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THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE

Something is deeply wrong with the American political process. Despite polls showing 70% of us want the wars in the middle east ended and our troops brought home now, the probable nominees of the "major" parties are a warmongering lunatic a

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Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF)

Elections are sometimes portrayed as practically giving people automatic “remote control” on the government. Elections kindly provide a chance for people to pre-program the government for the following years. The government will be based on the popul

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Devvy Kidd

Gotta read - Ed. In his Treatise on War, Sun Tzu, said: "Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him." It is this strategy in the art of war which we are seeing once again in a presidential primary. Predictably, the tw

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Harper's Magazine

It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know....

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Dave Trotter - LewRockwell.com

I’m almost 36 years old. I’ve been an avid observer of politics since my junior high days, when I was enthralled by Reagan’s libertarian rhetoric and was an admirer Alex P. Keaton. I’ve never seen anything like the Ron Paul movement happen in America

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www.lewrockwell.com/

Say what you will about the Ron Paul campaign, it makes you think. During his grueling Meet the Press battle with Tim Russert (transcript and video), Paul didn’t discuss which subset of subprime borrowers he wanted to bail out, or how many percentage

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RidesAPaleHorse

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr. Common Sense. Mr. Sense had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

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Vermont Republic

A nonviolent citizens' network and think tank opposed to the tyranny of Corporate America and the U.S. government, and committed to the peaceful return of Vermont to its status as an independent republic and more broadly the dissolution of the Un

Entered By: Geoffrey Hayes
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Middlebury Institute

In answer to interest in realistic responses to the excesses of the American empire, The Middlebury Institute has been launched by a group of activists and professionals to promote the serious study of separatism, secession, self-determination.

Entered By: Geoffrey Hayes
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Wall St. Transcript

(What a shocker) The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Homeland Security Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 12 page feature contains an expert roundtable forum of leading indu

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This year citizens of Yuma have the opportunity to select individuals to represent them at the local level. Next year they have the opportunity to select government officials to represent them at the state and national levels as well. Before citize

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FFF(Jim Bovard)

When politicians are not promising new benefits to citizens, they continually remind citizens what they owe the government. From their first years in government schools, children are indoctrinated with the notion that government provides them

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LewRockwell

One of the deadliest practices we engage in is that of identifying ourselves with a collective entity. Whether it be the state, a nationality, our race or gender, or any other abstraction, we introduce division – hence, conflict – into our lives as w

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Strike-the-Root

Coercive government always proves to be the worst way to do anything peaceful and civilized; the combination of coercion and top-down central planning ensures this. Furthermore, everyone knows that government is the worst way to do things, even thou

There is a very good reason why this page is entitled "Liberty University" instead of "Freedom University". Liberty means freedom PLUS personal responsibility. Those who want to avoid personal responsibility seek "freedom" instead of "liberty". Wh

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by Sheldon Richman (FFF)

Politicians start wars for political reasons. They may seek to control resources or a foreign population. Or they may want to secure existing interests that could be at risk without war. The military is a means to political ends.

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