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...It’s a personal opinion, but one that is greatly supported by judgments and polls. The Cato Institute, the leading libertarian think-tank in Washington, also sees a trend towards this broad economically-conservative, socially-liberal class of libertarianism. According to David Boaz, the Executive Vice President for the Cato Institute, “the combination of views that we might call fiscally conservative and socially liberal has substantially increased,” a fact that is supported by national polls. In a policy analysis entitled “The Libertarian Vote” by Boaz and David...
...Boaz of the Cato Institute thinks that the media has a large part to play in this confusion with their emphasis on only the two major parties. Boaz says that “political scientists in the media have tended to ignore people who have fairly coherent views that don’t fall into liberal and conservative.” Which results, in Boaz’s opinion, in a general misplacement of political tendencies...
...Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Leviathan on the Right, a book about Bush's rampant spending, doesn't buy Bush's commitment since, as he points out, the President actually advocates a $25 billion expansion of the program - just not the $35 billion Democrats want. "When you look at the battle over SCHIP - he actually wants to increase spending," Tanner said. "'I will only increase this by X percent,' - this is not a rallying cry to fiscal conservatives...
...Jerry Jeff Walker had never driven you down to Key West, what would you be doing now and where would you be doing it? -Zach Cato in Madisonville, KentuckyIf Jerry Jeff hadn't driven me to Key West, I would have gone anyway. It was definitely on my radar. I had been there in college and had been very, very much acquainted with the literary history of Key West. Key West didn't have really much musical history then-it was much more of a literary history, and a history of a really interesting, intriguing place...
...guns are hotly contested. But national majorities have consistently opposed sweeping bans, however rare, on handguns while supporting the more moderate gun-control measures that are common in many states--including waiting periods and background checks. That's why the Parker litigation, spearheaded by Bob Levy of the libertarian Cato Institute, seems like the perfect Supreme Court test case for gun-rights supporters. "We picked the D.C. law because it is so extreme," Levy told me. Now that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been replaced by Samuel Alito, Levy is "cautiously optimistic" of victory next June...