The Rising Tide

Good Times at the International Conference on Climate Change

We just wrapped up three days at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by the Heartland Institute. The Manhattan Libertarian Party co-sponsored the conference, and I spent a good part of the last three days working an exhibit booth with our all-star Media Relations Director Gina Miller. The conference was fantastic. This definitely beats […]

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A healthy dose of skepticism

“Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life” stated MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen, another guest speaker, and noted manmade global warming skeptic at the ICCC. And if that dream happens to collude with a multi-billionaire’s Shamanic vision for unlimited profit, the answer to Ebell’s question is a foregone conclusion.

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50,000 Leeches

The  subheadline at the WCBS website declares, “Taxpayers Tired of Recession & Furious With Budget Cuts Take Frustration to Streets of Manhattan.” Technically, I suppose the “labor unions, community groups and families” qualify as taxpayers, in that they go through the motions of filing a tax return each year, wherein they return some of stolen

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Pork lawsuit dismissed

Jim Ostrowski advises as follows: In a brief ruling, Justice Michael Lynch today dismissed the taxpayer lawsuit to end the transfer of as much as two billion dollars in insolvent New York’s money to wealthy private corporations. The decision is published here: Click to access Decision%20of%20Judge%20Lynch.pdf Essentially, the court held that the state could do

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Libertarians of the world unite!

So what can be done other than leaving phone messages, emails and letter writing to your congressional representatives and senators? Particularly if one of them happens to be Chuck Schumer who believes he knows how to better spend 5.5% of your forcibly redistributed NY state income tax alone than you do?
Mark your calendar for a Libertarian revolution come next year’s congressional midterm elections.

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It’s a Stumper, All Right

From the Times coverage of the ongoing nationalization of Citibank: Treasury officials, meanwhile, suggested using Citigroup as a test case for a public-private investment fund that would purchase troubled assets from banks. But neither policy makers nor Citigroup executives could settle on various issues, including how to value those illiquid securities — a thorny question

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Stiffed by Big Oil

DeSmogBlog has published an expose on the funding behind the nefarious co-sponsors of the International Conference on Climate Change, taking place March 8-10 at the Marriott Marquis. The Manhattan Libertarian Party happens to be one of those nefarious co-sponsors. According to DeSmogBlog, these co-sponsors “have received in excess of $47 million from oil companies and

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