Do free market advocates care about the plight of the poor? In this video, Professor Matt Zwolinski from the University of San Diego argues that both free market advocates and social justice proponents can agree that the rules of a just society should work for the maximum advantage of its poorest members. They differ, however, mainly on HOW to achieve the best results for the poor.
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“Producing laws is not an easier problem than producing cars or food,” says David Friedman, author, philosopher and professor at Santa Clara University. “So if the government’s incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?”
Friedman sat down to talk with Reason TV at Libertopia 2012 in San Diego. Friedman reflected on the impact of his landmark book, The Machinery of Freedom, discussed the differences between libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism and revealed what his father, economist Milton Friedman, thought of his anarchist leanings.
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Bill Whittle asks: Are you thinking about a protest vote for Ron Paul, Gary Johnson… or no vote at all? This message is for you. H/T The Firewall
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Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for President, advocates an end to American military intervention overseas, abolition of the income tax, immediately balancing the federal budget and legalizing marijuana. Johnson shares his viewpoints in an extensive interview with SourceFed.
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Wayne Allyn Root predicts Mitt Romney will carry the popular vote by 5-7 percent and defeat President Obama by a margin of 100-120 electoral votes in a landslide victory come November. Among the states he expects Romney to carry: Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, Wisconsin and New Hampshire. Root, a former Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate, is a well-known Las Vegas oddsmaker. He has endorsed Romney this election cycle.
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We’ve given Libertarian Presidential hopeful Gary Johnson a few shameless plugs on this website, but after this shameful zombie commercial and his recent joint appearance with 9-11 conspiracy crackpot Jesse “The Body” Ventura, we’re running for the hills. Being Libertarian implies liberties might be taken, but this commercial earns the booby prize as the most amateurish political message this election season. With thousands of videos posted daily on YouTube, this is the best the Libertarians could muster? Doesn’t bode well for taking the party seriously.
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SourceFed outlines the history of Gary Johnson and his political platform as the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in 2012. Johnson, a two-term former New Mexico governor, is fiscally conservative but socially tolerant. He would dismantle the Department of Education and also advocates legalizing marijuana.
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Winston Churchill is a dashing historical figure. “Churchill was more fun than anyone else in the 1930s,” says writer and TV news producer Patrick McMenamin. “He drank, he smoked cigars and he had better one-liners than anyone else.” McMenamin and his father, Michael, are the creators of a new series of novels, the Winston Churchill Thrillers, which have been described as “Winston Churchill meets Indiana Jones.”
The novels unfold from 1929-1939 — the era when Churchill was often a lone voice in the wilderness, defending democracy against the rising tides of Communism, fascism and Nazism. The McMenamins don’t present Churchill battling alone, however, but in concert with an American sidekick, a fictional son of Rep. Bourke Cochran, D-NY. Cochran was, in reality, a mentor to Churchill and held beliefs that would be considered strikingly libertarian today.
Says Patrick McMenamin, “This guy actually existed. It’s amazing to me that there actually was an American politician who was libertarian in almost every sense of the word. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any children, but we created one and gave him Indiana Jones-type of adventures.” H/T Reason.TV
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Reason.TV’s Nick Gillespie interviews Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for US President, who promises, if elected, to submit a balanced budget for the year 2013, rolling back federal spending to the 2003 levels. Johnson also calls for Medicaid and Medicare reforms, arguing that genuine savings can be achieved — with minimal pain — if the Feds wise up and drop sundry “strings and mandates” that artificially escalate the price of healthcare.
Johnson appeals for support by declaring, “There are a lot more people in this country that describe themselves as libertarian than vote libertarian. You are a libertarian. How about voting just this way one time?”
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That’s a tempting proposition. Stormy is more in sync with Johnson than with the Republicans and Democrats. But as much as I agree with Johnson and admire his candidacy, I’ll be candid, rather than coy, and let you in on a not-so-veiled secret. Stormy will be pulling the GOP lever come November.
Some election cycles, it makes perfect sense to cast a third-party vote to emphasize a philosophical point or to suggest a new, improved course for the country. This isn’t one of those years. The Republican standard-bearers haven’t been as forthright as Johnson in pledging to uphold civil liberties, end pork-barrel politics and avoid reckless foreign interventionism. But at the minimum, they’re prepared to do what’s needed to get unemployed Americans working again, and that really trumps all of the side issues. We have to get back to business as usual before we can entertain any notions about radically improving upon that.
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