New York experienced its most exciting campaign ever this year. Eight years ago, we barely broke 5000 votes for Governor. This year we got 48,386. In fact, in the last eight years, the LPNY has gone from 5000 votes to 15,000 to over 48,000. Tripling the prior result every four years is truly a remarkable […]
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Austerity be damned, for his “America’s future” pilot program, President Obama increased the 2010 federal budget 6.8%, with bumps for police, education, renewable energy and climate change research. Only one of which is actually needed on Indian reservations. In addition to focusing her lorgnette on the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget, The Free Agent has
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Definitely NSFW! Soon to be a holiday season favorite:
Grandma Got Molested at the Airport Read More »
Once again, the NYC Board of Elections has mixed up my write-in votes in ways that make me question whether any of the votes get counted correctly. Immediately after submitting my ballot last election day, I reported the following write-in votes on my Facebook page: “Also wrote in all 3 of my kids for supreme
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Today we learned the Federal Reserve made $9 trillion in emergency overnight loans from March 2008 to May 2009 in order to “keep the economy running.” Three banks, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley account for two thirds of this lending activity. Immediately liberals and conservatives and Keynesians and Austrians jump out of their seats
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Jak will be making the case as to why Objectvism, a rational view of life is a not a luxury but a necessity for the LP and more importantly the future of the civilization. He contends that LP has to focus it’s efforts on the life enhancing, meaningful, positive aspects of liberty and the philosophy
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A common misconception of libertarians is that we are ingrates. “You want all the good things governments give you,” a self-proclaimed progressive will say, “but you don’t want to pay for them.” The Free Agent would like to correct that misapprehension—it is illogical to be grateful to the brute who lifts a dollar from her
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The Free Agent wonders how naughty New Yorkers were before she moved here that in the political equivalent of dialing Nanny 911, they elected Michael Bloomberg as mayor. In almost nine years since he established Flowertown (term limits, schmerm limits!), the tentacles of governance have crept up to Floweridians’ every conceivable orifice. Prepare for uncharacteristic
From Stem to Stern Read More »
republished from Eric Sundwall’s post in Examiner.com November 5th, 2010 While some partisans lick their chops in anticipation of their new political spoils and others their wounds from electoral battle, Libertarian Party members of NY and activists are scrambling to determine if in fact they may have ballot status. Reminded of the 1998 effort of the
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In case you hadn’t heard, Bob Murphy, Austrian school wunderkind, has come up with a novel way to get Paul Krugman to finally debate and put up or shut up about his particular flavor of pilfer-thy-neighbor economics. It’s pretty cool. Murphy has raised fifty thousand dollars, that’s right, fifty thousand, that will be given to