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Independent Institute: Somalia, the libertarian paradise - 12/27/06

Libertarianism - the political doctrine usually indistinguishable from satire - reaches one of its lows in a paper from Dr. Benjamin Powell called "Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?" He looks to be about 18 years old, but more telling is it's from the Independent Institute, the same group that gave us the Open Letter on Immigration.

CNN BlogParty, Blog Party, BlogStock - 11/07/06

The latest example of the mainstream reaching out to bloggers is CNN's "BlogStock", aka a "blog party" (1). They've invited a couple dozen mainstream bloggers to blog live from an internet cafe in Washington DC. Apparently this is supposed to be cutting edge, but most of those involved are partisan hacks. And, some of them qualify more as party operatives, with three of the "bloggers" working for magazines and one of those being the publisher editor-in-chief of the mag.

Peter Bagge is an idiot (Reason Magazine open borders cartoon) - 10/12/06

The Reason Magazine cartoonist offers a fine slab of pro-open borders propaganda in the cartoon ending here: reason . com/0608/bagge4.shtml. Let's take a look at a few of his points and see what he doesn't know or isn't telling his readers. (I'm fisking a cartoon?)

Lonewacko honored, humbled by Reason Magazine link - 09/19/06

As can be seen in the image below, a page at this site was recently linked to by Reason Magazine. That's a link to this page at the word "gripe" (hopefully he meant definition #3, "to be ardent").

Is Jim Burns nuttier than Badnarik? - 08/30/06

Jim Burns - for all 299,999,999 million of you who didn't know - is a 2008 Libertarian party presidential candidate. An interview with him asks an extremely hypothetical question: How would your administration deal with the threat of illegal immigration? The answer: I believe that people should be allowed to live any way they choose so long as they allow other to do the same.

The childlike Dave Weigel - 08/22/06

David Weigel of Reason is guest posting at Andrew Sullivan's blog and offers a discussion of Pat Buchanan's latest book that's even dumber than that that Sully would have provided. Can anyone point me to the border towns where democracy has collapsed, supplanted by Latin American-style caudillos? We can come close: "Mexican drug cartels take over U.S. cities", colonias, "Task force targets cross-border violence", "Combating Southwest border violence" (and as pointed out below, Maywood CA) Have Arizona, California, and the rest of the Southwest become less American or less loyal?...

Tony Snow spins massive illegal immigration in Reason Magazine - 07/30/06

The lunatic libertarians at Reason Magazine have a special issue about illegal immigration.

EFE admits Goldwater "concentration camps" smear - 06/28/06

Spanish news agency EFE has apologized for its smear of Arizona gubanatorial candidate Don Goldwater. It said he wanted to hold illegal aliens in "concentration camps". Now they say: EFE Executive Vice President Emillio Sanchez said a freelance writer for the news agency inaccurately described Goldwater's plan. "Upon further reflection, our investigation has determined that your plan to house illegal prisoners in a tent city is consistent with accepted practices for nonviolent American prisoners in your area," Sanchez said in the letter released Tuesday by Goldwater's campaign. The...

Join The Jobs for South Asia Coalition! - 02/01/06

In the recent entry "Central Valley orange growers look to Thailand for labor" I alluded to a "shocking revelation", and now's the time to reveal what that meant. The "Jobs for South Asia Coalition" - which you probably never heard of - was a Swiftian satire on guest worker programs.

Reason Magazine's Hit & Run now using idiotic nofollow tag - 09/10/05

The loony libertarians at Reason Magazine's Hit & Run are now using the braindead nofollow tag on links in comments. See this for just some of the reasons why that's an idiotic idea. Pending clarification, I'm going to put Reason's decision in the "psychological affliction/what else do you expect libertarians to do/cut off nose to spite face" category. UPDATE: In case you aren't familiar with this issue, here's what it means: - If you've left comments at their site in

Standing in solidarity against Reason Magazine - 08/14/05

The purported secret project designed to completely discredit any libertarian form of thought, otherwise known as Reason Magazine, has banned fellow blogger Xrlq from commenting there. This blog stands in solidarity with comrade Xrlq against the loony libertarians.

Tamar Jacoby, CPAC, immigration, and not yet clued-in bloggers - 02/20/05

There was an immigration panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, and a few bloggers have reports. Unfortunately, none of those bloggers have yet seen the light, but that might change. First up we have "Anti-Immigration = Anti-Capitalist" from Ryan Sager. His bio: ...a member of the editorial board of The New York Post...

It's like a BlogFight, but at a much higher level - 02/16/05

Live! Tonight's fights are being broadcast live from the Rand Center in beautiful Manorland, New Hampshire! Tonight's feature fight (reason . com/hitandrun/2005/02/alterman_on_the.shtml) is doughty libertarian Cathy Young vs. sprightly liberal Eric Alterman! In the undercard, Michael Young faces off (reason . com/hitandrun/2005/02/did_you_say_no.shtml) against Justin Raimondo. Let's get ready to rumble..... zzzzzzzzzzz......

Today's comments - 12/20/04

The "libertarians" at Reason Magazine have yet another post (reason . com/hitandrun/2004/12/family_values_d_1.shtml) supporting illegal immigration. See my comments. "Liberal" TalkLeft supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens. I supply the correct side of the argument here (talkleft . com/new_archives/009067.html) and in the extended entry. The comment at TalkLeft:

When Libertarians attack! - 12/13/04

In response to the WashTimes article mentioned in the last post ("Hillary goes conservative on immigration", link), Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine offers the following (reason . com/hitandrun/2004/12/hillarys_nation.shtml).

Oh yeah? So, when's the last time a magazine's web editor misstated *your* position? - 12/12/04

Reason Magazine is apparently a well-known libertarian magazine with a press run of somewhere around 10,000 or 20,000 issues, most of them distributed for free on racks at AR*CO. OK, maybe their circulation is more around 50,000 or something. In any case, their Hit & Run blog frequently posts pro-Open Borders posts, and I frequently tell them exactly where they're wrong.

Libertarians on the loose - 12/04/04

The Cato Institute's Daniel Griswold has a column in Reason Magazine supporting Bush's "guest" worker plan (reason . com/hod/dg120304.shtml) "Beyond the Barbed Wire: Bush won a mandate for immigration reform". In their Hit & Run post (reason . com/hitandrun/2004/12/new_at_reason_298.shtml) about this article, I left the following comment: If you have the time, I'd very strongly suggest you watch this video (cato . org/events/040116pf.html). It's 80 Megs, but you can download it first using something like Offline Explorer Pro. The video features the author of this piece, together with an...

"Who is Maurice Strong?" - 08/18/04

Here's a flashback to September 1, 1997, courtesy of National Review and Ronald Bailey (also a writer for Reason Magazine). Note that the article is from NR, despite the URL: 'THE survival of civilization in something like its present form might depend significantly on the efforts of a single man," declared The New Yorker. The New York Times hailed that man as the "Custodian of the Planet." He is perpetually on the short list of candidates for Secretary General of the United Nations. This lofty eminence?

Yes, I know the Watermelon Party and the Big-L Libertarians are odious, but... - 08/02/04

Here's something I support 100% (link): Here is an idea that can be the activist centerpiece of the 2004 campaign. It can also be used in gubernatorial, senatorial and future campaigns. It will generate more excitement among activists than anything else we've done. It is a venture that will create bigger audiences, publicity and support at a fraction of the cost and effort of previous efforts.

John Kerry, civil libertarian. Part 2 - 07/26/04

The liberaltarians at Reason provide a run-down of Kerry's record on civil liberties (reason . com/hod/jb072604.shtml): Then it was Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.) who argued alongside the ACLU in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software. Ashcroft "was kind of the go-to guy for all of us on the Republican side of the Senate," recalls David Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

* Edwards Has "Never Done Any Serious Farming." - 07/06/04

This anti-John Edwards Talking Point (#492 of a series) was brought to you by the RNC (gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?id=4345). (Via the wacky liberaltarians at Reason reason . com/hitandrun/005870.shtml)

What color is the sky in your perfect world? - 03/08/04

I scored a 20 on the Libertarian Purity Test (bcaplan . com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi). This is much lower than others: theagitator . com/archives/010681.php and reason . com/hitandrun/004561.shtml The 20 score puts me in the "you just might have some libertarian thoughts, but you need to memorize Atlas Shrugged" category. Here are the other categories: 80 - 100: Your libertarian ideals are quite remarkable. You are more Kirk than Picard. 100 - 120: Can you pinpoint the exact moment when you became estranged from the reality the rest of us share?

The WSJ is getting desperate - 03/04/04

Their latest editorial 'Lou Dobbs Takes On the World' (opinionjournal . com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110004778) has more than a whiff of desperation about it. All they have is ad hominem attacks and attempts to impugn his motives. Along the way, they act as apologists for the liberal media. The WSJ seriously doubts what Lou Dobbs says because the rest of CNN and the rest of the media doesn't cover it. I guess they're able to completely forget about media bias when it's biased in their direction.

What part of "illegal alien" doesn't the L.A. Times understand? - 08/03/03

The Sunday L.A. Times has an editorial ("Maywood's Mean Money Machine" link) which purports to be about the attempts of a small L.A. suburb to increase revenues by impounding cars at a traffic checkpoint. However, it soon turns into a pro-illegal-immigration essay. The editorial's author, Frank del Olmo, promises Part Two of the editorial on Monday.

Blumenthal Book Signing Watch - 06/05/03

I suggest we rightie bloggers visit Sidney Blumenthal's various book signings and ask him questions. Two signings have been covered so far, with at least three remaining to be covered. If anyone knows of any other scheduled signings, please let me know. Here are the current reports in tabular form:

Lonewacko sets the tone - 06/05/03

Reason has a report from a Sidney Blumenthal book signing here (reason . com/links/links060503.shtml). It's pretty good, but, didn't I do something like that, like, last week? Plus, my report is enhanced with a nice pic of Saint Sid.

Welcome to the Lonewacko movement - 05/19/03

A while back, I sent an email to an OB (see the previous entry) in which I listed a few of the things I found wrong with our Iraq efforts. He hasn't written much about similar topics - too busy with the Blair scandal and welfare reform I guess - but it's good to see that a few other non-lefties are finally starting to pay attention to our problems. HereticalIdeas has a post here, and Hit & Run has one here (reason . com/hitandrun/001569.shtml).

"Note to conservatives: Most immigrants aren't terrorists" - 02/19/03

The Reason Magazine article "Guilty by Association: Note to conservatives: Most immigrants aren't terrorists" is at [1]. I posted an excerpt from the article here [2], in the hopes of perhaps a letter or two being sent to Reasononline letting them know where they're wrong.

Anti-warriors, cartoon-style - 02/13/03

Ken Layne links to this funny cartoon (reason . com/0303/bagge.shtml) about a visit to an anti-war protest.

"Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons" - 02/06/03

This was in Bush's speech, and it's the lead story on Drudge. However, it was also in Powell's speech yesterday.

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