The only viable solution to the nation’s public infrastructure crisis is privatization. Not bad, but let’s just sell this infrastructure outright instead.
Are candidates for public office qualified? Are they up to speed on the law, pending legislation, top issues facing our nation, economics, political philosophy, parliamentary procedure and other factual knowledge and wisdom one needs to be an effective representative? We should draw up an exam, test our candidates and publish the results.
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Bob Barr is Wrong on Social Security
Libertarian candidate for President Bob Barr released a position paper on Social Security the other day that, frankly, is very disappointing. His proposal is a half-measure that fails to allow most people to opt out and suffers from a terrible case of doublethink. We need to end Social Security – in our lifetime – without leaving either senior citizens or working taxpayers in the lurch.
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Loudest Voice = Majority Opinion
Loudest Voice = Majority Opinion, or how a small group can exert influence greater than its numbers. We in the Liberty movement might benefit from using psychology to make our numbers seem greater than they actually are.
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Long Tale Press: Crowd-sourced Fiction?
“Long Tale Press strives to publish the best fiction possible by letting readers … tell us which manuscripts submitted by writers are the ones we should devote our publishing resources to.” This is like crowdsourcing for novels. Cool idea.
Free for All, the movie details how the GOP stole the 2000 and 2004 elections with media collusion and shows how citizen activism, even on a small scale, can make the difference. Honest elections needs to be a top priority for the Libertarian Party.
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LP Candidates Need Better Websites
While doing research for Libertarian Party Candidates earlier this month, I noticed that most of the more than 550 LP candidates running this year do not have websites. And of those who do, few are effective. By effective I mean: Effective Candidate Websites are professional-looking and aren’t straight out of 1995. highly readable: good-looking large […]
This gorgeous movie is mesmerizing. Our planet is so beautiful.
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A Homeschooling Idea
While watching a Yale University philosophy lecture for free on line, it occurred to me that free courses – such as those from MIT and Yale – could form the basis for an advanced secondary home-school education. For example, here is an Intro to Physics course from Yale.
Amazon has finally enabled Kindle owners to request that a print book be made available in Kindle format. It’s about time. For an example, see The Sagas of Icelanders. Under the picture of the book cover there is a link that says “Please tell the publisher: I’d like to read this book on Kindle”. Start […]