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Libertarian Party to adopt new logo Jul 13, 2015

I was at a BBQ last weekend hosted by a couple one of whom has run as a Libertarian for local office and the other of whom is not a libertarian and believes for many libertarians libertarianism is like a religion.   In the kitchen with the non-libertarian half of this couple and some friends the topic of PorcFest came up and I explained that the "porc" was for porcupine, not pork.  And that the porcupine had been unofficially adopted as a symbol, like the elephant or the donkey, since it is a purely defensive animal that does not initiate...

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Occult rituals of the behooved homosexuals Jul 12, 2015

There are lots of connections between anti-gay bigotry and many traditional religions. Generally this is a well worn and boring topic. Many religions have for hundreds of years condemned gay people as sinners. One imagines gays were among the convenient minorities - including Jews, spinsters, epileptics - whose oddities were easily attributed to demonic and occult influence, making them serviceable as scapegoats so as to unify the congregants. It's also the case that gays are now in more liberal and secular times in some way enviable, making them a wedge and fundraising issue for a kind of conservative populism. In...

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Vanita Gupta loves her some black folk Jul 8, 2015

Vanita Gupta, the Eric Holder hire charged with investigating racism in Ferguson, Missouri, became a bête noir of the conservative blogosphere this year for blaming all criminality and anti-social behavior on slavery. As a Democratic Party minion, this is much more convenient for her than blaming the problems of black America on the dependency created by the welfare state, the unemployment created by the regulatory state, or by the erosion of human capital created by Ms. Gupta's party's ongoing tribute to its slavery-loving past, the kidnapping of poor black and brown children to be sold to the educrat cartels in...

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TNR’s desperate, obsessive stalking of libertarians Jul 8, 2015

  Though well known beauty Jonathan Chait no longer works at TrapNeuterRelease magazine, the current editors continue with his obsessive compulsion to write flawed articles critical of libertarianism. This week's entry, by former StarWars extra Jeet Heer (rumored to be playing the young Jabba The Hut in the next release), observes that Rand Paul polls better with Republican men than with Republican women, and from that launches into a discussion of how market liberalism is fatally flawed because it isn't good for or attractive to women. Jeet makes a basic logical error in the beginning of his piece. He begins...

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Kurdish Rothbardians and Ron Paul freedom fighters Jul 6, 2015

The Kurds are creating their own territory independent of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. The Obama regime has actually been blocking countries (and of course private parties) from donating weapons to the Kurds, perhaps because of Obama's - and Valerie Jarrett's - fondness for the Iranian regime, which would potentially be threatened by secessionists if the Kurds created a nation on their northwest border. One libertarian op-edster, Barton Hinkle, has argued that Kurdistan is a perfect case showing the need for private armies.  I posted a piece at Breitbart's Big Government blog about one Ron Paul activist who is kind of...

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Summer movies – 5 Easy Pieces Jul 6, 2015

  Love and Mercy.  This is the best movie I've seen this year, in part because it has the advantage of having Brian Wilson's music as its soundtrack.  (Some of us are just young enough to have only faint memories of the better Wilson songs, until they were brought back to everyone's attention as the score to HBO's BigLove).  It's also the most libertarian, combining themes from Ayn Rand and Thomas Szasz.  Also a feminist movie, with a working class divorcee the White Knight who saves the day.     It's the biography of Brian Wilson, the singer/songwriter/composer responsible for the Beach Boys....

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Liberty movement jokes for July Jul 6, 2015

Please be offended.  Make my day! **********   They ban transfats and a few weeks later Greece's economy collapses. ********** Ariana Grande has discovered donut licking. Apparently when SCOTUS legalized equality between gays and straights, it covered everything. **********   Confused about the tortured reasoning SCOTUS used to reach the gay marriage decision? Just remember, marriage is a tax AND a penalty       ********** Lots of people were against gay marriage. Back in 2012 Obama and Osama were still homophones. ********** President Obama claims to treat all people equally, but today when he threw a gay heckler out...

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More Beef on the BBQ – The Summer’s Top 12 Hottest Libertarian Men – Objectifying Some Objectivists Jul 4, 2015

(Unfortunately, the annual Libertarian beachwear edition of this post is only available behind our paywall to supporting subscribers.) For those of you annoyed by these types of lists I can only tell you that some people actually beg to be put on them.  For those who think the objectification of the boys is too gay (though most of the winners below are not), well yes it is, but we will do a new list of ladies eventually, so keep your pants on. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Scott Eastwood Just as Clint Eastwood took the #1 spot in last year's list of 29...

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Beef on the BBQ – July 4th movies in review Jul 4, 2015

spoiler alerts What if Odysseus had been retarded? Everyone and their mother is in Magic Mike XXL (edited but no longer directed by Steven Soderbergh).  Especially if their mother is a little overweight or a recent divorcee. Elizabeth Banks is in it, and she is also in every other movie out right now, including Love and Mercy (which is a lot better than Magic Mike) and Pitch Perfect 2 (which is a teeny bit better). If you want to get a heterosexual guy to go to Magic Mike XXL, you can truthfully tell him that for about a minute and...

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Banned at RedState Jul 4, 2015

What was that riff last month about how PC liberals were making comedy extinct? I've been publishing for a few months as a diarist at the blog RedState, several of whose writers I really enjoy, and which had some kind words to say about me in the past when I was in an argument with some establishment Democratic Party gays. I mainly post things there that I had also posted, in a different form, here at Insomniac Libertarian. I took one such post, on Libertarian rants (and jokes) about the SCOTUS decision on marriage equality, and added a preface just...

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