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Pelosi 2.0 Oct 6, 2015

A shorter version of this was published yesterday at Breitbart. Few people remember that the Citizens United decision was about a movie, and the idea that airing and advertising a movie, Hillary: The Movie, was an unfair political donation that justified censorship. A new PAC, End Cititzens United, has already raised almost $2 million for the 2016 election cycle, and one Democratic Party presidential candidate, law school professor Lawrence Lessig, is running just on opposition to Citizens United,  which legalized individual donations to political speech that are aggregated through incorporated entities other than media companies (newspapers and broadcasters had long endorsed and been biased...

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We need action now! Oct 2, 2015

Only five weeks after Vester Flanagan shot his former coworkers we have another rabid leftist shooter, Chris Harper-Mercer, who has killed nine people - and intended to kill more. Harper-Mercer had actually praised Flanagan, reports the UK Daily Mail - the American media won't tell you that. Harper-Mercer was aiming to kill Christians, much like Floyd Corkins was aiming to kill politically active Christians when he tried to execute the staff at the Christian Family Research Council only two years ago. Perhaps the reason so many mass shootings occur at college campuses or in movie theaters is because these liberal...

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Stonewall Sep 29, 2015

A shorter, less mean and funny, version of this was published yesterday at Breitbart. Roland Emmerich About a third of the way through Roland Emmerich's moving, kind of brilliant movie Stonewall, which opened this weekend, a police detective investigating mob control of gay bars and human trafficking of underage teens, one of whom has turned up dead, asks a recalcitrant witness refusing to identify a killer, "What is it with you gays?  Are you all stupid." The reaction to this movie in some quarters, and the state of gay politics generally, suggest that the answer is probably yes. Jeremy Irvine Emmerich - who...

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The year of campaigning dangerously Sep 28, 2015

A shorter version of this was published this weekend at The Daily Caller. House Speaker John Boehner resigned today, only a year after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated by a tea party newbie in a primary.  In the GOP presidential nomination race, 3 candidates who have never held office are in the lead, holding between them the suport of almost two thirds of Republican primary voters.  It's hunting season on establishment politicians. Carly Fiorina beats Hillary Clinton in a Quinnipiac poll released today, 44-43%, demonstrating the power of open primary debates, where Fiorina's performance launched her from the early "kiddie" event...

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Ubertarianism – a modest proposal Sep 25, 2015

A shorter version of this was published this week at Breitbart. Uber - the best known of several ride-sharing companies that run an app that allows passengers to use their smart phones to find drivers for hire and pay them with credit cards - is now worth over $40 billion dollars.  By contrast, the value of taxi medallions is dropping in major cities, faced with the competition from Uber, Lyft (valued at $2.5 billion), and the other ride share upstarts are providing.  In New York City, for example,  taxi revenues are dropping almost 10% annually. Uber et al have a lot of advantages over the...

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Democrats demand more debate Sep 24, 2015

This was published earlier at Breitbart. A few hours before the second GOP presidential debates were scheduled for this evening, over 50 Democrats protested  outside the Democratic National Committee's multi-million dollar office complex on South Capitol Street on Capitol Hill, demanding that DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz allow more debate. The crowd was about two-thirds supporters of former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, whose administration lost his state to the GOP in 2014, and one third supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders, with a couple of Lyndon Larouche fans on the sidelines to promote their arcane economic theologies. The crowd had only...

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Trump – Notes on Vamp Sep 16, 2015

A different version of this was published at The Daily Caller yesterday. The popularity of Donald Trump has fractured conservative politics, with Jonah Goldberg altering forgotten marxist phraseology into "Trumpen proletariat," and anti-immigration conservatives calling their freer trade, less nationalist brethren "cuckservatives."  The GOP primary (and perhaps the Democratic as well) is being denigrated as a "reality TV show" in part because of Trump, and there is supposedly a feud between Trump's campaign and FOX News (as well as rather obviously between Trump and NBC). It's funny to see people blame this on TV.  FOX long ago decided to blur the boundaries...

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Gay for Pay – Hillary’s LGBT crony corporatists Sep 6, 2015

A different version of this was published yesterday at Breitbart. Back when she was avoiding voters and the press even more than she is now, Hillary was going to gay and lesbian fundraisers soliciting money - what else would a Clinton do? - from LGBT Democrats who are among her most loyal supporters. These people aren't just average gay people or even average gay Democrats who have been fear mongered into believing that any and every other candidate, especially the GOP candidates, will strip them of every legal right they've recently acquired.  (Even though those rights are clearly more due to independent changes in...

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Liberty movement jokes for Summer Sep 2, 2015

Hillary didn't get the question when she said she wasn't involved with "classified" material; she thought it was about Bill's Craigslist ads. Hillary can't drive, fax, use an IPad, make tea, or open TV Guide. She's an invalid. That's why Bill had to find someone who could fuck. Politicians get in trouble when they get into crooks and nannies. When people tell me they got the shitty end of the stick, I try not to make them feel bad by saying my family used corncobs and the Sear's catalogue. Dr. Ben Carson is catching up to Trump in the polls;...

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Don’t Trust Obama on the Iran Deal Sep 2, 2015

A slightly different version of this was published yesterday at Breitbart. If you ever want to really tick off a libertarian, one way to do it would be to cite an article by Cathy Young in the October 2008 issue of reason magazine where two or three dozen libertarian and libertarian-leaning journalists and political organizers are asked for whom they will be voting for President the next week. About half of them say Barack Obama (followed by then 2008 Libertarian Party presidential candidate former Congressman Bob Barr, None of the Above, and McCain-Palin, in that order). I was annoyed by that result back then, when...

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August political humor Aug 26, 2015

Hillary didn't get the question when she said she wasn't involved with "classified" material; she thought it was about Bill's "casual connections" Craigslist ads. Politicians get in trouble when they get into crooks and nannies. Hillary's people say erasing emails is not unprecedented. They're right; if email had been used back in the first Clinton administration Sandy Burger would've erased them too. Donald Trump seeks to end birthright citizenship; he thinks deporting many born here will open up tons of property for real estate development. Trump tells Ramos to wait his turn, but Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake had a Fox...

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Obama’s wager Aug 26, 2015

Published Tuesday morning at Breitbart. At Monday's White House press conference Josh Earnest answered a question about whether President Obama wants Vice President Biden to enter the race by saying Obama thought picking Biden for VP was one of the smartest decisions he ever made. Some people find it surprising that the Obama administration is moving to take down Hillary's campaign (as they did in 2008), but it's just part and parcel of Obama's fundamental transformation of America. Obama seeks to centralize and control the political process just as he has centralized and controlled the economy. So far Obama has succeeded in placing...

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Hillary – out played and played out Aug 22, 2015

A different version of this was published Saturday morning at Breitbart's Big Government site. For months the oft-noted hallmark of Hillary Clinton's campaign for president was that she took no questions from reporters and held no press events aside from those with a very few hand picked friendly journalists with carefully controlled formats. Perhaps because Donald Trump won't stop talking to the press and because at the first GOP debate Americans learned that the other female candidate, Carly Fiorina, answers questions much more smoothly than does Mrs. Clinton, this past Tuesday, Hillary decided she would have a press conference. And it...

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The Hunger Games Aug 20, 2015

Published yesterday on Breitbart. This morning I woke up and turned on the lights. But not too many since I live in DC, where the local government created power monopoly, PEPCO, is raising rates. It has no competition, though Maryland and Virginia have other power companies and some localities, like Lubbock, Texas, do have competitive markets. I poured some water for coffee and hoped it wouldn't have high lead or bacteria levels today. In 2004 it came out that the government water authority threatened to fire its own scientist when she wanted to go public with the dangerously high lead...

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D.C. Should Aim Higher – Why not legalize commercial horticulture in pot Aug 9, 2015

Washington, D.C. recently rated near the top of American cities for income inequality. Perversely, D.C.’s economy is a welfare state for the rich, or at least the upper middle class: The federal government imports a thousand people with law or other graduate degrees to D.C. monthly, and pays them between $75,000 and $150,000 a year. Lobbying and law firms hire, at even higher salaries, other demographically similar people to navigate the expanding federal government. The new residents bid up real estate prices — both sale prices and rents — displacing D.C.’s long term residents, who have less money, are more...

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Rare Panel on Millennials Jul 30, 2015

Hosted by Rare Politics Editor Jack Hunter, the event took place in front of a live audience with a Q&A session. What millennials have to say about the state of America, race, gay marriage, fear, the future and more. Panelists were: from left to right: Benny Johnson - IJReview.com, Julie Borowski - libertarian personality (aka TokenLibertarianGirl), Olivia Nuzzi - The Daily Beast, Orlando Watson - Republican National Committee.  Both Hunter and Watson have worked for Rand Paul.    

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Liberland Jul 29, 2015

  Libertarians are interested in the attempt to create a new country in Europe, slightly larger than Monaco or Lichtenstein, in a disputed territory claimed by both Serbia and Croatia, which we covered a few weeks ago, called Liberland. Liberland's provisional president, Vit Jedlicka (a Czech citizen), who organized the project, has been doing a tour of American cities this month to raise funds and awareness.  One major fund transfer website has frozen their accounts, at least for the time being, so they are now mainly trying to raise money through bitcoin and other transfers. Jedlicka is also trying to find governments that...

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The Hornberger Hypothesis Jul 21, 2015

Jacob Hornberger made an interesting and empirically testable hypothesis at The Cato Institute panel on designer drugs this week  (hint, hint Mercatus Center at George Mason University  and George Mason University peeps). Hornberger noted that alcoholism was high in regimented Soviet states (and I would add that famously sex addiction/obsession was in Soviet Czechoslovakia, as depicted in Milan Kundera's novel The Incredible Lightness of Being). The question:  Does compulsory state schooling increase drug addiction? Has anyone done a survey on substance abuse comparing rates in state schools, the home schooled, the de-schooled, and different types of private or independent schools? See the discussion at Cato...

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Libertarian Party selects new logo Jul 19, 2015

        The Libertarian Party considered 9 possible logos, and solicited votes for the finalists in a fundraising mailer. Meeting in Alexandria, Virginia this weekend the Libertarian National Committee selected a final logo.     None included the popular porcupine symbol which some libertarians love, but I've learned some non-Libertarians find confusing. And the winner is the phoenix-in-a-torch combination platter.   The LP plans to roll out the new logo after the 2015 elections.

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Libertarians celebrate deliverance from Hellmouth on Summer Solstice; Sarah Michelle Gellar to MC Jul 14, 2015

  The Libertarian National Committee Headquarters moved out of DC, where it had been in the famous Watergate building for decades, a year ago this month, to suburban Virginia. The Watergate, a collection of commercial and residential buildings, including a hotel and two cooperative apartment associations, has been home to Jake Tapper, Bob Dole, Howard Baker, and NPR's Scott Simon, as well as the Nixon Watergate scandal.  The LP moved just in time too, since the Watergate garage  collapsed this spring. Help them celebrate their near miss! LPHQ 1st Anniversary Reception Saturday, July 18, 2015 - 7:00pm LP David F....

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