Their motto might be “Keep government out of the boardroom and the bedroom.”
Bob Chitester — The founder and president of Free to Choose Network, Chitester was honored last year with a Sir Antony Fisher Lifetime Achievement Award at Atlas Network’s Liberty Forum. His Free to Choose Media produces documentaries, most famously the “Free to Choose” series starring Milton Friedman.
Clint Eastwood — The Hollywood icon credits his libertarianism to an old-school Republicanism — socially liberal and fiscally responsible. This was the approach he took to government during his term as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and it’s the stance he’s taken publically when asked for his political insights.
Ed Crane — A former national chairman of the Libertarian Party, Crane is the co-founder and president emeritus of the Cato Institute, a public policy organization “dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace.”.
John Stossel — The longtime network and cable newsman has unpacked emerging stories with a libertarian viewpoint on his way to 19 Emmy awards and several best-selling books. Stossel is also a syndicated columnist and, as of this year, a contributor to the Reason Foundation and ReasonTV.
Gary Johnson — The former New Mexico governor is the most recent presidential hopeful from the Libertarian Party, and one of the most successful third-party candidates to date. Johnson garnered nearly 5 million votes, almost reaching the 5-percent threshold that would have given the Libertarian Party greater federal election funds.
David Koch — Executive vice president and co-owner of Koch Industries , David Koch, like his brother, is a generous benefactor and patron of the arts. In 1980, he was the Libertarian Party’s candidate for vice president.
Trump, in essence, was sort of a liberal. He was sort of libertarian. He was sort of conservative.
Libertarian Party branches have publicly criticized the president's new requirements and said they will resist them.
Public policy has a role in ensuring that parents have the ability to make informed choices, to understand the details of how these algorithms work and to control access to content.
Palihapitiya is a corporate-friendly, Third Way centrist, with a sprinkle of social justice rhetoric but also an intense devotion to libertarian free-market triumphalism.
R.R. Reno, editor of First Things, debates Charles C.W. Cooke, editor of National Review Online.
The truth is that the fusionist project is alive and well, and it will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.
Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project debates Hall of Fame adult entertainer Brandi Love.
New York was one of the legal authorities cited in support of those arguments. In its brief, the state of Kentucky argued that the federal courts had no business interfering with the power of local majorities to enforce their social and economic preferences via regulation.
Justice Field struck down the law for violating the 14th Amendment. The city's requirement that prospective business owners first receive permission from their neighbors, Field observed, cannot possibly be justified on health or safety grounds.
Tabarrok refers to the 1917 case of Buchanan v. Warley, in which the Court struck down a Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance that segregated residential housing blocks by race. The Court invalidated that Jim Crow regulation as an unconstitutional violation of property rights and economic liberty under the 14th Amendment.
In addition to serving as the president of the American Bar Association, Storey was a founder and president of the Anti-Imperialist League and was the first president of the NAACP. Storey led the NAACP's fight against the Louisville segregation law.
"Rothstein is no libertarian," Tabarrok writes, "but to his credit he does acknowledge that one of the few anti-segregation forces in ...
A bust of Thomas Paine atop his monument in New Rochelle, N.Y. libertarian guru Andrew J. Galambos’ intellectual property views were so extreme that he paid royalties to the descendants of Paine every time he used the word “liberty,” which he claimed was coined by Paine. Joe Sohm Visions of America/Newscom/File.
Pete and Stephan discuss the Constitutionality of Biden’s vaccine mandate and then get into discussions about Hoppe’s plan for local politics and how it can fight against overreach by the Feds.
Stephan and Matt covered a wide variety of libertarian themes, including property rights, self-ownership, the Non-Aggression Principle, intellectual property, Hoppean Argumentation Ethics, Georgism, Objectivism, utilitarianism, deontology and much more. Stephan was hosted by Matthew Sands of the Nation of Sanity project ( http://www.nationsofsanity.com/ ), which aims to promote the Non-Aggression Principle as a universal peace agreement, hosting for California Gold for the first time.
STEPHAN KINSELLA: Vaguely, but I don’t really remember.
On June 29, 2021, a UK court found that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is the proper copyright owner of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, awarding initial damages in excess of $48,000 to Wright and demanding that Bitcoin.org remove the Whitepaper from its site.
KENT WELLINGTON: Yeah, some interesting takes there but.
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