libertarianism

The Internet has long been a playground for politics, and libertarianism is a growing area of interest in that playground. Websites like Libertarian Logic and CATO provide discussion of a range of topics in the political arena, all from the standpoint of libertarianism.

From a general perspective, libertarianism is a philosophy that is well aligned with the principles that founded America, as embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Ideals such as individual freedom, free enterprise, limited government, civil rights, and justice are hallmarks of libertarianism.

Libertarianism supports the idea that individuals have a natural right to make their own decisions about how they live their lives, so long as their actions don't unreasonably harm or interfere with others that have the same right. It suggests that matters of a private and commercial nature can be settled through voluntary contracts and the marketplace - government need only protect against force and fraud. It also supports the idea that government should serve limited functions such as providing roads, a monetary system, common defense and a system of justice - things that individuals either can't do or can't do as well as organized government.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “libertarianism”

• in Politics
  Ron Paul versus Racism
  How to unplug the media frenzy.
  by insteadofpolitics / on Dec 25, 2011
• in Politics
  The Moral Bankruptcy of Rand Paul
  Looney libertarianism meet the press
  by jimmyzuma / on May 24, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “libertarianism”

 

• Fearing Newt Gingrich

  
  American Conservative News Politics & Opinion - The Land of the Free — Authority: 122
  What do establishment Republicans and liberal Democrats have in common? They’ve long labored under a shared misconception: conservative candidates are unelectable. In 1980, conventional wisdom held that Ronald Reagan didn’t stand a chance against Jimmy Carter. The GOP leadership, the mainstream media and ...
  3 days ago

• Ron Paul - The Last and Only Hope for Liberty?

  
  Bastiat's Corner — Authority: 95
  You might be able to guess from my previous posts that I am a pretty ardent supporter of Ron Paul.  But I have heard some of my fellow supporters recently say that Dr. Paul is our last and only hope for liberty in the States.  I sincerely hope that anyone who says this means it as hyperbole to gin up additional ...
  4 days ago

• 5 Changes Libertarians Should Embrace After Yesterdays Anti-SOPA/PIPA Protests

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 593
  Although many people of differing political persuasions were involved in yesterday’s anti-SOPA/PIPA protests, the overwhelming public response marked a coming of age moment for libertarianism. It looks as though libertarianism is an idea whose time has come. Americans are fed up with centralization of power in ...
  1 week ago

• Money influence politics? That’s unpossible!

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 415
  This article got me a little agitated on Twitter yesterday. To recap what I was snarking about it at the time, Reason magazine seems to be asking: What’s so bad about billionaires spending money in politics? It just helps you freely decide what to think! I hate it when patronising liberals assume that voters are ...
  1 week ago

• On the road again….

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 99
  I got back today from Manhattan, where I met up with my good friend and colleague Professor Mohammad Abul Ahrar Ramizpoor, director of the Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization, for his first visit to the US. We had some very good meetings. He’s off to visit the Acton Institute and the Mackinac ...
  1 week ago

• A short history of liberty

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 99
  Brought to you by the good folks at Libertarianism.org
  1 week ago

• VIDEO: Edgar the Exploiter

  
  Light of Liberty — Authority: 103
  Here is the sequel to the video I posted yesterday . Every member of the Occupy Wall Street “movement” should watch this video and learn a little something about economics and the free market, which they despise. Same goes for all you liberals out there. This is how the real world works. Your good intentions are ...
  1 week ago

• Libertarians: Call Them Irresponsible

  
  the sad red earth — Authority: 106
  . The full range of Ron Paul’s reeking extremism was exposed yesterday by The New Republic . Ron Paul has  recently suggested there was only a “total of about eight or ten sentences” of “bad stuff” in the newsletters that he regularly used to publish under his name. This assertion was patently ...
  1 week ago

• Libertarians do not lack compassion

  
  Our Dinner Table — Authority: 111
  Don Boudreaux and Steve Horwitz rebut this part of Jeffrey Sachs’ critique against liberty : Libertarians hold that individual liberty should never be sacrificed in the pursuit of other values or causes.  Compassion, justice, civic responsibility, honesty, decency, humility, respect, and even survival of the ...
  1 week ago

• A different tale of income inequality

  
  The Ponds of Happenstance — Authority: 116
  I hate it when people say the things I think or I know, before I get to say them. And that seems to happen all the time, when it comes to articles by Niall Ferguson. His latest at Newsweek takes on the idea of income inequality and the fundamental realities of why there is such a large apparent divide between rich ...
  1 week ago

• VIDEO: George Ought to Help

  
  Light of Liberty — Authority: 103
  OK, liberals, you must watch this video. This video does a great job of explaining why the idea of government aid, i.e., welfare, ObamaCare, etc., is a bad idea as well as being morally wrong. Of course, the concept will be beyond the liberal mind to understand. But if we can get just one to comprehend …
  2 weeks ago

• Is Libertarianism Fundamentally about Competition? Or about Property?

  
  Contrary Brin — Authority: 489
  Some folks have heard me beat this drum. But it’s a fresh-enough thought - going to fundamentals that run deep beneath normal politics - so that I am moved to raise it yet again. In part because someone recently asked me, as author of The Transparent Society : “ Can transparency and libertarianism complement each ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Pauper Principle

  
  Our Dinner Table — Authority: 111
  Jeffrey Sachs wrote what bugs him about libertarianism.  Here’s one passage: Suppose a rich man has a surfeit of food and a poor man living next door is starving to death. The libertarian says that the government has no moral right or political claim to tax the rich person in order to save the poor person. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tuition Free Tuesday: Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose” Episode 9: How to Cure Inflation

  
  The Swash — Authority: 129
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  2 weeks ago

• Quote of the Day: Libertarian Values

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 121
  Libertarians do hold that the right to individual liberty across the board is the prime political value but by no means the prime value. Politics for libertarians can be thoroughly derivative, meant mainly to secure the possibility for a full moral or ethical life. Why be free? Mainly to be able to choose right ...
  2 weeks ago

• Change In Which We Can Believe

  
  Bastiat's Corner — Authority: 95
  First of all, I thought liberals were supposed to be grammatically correct, yet we have let them get away with ending their most highly touted campaign slogan of the past 4 years with a preposition.  I am not one to ride the grammatical high horse - its not a safe place for me to be - but I am shocked that no one ...
  2 weeks ago

• My Daughter and Tibet

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  My daughter Hannah will soon receive her Ph.D. in neuroscience from a prestigious graduate school on the east coast. She tells me what she is working on, but, dufus that I am on all such matters, I havent got the slightest idea of what she is talking about. Something to do with spines, or brains? Maybe lesions on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• My Daughter and Tibet

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  My daughter Hannah will soon receive her Ph.D. in neuroscience from a prestigious graduate school on the east coast. She tells me what she is working on, but, dufus that I am on all such matters, I havent got the slightest idea of what she is talking about. Something to do with spines, or brains? Maybe lesions on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama is Evil, and Republicans Can’t Beat Him Unless They Nominate Ron Paul

  
  The Daily Radical — Authority: 417
  An excerpt from my latest at United Liberty : Republicans can’t win by insisting that Obama is an evil, radical socialist. But I would argue that they also can’t win by insisting that Obama is inept and Romney — or Gingrich, Santorum, Huntsman, or Perry, for that matter — would do a better job. Republican ...
  2 weeks ago

• DeMint will not endorse before South Carolinas primary

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 593
  In recent days, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), an outspoken fiscal conservative, has defended Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), noting that Republicans should embrace some libertarian ideas . DeMint also sees the risk many Republican take in their public criticism of Paul, who has an incredibly dedicated group of followers, many of ...
  2 weeks ago

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