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...country moving toward historically Democratic values on social issues, the sight of Democratic politicians bending over backwards to ingratiate themselves with extreme social conservatives is frankly a bit silly. In fact, the real ideological battle for Democrats may be looming on the economic front. Americans are moving in a libertarian direction across the board: while people are becoming more socially liberal, they have also been nurturing feelings of tolerance for market capitalism...
Personal savings accounts emerged as a Social Security component in academia as far back as the 1950s, but the idea remained dormant until the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan ignited a Republican revolution and the recently formed libertarian think tank the Cato Institute latched onto personal accounts as a free-market fix. Retirement savings, in the free marketeers' view, should be seen as dynamic investments rather than welfare-state safety nets. Indeed, the Cato economists and others concluded that Social Security just wasn't a good investment, based on what taxpayers put in and what they ultimately get out. The President...
VotePair.org provides an online forum aimed at winning electoral votes for presidential candidate John F. Kerry without impacting the plural vote for progressives such as Independent candidate Ralph Nader, Green party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik...
...which would have encouraged not just truckers but also cable installers and mail carriers, among others, to report suspicious behavior. But before the program could begin, it was buried in opposition from the left and the right. Americans did not want to become a "nation of snitches," as the libertarian Cato Institute...
...being a conservative doesn’t come with automatic positions on many issues, such as drug legalization, immigration and gay marriage. Libertarian conservatives, for instance, might be inclined to support the legalization of marijuana, while social conservatives might adamantly oppose it. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page argues for more legal immigration to bring about economic growth, while The National Review argues vehemently for a hiatus on all immigration—so that immigrants already here can be culturally assimilated. Disparities within the conservative position run the gamut, and to ignore these distinctions is simply narrow...