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• Jacob Hornberger

  Published: July 25, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: News, Antiwar Movement, Civil Liberties, Empire, Military Spending, Libertarianism, Antiwar Radio, Guant Namo, Ron Paul, Padilla, Republicans, War At Home, Torture

  Download audio file (07_07_25_hornberger.mp3) Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation discusses the circumstances in which the German people accepted the rise of the Nazi Reich, the use of crisis as an excuse to destroy liberty, the writ of habeas corpus, the unitary executive theory, Bush’s new Executive

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• The Presumption of Peace

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Libertarianism, Iraq

  War,” July 17) that libertarianism does not imply any particular stance toward the Iraq War. He contends that as long as the U.S. government is delegated the task of protecting the American people from foreign aggression of one sort or another, there could be a reasonable libertarian argument in favor of the war or, at least in favor

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• Sheldon Richman

  Published: August 3, 2007, 4:43 am

  Tags: News, Antiwar Movement, Civil Liberties, Empire, Military Spending, Iran, Libertarianism, Culture, Antiwar Radio, Iraq, Ron Paul, Democrats, War At Home

  laissez faire economics, libertarianism and social Darwinism. MP3 here. Sheldon Richman is editor of The Freeman, published by The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York, and serves as senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of FFF’s award-winning book Separating School & State: How to

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• Anthony Gregory

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:13 am

  Tags: News, Civil Liberties, Empire, War On Terror, Propaganda, Libertarianism, Antiwar Radio, Ron Paul, Liberventionism, Neocons, Republicans, War At Home

  Download audio file (07_08_07_gregory.mp3) Anthony Gregory discusses how war destroys liberty rather than protects it and American foreign interventions since World War I have only set up for the next one. MP3 here. Anthony Gregory is a research analyst at the Independent Institute, a public policy research organization that analyzes government

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• Why Ayn Rand is Compelling, Despite Her Human Faults

  Published: August 8, 2007, 11:39 pm

  Tags: Blogosphere, Libertarianism

  are more sympathetic to libertarianism than others. It also may be a matter of whether particular liberals care to stress their areas of agreement or disagreement, but there is a variety of views with regards to libertarians seen in the liberal blogosphere. While Ayn Rand did not consider herself to be a part of the libertarian movement, the

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• Rudy Giuliani, Warmonger on Foreign Policy, Warmonger on Drugs

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:54 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, Libertarianism, Rudy Giuliani

  Those who have been following the debates in the comments here have probably seen the disagreements between Eric Dondero, of Libertarians for Giuliani, and other libertarians who agree more with my view of Giuliani as an authoritarian warmonger. Eric’s early comments here made it irresistible stress his rather unorthodox views labeled as

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• Christians and markets

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: Religion Society, Theology Amp Amp Faith, Libertarianism, Consumerism, Economy, Environment

  Here’s a smart article by Kathryn D. Blanchard, a professor of Religious Studies at Alma College. She argues that Christians, especially the Christian intelligensia, need to get beyond abstractions about “the market” and “capitalism” and look at the ways in which particular markets can serve or impede human

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• The Ideas of Obama vs. Edwards on Poverty

  Published: August 14, 2007, 2:51 am

  Tags: Politics, Economy, Blogosphere, Libertarianism, Barack Obama, John Edwards

  Libertarian Democrat writer Terry Michael made an excellent argument in favor of his first choice, Barack Obama, over John Edwards. His arguments regarding the problems with Edwards’ economic populism should also be of interest to supporters of some of the other candidates. Michael reviewed some of the reactions to Edwards’ policies,

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• Tax and Spend Republicans

  Published: August 14, 2007, 1:42 am

  Tags: George Bush, Economy, Libertarianism

  Cato-at-Liberty reports that George Bush is the biggest taxer in the history of the world: The Treasury Department reported Friday that federal revenues reached $2.12 trillion ($2,120,000,000,0000) for the first ten months of fiscal year 2007. In both current and inflation-adjusted dollars, that puts the federal government on course for the most

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• The “Progs for Paul” myth redux

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, War Amp Amp Peace, Libertarianism, Politics

  I’ve never bought into the “Progressives for Paul” myth - the idea that there was a burgeoning groundswell of support on the anti-war Left for maverick GOP congressman Ron Paul. Gaius links to this rather silly piece saying that Paul’s “support” on the Left may be shot now that he’s “revealed”

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• Scott Kohlhaas

  Published: August 15, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: News, Civil Liberties, Empire, Libertarianism, Antiwar Radio, Draft

  Download audio file (07_08_14_kohlhaas.mp3) Scott Kohlhass, former chair of the Libertarian Party of Alaska and founder of DraftResistance.org, discusses War Czar Lute’s trial balloon about reviving conscription and explains how Selective “Service” is unknowingly enlisting individuals in over half of the American States. MP3

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• Mr. Conservative Became a Liberal Compared to Today's Conservatives

  Published: August 17, 2007, 1:45 am

  Tags: Republicans, Separation Of Church State, Blogosphere, Civil Liberties, Libertarianism, Barry Goldwater

  In several previous posts, including at the time of the release of the documentary Mr. Conservative, I’ve noted the irony that the modern conservative movement has moved so far to the right that Barry Goldwater ultimately considered himself a liberal. As Barry Goldwater was mentioned in a recent post, and the conversion of the conservative

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• Rep. Ron Paul

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:28 pm

  Tags: News, Civil Liberties, Empire, Iran, Nukes, Libertarianism, Israel, Russia, Politics, Antiwar Radio, Iraq, Ron Paul, Sudan Darfur, Syria, Troop Support, Draft, Democrats, Republicans

  Download audio file (07_08_17_paul.mp3) Presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul discusses the economic consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the scars of PTSD and the administration’s betrayal of wounded veterans, how nice it would be if the War Party had to clean up the DU, why the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq as soon as

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• James Bovard

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:28 pm

  Tags: News, Empire, Libertarianism, Antiwar Radio, Ron Paul, Torture

  Download audio file (07_08_16_bovard.mp3) James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the Padilla case, torture by the Bush regime and the capacity of the general public to overlook the evidence. MP3 here . (34:45) James Bovard serves as a policy advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation and is a frequent

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• A Victory for Ron Paul

  Published: August 19, 2007, 2:15 am

  Tags: Politics, Polls, Libertarianism, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul

  Ron Paul might have finished poorly in Iowa, but he now has a victory under his belt in a straw poll, having won in Alabama. The results were: Paul 216 Romney 14 Hunter 10 Thompson 9 Giuliani 7 Huckabee 6 McCain 2 Brownback 2 Tancredo 0 Cox 0 Alas, the victory doesn’t look as impressive after reading these caveats from Reason: Some caveats:

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