And better looking. Kristen Davis to run for NY governor.

Davis has spoken in the past about running against former Gov. (and alleged former client) Eliot Spitzer - to draw attention to the fact that she served nearly four months on Rikers Island while Client 9 escaped indictment.
“This started out being about Spitzer,” admitted Stone, who […]

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Something for your front entry.

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Two Takes on Hayek’s Flabbiness, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
If I were me, however - and I am - I would remind Dan that another great libertarian economist won a Nobel prize and inspired great reforms without talking nonsense: Milton Friedman. Friedman was influential in part because, like […]

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A bit of a puzzler for those with a libertarian bent.
(Via Liberatrian Samizdata)
When a government says no to freedom of religious worship, it is easy to mount our high horses and ride forth bearing gleaming swords of indignation. But when a clear majority of the demos say no, well, then it gets rather harder. At […]

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Classical Values :: Where were you when wood became a felony?
Between Wood Control and the Consumer Product Safety Nazis, I pity anyone in the secondhand business, including all Ebay and Craigslist sellers as well as people holding garage or yard sales.
In short, I pity the American people. This is not their fault, though, for no […]

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How the KSM Trial Will Undermine the Law - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online
. Some day when a guy gets convicted on a two bit federal charge thanks to the KSM rules that will no doubt result from this trial, we will have Eric Holder and his liberal and libertarian enablers […]

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One of the stupider things I have heard lately « A Conservative Shemale

What’s objectionable about Objectivism – I’ve noticed that a lot of novelists seem to be purists. I guess that is because in novels you can force a system to work. It seems to be true of bloggers too. Probably for the same reason. […]

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The Other McCain: I’ll give Newt a ‘C’
Allah Pundit links Newt eating some crow on Hannity. Allah throws on an interesting spin:

His endorsement was always strategic, to support Republican leaders at the local level and dissuade third-party challenges next year.

The best way to dissuade third-party challenges from conservatives is to avoid […]

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Glenn Beck goes all in for Doug Hoffman — and third parties
There’s a sense I get from watching Beck that he thinks there’s a supermajority out there willing to return to Founders-style libertarianism if only he and other conservatives hammer the message hard and long enough. I don’t […]

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The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Regulation on the Rise
There’s no question Obama appointees are more enthusiastic regulators than their Bush counterparts (with the possible exception of those at Homeland Security), but it would be a mistake to place all the credit/blame for increased regulation on the Obama Administration. In some cases, as […]

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Obama reaffirms will end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ - Yahoo! News
“He repeated his promises that he’s made to us before, but he did not indicate when he would accomplish these goals and we’ve been waiting for a while now,” said Jones, national co-chair of a major gay-rights rally expected to draw thousands of gay and […]

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Are Conservatives Brain-Dead or Muscular?
In which the Classic Liberal, who has numbered himself among the conservatives, considers moving to the dark side of libertarianism.

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » IN THE MAIL: Bill Frist’s new book, A Heart To Serve.
I’m a free man and a libertarian. I’m not interested in some altruistic hack’s ramblings on why other people own every part of him. Thinking that your life requires service to others is the same as saying […]

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Ron Paul on Iranian nuke site: I’m tired of all this military-industrial fearmongering
Thankfully, this old crank’s isolationist denialism is so fringe on the right that not even mainstreamers who are sympathetic to his broader agenda, like Glenn Beck, will go near it.
Yep. The Big-L Libertarians and the […]

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Zombies: A Rothbardian Perspective
Yes, indeed. If you’re a libertarian, what about a zombie’s heirs?
Betcha never thought about that, didja?
Huh?

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The Other McCain: Do we need a purge? I don’t think so
However, grassroots activism has consequences. One of the consequences of a ressurgent conservative grassroots is that their concerns, beliefs and attitudes are sometimes not in sync with the concerns, believes and attitudes of smart young Republican activists like Patrick Ruffini. . . .
You […]

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American Thinker: Conservatism in defense of liberty
Peter Berkowitz, who reviewed my book Liberty and Tyranny
for the Weekly Standard, and did a pretty poor job of it, sees the most aggressive assault on representative and constitutional government in modern history and preaches moderation and, ultimately, inevitability.
In the first sentence of his review he […]

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The Volokh Conspiracy - Iranian gun laws bleg:
From the comments:

If the people escalate to violence, the government has every right to protect itself.

Unless you buy into the idea of popular sovereignty, in which case the government’s ‘protecting itself’ against the people is an act of rebellion.
And this aptly demonstrates the difference […]

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » SO DOES THIS INCITEMENT CHARGE pass the Brandenburg test? I don’t think it does….
I don’t like this guy, and I don’t like what he advocates for. However, arresting him for speech makes a travesty of the constitutional guarantee of that right. Yeah, I think freedom of speech should […]

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Hit & Run > Judging Judge Sotomayor - Reason Magazine
Some early libertarian reactions to Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

None are very approving.

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Then get off your cheap ass and go buy some.

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David Bernstein recommends total immersion.

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Birmingham Libertarian Examiner: The GOP needs libertarians more than libertarians need the GOP right now
Without enough allies to fight the Democrats or even the skills to find the path to small government and individual freedom, the current Republican leadership may not be destined to forty years in the wilderness. Without libertarian assistance, they may […]

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The Volokh Conspiracy - -
In other words, libertarian Obama supporters got the opposite of what they hoped for: a moderate on foreign and national security policy, and someone fundamentally reassessing American economic policy in the direction of bigger government.
I wonder how many libertarian fans Obama has left?
Probably lots, because the morons calling themselves libertarians who […]

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Gov. Mark Sanford in Defense of Libertarians - Veronique de Rugy - The Corner on National Review Online
[People say ‘libertarian’]. . . as if it’s an evil word. . . . Throw me in that briar patch, I’m guilty. I love liberty. . . . I’ve been accused of being a libertarian, and I . […]

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