... another. And, don't trust those "libertarians" who want to help those crooks, such as by supporting what will always be in reality a huge subsidy. Those crooks get to profit from massive illegal activity and push all the costs - direct and indirect - off on the rest of us.
P.S. Mere presence in the U.S. can be criminal for some (such as those who were expelled but came back). IAs have also been...
... those in the tea parties and libertarians camp - and now the GOP under their sway - don't want it to come back. In fact, they want to get rid of even more:
"The president... needs to take much more than a scalpel to the Department of Education's budget - there’s room to take an ax," said Lindsey Burke, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank.
Thus, my question to...
... really isn't all that far from the libertarians ideal. Herbold would have a large, nearly-all-powerful central government running things. Boudreaux and other libertarians would simply replace that nearly-all-powerful government with a nearly-all-powerful private "government" consisting of the Koch family and a small number of the very rich. And, both Herbold and libertarians are just concerned...
... profiteering from illegal activity, libertarians would just prefer that they didn't exist. Of course, perhaps Reynolds means the millions of public sector employees in the U.S.: teachers, nurses, and other fields.
Or, maybe he means the millions of his fellow citizens who are unemployed. Even with very high unemployment, Barack Obama as well as libertarians and "Profits at any Price"...
Ron Paul's latest book ("Liberty Defined") shows that his position on immigration is not only bad, but in the book he uses some of the same old immigration talking points as other Beltway hacks. People don't use canards like jobs Americans wont do naturally; either Paul has been compromised, or he's corrupt (selling out his principles for political gain), or someone else wrote the immigration...
Last night, Congress finally did something about massive government spending (link), the single most important issue ever to face the U.S. and the only thing keeping us from continued hope, growth, opportunity and prosperity.
Er, maybe not. And, in fact, others used to agree. For instance, consider this table showing the average number of monthly mentions of the listed terms at HotAir [1]. In...
If you've been following our extensive tea parties coverage, you'll know where this is going (and if you're a teapartier, you'll have no clue):
Last fall, [Institute for Liberty's] president, Andrew Langer, had himself videotaped [ peekURL.com/vM87wLC ] on Long Wharf in Boston holding a copy of the Declaration of Independence as he compared Washington’s proposed tariff on paper from Indonesia and...
... nationwide, independent group of libertarians that present themselves as the "Conscience of the Republican Party". Think of them as a more established, slightly saner, slightly more principled, non-"NeoCon" version of the tea parties. Their policies - like those of other libertarians - are also a cruel joke, especially on California.
Like other libertarians, one of their policies - open borders...
... Tea Party, conservatives, or libertarians? (Gabrielle Giffords shooting)
* Jared Loughner: anti-Bush, pro-small government? Intellectually dishonest Tea Party defenders
* Claims by Tea Party enablers that Pima Sheriff Dupnik could have stopped Loughner are false
* Friend's claim that Loughner wasn't political is two years out of date
* Jared Loughner's AboveTopSecret postings show no clear...
... Tea Party, conservatives, or libertarians? (Gabrielle Giffords shooting)
* Jared Loughner: anti-Bush, pro-small government? Intellectually dishonest Tea Party defenders
* Claims by Tea Party enablers that Pima Sheriff Dupnik could have stopped Loughner are false
* Loughner's "Genocide school" video
* Jared Loughner's AboveTopSecret postings show no clear political slant
* Arizona state Fusion...
... movement.
See the tea parties and libertarians pages for past coverage of both movements.
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[1] He briefly worked as a volunteer at the Pima Animal Care Center but was taken off dog-walking duties after failing to understand why he shouldn't walk dogs in an area that was being decontaminated for a contagious animal disease (link). He was continually disruptive at Pima Community...
... affiliated with the tea parties or libertarians movements. Both of those groups haven't shied away from painting their opponents in the worst terms possible and engaging in apocalyptic language. Sometimes that's included implied violence, such as in the two following graphics.
The first is from Sarah Palin's website and shows several Congressmen's districts in what appear to be gun crosshairs....
Bad news for libertarians and the tea parties: a new Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll shows little support for fiscal conservative policies (link):
[The poll] shows Americans skeptical of deficit-cutting proposals laid out by the chairmen of a commission appointed by the White House. In the survey, 57% of respondents said they were uncomfortable with gradually raising the Social Security...
... those in Roger Simon's circle - libertarians and "free marketeer" types as well as the GWB types - allowed it to happen.
So, considering that Roger Simon's circle is responsible for allowing CA to fall to this level, it's not surprising that he wouldn't mention that to you. You might want to bring it up to him however such as when he makes public appearances.
Instead of revealing the root causes...
Just after winning the Senate race from Kentucky, Rand Paul told Wolf Blitzer the following (video below and at peekURL.com/vufapvr ):
PAUL: I would say that they must be in favor of a second American depression, because if you raise taxes to that consequence, that's what will happen in this country. Raising taxes in the midst of a recession would be a disaster for our economy. And anybody who...
Twice each year, the Koch family conducts strategy meetings with corporate and thought leaders to plan how to advance their "free market" ideology. ThinkProgress has the guest list and program for their June 2010 meeting (in Aspen), and, while immigration isn't mentioned, many of the known attendees are on the wrong side.
I don't normally recommend anything at ThinkProgress, but in this case I'll...
Eight public officials in the city of Bell, California were recently arrested regarding the pay scandal in that city (link). Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley says they misappropriated $5.5 million from that poor city south of downtown.
Some media reports failed to note that the eight charged are all Democrats, and Glenn Reynolds [1], Ed Morrissey of HotAir [2], and Lachlan Markay...
... add more in comments.
Various libertarians and fellow travelers have used Bell as an example of why the salaries of public officials should be limited and of why their pensions should be kept in check. However, they've consistently failed to note the role that what they support has played in Bell's issues.
The issue is obvious to readers of this site: immigration. Bell lies in southeast Los...
... featuring those in the tea parties / libertarians orbit, the teapartier/libertarian idiot spends more time asking about asking a question than... actually asking a question.
3. As in other videos by these same types of people, the idiot ends up asking things that are open-ended or are statements not questions. See the bad questions page for other examples. If you're going to ask a politician a...
Gretchen Hamel - formerly part of the Trade Representative's office in the George W Bush administration and now with the website Bankrupting America - offers the video entitled "REAL or FAKE: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?" ( peekURL.com/v1mwxc7 ). It features woman-on-the-street interviews in which Michelle Muccio - the "Rebel Economist" - asks people...
It's time to reach into the Big Bag of Crazy known as the Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media universe. This time with the anti-American screed called "The Real Anchors / Anchor babies? Maybe we should worry more about native anchors" (pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-real-anchors) by one Rand Simberg. The fact that he's turning to Robert Heinlein to craft a new citizenship policy is actually the least of...
... Jillette.
Reason Magazine - and libertarians in general - tend to conveniently forget all the externalities and other issues involved in what they promote, and in this case the price of the tickets - no matter what they are - won't reflect the full cost of the voyage. In other words, their libertarian voyage is going to be heavily subsidized, even if those unintelligent enough to be libertarians...
... Border Fence Baffles Cornyn, Libertarians" (huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/rand-pauls-underground-el_n_624535.html). It's one small step up from something you'd see on "Rock Bottom" (peekURL.com/vt2fh5z).
... leaving her blog in the hands of libertarians even more extremist and lunatic than she is [1]. One of those is Katherine Mangu Ward of Reason Magazine who, referring to a U.S. ironing board factory that was propped up with tariffs, says [2]:
Econ 101 aside, though, there's a more compelling moral reason to condemn this kind of tariff that should help break deadlocks like Matt's: Jobs lost at...
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson started the "Our America Initiative" last year, possibly as a precursor to a presidential run. He's a libertarian and that means two things: a) he might as well save his donors the money because he's never going to get mainstream support, and b) he's wrong.
How he's wrong about immigration will be discussed below. First, here are two snippets showing his...
... be some explanation why many libertarians and those in the tea parties think that playing dress-up games and putting on a show is an argument. The same isn't true of other political groups; the only two I can think of that come close are PETA and CodePink. The great majority of political groups try to make an argument or (as in the case of this site for the most part) try to show how the...
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Sharron Angle [1] won the Republican primary against Harry Reid yesterday, and as could be expected Democratic Party proxies are already beginning their attack. One of those is Justin Elliot of TalkingPointsMemo, who offers "FLASHBACK: GOPer Angle Spoke Out Against Fluoride In Water Supply" [2].
It's a low-grade attempt to provoke a conditioned response that most people have...
The video at pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/100575 has an interview Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine did with Mickey Kaus. At the beginning they discuss immigration, and Gillespie, rather unbelievably, asks "what was the negative outcome of the 1986 immigration reform [bill]". Kaus responds with the obvious answer: we have millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. Gillespie then asks, "why is it a...
Glenn Reynolds ("Instapundit") excerpts "Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for state welfare to be ended in California" (instapundit.com/99408, article: link). Instead of correctly pointing out that if Arnold and most of the state legislature weren't completely corrupt they'd seek to reduce illegal immigration in order to reduce spending, Reynolds appends an update containing the anti-American,...
... for the current law lies with libertarians, to the extent that they have any power. By encouraging massive illegal activity they've made the situation in Arizona intolerable for many Arizonans, and those Arizonans have responded. If, instead of supporting anarchy on the border - through such things as smearing those who want to enforce our immigration laws - libertarians had supported reasonable...
... then "facilitated" by Beltway libertarians, this event is more the creature of those low-level libertarians themselves; think of the "Free the Jefferson 1" effort (freethejefferson1.wordpress.com). Those attending, possibly attending, or indicating that they can't attend include Randy Barnett, Alex Nowrasteh, Tim Mak of the American Enterprise Institute, two or more associated with the Koch...
... disastrous impact on the Rust Belt. Libertarians couldn't care less: any sense of nationalism in even the best of senses is abhorrent to them. Libertarians have little or no loyalty to their countrymen: to them a job is a job, whether it's done by an American or someone in a forced labor reeducation camp in China doesn't matter if the latter costs less. Further, Reason Magazine is a key part of...
Alex Nowrasteh [1] of the Koch family-linked Competitive Enterprise Institute offers "E-Verify is a Spectacular Failure and Should be Abandoned" [2], referring to this recent report. It contains several curious passages, such as:
While it cannot identify illegal/undocumented immigrants 54%, E-Verify could accomplish one thing: ossification of U.S. labor markets. With the official unemployment...
... guns, and calling the view of Libertarians who believe President Bush was a war criminal "nuts."
"We're not going to be the party of angry white guys," Graham said to more shouts.
You can see videos of it at peekURL.com/vg48dmi peekURL.com/vacmnj1
There are a couple components of this story:
1. Some of the people doing the heckling were apparently libertarians who support Ron Paul. I only...
On Friday, RedState front-paged the Brian Johnson article "Conservative Immigration Reform is Right Next to Unicorns and Leprechauns" [1]. At first you might think he's just some random libertarian loon, until you see the article in its original location at the "Alliance for Worker Freedom" [2]. Scrolling to the bottom, you see that AWF is a member of the H2B Workforce Coalition and the Essential...
... of the only two (2) Celebrity Libertarians to ever exist - draws (reason.com/blog/show/131559.html) our attention to a ludicrous website called "What's the Harm" (whatstheharm.net) which attempts to show the harm in beliefs and activities that most people - in their ignorance - would consider harmless. They say it "does not pursue any hidden agenda, other than promoting critical thinking" (...
... joint venture with the pseudo-libertarians at Reason Magazine [1]. In various video segments he presents the "libertarian" view of things, and the latest is called "The Cost of Securing Our Southern Border" (reason.tv/video/show/434.html). Like everyone else, I didn't bother to watch it, but I feel safe in asserting that there are many things he forgot to mention. This snippet is provided:
"One...
... to reach out to the extremist libertarians on this issue. On the other hand, there's nothing to differentiate him from the three major candidates on immigration, an issue that many people care about and that the vast majority of Americans would care about if someone were able to explain everything involved in this issue.
Barr is also going to face a lot of heat from the GOP; see for instance...
... level of immigration that most libertarians support, with some of those even supporting open borders. Which brings us to this:
Grant amnesty -- er, citizenship -- to illegal immigrants. Neither Democrats' fears that unskilled arrivals drive down union wages nor GOP concerns about assimilation are borne out by facts. Most new arrivals go to places with hot economies, and Spanish-speaking...