Commissioner Fiala Libertarian Party of Collier County - Petition to BCC 01/14/2014
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There #39;s a Housing Bubble Bursting and Libertarian Convention Coming Up
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Jack Seaman, the Libertarian Party candidate for the US House in North Dakota, talks about his 2014 campaign.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: THE ODESSIA: Exploring Libertarian Philosophy through Fiction
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Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, shown here Sept. 4, is a key member of the House Liberty Caucus. (AP...
A few times each month, a couple dozen House Republican lawmakers gather in a meeting room in a building adjacent to Capitol to discuss ideas and legislative proposals that focus on limited government, reducing the debt and maintaining individual rights.
The group considers itself conservative with a libertarian emphasis. They call themselves the Liberty Caucus and believe that in order for the GOP to win more elections in the future, the party must begin embracing their libertarian-minded philosophy because voters are beginning to demand it, particularly in the wake of government data collection revelations that some believe infringe on privacy rights.
"I think you are seeing a movement in the Republican Party where it is becoming more liberty minded," Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, a member of the Liberty Caucus, told the Washington Examiner.
"Issues like [government data collection by the National Security Administration] have really enlightened Republicans to the dangers of the lack of strong congressional oversight of these organizations, so I think we need to get back to the basic doctrine of the constitution. Our Founding Fathers had a fear of strong central government and too much power being given to one person. That is the premise of what the constitution was about."
Labrador said younger Republicans especially are beginning to embrace this libertarian-minded view point.
"We are the future of the Republican Party," Labrador, who was elected to Congress in 2010, said of the Liberty Caucus.
The philosophy of the caucus dovetails with the GOP's conservative wing on some issues, such as debt reduction, reining in government spending and opposition to the new health care law. But it differs on others, in particular on national security. While many Liberty Caucus members are opposed to the government surveillance program that has permitted officials to gather huge amounts of private phone and internet data in an effort to thwart terrorism, most mainstream GOP lawmakers have shown far less opposition and have defended it as necessary for preserving national security.
Despite some philosophical similarities, neither mainstream Republicans nor their leadership are embracing the Liberty Caucus and in many cases are standing in the way of their ideas, refusing to take up their legislation and stripping members of important committee assignments for bucking the leadership on key votes.
It's a clash that threatens to further divide the GOP, which has already been fractured by the Tea Party movement. Many of the Liberty Caucus members also consider themselves Tea Party members.
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Liberty Republicans. They are the young, more libertarian-minded, grassroots supporters that used to be identified chiefly by their favorite Republican presidential candidate, former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. Now, as the...
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Private-sector union membership surged last year to 7.3 million, and membership in public-sector organized labor slid to 7.2 million. This marks the first time in five years that the total private-sector membership...
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National Labor Relations Board attorneys have advised the board to dismiss unfair labor practice complaints from eight workers at Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., against the United Auto Workers. The attorneys also...
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The Foreign Policy Fiasco Since 9/11: A Libertarian Discussion
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The Libertarian Angle: Obama and the NSA
The Libertarian Angle: Obama and the NSA.
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Even President Barack Obamas administration has acknowledged that private sector velocity is much closer to optimal swiftness of action than anything the public sector can achieve. If only the political class could match the private sectors ability to respond promptly to observable trends. Politicians and political organizations often exhibit the worst elements of both divisions of society, featuring the public sectors lethargy with the private sectors elitism and lack of inclusiveness.
As such, political organizations are slow to respond to developments and often find themselves flailing gracelessly in the effort to accommodate trends that actors in the more responsive private sector are quick to embrace. One recent and unavoidable trend is the speed with which libertarianism is catching on. Polling has indicated that voters, particularly the youngest American voters, are adopting a libertarian philosophy which rejects the paternalism displayed by members of both parties and instead places its faith in the ability of the individual to best manage their affairs.
Writing in The Federalist on Tuesday, David Harsanyi parses trends in recent polling data which suggest a libertarian shift in the electorate. This is a shift, he notes, which has been mistaken by both Democratic and Republican partisans as an indication that younger voters are embracing their respective philosophies in droves. In fact, as Harsanyi adds, it is more likely a broad rejection of both political parties as they are currently constituted.
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Politicians and political movements are, as ever, slow to adapt to this growingly apparent trend. Private sector media companies, however, are not so sluggish. Recent moves by powerful media companies like The Washington Post and Fox Business Network indicate that the private sector is moving with characteristic alacrity to embrace this trend and create a loyal base of libertarian-leaning media consumers.
The foremost libertarian opinion magazine, Reason, and has recently sent some of its prominent writers and personalities to FBN to host The Independents. That program bolsters Foxs effort to court liberty-loving media viewers, a campaign they began after hiring libertarian reporter John Stossel to host his own FBN program and promote his unique political point-of-view across Foxs platform. Even stauncher libertarian Judge Andrew Napolitano also had an FBN show (Freedom Watch) for two years and can now be seen daily giving a libertarian perspective on judicial matters across all Fox platforms.
The Washington Post, as POLITICO confirms, allowed their one-time rock star wonk, Ezra Klein, to outbid himself and leave the company in order to start his own blogging venture. Kleins vertical has been a boon to the Washington Posts business model. It surely is no coincidence that the Post announced this week that they were filling the void by creating a new legal vertical built around Eugene Volokhs prominent libertarian-leaning blog, The Volokh Conspiracy.
Volokh promised his loyal readers that the Post assured us they had no desire to change what we do, and they approached us because of who we are and what we write.
They know our ideologies, he continued. They know our blogging style. Of course, they do. The Post isnt purchasing an ideology, they are purchasing loyal readers who will regularly consume political analysis and opinion and pay for that service.
In a fractured media environment with an ever-shrinking universe of potential readers and viewers, media firms are seeking out dedicated audiences that they do not have to expend the energy and capital themselves to build. Among the more loyal audience of political news and opinion consumers are those with a libertarian bent particularly because they have been so underserved for years. That is changing.
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By Philip Pilkington, a writer and research assistant at Kingston University in London. You can follow him on Twitter @pilkingtonphil. Cross posted from Fixing the Economists
Blackwhitethis word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.
George Orwell, 1984
Hey, look, Im not racist but. You just know that this statement is likely to be followed by a racist comment of some sort, right? Well, what about the statement issued in the title of a paper that libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron. Yeah, youre probably going to think that what is likely to follow is going to be oxymoronic and poorly argued.
Well, youd be right. But even the term itself libertarian paternalism is so obviously a perversion of language that it should be immediately confined to the dustbin of duoblethink words along with blackwhite and goodbad. What the coiners of the term have done is fuse together two words that are mutually contradictory. In doing so they seek to obfuscate thinking and confuse people.
Dont get me wrong. Politically and economically Im very sympathetic to the argument put forward by the so-called libertarian paternalists. I certainly think that state intervention is a necessity in a modern economy; I certainly think that people do not always act in their own self-interest; and I fully agree that the less encroachment upon personal freedom that the state has to engage in to achieve the best results the better. But this does not excuse nonsense. We do not need to pervert language and reason to make this case.
Here is the basic argument as laid out in Sunstein and Thalers paper Libertarian Paternalism is Not an Oxymoron,
We elaborate a form of paternalism, libertarian in spirit, that should be acceptable to those who are firmly committed to freedom of choice on grounds of either autonomy or welfare. Indeed, we urge that libertarian paternalism provides a basis for both understanding and rethinking a number of areas of contemporary law, including those aspects that deal with worker welfare, consumer protection, and the family. In the process of defending these claims, we intend to make some objections to widely held beliefs about both freedom of choice and paternalism. Our emphasis is on the fact that in many domains, people lack clear, stable, or well-ordered preferences. What they choose is a product of framing effects, starting points, and default rules, leaving the very meaning of the term preferences unclear.
The substance of the above quote is actually true. When scrutinised in any meaningful way so-called preferences in marginalist economics are fairly meaningless. Human beings are not robots and their decisions are usually made under the substantial weight of framing and subject to all sorts of biases and blindnesses. Put more simply: sometimes people dont make very good decisions.
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By Anthony J. Sadar | JANUARY 18, 2014 AT 2:25 PM
Libertarian conservative James Delingpole's latest light-hearted compendium on a serious topic, The Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism: The Left's Plan to Frighten Your Kids, Drive Up Energy Costs, and Hike Your Taxes!, is presented in a concise encyclopedic style with entries from A to Z.
Delingpole, of the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and other publications, covers the gamut of subjects related to climate change hype. His humorous handy-dandy tome will have a climate change "denier smiling, but will take an ardent environmentalist who also happens to be an extreme masochist to heights of ecstasy never dreamt possible.
Particularly cogent is his definition of "weather." The difference between "weather" and "climate" is really very simple, he explains. "If it's cold when the greenies say it should be warming, it's weather. If, on the other hand, it's doing anything that bears any correlation with their computer models' predictions of environmental doom, then it definitely counts as climate."
Snippets from some of my other favorite topics include:
Blogosphere: Not since Gutenberg invented the printing press, perhaps, has the cause of openness and liberty made so spectacular a leap as it has as a result of the Internet.
Ecology: Ecology, you could argue, has replaced Christianity as the Wests dominant religious philosophy. And the related offering:
Faith: Modern environmentalism is only comprehensible in terms of faith. It is a form of antinomianism, that is, it depends for existence on a series of accepted truths which brook no argument and are entirely immune to logic or rational criticism.
Lifestyle, Too Selfish to Change Your: "Charge routinely leveled by greenies at all those reactionary conservatives who: insist on taking showers more than once a fortnight."
Scientists: After giving some much-needed perspective on scientists, Delingpole tackles "science," observing that political activists discovered that science could be used "as a handy excuse to advance their agenda under the guise of studied objectivity. 'Hey, it's not because we're a bunch of crypto-Marxist control freaks that we're demanding higher taxes, more regulation, and the replacement of Western industrial civilization with a Soviet-style global command economy run by leftist technocrats. It's because the science tells us that that's what we need to do'."
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An Introduction to Libertarian Ethics
Stefan Molyneux and Stephan Kinsella speak with a student about the foundation of Libertarian Ethics. Stephan Kinsella is an attorney in Houston, director of...
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How libertarian is the Republican Party in 2014?
Matthew Feeney from Reason Magazine argues that the Republican party is not very libertarian and Francesca Chambers argues that libertarian ideas should be i...
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Ending the Drug War, Reforming Immigration, and Ending War are Key Libertarian Principles
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Views on Capitol Hill over reforming NSA policies aren't breaking along party lines, as libertarian Republicans join with leftist Democrats to oppose the mass collection of phone records.
President Obama says hed like to put the US government out of the business of storing Americans phone records though he maintains its still necessary to collect those records en masse for anti-terrorism purposes. To make this and other suggested changes to the National Security Agency's surveillance system, hell need the help of Congress.
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Capitol Hill, however, is as divided on the subject as is the American public. Libertarian-minded conservatives align with liberals in opposing the phone-dragnet program altogether, while other Republicans and Democrats largely support it. Last July, the House fell short of ending the NSAs bulk collection of phone records, on a close, bipartisan vote.
On the key House and Senate committees responsible for drafting relevant legislation, members of the judiciary panels tend to want wholesale changes, while those dealing with intelligence want only tweaks.But even that is a bit of a generalization, as division also marks the committees. The upshot is that Congress could well have a tough time agreeing on the legislation required to alter the program.
Considertwo key changes proposed by the president, both of which would require approval by Congress:
President Obama proposes that the government stop holding phone records. In making this recommendation, the president followed the advice of a blue-chip review panel he convened after the furor over massive leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Although the panel found no intentional abuse of the records so far and the NSA collects data about a phone call but not its content it warned that the government's storage of the data creates the potential for abuse and public mistrust. Mr. Obama has asked the attorney general to come up with an alternative storage arrangement. The panel suggested either keeping it with the phone companies or entrusting it with a third party.
"While I am encouragedthe president is addressing the NSA spying program because of pressure from Congress and the American people, I am disappointed in the details, said Sen. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky, in a statement. The senator, a tea party favorite, described Obamas solution as the same unconstitutional program with a new configuration. In the end, Senator Paul told CNN, little changes: Private records will still be collected without a search warrant. He gave Obama an A for effort though.
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Is "Divergent" a Libertarian Book? | Glenn Beck Radio Program
See more: http://theblaze.com/tv. Glenn Beck talks about the new series he is reading: "Divergent" by Veronica Roth.
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