In years past some Staten Island politicians have suggested Staten Island would be better off if it seceded from New York City. Last Thursday night at Karl’s Klipper  on Staten Island, an upstart Staten Island Libertarian Chapter (SILC? SILP? RCLP?) seceded from the Manhattan LP. Since no organized chapters existed in Richmond and Bronx Counties, those […]
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One of the major objectives of health care reform ought to be reducing costs. That seems lost on the Democrats. The bill seems to focus more on sucking money out of consumers and taxpayers so they can spend it on growing the welfare state. The National Federation of Independent business has published a health care
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The Democrats may have a shiny new law but they may have a hard time getting some of us to obey it.  According to the Tenth Amendment Center about 30 states have already introduced Health Care Nullification legislation.  In Utah, Arizona and Virginia it has passed both houses and in Idaho it’s passed as
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At this writing a substantial minority of Americans support the Democrats’ existing health-care bills. Most of us agree that the American healthcare system needs change but we have a wide variety of ideas about the specifics of the changes that are needed. Some make the case that only a single payer system can reduce transaction
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Contrary to rumor, the print edition of Serf City is not dead. Despite being forced by The Man to purge our plastic newsracks from the streets of NYC, we are moving forward with the next paper issue. Ernie Hancock, godfather of the r3VOLution and candidate for Libertarian Party national chairman, has proposed that we round
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I don’t know about you but when I think of a Town Hall I think of a two-way interactive discussion. I think of a give and take conversation where concerned citizens share ideas and opinions. It doesn’t necessarily have to be sweet and polite – but it needs to be an open forum.  In the invitation
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The Tax Foundation’s Bill Ahern posted this yesterday saying that the jobs bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate would pay companies for the wrong things. The short article is full of great links so you should really read it for yourself, but here are the bullets. Firms that claim the credit would have hired the
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In his weekly address this week President Obama announced his plans for bipartisan meetings to work on bipartisan health care legislation. He started with some stories about 25% health insurance increases those nasty insurance companies are about to force on us. He then suggested that the Republicans really need to get on board and act
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Today’s Freedom’s Phoeinx had an item from the Tenth Amendment Center on an Arizona effort to nullify Cap and Trade.  According to the Article Arizona State Senators Allen, Gould and Grey are the primary sponsors for Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 1050. SCR 1050  ,known as “the Freedom to Breath Act”,  would make it illegal to enforce federal
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Should we comprise principle when necessary to reach moderate and independent voters or stick unswervingly to the strictest of libertarian principles to avoid losing the moral high ground? The debate rages on with Libertarian Party regulars. One of the most recent examples was our nomination of Bob Barr for President in 2008. The pragmatists argued
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