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Rand Paul’s presidential race has had a dramatic impact already on the liberty movement, with tens of thousands of Google searches bringing people to The Libertarian Republic to learn more about our ideas. We’ve written quite frequently about libertarian issues, and we do it in a way that we think makes them more approachable, and…
Why Selling Liberty Needs To Appeal to the Brain, the Body & The Heart by Avens O’Brien Last week I published a silly article titled “7 Reasons Libertarian Women Make Amazing Girlfriends”. Many of the comments on that article indicated that many libertarian men desired and couldn’t find libertarian women – either ones that would…
Did you know that you are free to find your own happiness in the world, no matter what situation you were born into? Don’t believe me. Listen to this rich, white guy Jean Paul Sartre explain it.
“We don’t have freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment to say very controversial things.” – Ron Paul When freedom is tested, people have historically spoken out against those who wish to aggress upon their liberty, which is usually their own government. In many countries, such dissent is met…
#1. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 1798-1799 Drafted between 1798 and 1799, the states of Kentucky and Virginia presented political statements that took the position that the states had the right and duty to declare unconstitutional any act of Congress that were not authorized by the Constitution. These were written in secret by Thomas Jefferson…
Political correctness is the new moral panic, and like all moral panics before it, it looks like rockers and comedians are the first to beat it back. One rock band in particular has taken the fight to it in the belly of the beast — Portand, Oregon. Yes, that’s right, Portlandia itself. And they did…
How many times have you brought up sexual violence against women in the Middle East when arguing with a feminist, only to be told, “Just because someone else has it worse, that doesn’t mean we should ignore injustice here at home?” Never mind that said “injustice” will usually be confined to nonsensical “microaggressions” like breathing…
Over 45 million people died in China’s embrace of Communism. From 1958 to 1976, the “Great Leap Forward” as it was called, sacrificed millions of people to the ideas of forced collectivism and big government. Mao Zedong criminalized the ownership of private farms, forced people into industrial labor, and engaged in one of the deadliest…
The conflict in the Middle East has shined a light on the motives of the belligerents in the battle between Israel and the Palestinians. Americans generally have a woefully inadequate understanding of the basic reasons for why this conflict is so intense, and the hatred so deep seated. Part of that may be our…
Against Woman [sic] Suffrage February 24, 1877 by Lysander Spooner Women are human beings, and consequently have all the natural rights that any human beings can have. They have just as good a right to make laws as men have, and no better; AND THAT IS JUST NO RIGHT AT ALL. No human being, nor any number of…