Hearings began today on Ron Paul’s  HR1207 which proposes to audit the Federal Reserve.  Dr. Wood’s says it beautifully. I can’t begin to compare so read his testimony here. First, this is a huge victory for the forces of freedom in New York City.  Dozens of heroic volunteers from the Campaign for Liberty and the Libertarian […]

… and start a business issuing 1099’s.   A forbes.com article ‘Senate Six’ Could Sink Small Business yesterday listed a number of nails in the coffins of small businesses, including: fees for not offering health insurance 35% tax on health plans worth over $8000 (singles) per year. cap flexible spending accounts at $2000 per year eliminate income

CJ Maloney blogs today on Eliot Spitzer in Hubris and the Hooker on Lew Rockwell. CJ will be our guest at next Monday’s (Sep 14) meeting of the Manhattan Libertarian Party. Details here.

I’m watching the Senate Health Committee debates. Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R)  introduced an amendment that as far as I could tell required members of the Senate to participate in whatever public plan they create for the common man and woman, apparently instead of the lush plan the taxpayer subsidizes for them now.   It

I was delighted to be a very small part last night in the submission at the Board of Elections of over 10,000 signatures on petitions for 10 candidates of the Libertarian Party in New York City. In addition to three city-wide candidates, we have Borough President and City Council candidates in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

Few people would deny that something needs to change in the US health care system.  Reasonable people can disagree about how to go about it but the major divide comes down to whether you respect others rights to their opinion or instead prefer to solve problems by force.  Our rulers would have us believe  the

Seems to me a significant percentage of Americans don’t really care much about health.  Many of us smoke, drink, are overweight, eat the wrong things and don’t exercise.  of course there are many health conscious Americans who don’t fall into any of those categories.   But  a lot do.    Why should the taxpayer cover their health care? 

Dutifully fulfilling it’s role as chief propagandist for the State, today’s New York Times declares that  It is clearly too soon to know for sure. But the evidence is now pointing pretty strongly in one direction: history books may conclude that the financial crisis of 2008 turned out to be far less bad than it

Rand Paul is a candidate for US Senate from Kentucky and he spoke at a fundraiser last night in New York City to a large enthusiastic crowd.  He was joined by Peter Schiff (will he run for Senate too?), Adam Kokesh a candidate for Congress from New Mexico  and Congressman Scott Garrett (NJ).    If anyone was worried