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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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
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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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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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
Nov. 14 MLP Monthly Meeting with Jim Agresti of Just Facts Read More »
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
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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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
Paula Gloria and Joe Barton on marijuana laws: Off with its head. Read More »
I applaud Mike Kaulbars for not censoring this GreenFyre discussion which I see as rather embarrassing to the alarmists who seek to enlist the force of the Global State’s guns and prisons to suppress the welfare of the living for fear of an asserted future catastrophic effect on global temperature from the couple of spectral
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1 > 50 While liberals would have you believe their universalism is the child of wholly benevolent aspirations, there is a good practical reason they oppose States Rights: they hate competition. One example is Right to Work laws. Liberal supporters of unions claim to be against RTW because they’re looking out for the little guy,
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