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Bill of Rights Day: Libertarians, National Archives celebrate

Here’s more on yesterday’s Bill of Rights day: On Dec. 15, 1791, the ten amendments to the Constitution known as the Bill of Rights were ratified. In 1941, in honor of the amendments’ 150th anniversary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the date a holiday: Bill of Rights Day. The National Archives this year held a…

U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011

As we should, as a free press is a fundamental part of our heritage — Press Statement Philip J. Crowley Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs Washington, DC December 7, 2010 The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 – May…

How Capitalism Saved the Pilgrims | Cato @ Liberty

Daniel Griswold wasn’t the only one whose father told him the truth about how the Pilgrims survived. It’s a story worth repeating each year, generation to generation — When I was growing up, my father would occasionally tell me the story around this time of year of how private property rights saved the Pilgrims from…

Libertarians Oppose Abusive TSA Strip-Search Machines

The Libertarian Party of America issued the following press release about the Transportation Security Administration’s excessive security policies — WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle commented today on the Transportation Security Administration’s use of strip-search machines at airports. Hinkle said, “The TSA should end the strip-search machine program immediately. “We’ve reached a point where…

Jeremy Lott on William F. Buckley Jr.’s Faith and Politics

I have never been a great fan of National Review, but over the years I have come to admire its founder’s principled, diligent, often iconoclastic, and (over time) increasingly libertarian political views. He made mistakes, surely, but he acknowledged them. Buckley was an honest, serious, and courageous man. Here’s a description that accompanies Reason’s interview…

Preparing Cuba for the free market from the US | PRI.ORG

Easier said than done, though certainly worth doing: Cuba is flirting with free-market reforms, while Cuban Americans try to help prepare the country for life under a version of capitalism. (This story’s from the left-of-center Public Radio International — and that provenance offers another of many signs of the inevitable return to free markets in…