The Rising Tide

Liberal Universalism

1 > 50 While liberals would have you believe their universalism is the child of wholly benevolent aspirations, there is a good practical reason they oppose States Rights: they hate competition. One example is Right to Work laws. Liberal supporters of unions claim to be against RTW because they’re looking out for the little guy, […]

Liberal Universalism Read More »

April 30 – LPNY 2011 ANNUAL CONVENTION

Registration@ 9AM Contin’tl Breakfast with lunch Package*                Business Meeting 10 – 12 noon @ no charge                   VIP Speakers table $80 by 10 Apr, after $100.    Food/Speakers Package* – $60 by 10 Apr, $80 after                 Speakers only [no food] –  $30. by 10 Apr after $50.   WHERE:  Lily Flanagan’s Pub,345 Deer

April 30 – LPNY 2011 ANNUAL CONVENTION Read More »

Milk and Cookies

As she has said before, The Free Agent may number few among her peers, but is catholic in her associations.  An ex-colleague and native of America’s Dairyland, posted this joke on Facebook: This joke is too good not to share… A unionized public employee, a teabagger, and a CEO are sitting at a table.  In

Milk and Cookies Read More »

Let’s Not Go All Denmark Here

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

Let’s Not Go All Denmark Here Read More »

Keeping It Together

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

Keeping It Together Read More »

Monthly Meeting Feb 14: David Casavis on Eliminating the Borough Presidencies

 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

Monthly Meeting Feb 14: David Casavis on Eliminating the Borough Presidencies Read More »

The Danielle Steel Decade *

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

The Danielle Steel Decade * Read More »

Manhattan Libertarian Party