8 Great Libertarian Apps That Make Your World Freer Easier to Navigate
Here are 8 great apps that make your world a little freerand a whole lot easier to navigate. Waze is a real-time, crowd-sourced map that not only tells you about traffic jams and finds...
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Debating the death penalty: Libertarian vs Conservative
Marissa Semkiw reports for TheRebel.media: The Boston Marathon bomber was found guilty yesterday and is now eligible for the death penalty. Toronto Sun columnist Anthony Furey debates the...
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TROY SENIK: Rand Paul must walk tightrope to White House
Buttons in support of the presidential candidacy of Sen. Rand Paul are shown at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Ky., where Paul spoke Tuesday.
WILLIAM DESHAZER, NEW YORK TIMES
What a difference a decade makes. In 2005, only the most obsessive political junkies knew the name of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a somewhat eccentric figure who had been the Libertarian Partys presidential nominee in 1988.
His son Rand was even more obscure, known mainly to the clients of his ophthalmology practice in Bowling Green, Ky.
On Tuesday, that small-town eye doctor stood on a stage in Louisville and declared to the world that he intends to become the 45th president of the United States.
You cant fully grasp Rands rise to prominence unless you understand how dramatically the Republican Party has changed in the intervening decade. In 2005, George W. Bush, fresh off re-election, was seeing the last positive poll numbers of his presidency (he hit 50 percent approval in the Gallup poll for the final time in May 2005) and writers like The Weekly Standards Fred Barnes were touting the presidents penchant for big government conservatism. Under this theory, it was no big deal to increase federal spending or add a costly new entitlement, like the Medicare prescription drug benefit, as long as those liberal means were being directed toward conservative ends.
Then the bottom fell out. While the broader publics second-term distaste for Bush owed largely to the pre-surge sense of aimlessness in Iraq, the gut-wrenching images that accompanied Hurricane Katrina and the economic meltdown that occurred in the dying days of his administration, conservatives focused in on an entirely different critique: He never cared about limiting the size, scope or influence of government. Bush couldnt be an example of conservatisms failures, they told themselves, because he was never a conservative in the first place.
It was in that environment that the elder Paul first rose to sustained national prominence, launching a 2008 Republican presidential campaign that initially felt quixotic. With the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney jockeying for the nomination, who really cared about the starkly libertarian views of a doddering seventy-something obstetrician from Texas?
An awful lot of people, it turned out.
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Anarchast Ep. 205 Avens OBrien: Libertarian Love and Loneliness!
Jeff interviews Libertarian blogger and social media activist Avens O #39;Brien, topics include: the NAP - what else is there?, feeling alone in a minority, a beautiful break up, being an excellent...
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. walks from the stage after speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. walks from the stage after speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference in February.
Rand Paul is not like other potential presidential candidates.
The Kentucky senator, who announced his candidacy for the White House on Tuesday morning, doesn't fit neatly into the molds of either party.
Socially liberal on issues of crime and punishment especially when it comes to drug sentencing against a federal ban on same-sex marriage, and no foreign policy hawk, he's not your prototypical Republican.
As a fiscal conservative and an opponent of abortion rights, though, he's certainly no Democrat either.
"It's time for a new way, a new set of ideas and a new leader," Paul says in a Web video, with a heavy metal soundtrack, previewing his presidential campaign.
Paul fits more with libertarians. And, though he is the scion of the last carrier of the torch of "liberty," he's also not quite his father's libertarian.
Paul's father, the former Rep. Ron, ran for president three times before retiring. The elder Paul, 79, was always regarded as something of a gadfly, an outspoken fresh voice in the Republican primary with a passionate following of young libertarians.
Though Paul did not win a single state in 2008 or 2012, when measured by Election Day voting percentage, he routinely finished in the top three. In fact, he finished a solid second behind Romney in the critical early state of New Hampshire.
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