Some Libertarians scoff at NH libertarians getting elected as Republican, and showing no respect whatsoever for the Libertarian Party. What they fail to grasp is that if the Libertarian Party ever managed to gain any meaningful electoral traction, at the very next election it would be conquered from within by power-hungry LINO rejects of other ( Read more... )

[I am reposting below a testimony from my friend Perry Metzger.]

I used to have a friend who was a con man. I don't mean this metaphorically, I mean it literally. I'll call him Fred, because I doubt he'd want me blabbing his actual name online. Fred used to run a bogus psychic hotline service that he advertised in supermarket tabloids (this was 20 ( Read more... )

One of my dreams last night went into a discussion of political history ( Read more... )

While commenting on my previous postl33tminion makes himself the candid voice of the usual democratic propaganda ( Read more... )

Left and Right isn't just the arbitrary polarization of a particular country's politics. It runs deeper, and there are such a things as "left" and "right" mindsets.

The comic book La Museoffers us a very nice illustration of the rapture of the left ( Read more... )

Having argued the relevance of political reasoning, I'd like to illustrate how this reasoning may be conducted.

While my friend Nasreddin Hodjachastises me for daring to take sides ( Read more... )

When someone rises to unilaterally denounce the involvement of one government in some conflict, or more generally the policy of any person or institution on any contested issue, that someone is precisely not staying out of the conflict, but taking sides.

As I've argued previously, mu should be the a priori answerby most honest people to most such ( Read more... )

The Law of Bitur-Camember at Equilibrium: The value of any unowned resource will be destroyed by the political process of grabbing it.
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"La gauche et la droite sont d'accord ( Read more... )

Dear Proponents of Politician X,

congratulations for the electoral victory ( Read more... )