Alton Yee, Director of Fundraising for the Manhattan Libertarian Party recently attended a forum at the New School entitled “Landlords & Tenants: Preserving Affordable Housing in NYC,” presented by The Center for New York City Affairs. The following is e-correspondence, from Alton himself, regarding the experience. Minute changes have been made for the purpose of […]
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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
Kick back this Sunday and enjoy Ron Paul Highlights from last night’s debate.
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If you’re looking for the best gifts this holiday season, you are in the right place. In the scheme of life, these might just be the best gifts you can give to someone at any time of the year. Unfortunately, you won’t find this year’s hottest electronics on this list of best gifts — instead
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Today is National Pearl Harbor today and while there are many articles written from a naturalistic approach (Pearl Harbor Veteran Recalls Bewilderment of Attack, Pearl Harbor Remembered: ‘That wasn’t war it was murder’, Remembered after 70 Years) to make you feel as if 70 years ago was just yesterday, few of them address causes other
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Next time some overeducated underemployed collectivist is whining: “Books not bombs, maaan” you’d do well to clue them in that more public spending on books will inevitably lead to more bombs, because as Hayek explains in The Road to Serfdom: “Once the communal sector, in which the state controls all the means, exceeds a certain proportion
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If countries are like businesses as Gene Simmons states, is it fair to assert that war is a product of collectivism or socialism? If one country has a capitalist economy and another has a socialist/collectivist economy, would it (following the notion that countries are businesses) be safe to say that one’s ultimate product is more
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While various groups in NYC are crying about affordable housing, how the government ought to do something, screaming about the merits of rent control and housing subsidies… did any of them stop to think about what comes next? Let’s take a brief journey into the world of landlords and see if the following makes sense…
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Subsidized health care in NYC is out of control. You can get Medicaid, Family Health Plus, and all sorts of other delicious government cheese, FOR FREE, so long as you’re too ‘disadvantaged,’ or perhaps too lazy and too entitled to be able to help yourself to anything else. If you’re just a little bit motivated,
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