I don’t know about you but when I think of a Town Hall I think of a two-way interactive discussion.  I think of a give and take conversation where concerned citizens share ideas and opinions.  It doesn’t necessarily have to be sweet and polite – but it needs to be an open forum.  In the invitation

Do you support gay marriage?  The knee-jerk libertarian answer, “why do we authorize the state to recognize or withhold recognition for personal relationships?” while true, doesn’t really advance the conversation.  A more thoughtful response is to ask what is this “marriage” fuss is about anyway?  After all, anyone can call themselves married, you can call

Throughout The Free Agent’s career, she has fascinated youthful admirers with her stories about the olden days, i.e., the 1970s.  (Extremely precocious, she was able to absorb and analyze current events even as she changed her own diapers.)  She is reminded of that unfortunate era by recent events like increased money supply beyond economic growth

The Tax Foundation’s Bill Ahern posted this yesterday saying that the jobs bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate would pay companies for the wrong things.  The short article is full of great links so you should really read it for yourself, but here are the bullets. Firms that claim the credit would have hired the

The infamous Christopher Guest-produced ad for this year’s census, featuring a stable of his favorite actors, debuted during the Super Bowl at a cost of $2.5 million, and packages the 2010 census as kind of a big national family reunion.  A census for the Facebook age. Fortunately, it’s also a census for the twitter age,

In his weekly address this week President Obama announced his plans for bipartisan meetings to work on bipartisan health care legislation. He started with some stories about 25% health insurance increases those nasty insurance companies are about to force on us. He then suggested that the Republicans really need to get on board and act

A gentleman of The Free Agent’s acquaintance posted a comment on Facebook recently to the effect that he’d sooner trust Congress to provide his health insurance than the “greedy” insurance companies “now prowling the halls of the Capital office buildings”.  This is not the first time I’ve heard this argument, that trust is required somehow

When defending libertarian policies, which we all should, it’s easy to get tripped up on definitions alone.  Is a liberal in favor of liberty?  In some areas.  Most of the time.  Probably?  Is a conservative unlikely to advocate state intrusion into private matters?  Yes.  No.  Wait.  What day is it?  Where do the Democratic and