The Rising Tide

Labor Pains

In The Free Agent’s last job, she alternately amused and shocked her coworkers with statements like, “if it were up to me, there would be no employment laws”.  A large part of her duties, after all, was to keep Hippy Week on the right side of labor laws.  By the end of her eight-year tenure, […]

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From Stem to Stern

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

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Long live the Libertarian Party

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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Hypocrite or Lunatic

Here’s the gist of liberal critiques of conservatives and libertarians. As far as conservatives go, the whole lot are hypocrites since they want things like social security and medicare to remain in place for their constituencies. Liberals don’t really dare say much anymore about the disturbing costs of American military hegemony these days. As far

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deLISH® Brand Heroin

You would think that speaking to a ballroom full of libertarians about ending the war on drugs would be like trying to talk the AARP into senior discounts.  Even as she dipped into her pear-cinnamon-chocolate mousse parfait, The Free Agent mentally donned her choir robe and prepared to be preached to.  But the speaker, The

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Tour of Jury Duty

Where she grew up in the Midwest, The Free Agent knows many people who have lived out their natural life spans without ever having been called to jury duty.  Because she chose to settle in Coastopolis, however, the FA gets a summons about as often as she does birthday cards.  Well, as often as she

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AG Candidate Carl Person:CUOMO HELPED TO CREATE THE MORTGAGE FRAUD

According to Libertarian Attorney General candidate Carl Person, Andrew Cuomo , as HUD Secretary helped to create the mortgage fraud and predictably has done nothing to stop banks from using false affadavits. Person says “Andrew Cuomo has a duty as NYS Attorney General to start lawsuits to stop Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, GMAC, Countrywide,

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