Bob Armstrong

It should be no surprise that the US continues to descend from the ranks of freeest nations . Our professional political duopoly fights to maintain their power against any outside voices . This is a major cause of the ever ratcheting power of the state with minimal distinction between the 2 in-power party offerings .

The more I listened to the congressional appearances of Paulson & Bernanki the more convinced I become that this is Bush’s last attempt to scare us into another jump to the National Socialist , military fascist state . The market is frozen by the creation of foolish financial derivatives too complex to be marked to

I’m trying to get started on my Logic of Liberty column for the next print SerfCity , due tomorrow , but have gotten somewhat diverted by Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern on the Travel channel . He’s visiting St. Petersburg , Russia . Attending one of the very the first international computer language conferences during

The signature campaign of the excellent and effective grassroots libertarian lobbying site Downsize DC is their Read the Bills Act. While still far from introduction much less passage, it is having significant influence on congressional comment and, now, on conduct. I happened to click the C-SPAN Senate channel a few hours ago partly because I

Great interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano .

I was so astounded , I just sent this letters@time.com : Subject: The GOP Race: None of the Above Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:32:32 -0700 From: Bob Armstrong Organization: Coherent Systems To: letters@time.com I find 2 things astounding in this 2007/12/13 : That you post articles with no feedback commentary mechanism . Weak .

  Altho , if you have a libertarian understanding , it’s a chore to listen to , Michael Gerson , with total lack of self comprehension , illustrates the horrors of dictatorial altruism in his discussion of his book “Heroic Conservatism” with Richard Viguerie on c-span Book.TV After Words . He totally fails to understand

Larry Craig has been and is being railroaded by an absolutely homophobic Nanny Police State shake down . I hope he has the balls to to tell them to go to hell . His supporters should press for an investigation of the Shake Down Cop who , while spouting that he is not anti-gay ,