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I am curious, based on recent interactions with self-identified libertarians, what proportion of of self-identified libertarians support/refute the concept of mandatory vaccinations. Hm...dropped an extra letter in the 2nd poll option and can't seem to edit.

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=ADYHY&txtName=Teller&txtState=(all%20states)&txtAll=Y&Order=N Guess he's no longer a skeptic now, right guys? Because's he's a "political woo"? Perhaps if you see him at another Amazing Meeting you'll sneer at him because he's not a Democrat...

After reading this, I think you'll agree with me that when people characterize the Libertarian Party as a refuge for lunatics, they are sadly mistaken. link I must admit, I do agree with some of her platforms (those in bold anyway): But who cares about platforms? I'll vote for big hooters...

NYS Supreme and Appellate Court ruled that Church must pay for contraception. I wonder if legal abortion is next? more details at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/nyregion/20courts.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.lp.org/exitplan.pdf Thoughts?

APRIL FOOLS!!!! :p

Written by Jim Henley http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2002/01/15/263 CBL

So I have a great sympathy for both liberals and libertarians. The question I have is which group do I most closely resemble? Let me start by saying where I stand. Here's my "manefesto", here's what I think: I consider myself to be a liberal, an "Al Franken" liberal. I listen to Air America...

Libertarians believe strongly in market forces. From this is derived a belief that a government agency like the FDA is unnecessary because if somebody makes a bad drug, people won’t buy it. And the industry would self-regulate by creating something akin to Underwriters’ Laboratories whose...

The "fair and balanced" press writes an article on libertarians without mentioning a candidate or platform. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136114,00.html

I mentioned to someone I met in passing, who was a philosophy tutor, that I had debated Libertarians on the internet. His first question was, were they left or right wing libertarians. That stumped me. My guess on reflection is that they are pretty well all Right Wing libertarians here.

I was just in a debate on another forum, and a poster (hard-left socialist. he admits and is proud of it) posted this for us... "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE LIBERTARIAN" Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because...

This is too much!!! :crazy: I know it's not polite to make fun of the mentally ill, but I can't help myself... :dl:

I caught about 30 minutes of his program last week, and I gotta say the pro-war, Bush-cheerleading rhetoric coming from him was virtually indistinguishable from Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. I thought maybe I just got him on a bad day, but I went to his website and see a Coulter-esqe screed against...

I caught parts of the debate on cspan. General impression of candidates: light weights, bordering on clown act. The nominee, Aaron Russo, is a movie producer. He joked that the notion of him as president was drug induced -- I give him credit for honesty. Is this the best the libertarians can do...

Just what can one elected Libertarian do among all of those Demopublicans? Surely, the "fact" that Libertarian ideas are so raidcal and undesirable means that he'll be pretty impotent, right? And he'll be so extremist and uncompromising that he'll never go along with anything the Demopublicans...

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It's a pretty simple question, really. Suppose you have a hypothetical town with three companies selling a product. The owners decide they can all make more money by cooperating on rising prices for that item across the board. Is this ok in Libertarian land? And if not, who is exhibiting...

This isn't very timely, but I was thinking about issues, elections, politics and such... Imagine a Libertarian candidate for Governor. He might resemble this on the issues: His general philosophy: "I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative." On liberty in re victimless crimes: "Maybe...

Great article, covering World Net Daily's Joseph Farah's misconceptions about libertarianism, many of which are the same misconceptions held by several people on this very board. http://www.libertyforall.net/2004/feb22/if.html Admit it—he's right. I take tango lessons from an...

I think that this party has a lot of common sense on most issues, and would make a legitamite third party. Any ideas on why there is so little support for Libertarians?

There are a fair number of folks who call themselves libertarian who truly are not - Bill Mahr for example and a number of other's both on the right and on the left. Most of those folks are really utilitarian - which seems to be the prevailing posture most people take politically. I am...

I honestly can't understand why anyone who doesn't have anything in particular to gain by adopting a leftist or rightest or statist agenda would not be a libertarian. Freedom is good, right? Freedom to succeed, freedom to fail? Freedom to conduct your life in the manner you think best so long...

While I meant to ask this question of Shane specifically, I think it would be interesting to get answers from others as well. i didn't make this a poll, because the issue is relatively complex, and a poll would trivialize the answers into near-uselessness. I would much rather see verbal...