According to BusinessWeek’s Michael Mandel (Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?), Social Security has all the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme – except that we can count on harnessing the free dividends produced by inventors of future productivity-increasing technology, thereby extending its sustainability indefinitely and … insert random leap of logic here … magically converting […]
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Liberty is an important value. It gives meaning to life and leads to prosperity. If we aren’t free to follow our hearts and visions, of what use is life?
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The LP is dead. Long live the LP!
The Libertarian Party has lost its way. We who seek a more libertarian, transparent and effective LP need to work together today to build a replacement LP so we can sweep internal elections next year and quickly put the LP back on track as a force for mobilizing opposition to expanding government power. On the […]
I’m forming the Liberty Media Rapid Response Team. Our mission is to instantly deploy single-issue, activist-support and related media campaigns using both old and new media to get our liberty message out there. I’m the same guy that did 93days.com and libertarianpartycandidates.us. If you’re interesting in doing media stuff – writing, graphic design, web design, […]
I need to issue a correction for my November 13 article LNC Members Speak Out on Executive Session. One more LNC member had responded but I failed to include his responses. See below the responses from LNC Region 6 Alternate Jake Porter. My apologies to Mr Porter. 5 Questions Here are the questions I asked […]
In a six-part BBC documentary Law and Disorder in Philadelphia, Louis Theroux attempts to discover why there is so much drug-related violence in certain Philadelphia neighborhoods. He rides around with police for most of the 60-minute video but near the end spends some time speaking with a police-fingered “drug lord” (without the cops around, for […]
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Angela Keaton to Resign from the LNC
The anti-Keaton crowd won at last weekend’s LNC meeting. No, they didn’t have the spine or the votes to formally remove Ms Keaton. Sadly, they also lacked the intestinal fortitude to declare the charges for what they are: complete and unmitigated FAIL. The LNC Abstained from Choice Instead, they removed Ms Keaton with uncertainty and […]
A few weeks ago I stated my intention to form an LP Transparency Caucus. I’d like to form a Transparency Caucus in the LP in order to identify what concrete and specific steps we can take to be more open and to restore people’s trust as well as to field a slate of candidates for […]
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Watching the San Diego LNC Meeting
Not in San Diego but want to keep up with the LNC meeting? Watch it live and chat about it at justin.tv/tannim123. Watch Mike Seebeck’s live-blog, or Angela Keaton‘s. There is also ongoing coverage at independentpoliticalreport.com. Both sides are reportedly confident that they have the votes to get their way on the Keaton brouhaha. Update: […]
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Navigating the Keaton-LNC Brouhaha
If you’re confused and feeling overwhelmed by all the bile being spilled around the issue of disciplining Libertarian National Committee At-Large Representative Angela Keaton, you’re not alone. Flood Fails to Show Harm to LP LNC Region 4 Representative Stewart Flood is accusing Ms Keaton of disloyalty to the LP, engaging in reckless behavior, violating executive […]
The minutes from the last LNC meeting were finally posted to lp.org today. This last meeting ended 81 days ago. There are only 9 days to go before the start of the next LNC meeting. The Membership Effectively Shut Out Add to this the fact that the minutes are a 64-page tome. How is anyone […]