Like most decent people, The Free Agent was brought up never to deface property. One cannot, however, live in New York without appreciating a certain frisson of anarchistic thrill at the sight of a particularly subversive graffito. It is a tradition that goes back at least to ancient Rome, when frenzied fan girls were known […]
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Mr President? Ron Paul won his second consecutive CPAC presidential straw poll this past weekend and already various news outlets and personal acquaintances of mine are harping about the fact that it does not matter. Apparently the only reason the CPAC presidential straw poll might matter is if it is a good indicator of who
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Rand Paul was on Morning Joe today and made the point that $500bn is the figure you reach if you’re just getting serious about the current federal debt crisis. This is a deft move since most people who liked the plan have been saying, “Well, I know it’s a lot, but you have to do
In 1989 the supreme court declared the government of the City of New York unconstitutional. It was a controversy over the Board of Estimate which then ruled the City. The ruling, in “Board of Estimate City of New York v Morris” was based on the grounds that the more populous boroughs, such as Brooklyn, had
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The Free Agent has observed that the frequency of the nostalgia wave is about twenty years. In particular, Generation-Whatevers look upon twenty years before whatever year it is as a time when people wore funny clothes and didn’t have real problems like we do nowadays. (When The Free Agent was a toddler, the rage was
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Rick Montes of the Tenth Amendment Center on “The Tenth Amendment and Liberty” “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Barak Obama may be paying lip service to the will of the voters after the resounding vote of no confidence in the November elections. But his bureaucracy either isn’t listening or they just don’t care what the voters want. Last November the voters in Utah, South Carolina, South Dakota and Arizona overwhelmingly approved amendments to
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Andrew Broussard submitted this guest post. As a result of the shootings in Arizona we hear numerous calls to tone down the political rhetoric. But who is to determine when speech has crossed the line? Perhaps we should take a lesson from Alexander Lukashenko. ***** Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government
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with Guest Speakers Darian Worden – Center for a Stateless Society Jim Babb – We Wont Fly and Jim Ostrowski – Political Class Dismissed Saturday, January 15, 2011 @ 11:00 a.m. Ukrainian East Restaurant 140 Second Avenue @ 9th Street 11:00 a.m. Business Meeting—No Charge (annual membership to vote is $15) 12:30-4:30 p.m. Luncheon and
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If you’re of an age with The Free Agent, you’ll remember a post-“All in the Family” Sally Struthers’ commercials for Christian Children’s Fund. Accessorized by a barefoot child playing in a mud puddle, Struthers explained how a minimal monthly stipend would change not only this child’s life, but “combined with other funds” (yep, The Free