Demystifying the Gold Standard

On many issues, libertarians can find common cause with either conservatives or liberals.  There are, however, at least two areas in which libertarians stand completely alone – the drug war and the gold standard.  I may deal with the drug war at a later date.  Given the recent economic news, we’re going to have to [...]

A New Morning in America?

Barack Obama has spent the last two years on the campaign trail promising “change” (when he was not too busy promising “hope,” that is).  So what steps does a once-in-a-lifetime transformational President-elect figure take to radically alter the Washington landscape and forever change politics as usual?  To start, he promises a chicken in every pot, [...]

Lagniappe

Melissa Etheridge – Tax Protestor?
Melissa Etheridge inadvertently stumbled over a good point recently. After Prop 8 passed in California, she fired off an angry blog post in which she threatened to withhold her state income taxes because the vote didn’t go her way. She backed off that threat in a later interview featured on the [...]

Redefining Marriage

California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, passed with 52% of the vote.  The demographics show a clean split between the urban coastal areas that opposed the measure and the more rural interior areas that supported it, but at the end of the day the [...]

Lessons From the Campaign Trail

Election season is finally over.  After months of filling out forms, attending party functions and candidate forums, and spending untold dozens of dollars, I can finally sit back and reflect on some of the lessons learned in my very first political campaign.
For those of you who didn’t already know, I was the Libertarian Party candidate [...]

And Then What?

Now that Halloween is over, the Christmas marketing season is already in full swing. I suppose that’s to be expected. After all, how many times have we heard that ours is a consumer economy? Joe Biden said so just last week during one of his cookie-cutter whistle stop speeches in some battleground state that escapes [...]