The Free Agent holidayed in the Greater DC area, her home of fifteen years. Along with gift-opening and turkey-consuming, she was on a reconnaissance mission to see how her beloved capital has changed over the last four years. The city got snow on Christmas Day, which is when it looks the prettiest. But as Robert […]
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It’s well-known that The Free Agent is catholic in her affections and radical in her opinions, so in celebration of the end of the Awful Aughts decade, she offers her Top Ten Reasons to Love Rich People: 10) They’re recession-proof. The New Yorker reports that someone in this world ordered an $87,000 custom-made purse last
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with Guest Speakers Darian Worden – Center for a Stateless Society Jim Babb – We Wont Fly and Jim Ostrowski – Political Class Dismissed Saturday, January 15, 2011 @ 11:00 a.m. Ukrainian East Restaurant 140 Second Avenue @ 9th Street 11:00 a.m. Business Meeting—No Charge (annual membership to vote is $15) 12:30-4:30 p.m. Luncheon and
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If you’re of an age with The Free Agent, you’ll remember a post-“All in the Family” Sally Struthers’ commercials for Christian Children’s Fund. Accessorized by a barefoot child playing in a mud puddle, Struthers explained how a minimal monthly stipend would change not only this child’s life, but “combined with other funds” (yep, The Free
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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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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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,