Dec. 12 MLP Monthly Meeting with Congrerssional Candidate Dan O’Connor

As many in the NYC liberty community already know, Dan O’Connor is running for US Congress in NY District 12 and will be challenging Democratic incumbent, Nydia Valazquez in the September Primary election.   Dan firmly believes that there is far more potential for liberty candidates to run within the Democratic party as compared to the

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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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Oct. 10 MLP Monthly Meeting with Robert K. Jones, Esq.

The Individual Relationship to The Constitution, a Libertarian Perspective. Please join us for the October 10 meeting of the Manhattan Libertarian Party.  Our guest speaker is Robert K. Jones, Esq.  His topic is The Individual Relationship to The Constitution, a Libertarian Perspective. Mr. Jones is a solo- practicing attorney, devoting most of his practice to Real Estate

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Three Westchester Republicans to Run as Libertarians

Westchester County Republicans Howard Arden, Matthew Rice and Kerry Lutz filed sufficient petition signatures with the Board of Elections to appear on the November ballot as Libertarian candidates in the Town of North Castle. Arden, a long-time Armonk resident, community volunteer and county businessman, is running for Town Supervisor. Rice and Lutz, both practicing attorneys,

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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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