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  • NY Court of Appeals Upholds Eminent Domain

    From the Institute for Justice:   WEB RELEASE: November 24, 2009 Media Contact: Christina Walsh (703) 682-9320 [Private Property] Arlington, Va.—The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, today announced that it would uphold the decision of the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) to condemn privately owned homes and small businesses to make way [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:50pm EST
    by Mark Axinn

  • Napolitano, Health Care and Nullification

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    You have to check out this Freedom Watch November 11 segment (linked below) . Judge Napolitano interviews former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson about H.R. 3962, the recently passed House Health Care bill.  In the midst of a sea of despair over the latest assault on personal sovereignty, constitutional government and fiscal [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:43pm EST
    by Ron Moore

  • NYC Libertarian Chapter Officer Arrested in Free Speech Violation

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    Manhattan Libertarian Party Membership Director, Antonio Musumeci, was arrested Monday, and his camera’s memory card confiscated.  Antonio was recording  Julian Heicklen, a fully informed jury activist , as he distributed FIJA information at the federal courthouse in New York City. This incident takes New York City’s police state to new and bizarre levels.  [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:47pm EST
    by Ron Moore

  • Audit the Fed: Tom Woods Testimony Today

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    Hearings began today on Ron Paul’s  HR1207 which proposes to audit the Federal Reserve.  Dr. Wood’s says it beautifully. I can’t begin to compare so read his testimony here. First, this is a huge victory for the forces of freedom in New York City.  Dozens of heroic volunteers from the Campaign [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Separating the Libertarians from the Neocons

    Grand Street News, a fine community paper serving the lower east side, features yours truly in the latest issue. Sharp-eyed editor Yori Yanover noticed that Politico.com was confusing lovable Libertarians with ill-mannered Republicans, and contacted me for clarification: The other day, we read in Lloyd Doggett’s report in Politico about the [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 6:18pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Reason Enough to Oppose the Senate Health Care Bill

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    … and start a business issuing 1099’s.   A forbes.com article ‘Senate Six’ Could Sink Small Business yesterday listed a number of nails in the coffins of small businesses, including: fees for not offering health insurance 35% tax on health plans worth over $8000 (singles) per year. cap flexible spending accounts at $2000 per year eliminate [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 4:06pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Spitzer Reprise?

    CJ Maloney blogs today on Eliot Spitzer in Hubris and the Hooker on Lew Rockwell. CJ will be our guest at next Monday’s (Sep 14) meeting of the Manhattan Libertarian Party. Details here. [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 8:43am EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • You can’t make this stuff up

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    I’m watching the Senate Health Committee debates. Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R)  introduced an amendment that as far as I could tell required members of the Senate to participate in whatever public plan they create for the common man and woman, apparently instead of the lush plan the taxpayer subsidizes [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 11:55pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • NYC Libertarians submit over 10,000 signatures for 10 Libertarian party candidates!

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    I was delighted to be a very small part last night in the submission at the Board of Elections of over 10,000 signatures on petitions for 10 candidates of the Libertarian Party in New York City. In addition to three city-wide candidates, we have Borough President and City Council candidates in [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 2:14pm EDT
    by Mark Axinn

  • Health Care Debate: Plenty of Free Market Solutions

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    Few people would deny that something needs to change in the US health care system.  Reasonable people can disagree about how to go about it but the major divide comes down to whether you respect others rights to their opinion or instead prefer to solve problems by force.  Our rulers [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Does Anyone Really Want to Fix Healthcare

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    Seems to me a significant percentage of Americans don’t really care much about health.  Many of us smoke, drink, are overweight, eat the wrong things and don’t exercise.  of course there are many health conscious Americans who don’t fall into any of those categories.   But  a lot do.    Why should the [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 10:50am EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Is The Stimulus Working?

    Dutifully fulfilling it’s role as chief propagandist for the State, today’s New York Times declares that  It is clearly too soon to know for sure. But the evidence is now pointing pretty strongly in one direction: history books may conclude that the financial crisis of 2008 turned out to be far [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 1:25pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Rand Paul: Pretty Impressive on Health Care

    Rand Paul is a candidate for US Senate from Kentucky and he spoke at a fundraiser last night in New York City to a large enthusiastic crowd.  He was joined by Peter Schiff (will he run for Senate too?), Adam Kokesh a candidate for Congress from New Mexico  and Congressman Scott Garrett [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 8:19pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Worst Treasury Secretary :Rubin, Paulson or Geithner

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    I am giving an award for worst Treasury Secretary. And I am nominating these guys. Hamilton of course is in a class of his own so I am naming it after him. The Alexander Hamilton Award for Worst Treasury Secretary. It all started when I got to thinking the other day [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2009, 6:04pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Real Men of Genius: Me

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    I’m 19 years old. Every time I get a paycheck, about 5% is missing, gone to a line that says “Social Security.” Theoretically, when I turn 65 I’ll start receiving a check every month or so based upon how much money I’ve earned in my life. I don’t think this [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 11:14am EDT
    by chuckv

  • NY Public Pension Costs Set to Triple

    It shouldn’t surprise anyone.  Public watchdog groups have been pointing this out for years.  I pointed it out when I ran for Comptroller in 2005.  I even saw Mayor Bloomberg mention it – once.  Public pension costs are probably the single most impotant item creating the structural deficits in New [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 7:43pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • More Stimulus Unintended Consequences – Fewer New Jobs

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    Those of us who are fans of Austrian Economics knew it all along.  George McGovern apparently learned it too late.  Barak Obama and his economic advisers seem clueless still.  Government intervention in the economy nearly always does more harm than good.  An online article  ,  How the Stimulus Discourages Hiring , [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 2:50pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • NYC Congressional Delegation in Minority in Opposing Federal Reserve Audit

    NYC Congressional Delegation in Minority in Opposing Federal Reserve Audit Posted using ShareThis [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Senate coup restores sweet gridlock to Albany

    Senate coup restores sweet gridlock to Albany Posted using ShareThis [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 6:01pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • A Large and Uncomfortable Fact

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    George Orwell once noted that at any given moment there is a general tacit agreement not to discuss some large and uncomfortable fact, and the sad fact is there’s such an agreement out and about concerning a gold standard versus a paper standard. Trust me, believing in a gold standard [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 1:01am EDT
    by cjmaloney

  • Obama’s Interventionist Foreign Policy

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    C.J. Maloney blogs on Mises about Obama’s surprisingly interventionist foreign policy.  Maloney will also speak at the Manhattan Libertarian Party’s chapter meeting on June 8.  The meeting is open to the public and all are welcome. Details here. [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 7:41am EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • FTC complaint filed against NY Lottery for deceptive advertising

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    The ads for New York Lottery’s Take Five game claim the odds of winning are 1 in 9. But the odds of winning even the smallest cash prize are actually 1 in 109. Today I filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about the New York Lottery’s deceptive advertising [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 6:41pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Friedman Scandal Illustrates Need for Federal Reserve Reform

    In my latest dispatch for the Examiner, I follow up on my earlier column about the conflict of interest between the Federal Reserve and the banks it regulates. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Bank of New York chairman Stephen Friedman resigned amid questions about his ongoing role as a director and [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2009, 1:55am EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Unintended Consequences: How Government Gets Everything Wrong

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    My left-liberal (as opposed to classical liberal) friends tell me to shut up when I harp on how Government can’t do anything right.  They tell me it’s a worn out cliche.  It’s a cliche for a reason.  It’s true.  Think about it. I’ll bet you can’t name a single thing [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • NYC Escalates War on Art with Acid Registry

    In today’s dispatch for the Examiner, I report on the latest buffoonery from the NYC Council, a registry for purchasers of hydrochloric acid: Big Brother will be keeping tabs on who buys etching acid, thanks to a new law introduced by Council Member Peter Vallone Jr. and passed by the New [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 10:55pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • As Support for Fed Transparency Grows, New York’s Representatives Lay Low

    In my latest dispatch for The Examiner, I look at the snowballing support for H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, which now has 124 co-sponsors. Missing among those co-sponsors, however, are any congressmembers from New York City or Long Island. Why might this be the case? The biggest [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 12:13am EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Cannabis Shows Promise as Treatment for Swine Flu

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    In today’s Examiner column, I jump on the swine flu bandwagon with a drug war twist: Cannabis could alleviate many of the symptoms and harmful effects of the H5N1 bird flu and H1N1 swine flu viruses, according to a report from Cannabis Science, an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company based in San [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 11:32pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Assembly ambushes gun owners with early vote on 4 bills

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    In my latest dispatch for the Examiner, I write about today’s passage of four new anti-gun bills in the state Assembly: The New York State Assembly passed at least 4 bills today that would further restrict gun rights in the state, according to the Assembly’s website. Additional anti-gun bills are like [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 7:33pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • NY Libertarian Examiner

    Starting today, I have a regular column at Examiner.com. My first column covers Saturday’s Audit the Fed rally: The New York rally featured an impressive lineup of heavyweight Fed critics – columnist Becky Akers, economics professor Murray Sabrin, and former Congressman Jospeh DioGuardi, who has the distinction of being the only [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 10:01pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Buzzing Lower Manhattan with a Jet is Bad, Mmmm-kay?

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    So the geniuses at the Defense Department decided it would be a good idea to fly a 747 low over the southern tip of Manhattan this morning, escorted by two F-16 fighters. And just for good measure they ordered local authorities not to let the public know what was happening. In [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 2:58pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Melt the Switchboards on the Fed’s Hidden Tax

    If there is one issue that both the left and right would miraculously agree on is the abolition of the Federal Reserve. That’s because it is ultimately and directly responsible for one tax the rich and poor alike end up paying – inflation. [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2009, 7:22pm EDT
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez

  • Hundreds Protest the Federal Reserve in NYC

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    Yesterday’s rally to Audit The Fed was a rousing success. Hundreds turned out on a warm spring day, and the speakers were fantastic. I’ll have more to say about the rally later, but in the meantime here are two early video reports from inflation.us. Here’s a yippie Uncle Sam denouncing the [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2009, 10:02am EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • VCR ALERT: Manhattan Libertarian Party Chairman on Fox Business News Tonight

    I just received confirmation from our media relations director, the lovely and talented Gina Miller, that Isaiah Matos, chairman of the Manhattan Libertarian Party, is scheduled to appear on Fox Business News with Neil Cavuto tonight at 6:15 p.m. Isaiah will be discussing the big Audit The Fed rally, which [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • We hate to say we told you so, but…….

    Advocates of free markets have been trying tell the tax-and-spend and borrow- and- spend crowd since Adam, ( that’s Adam Smith) that central planners in government just don’t have the information (not to mention the motivati0n) to allocate resources effectively.   Seems like the stimulus package is just another example of a billion  (or two or three) [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2009, 5:52pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Activists Demand Audit of Federal Reserve, Call for Transparency of Government

    Press release from the NYC Campaign for Liberty and the Manhattan Libertarian Party: New York liberty activists, comprised of members of Restore the Republic, NYC Campaign for Liberty, and the Manhattan Libertarian Party will gather at 33 Liberty Street Saturday, April 25, 2009, at 11 a.m. to demand a full and [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2009, 2:35pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Let’s Confiscate Congress’s Pay

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    I just got today’s Monday email from Libertarian HQ.  Seems Alan Grayson, Congressman from Florida went so far as to go on national television and claim the Constitution gives the President’s administration the right to forcibly confiscate money from people the administration feels didn’t “earn” it! I have an even better idea.  [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 6:05pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Insert Gratuitous “No It’s Not the Onion” Line Here

    The U.S. Senate is reviewing the selection process for college football’s BCS championship. I agree with Karol at Alarming News on this one: The more time they waste on crap like this, the better, because it means they’ll have less time to screw with the important stuff. [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 10:44am EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Notice on rear of Departure Card, People’s Republic of China

    Important Notice   1. Aliens who do not lodge at hotels, guesthouses or inns shall, within 24 hours of entry, go through accomodation registration at local police station.   2. Aliens shall not be employed in China without permission of the competent authorities of the Chinese Government.   3. Aliens who reside or stay in China [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2009, 5:39pm EDT
    by Mark Axinn

  • Tax Foundation Says Households will Foot $144 Billion Under Cap-and-Trade

    American Households Would Face Annual Burden of $144.8 Billion Under Cap-and-Trade System   With climate change legislation becoming a top congressional priority in recent months, a new study shows that a cap-and-trade system curbing greenhouse gas emissions would place an annual burden of $144.8 billion on American households. The average annual household [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 8:12am EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Sundwall Says No to Stimulus (with Amendments)

    From the mighty Eric Sundwall, chairman of the Libertarian Party of New York and candidate in the 20th CD special election, comes a press release today spelling out his position on the Obama “stimulus” package. Sundwall says he would have voted against the scheme, but recognizing that it probably would [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 10:41pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Good Times at the International Conference on Climate Change

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    We just wrapped up three days at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by the Heartland Institute. The Manhattan Libertarian Party co-sponsored the conference, and I spent a good part of the last three days working an exhibit booth with our all-star Media Relations Director Gina Miller. The conference was [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • A healthy dose of skepticism

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    “Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life” stated MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen, another guest speaker, and noted manmade global warming skeptic at the ICCC. And if that dream happens to collude with a multi-billionaire’s Shamanic vision for unlimited profit, the answer to Ebell’s [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 3:23pm EDT
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez

  • 50,000 Leeches

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    The  subheadline at the WCBS website declares, “Taxpayers Tired of Recession & Furious With Budget Cuts Take Frustration to Streets of Manhattan.” Technically, I suppose the “labor unions, community groups and families” qualify as taxpayers, in that they go through the motions of filing a tax return each year, wherein [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 12:09am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Pork lawsuit dismissed

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    Jim Ostrowski advises as follows: In a brief ruling, Justice Michael Lynch today dismissed the taxpayer lawsuit to end the transfer of as much as two billion dollars in insolvent New York’s money to wealthy private corporations. The decision is published here: http://politicalclassdismissed.com/wp-content/uploads/Decision%20of%20Judge%20Lynch.pdf Essentially, the court held that the state could do an end [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 10:26pm EST
    by Mark Axinn

  • Libertarians of the world unite!

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    So what can be done other than leaving phone messages, emails and letter writing to your congressional representatives and senators? Particularly if one of them happens to be Chuck Schumer who believes he knows how to better spend 5.5% of your forcibly redistributed NY state income tax alone than you [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 10:15am EST
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez

  • Response to application to join Ford’s Theatre Society

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    From an LRC reader:   Dear Paul: I am in possession of your letter and an application to join the Ford’s Theatre Society. I need a few questions answered before I can consider sending in my money. In your letter you describe Abraham Lincoln as “a man who understood the true meaning of [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 2:04pm EST
    by Mark Axinn

  • It’s a Stumper, All Right

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    From the Times coverage of the ongoing nationalization of Citibank: Treasury officials, meanwhile, suggested using Citigroup as a test case for a public-private investment fund that would purchase troubled assets from banks. But neither policy makers nor Citigroup executives could settle on various issues, including how to value those illiquid securities [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2009, 1:55am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Stiffed by Big Oil

    DeSmogBlog has published an expose on the funding behind the nefarious co-sponsors of the International Conference on Climate Change, taking place March 8-10 at the Marriott Marquis. The Manhattan Libertarian Party happens to be one of those nefarious co-sponsors. According to DeSmogBlog, these co-sponsors “have received in excess of $47 million [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 5:57pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • City Teachers Guaranteed 8.25% Returns on 403(b) Plans

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    This is one of those stories that just makes you yell WTF! at the top of your lungs. From the indispensable Pension Tsunami website comes a link to this report about the teachers union’s unbelievably lavish defined-contribution plan. In addition to their insane pension benefits, which are breaking the backs of [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 12:27am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Taxpayers Clearinghouse

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    You may already be a loser… [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 11:41pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Let economic nature take its course

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    There is a way out of this global financial crisis. But it involves realizing that dire economic consequences such as record foreclosures, job losses, and looming hyperinflation are actually Darwinian wake up calls to usher in a new age of self-responsibility. [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 8:55pm EST
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez

  • Stop the Porn Tax!

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    If this doesn’t get the armchair activists away from their keyboards and into the streets, I don’t know what will. Among the many new taxes Governor Paterson is proposing is a tax on Internet porn. Okay, not just porn, but a tax on all Internet downloads. But honestly, what else is [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 2:24pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Video from the 2009 convention

    http://manhattanlp.org/media/ Adam Kokesh: Part 1, 2, 3 Alan Gura: Part 1, 2, 3, 4 Cameron Weber: Part 1, 2, 3, 4 [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 10:39am EST
    by bile

  • Everyone needs to be an economist

    If only everyone were an actual economist, or at the very least understood the basics, perhaps we wouldn’t be in the insane financial crisis of this global magnitude we’re in now. Of course, that is a huge “IF” considering economics is viewed as one of the most boring sciences which [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2009, 11:08am EST
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez

  • Snap, Crackle and Pot

    That toke Michael Phelps took may turn out to be the world’s most expensive, as Kellogg’s has dropped its sponsorship deal with the Olympic champion. Radley Balko, as he is wont to do, masterfully exposes the cereal company’s sheer hypocrisy: This would be the same company that for decades has been encouraging children [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 1:48am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Davos Debate not over

    It takes one to know one who has lived under the oppressive rule of an actual communist regime, and all its freedom restricting mandates based on collectivist ideologies, to recognize an eerily similar movement when branded with the same “morally imperatives” and one world government agenda they’ve heard before.[...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 7:24am EST
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez

  • The Most Appropriately Named Narcotic Ever

    “JANUARY 23–Add heroin to the scores of products that have been branded with President Barack Obama’s name. Cops in upstate New York this week broke up a drug ring that allegedly sold heroin under several brand names, including “Obama.” As seen in Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office photos, the president’s surname [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 9:06pm EST
    by chuckv

  • Welcome to New York - You Have the Right to Remain Silent…

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    Stories like this one pop up every few years with depressing  frequency. If you’re reading this in another, freer part of the country, try to remember that you must be completely defenseless when you travel through New York. I am a Nevada resident, I traveled to Atlanta, GA for a school, (I [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 7:42pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • We Could Do a Lot Worse Than Gillibrand

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    And we almost did. We were thisclose to getting stuck with the rich airhead Caroline Kennedy. Or the other birthright politician, Andrew Cuomo, could have gotten the nod. Or Maloney or Nadler could have been elevated to the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.” None of the talking heads, with their NYC myopia, [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 3:02pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Change I Can Believe In?

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    Me as Obama Hat tip: Alarming News [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • “Mandatory Volunteerism” Coming to NYC

    Just in time for today’s Nuremberg rally inauguration, Councilmember Eric Goia is proposing Obama-style “voluntary” community service for New York City high school students. Under Goia’s proposal, students would be required to perform 20 hours of community service to receive their diplomas. Of course, the kids could always tell the city [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 11:15am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Jews Against the Occupation

    A group called Jews Against the Occupation/NYC unfurled a banner across the West Side Highway this morning in front of the U.S.S. Intrepid. The banner reads, “Jews Say: End Israel’s War on Gaza NOW!” From the press release: JATO/NYC placed the banner at the U.S.S. Intrepid to highlight the role of U.S. [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2009, 3:31pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • The Bank of America - Literally

    With its additional $20 billion bailout of Bank of America, the federal goverment becomes the bank’s biggest shareholder. Like everything else it does, the government is terrible at portfolio management. Whereas other investors look for strong companies with earnings growth, the government invests only in crappy companies. As of this writing, BOA is trading [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2009, 2:14pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • What Is This, Bizarro New York Times?

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    Nicholas Kristof, of all people, wrote a brilliant column today explaining how sweatshops actually help rather than harm poor people. Mr. Obama and the Democrats who favor labor standards in trade agreements mean well, for they intend to fight back at oppressive sweatshops abroad. But while it shocks Americans to hear [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 12:49pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • My Op-Ed in Today’s Daily News

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    I have a guest editorial on the advantages of home-schooling in today’s Daily News, the 5th-highest-circulation daily newspaper in the United States. (Which, considering the state of the newspaper industry, means a least a couple dozen people should read it.)        [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2009, 7:50am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • National LP poll on George Bush

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    I was somewhat shocked at the results so far of the poll on LP National’s website on Pres. Bush. It’s a dead heat as to whether he was a good President or not. After almost 20 years in the Party, I move we change the National Party’s name to The Party [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2009, 4:23am EST
    by Mark Axinn

  • Working Hard or Hardly Working?

    These must be challenging times — our legisators in Albany are planning to work a whopping 69 days this term — 6 more than in 2008. According to the Daily News’ Elizabeth Benjamin: So lawmakers accustomed to bugging out of the Capitol on Tuesday or Wednesday will instead be sticking around [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2009, 11:10am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • NYPD Seeks Technology to Disrupt Wireless Communications

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    In testimony yesterday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly revealed that the NYPD is seeking technology that can disrupt cell phone and other wireless communications in the event of a crisis. Kelly also said that in the event of a terrorist attack, the media can pose [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 10:19am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • More NYC Kids Home-Schooled

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    I am briefly quoted in article in today’s Daily News about the growing popularity of home-schooling. Between 2003 and 2007, there was a 32% increase in the number of New Yorkers who home-school, and a 36% increase nationally. Parents say online courses and Internet communities have made home-schooling easier. Jim Lesczynski began [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 10:31am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • The U.S. Senate - America’s Co-op Board

    Number of comments: 2
    Quote of the day: Caroline Kennedy, the lofty, high-minded rich lady who thinks being appointed a Senator is like performing an act of charity for the nation, or maybe like being on America’s co-op board. Also she’s beginning to remind us of the woman in the atrocious Lexus ad whose new [...]
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    Posted: December 30, 2008, 11:29am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • The Year in Albany Dysfunction

    Everybody is coming out with their year in review lists this week (Dave Barry’s is a gem, as usual), but one of my favorites is Bill Hammond’s rundown of Albany shenanigans in 2008. Sure you remember Love Client Number Nine, but there was also the parole board member who solicited [...]
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    Posted: December 30, 2008, 10:42am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Will the feds bust Santa Claus?

    Happy Holidays! Santa Claus should be deemed a person of suspicious activity.        [...]
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    Posted: December 25, 2008, 12:50pm EST
    by drewo

  • Give to the Fresh Air Fund

    Serf City received a nice email from the folks at the Fresh Air Fund, asking if we would help out with their year-end fundraising campaign. Since I’m a big believer in encouraging non-governmental solutions to social welfare issues, I am more than happy to do so. Since 1877, The Fresh Air [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2008, 11:46am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Another Example of Big Government Stiffling Young Entrepreneurs

    Lemonade Stand        [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2008, 3:37am EST
    by chuckv

  • Is the Manhattan Libertarian Party Part of Big Telecom?

    Over at the Fierce Telecom website, someone posted an article today criticizing a new paper by Scott Cleland of NetCompetition.org. Scott’s paper (which I have not read) apparently asserts that Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for. The criticism gets rather ad hominem, using words like “stupid,” [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2008, 1:03pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Sundwall for Senate?

    The capo di tutti capi of the Libertarian Party of New York, Eric Sundwall, throws his hat into the ring to replace Hillary:        [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 11:28pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Beth Hoffman, RIP

    It is with great sadness that I report the untimely death yesterday of Beth Hoffman, a true hero of the freedom movement. For over three decades, Beth was a FEE staffer and editor; she served as Managing Editor of the Freeman for many years and in her own humble way, [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 9:40am EST
    by Mark Axinn

  • How about Bailout Ballpark?

    Number of comments: 2
    This may be one of the best frivolous ideas to come out of New York Silly Council in a long time. The last of the Mohicans Republicans, Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo, are proposing that the Mets’ new stadium be renamed Citi/Taxpayer Field, in honor of “the taxpayers of the [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2008, 12:31pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Constitution Bars Hillary from Secretary of State

    Number of comments: 7
    It looks like New York may be stuck with Senator Clinton after all. Some eagle-eyed constitutional scholars have pointed out the obstacle presented by Article I, Section 6 of the U.S. Constitution: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2008, 10:28am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Scenes from the NYC End the Fed Protest

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    Despite the bitter, bitter cold, Saturday’s End the Fed protest at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was very well attended and high-energy. I’d guess there were about 200 activists when I was there. (I only stayed for about an hour, because I had my 6-year-old and 4-year-old daughters [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2008, 9:31pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Shitigroup

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    I was among the first wave of 17,000 Citigroup employees to get downsized back in 2007, when the firm’s problems first began to surface. Perhaps surprisingly to some, getting rid of me didn’t get rid of their problems. It’s never fun to get the ax (although I have to admit, I [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 2:37pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Rally to End the Fed This Saturday

    New York sound money activists, comprised of members of the Manhattan Libertarian Party, Campaign for Liberty NYC, and We Are Change, will gather at 33 Liberty Street this Saturday, November 22, 2008, from noon until 5 p.m. as part of a nationally coordinated action organized by members of Restore the [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 9:55am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Mukasey Smacks Down Kelly

    It’s almost inconceivable that a government agency could have even less regard for civil liberties and the rule of law than the Bush Justice Department, but the NYPD is no ordinary government agency. It seems Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey are in a spat over [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2008, 10:30am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Gutless Wonders

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    Albany Watch has a good roundup of editorial reaction to the three stooges’ farcical “emergency” budget meeting yesterday: The Albany Times-Union said it was a “showcase of New York dysfunction” and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos showed “New Yorkers exactly why he no longer deserves to be Senate majority leader.” But the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2008, 11:54am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Great cartoon from FEE blog on the Fed. Reserve System


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    Posted: November 15, 2008, 1:31pm EST
    by Mark Axinn

  • Clueless Hank Paulson Does It Again

    Just a few weeks ago, when the bailout was being rammed through Congress, I pointed out that Hank Paulson has proven himself clueless. He was wrong when he denied that were facing an economic crisis, and he was wrong again when he predicted a complete meltdown of our financial system [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 4:14pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Keynesianism or Changeenism?

    Number of comments: 1

    Keynesian economics is an obsolete system for anyone who cares to know, or anyone who doesn’t care to live through the inevitable inflation created by it’s truly failed policies of spurring economic activity through massive government spending, especially when it involves impossible deficits. If someone could please inform this [...]

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    Posted: November 09, 2008, 3:16pm EST
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez

  • Do You Feel a Draft?

    Number of comments: 2
      Barack Obama’s disturbing proposal for ”universal voluntary public service” (as Michael Kinsley pointed out, it can either be universal or voluntary, but not both) just got a lot more traction with the selection of Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.  J.D. Tuccille observes that Emanuel is a long-time proponent of compulsory national service. Emanuel [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 12:39pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • NFIB proposes to-do list for Federal Government

    In today’s OCRegister online Jan Norman’s article refers to the National Association Of Independant Business’s  (NFIB ) Top 10 list  for Government to do to help small business. 1. Pass the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Act, which would lower the cost of health insurance by providing tax credits, [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2008, 1:07pm EST
    by Ron Moore

  • Here Come the Tax Hikes

    Number of comments: 1
    Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg announced the immediate cancellation of the city’s annual $400 property tax rebate checks. I always thought the rebate checks were a sham — they should have simply reduced property tax rate — but the canceling the program amounts to a de facto property tax hike. Mike is [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2008, 10:19am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Local Libertarian Results

    Number of comments: 1
    With 100% of the precincts reporting (via NY1): Assembly - District 72 Adriano Espaillat (Dem) 21521 93.51% William Buran (GOP) 1493 6.49% House - District 14 Carolyn Maloney (Dem) 156902 79.47% Robert Heim (GOP) 37311 18.90% Isaiah Matos (Lib) 3232 1.64% Congratulations, gentlemen, on fighting the good fight.        [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 1:03am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Not That Vote Totals Matter, But…

    Obama, Shmobama. Here are some presidential vote totals likely to be of interest to Libertarians (with 76% reporting): Bob Barr 403,665 Chuck Baldwin 143,353 Ron Paul 14,234 NOTA 4,263 Charles Jay 2,066 Tom Stevens 592 George Phillies 363        [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 12:55am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Hillary Violates State Election Law

    Number of comments: 7
    In New York State, it is illegal to promote a candidate within 100 feet of a voting booth. Yet here is our junior senator electioneering for the Democrats inside the polling station, about 5 feet from the nearest booth:        [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 12:38pm EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • How I Voted

    Number of comments: 2
    Given that the odds of a New Yorker casting the deciding vote for president are 1.9 billion to 1, I tend not to take voting too seriously. Even if Bob Barr somehow triples the results of the last Libertarian presidential candidate, that would only give him about 1% of the [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 10:54am EST
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Bob who?


    “You’re voting for who?” I’ve been asked by friends and relatives who wonder why I’d waste my vote on Libertarian party candidate Bob Barr. “You might as well stay home” some advised. “What a dopey thing to do!” one threw in.

    This coming from people who complain about the mafia-style [...]

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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 1:37pm EST
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez

  • Don’t Waste Your Vote

    Number of comments: 1
     Chances are if you are reading this your state is pretty much decided.  Yahoo lists only 4 battleground states with a total of 24 electoral votes.  After a long swing toward the Republicans, the pendulum has started swinging back towards the Democrats and it now appears it will get burried [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 11:47am EST
    by Ron Moore

  • Ayn Rand is Spinning in Her Grave

    Number of comments: 1
    It boggles the mind that anyone who has read Ayn Rand would think that a federal bailout for spendthrift state governments is a good idea, much less dare to invoke her in arguing for such a bailout. Yet here we have the cognitive dissonance of Governor David Paterson’s testimony before [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 6:44pm EDT
    by Jim Lesczynski

  • Government Tricks Small Business Into Risky Investments:Then Soaks Taxpayers

    Some of you know that I doubt the claim that credit markets “seized up”.   I don’t even know what seized up means. It wasn’t defined in any of my economics texts and I haven’t heard anything other than a high pitched squeal when I have asked the press that used [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 1:28pm EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • Tonight’s Bailout Facts Town Hall is a “Don’t Miss” Opportunity

    Number of comments: 1
     Tonight’s Bailout Facts Town Hall is shaping up to be THE  NYC political event of this cycle. The Town Hall will be at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, 140 Second Avenue (near 9th St.) NYC. at 7p.  You can get more details at www.libertarian.meetup.com/324.     Andrew Tulloch , Director of incumbent 14th [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 10:58am EDT
    by Ron Moore

  • We, the market


    We, the people, are the market. Not OPEC, the Dow, Goldman Sachs, or much less the Federal Reserve. The market is you and I with our dollars in our hands. It’s third graders spending their allowance on a favorite soda, let alone hassling their parents to purchase the latest [...]

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    Posted: October 26, 2008, 9:15pm EDT
    by Ignacio Gutiérrez
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