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...Mexico native, I know most Western voters are not the types conjured up to stymie reform. Many cowboys have a libertarian streak, but above all they are pragmatic. They have no time for winded speeches and empty pandering, which is mostly what they’re getting. Grassley and Enzi do nothing to challenge the fake grassroots spectacle, and in doing so they push away consensus...
...Filed an emergency injunction to the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 12, 2008 on behalf of failed Libertarian vice presidential candidate Gail Lightfoot, asking the court to stop California's certification of the 2008 election results. The court declined to hear the case without comment...
HARTFORD, Conn. — On July 4th, one thousand rebels rushed the state capitol, shouting the battle cry: “Throw the bum out!” The bum was Senator Chris Dodd, the occasion, a tea party. For three hours, Dan Reale, a 27-year-old Libertarian from Plainfield, Conn., passed a microphone to speakers who denounced Dodd and other politicians for shackling their constituents to an ever-growing national debt. Critics call these people fire-eaters, but I call them conservatives—conservatives who are looking for a leader...
...Libertarian won’t be that leader. Reale wisely stressed commonalities: “We’re not going to agree on everything, but we do agree that spending is out of control.” His colleagues, however, were politically clumsy. Peter Schiff, an economist who Libertarians hope will be the Republican candidate against Dodd, spoke to the crowd—for an agonizing half hour. In his speech, he dissected the history of the Federal Reserve—the most boring topic he could choose—and the crowd’s attention melted away...
...figure in the revival was the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman--and his libertarian ideological bent was certainly a factor. Friedman never believed markets were perfectly rational, but he thought they were more rational than governments. Friedman saw the Depression as the product of a Fed screwup--not a market disaster--and convinced himself and other economists (without much evidence) that speculators tended to stabilize markets rather than unbalance them...