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Campaign For Liberty Blog

• "Is Tougher Airport Screening Going Too Far?"

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 6:03pm PDT

  By Matt HawesThe Wall Street Journal covers C4L Director of Development Steve Bierfeldt's lawsuit against the TSA.  And the title of their article made Drudge! "TSA agents don't get to play cops," says Ben Wizner, an attorney who filed Mr. Bierfeldt's suit. The ACLU ...

RedStateEclectic

• Bootleggers and Baptists

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 5:41pm PDT by Georg Thomas

  Enclosure: [download]

  “Baptists” point to the moral high ground and give vital and vocal endorsement of laudable public benefits promised by a desired regulation. Baptists flourish when their moral message forms a visible foundation for political action. “Bootleggers” are much less visible but no less vital. Bootleggers, ...

• The Battle of Our Lifetime

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 4:30pm PDT by Georg Thomas

  Enclosure: [download]

  If democracy, as we know it, and spread it by "nation building" wars of aggression, is the process by which the people vote themselves into serfdom, fascism - essentially a variety of socialism - is  the subjugation of the business world by government, para-government and ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Madoffian Finance in California

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 3:45pm PDT

  IOUs? . Idea: give California a central bank. Even better: give every citizen a central bank so we can dispense with this paycheck nonsense altogether. ...

• Great news, our descent into Hell is taking place at a slower pace

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 3:34pm PDT

  Don't you love the way the NYT reports all bad economic news under Obama? Somehow everything is oddly turned into good news. The "most painful downturn since the Great Depression has yet to release its hold"--what did you expect buddy?--and yet it is ...

Taki’s Magazine

• Establishment Chic

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 2:35pm PDT

  Wonkette, if you have the good fortune of not knowing, is a left-liberal site that manages to consider itself cheeky and iconoclastic while endorsing only the most exquisitely conventional, establishment-approved opinions.  If you’re not located somewhere along that fantastic spectrum of genius that ranges from ...

RedStateEclectic

• March on DC

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 1:57pm PDT by Laura Ebke

  FreedomWorks is sponsoring (and the Campaign for Liberty is one of the co-sponsors) of a March on DC, to take place September 12.  They’re billing it as “The Tea Party Movement Storms Capitol Hill”.  If you’ve got nothing else going on ...

• MORE Work Needed to Save Jobs?

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 1:50pm PDT by Laura Ebke

  I’m more inclined to think LESS government work would be more helpful (that includes government regulations, lawmaking and taxation).digg_url = "http://redstateeclectic.typepad.com/redstate_commentary/2009/07/more-work-needed-to-save-jobs.html";digg_title = "MORE Work Needed to Save Jobs?";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "compact";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; ...

The Second Great Depression

• HAPPY DEPENDENCE DAZE GRINNERS!

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 1:38pm PDT by rich2010

  We are living through the collapse of the final and all-consuming economic bubble at the end of the American empire.- Stoneleigh Dearest Fellow Grinners, It's just the Grin Reaper wishing you the finest of Dependence Daze. Yes that's right Dependence....

Mises Economics Blog

• Abolish the Bank of England

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:21pm PDT

  A movement growing in that polite sort of way. ...

• Happy We-Should-Restore-The-Monarchy-And-Rejoin-Britain Day!

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:17pm PDT

  The celebration of the 4th of July as if it's a libertarian holiday is a bit much to bear. Secession from Britain was a mistake. It's easy enough to realize that the Constitution was not some libertarian achievement as ...

The Second Great Depression

• Stories of Interest - 7-2-09

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:09pm PDT by rich2010

  UK: Swine Flu Could Hit 'Over 100,000 Cases Per Day' Before You Roll Up Your Sleeve: Vaccination, What You Should Know UK Liquor Co. Got $2.7B Of U.S. Bailout Payrolls Fall By Faster ...

Campaign For Liberty Blog

• Fliers for July 4th Activities

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:03pm PDT

  By Matt HawesIf you're planning to attend a July 4th event this weekend (or even if you're just having a bbq with a few friends in your backyard), take the opportunity to spread the word about C4L! The fliers below celebrate our founding principles and ...

• Campaign for Liberty in Saudi Arabia

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:03pm PDT

  By cip1428Great news.   Today I was on a signal light in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.   I saw a Bangladishi man wearing a Campaign for Liberty T-shirt . The campaign is gaining world wide popularity.   In liberty   Abdullah...

EconLog

• Further Reply to Matt: Who is "We"?

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 11:45am PDT by David Henderson

  (July 2, 2009 06:45 PM, by David Henderson) Like some commenters, I found Bryan Caplan's post on health care today to be one of his best. And he's already set a high bar. But, believe it or not, given that Bryan is a more-radical libertarian ...

RedStateEclectic

• Top 50 Reasons to Fight Cap and Trade

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 11:34am PDT by Laura Ebke

  Spruiell and Williamson over and National Review have put together 50 reasons to stop Cap and Trade/Waxman-Markey (it’s still got to get through the Senate, folks).  Here are a few of my favorites: 11. The farm lobby will be rewarded for practices that ...

DownsizeDC

• Babka on Judge Napolitano's show

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 11:00am PDT by DownsizeDC.org

  DownsizeDC.org President Jim Babka appeared on Freedom Watch With the Judge yesterday. Jim comes in by phone at around the 8:00 mark of the 5th segment and all of the sixth. You can watch the show here.  (Read More) ...

Taki’s Magazine

• Technocological Differences…

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 9:18am PDT

  Dear Takimag Readers. I’m very sorry about the lack of new articles today, but when I got back to my apartment early this morning—having just proven triumphant in the Manhattan Project’s July debate, in which I was able to convince a majority of the attendees ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Yet Another Study Finds Patents Do Not Encourage Innovation

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 8:48am PDT

  Study Finds Patent Systems May Not Be an Effective Incentive to Encourage Invention of New Technologies reports: A new study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review challenges the traditional view that patents foster innovation, suggesting instead that patents may harm ...

• Big Government and the 4th of July

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 8:22am PDT

  As we prepare to celebrate the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence we should recall why the American colonists made their decision to break away from the British Empire. The Declaration, in the enumerated grievances against the British Crown, ...

Liberty Maven

• Does the government have your consent on this July 4th?

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 7:35am PDT by Mike Miller

  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Quote of the Day: “It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God, it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and independence forever.” – ...

RedStateEclectic

• Not Even Nixon

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 7:18am PDT by Laura Ebke

  According to Helen Thomas, not even Nixon tried to control the press the way that the Obama Administration does: “Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. “What the hell do they think we ...

Mises Economics Blog

• On J. Neil Schulman's Logorights

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 7:00am PDT

  On GMO patent infestation, Kent Hastings comments on my IP views and those of J. Neil Schulman. Schulman responded: My article "Informational Property: Logorights" begins by specifically disclaiming any state grants of monopoly. The concept stands or falls on ...

DownsizeDC

• Declare YOUR Independence

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 6:53am PDT by DownsizeDC.org

  Quote of the Day: "It [the Declaration of Independence] is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God, it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and independence forever." - Daniel Webster, in an August 2, 1826 eulogy to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams; ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Dean Krugman to the Marching Band: "Stay the Course!"

  Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 6:45am PDT

  All who remember Animal House can recall the scene at the end in which the band is trying to walk through the wall at the end of the alley, having been led there by one of the pranksters from Delta House. Obviously this moment ...