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...With the ascent of a western-based Prime Minister, the region may now play a far larger role in driving national politics. The Harper government will be power-packed with influential Albertans, many of them (like the Prime Minister-designate) graduates or acolytes of the University of Calgary's libertarian political-science department. Westerners have been dreaming of such access for decades. "We're moving from the kids' table of Confederation to sit with the adults," gloats Western Standard publisher Levant...
...racial profiling, and who believes in free trade and drug legalization. She must choose between two (to her) equally objectionable options, the Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard College Democrats. That is, until now.Last November, the Committee on Campus Life voted to grant official status to the Harvard College Libertarian Forum (HLF), the College’s only libertarian group. The new group will provide a forum for discussion of a popular, comprehensive, consistent alternative political viewpoint as well as a voice for the College’s formerly excluded libertarians.HLF will bring speakers to campus, host debates, help students...
...invited, with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, to debate CSR with Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey in the October issue of Reason magazine. Rodgers assailed the CSR-imbued philosophy that guides Whole Foods, calling it similar to those of Karl Marx and Ralph Nader. Mackey, an avowed libertarian, replied that his approach has brought a lot more wealth for Whole Foods' investors than the one embraced at Cypress, which, he noted, has struggled to be profitable. Indeed, though Cypress made a small profit in 2004, it booked losses in the three previous years...
Kara A. Levy ’06, a gay libertarian, says that while the organization has inclusive intentions, it is still not a comfortable place for conservatives. “Their behavior often seems to imply that being gay makes you automatically liberal about every issue, and anyone else is crazy and brainwashed,” Levy wrote. @They mean well, but it can be sort of insulting...
...plenty of racial humor, “Reagan Returns” seems likely to offend the oversensitive, or even just the sensitive. But Young insists that the movie doesn’t target any particular groups. He himself espouses a “live and let live” libertarian philosophy. “Reagan Returns” should be unleashed on the unsuspecting public sometime next month...