The Rising Tide

Save the Date (maybe) – TOMORROW: FEBRUARY 11: Dr. Jacob M. Appel on Polygamy, Incest & Bestiality in a Culture of Liberty

I only speak for myself via this Serf City Post (and not the MLP) when I wonder why Libertarians bother to investigate the philosophical minutiae of liberty in relation to polygamy, incest, and bestiality. With deficit spending, excessive new taxes, corporatism and socialism’s war on capitalism, the brink of economic collapse in Europe, conspiracies of […]

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Ron Paul and the Individual

In today’s world, people are quick to pass on thinking for themselves, often deferring to some group’s opinion.  People that claim to be for the rights of this or that minority are often the first to forget about the rights of the individual — AND, after all, isn’t the individual the smallest ‘minority’ around? Now,

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Prince$$ America

On the rare Saturday night she doesn’t have an assignation, The Free Agent has a new steady date, CNBC’s financial boot camp show, “Prince$$”.  Host “’Till Debt Do Us Part”’s Gail Vaz-Oxlade—a realist after The Free Agent’s own heart—tackles one young attractive Canadienne, deeply in debt and deeply entitled, per week.  She is prodded over

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The Free Agent Marches in a Parade

At 11:11 on 11/11/11, the red, white, and blue USO float, iced with Andrews-channeling trio The Liberty Bells, inched away from the curb at 24th Street to creep two miles up Fifth Avenue.  With 24,999 other patriots, The Free Agent celebrated Veterans Day. Back before global carnages required a numbering system, there was The Great

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Army of the Occupation

The Free Agent finds some tracts of common ground with the ragtag group of protesters who have camped out in and around Liberty Plaza Park in New York since September 17.  While tippy-toeing through a cardboard quilt of hand-written signs, she nodded approvingly at one saying, “Hold Barney Frank Accountable,” for instance.  Like the group

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Nov. 14 MLP Monthly Meeting with Jim Agresti of Just Facts

Jim Agresti of Just Facts will be delivering a presentation about factual errors and misleading claims in the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.  He will contrast clips from this movie with concrete and meticulously documented facts from Just Facts’ research on global warming. James D. Agresti is a cofounder and president of Just Facts, a think tank

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Debt Shark Week

Since The Free Agent was wee, one measure of the difference between a pessimist and an optimist was when each thought Social Security would go bankrupt.  (The FA has a contemporary who started working at the Social Security Administration out of college and successfully surfed that wave into pensioned retirement.)  Being an optimist, The FA

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Reason Magazine’s Damon Root on Unsung Libertarian Heroes in American History

Damon W. Root is an associate editor of Reason magazine and Reason.com, where he regularly writes on legal affairs and constitutional history. Before joining Reason, Root worked as a freelance journalist. His writing has appeared in the New York Post, New York Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, Washington Times, WallStreetJournal.com, New York Press, Cato Policy Report,

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Paula Gloria and Joe Barton on marijuana laws: Off with its head.

Apparently the cops had no warrant when they busted down Joe Barton’s door.  Of course Libertarians would be outraged. But Joe Barton and Paula Gloria aren’t really Libertarians – at least not the big L type.  Most people aren’t as radical as Libertarians on Marijuana laws right?  Well perhaps you haven’t been far enough down

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