The Rising Tide

A bunch of Libertarians (along with Democrats and Republicans) were invited by  John Stossel’s show on FoxBusiness , to watch the State of the Union Message, and give reactions last night.  It was a nice way to make it fun to endure the torture of listening for 75 minutes or so to a President who seems to be […]

President Obama promised to aid the middle class today and said that the middle class has been “under assault”.  Congratulations, Mr. President – you are starting to get it.  The middle is under assault – by the government! On the one hand Government loads up the their favorite corporations with fat government contracts, monopoly privileges and

Honeymoon’s over. Perhaps they should have gotten the message when it became clear that the American public didn’t want the Health Care Deform bill rammed down their throats. It would have been even better if they had taken a lesson from thousands of years of history and taken steps to improve health care by removing

Are you kidding?  New York State has a $7 billion budget deficit. Paterson is the only major party politician who has shown any leadership in addressing the deficit. And the press gives legs to a highly questionable story about Paterson’s personal business with a woman who didn’t complain – even if the incident happened at

Rich Cooper’s Ground Report blog has a great post about Warren Redlich and his potential run for Governor on the LP and GOP lines.  Rich writes: His candidacy was sought by two former State Chairs of theLibertarian Party, Eric Sundwall and me, who believed the Albany area lawyer can harness the energies of the RonPaul

Mary Ruwart has a Ph.D in biophysics, taught surgery at St. Louis University Medical School and was a pharmaceutical research scientist for Upjohn.   Sounds like she probably knows something about health care which the vast majority of US Senators and Congressmembers do not. She also nearly won the 2008 Libertarian Presidential nomination only losing to Bob Barr on the

With the Obama presidency imploding before our eyes a lot of Republicans have started salivating.  Among them are some of the losers that made Obama’s victory and our death march to socialism inevitable.  I’m thinking of Rudy Giuliani and John McCain in particular.   Rudy, John your ideas are bankrupt. You are killing the GOP.   Lie down

In his December 16 interview with Charles Gibson President Obama told the truth about health care costs and the federal budget.  I applaud the President’s leadership in leveling with the American people about the dire financial prognosis.   President Obama finally admitted that Medicare and Medicaid costs are on a trajectory to bankrupt the federal government.

From the Institute for Justice:   WEB RELEASE: November 24, 2009 Media Contact: Christina Walsh (703) 682-9320 [Private Property] Arlington, Va.—The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, today announced that it would uphold the decision of the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) to condemn privately owned homes and small businesses to make

You have to check out this Freedom Watch November 11 segment (linked below) . Judge Napolitano interviews former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson about H.R. 3962, the recently passed House Health Care bill.  In the midst of a sea of despair over the latest assault on personal sovereignty, constitutional government and fiscal sanity, we have The Judge