Libertarian

Being a Libertarian is a curious thing. It's the up and coming party in the world of politics, yet many people misunderstand the political philosophy. These misunderstandings aren't due to a lack of activity on the net, as The Humble Libertarian offers us the top 100 libertarian blogs and websites as a reference.

Websites like CATO are large and popular flagships of libertarian thinking, yet smaller websites like Libertarian Logic show that libertarian thinking is coming from individuals as well.

Members of the traditional major political parties are recognizing the benefit of returning to values associated with individual freedom. For example, there are any number of organizations and individuals running for office that identify themselves as Liberty Republicans.

One of America's founding fathers was George Washington, and he told us that "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." Many around the country like Libertarian Papers are trying to transplant and nurture core American values into our political discussion, and some are asking if the time is right for libertarianism.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Libertarian”

• Americans Want Smaller Government

  
  Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest — Authority: 142
  A substantial majority of Americans prefer smaller government to bigger government. Thats the finding of an Associated Press poll conducted between October 29 and November 8, 2009. The poll asked this question: "If you had to choose, would you favor a smaller government providing fewer services, or a bigger ...
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• Is Chomsky an Anarchist?

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladbuddhagemNovember 20, 2009 more about “Is Chomsky an Anarchist?“, posted with vodpodseeNoam Chomsky: Libertarian Socialism + The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism (1976)Direct Democracy Noam Chomsky & the Workers Solidarity Movement discuss politics over breakfast Industrial Worker (IWW ...
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• The Modified Friedman Dictum

  
  Politics Index — Authority: 456
  |Peter Boettke| The late great Milton Friedman declared that "inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomena." He said this at a critical time in our policy history, and his work on the history and theory of monetary mischief persuaded...
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• On This Day … in 1787 & Others

  
  Politics Index — Authority: 456
  Sir Samuel Cunard was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cunard started working in the timber business with his father, then expanded into shipping. He was a founder of the Halifax Bank in 1825 and became a shareholder in the...
  19 hours ago

• & the scores on the doors?

  
  Politics Index — Authority: 456
  I have no idea quite how many cartridges I went through today but over 5 drives, 8 of us had a bag of 370 pheasants Of course, the percussive affect of so much shooting is the reason that I have...
  19 hours ago

• “RON PAUL and the Libertarians are RIGHT” Robert Scheer

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
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• “RON PAUL and the Libertarians are RIGHT” Robert Scheer

  
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• “RON PAUL and the Libertarians are RIGHT” Robert Scheer

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
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• “RON PAUL and the Libertarians are RIGHT” Robert Scheer

  
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• My Body, My Money, My Country

  
  Power and Control — Authority: 541
  We constantly hear that only moderate centrist Republicans can win in some places. And that is true. But what kind of moderate? What kind of centrist? I think that it has to be a moderate with strong principles. A strange beast to be sure. At least in this day and age. The last time the Republican Party was truly ...
  21 hours ago

• The Limits of Ron Paul-ism

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  Rand Paul, who has surprised a lot of people by becoming a real contender for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, bows to political reality — he’s blasting the Obama administration’s policy on terror trials and proposing to “try, convict, and lock up terrorists in Guantanamo.” Paul’s father, Rep. Ron Paul ...
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• Does government ever do good?

  
  Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog — Authority: 128
  Does government ever do good?I come down pretty hard on externally-imposed coercive government all the time. Am I being fair? Am I being honest about what government is and what it does? Perhaps a better question is, is anything that government does "right" or "ethical"? Are the final results ever good even if the ...
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• Hacked CRU Files? The Big Climate Science Story Today

  
  Politics Index — Authority: 456
  Bishop Hill was the first to alert me that :It is claimed that the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has been hacked and there is a massive file of emails and code up on a server in Russia. If what has been posted is real then the balloon is about to go up. Excerpts of the emails have been posted ...
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• Ron Paul-Alan Grayson bill to audit the Federal Reserve makes headway

  
  Independent Political Report — Authority: 539
  The full story is at FireDogLake. (excerpt from) Ballot Access News Ron Paul-Alan Grayson Bill to Audit the Federal Reserve Makes Headway November 19th, 2009 …Ron Paul…has been the leading champion in Congress for ballot access reform for the last ten years. On November 19, the contents of Ron Paul’s HR ...
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• Fast Company: High-Profile CEOs could revitalize Libertarian Party

  
  Independent Political Report — Authority: 539
  In the November issue of Fast Company magazine, Carlos Watson considers the prospects of a third party based on a fiscal conservative / social liberal alliance: Sarah Palin is rumored to be mulling the idea of starting a third party, pulling together social and fiscal conservatives alienated from the GOP. The Blue ...
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• Why Rep. Virginia Foxx has to go, come 2010

  
  Political Byline — Authority: 637
  This comes via Think Progress : Video: CARDOZA: Today, what I’m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, indicated that the Republican GOP had passed the Civil Rights Act legislation with almost no help from the Democrats. I can’t believe my ...
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• Recommended: 10 Reasons I Am A Libertarian Christian

  
  The Holy Cause — Authority: 112
  Matt, at …the bound dragon… writes: 1. The Biblical maxim to “love your neighbor” and the Libertarian principle of non-aggression[1] are essentially synonymous. 2. With the exception of defensive wars in the case of attack, war is an evil that plagues humanity; Christians are to be peacemakers[2] ...
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• Rant

  
  DarianWorden.com — Authority: 417
  I originally intended to do the following rant on my internet radio show Thinking Liberty , but it might have grown too large. Maybe I’ll find another use for it, like make a video of me preaching it in the streets. Government is a gang. Or at least it’s made up of gangsters. Obama’s a gangster, Bush is a ...
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• A Year in the Languedoc

  
  Politics Index — Authority: 456
  The year began with lunch a mouse infestation.As I prepare to return to the UK for three weeks to work, it is just under a year since we left Bristol for the south of France to make a new life. A year on, how has it all been?Well, despite the nay-sayers and fools who thought that [...]
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• 10 Reasons I Am A Libertarian Christian

  
  ...the bound dragon... — Authority: 107
  1. The Biblical maxim to “love your neighbor” and the Libertarian principle of non-aggression[1] are essentially synonymous. 2. With the exception of defensive wars in the case of attack, war is an evil that plagues humanity; Christians are to be peacemakers[2] and together with Libertarians should oppose ...
  2 days ago

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