Libertarian TV journalist John Stossel gives readers of Reason magazine a preview of his new series on Fox Business Channel. He confesses that he has a special on Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” in the can and is thinking about airing it for the premiere.
I’m partial to an
Rand Paul, who has surprised a lot of people by becoming a real contender for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, bows to political reality — he’s blasting the Obama administration’s policy on terror trials and proposing to “try, convict, and lock up terrorists in Guantanamo.”
Paul’s father, Rep. More…
The early reviews for “SuperFreakonomics” have been harsh. The book, wrote Brad Johnson in The Guardian, is a “super freaking mess.” According to environmental journalist Joe Romm, it contains “many, many pieces of outright nonsense” and “major More…
The 2008 Democratic and Libertarian presidential hopeful resurfaces to give a barely audible endorsement to Adam Kokesh, a libertarian activist who’s running for Congress in New Mexico’s heavily Democratic 3rd District. Kokesh is running basically unchallenged for the Republican nomination, running an anti-war campaign in a district Republicans are More…
In announcing on Wednesday that it would review a case that asks whether individuals have a fundamental right to bear arms under the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court did more than just step into a heated debate over gun control. Although McDonald v. City of Chicago is on its face More…
Jake Tapper, the Twitter-addicted senior White House correspondent for ABC News, wrangles a frightening number of scoops and under-reported stories. He’s also, arguably, the mainstream media reporter most beloved by conservatives. One reason for that is that Tapper chases down stories that bubble up from the conservative media or establishment More…
He’s had a sympathetic CNN interview, a Fox News radio hit, a write-up in U.S. News & World Report, stories from The Associated Press and stories in all the local papers. The first week of Rand Paul’s campaign for a U.S. Senate More…
The Ron Paul quarters of the GOP are buzzing about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) speech to this past weekend’s state party convention — a combative performance in which he took on conservative activists and Paul supporters. One heckler yelled out: “You’re a hypocrite!” Graham snapped back: “I’m a winner, pal!” More…
Bill Kauffman reports that Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, is thinking about a run for the presidency in 2012. Kauffman compares him to Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), two libertarian heroes.
Yes, as a congressman Sanford opposed the
It’s worth reading through Jason Zengerle’s long, definitive piece on tax resistance, but I want to highlight one section — an expose of how Wesley Snipes’ experiment with cheating on his taxes was egged on by libertarians.
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