republished from Eric Sundwall’s post in Examiner.com November 5th, 2010 While some partisans lick their chops in anticipation of their new political spoils and others their wounds from electoral battle, Libertarian Party members of NY and activists are scrambling to determine if in fact they may have ballot status. Reminded of the 1998 effort of the […]
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In case you hadn’t heard, Bob Murphy, Austrian school wunderkind, has come up with a novel way to get Paul Krugman to finally debate and put up or shut up about his particular flavor of pilfer-thy-neighbor economics. It’s pretty cool. Murphy has raised fifty thousand dollars, that’s right, fifty thousand, that will be given to
Here’s the gist of liberal critiques of conservatives and libertarians. As far as conservatives go, the whole lot are hypocrites since they want things like social security and medicare to remain in place for their constituencies. Liberals don’t really dare say much anymore about the disturbing costs of American military hegemony these days. As far
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You would think that speaking to a ballroom full of libertarians about ending the war on drugs would be like trying to talk the AARP into senior discounts. Even as she dipped into her pear-cinnamon-chocolate mousse parfait, The Free Agent mentally donned her choir robe and prepared to be preached to. But the speaker, The
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Election day is tomorrow and we have more and more evidence that our message of “stop wasting money “ is resonating with the voters. Warren Redlich polled 7% in a recent Rochester Business Journal poll. Though you can never count on polls it is reason for optimism. Our opponents have noticed and they are running
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STATEN ISLAND, NY, October 25, 2010 Danny Panzella, independent Libertarian candidate for the 63rd Assembly District, issued a formal challenge to his opponent, Democrat Michael Cusick, to join him in supporting a state sovereignty measure. Speaking to groups of Staten Island residents this week, Mr. Panzella has been discussing the need for New York State
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Where she grew up in the Midwest, The Free Agent knows many people who have lived out their natural life spans without ever having been called to jury duty. Because she chose to settle in Coastopolis, however, the FA gets a summons about as often as she does birthday cards. Well, as often as she
The Free Agent would like to argue her confederates, especially those seeking office, out of using “socialist” as shorthand when discussing issues with the not-yet-enlightened. She hears it all the time—in the late lamented political health care debate, for example, but the pros and cons of various economic models are not understood by even a
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Of course, it is great news that the Wall Street Journal covered the alternative candidates on the eve of the NY State Governor’s Race debate. I applaud the Journal and Erica Orden for recognizing that New Yorkers are capable of processing information beyond the dumbed-down drivel that comes from most of the political class mainstream
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Perhaps the biggest beneficiary of Carl Paladino’s missteps in the governor’s race will be Warren Redlich, Albany attorney, Guilderland Town Board member and, oh yeah, the Libertarian candidate for governor. Redlich, 44, said the GOP nominee’s remarks on gays sent a surge of traffic to his website and even brought in some donations — as
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