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This video from The Fund for American Studies has been making its way all around the free market blogosphere this past week. Stossel blogged about it, as did Peter Robinson, Dan Mitchell, and others. In a popular video released last month, Robert Reich of MoveOn.org used a statistic that has been very popular as...
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The following is the text of a letter published in the Washington Post, and written by College Libertarian President Alex Lopez: In his June 24 op-ed column, “Who takes us to war?” Charles Krauthammer says “We need a set of rules governing the legality of any future war. This will allow us to concentrate...
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The top three things about summers in North Carolina are barbeque, summer storms, and new UNC College Libertarian leadership. I had a great time this past year in my position as president and thank you all for the support. However, the time has come to pass the torch to those that will push beyond...
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Here’s a letter I wrote the the Daily Tar Heel about the unacceptable censorship of Elliot Cramer. TO THE EDITOR: In late April, Chancellor Holden Thorp revoked Professor Emeritus Elliot Cramer’s access to the UNC (computer) network. What did Cramer do to UNC to lose his privileges? Essentially, nothing. A man named Joseph Villarosa...
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With the recent news coming out of New York (pun intended and proudly displayed in italics), the predictable backlash from the right takes some unpredictable turns. I’m impressed with the cleverness of some of the arguments made against gay marriage. They seem to have progressed far past the “but it’s icky” argument that lies...
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Well, this is embarrassing. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has surrendered to the “heckler’s veto” by revoking Professor Emeritus Elliot Cramer’s network access following outside complaints about a link on his website to an organization that advocates for animal welfare. Despite telling the complaining individual that the dispute was “not a University...
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We don't expect the government to rub our thighs and see us nude when we go to work because of the Oklahoma City Bombings, do we?
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This is exactly what we need from the national conservative movement -- those who are accepting of social freedoms as much as they are of economic freedoms are standing with their small-government brethren, and those who simply can't stomach it areremoving themselves.
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Artist’s Rendition of Obama’s Stimulus Package I don’t believe in general education requirements, but as long as we have them, Econ 101 really ought to be included. Just a few weeks into the semester, I have heard several disheartening comments in classrooms and lecture halls. One student in a philosophy class suggested that there...
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What started as a temporary moratorium in 2008 became a full-fledged ban on new fast food restaurants opening in South Los Angeles this week. Nanny State? Oh, don’t worry about that: “This is not an attempt to control people as to what they can put into their mouths. This is an attempt to diversify...
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