... Barr certainly is a bigot and a ridiculous conservative tool, but I find it hard to get myself worked up about this one. Not because I have anything
... Scott, Oh, I didn't mean to suggest that you were calling Paul a consistent libertarian, and I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. All I was saying is that some
... To be fair, it was a pretty big exception.
... Hope this helps. -C [1]: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard33.html [2]: http://mises.org/daily/1842
... Well, on my end of the discussion, I don't much care how people choose to define the words they use, as long as they are not being misleading or deceptive
... Maybe. But what makes you think that the left we are interested in connecting with is "the political 'left'"? I think "the political 'left'" are a bunch of
... Jefferson was neither a libertarian nor a Democrat. He wasn't a Democrat because the Democratic Party did not, in any meaningful sense, exist in 1800.
... Well, in my experience, libertarians who supported Ron Paul's presidential campaign have often tried to "defend" him against libertarian critics by
... If politics demands mendacity and moral cowardice in the face of popular prejudices, then the best choice for him to make is to stop trying to win at such
... This is an argumentum ad populum. Popular ideas are not always right, and right ideas are not always popular. Certainly, if you advance just about any