called A Time for Choosing. Reagan delivered versions of this speech several times during the campaign. The full address, and transcript…
Libertarians
Goldwater ’64: Punchcard
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians, more cheer in this troubled season — Goldwater speaks against oppressive big government, in Punchcard, one of his 1964 campaign commercials. Seems silly to some? Johnson brought neither peace nor lasting prosperity. War, bloated government, administrative corruption, riots and discord — hardly a Great Society. From the Museum of the Moving Image.