January 2012
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Sarah Palin: Ron Paul is the "Only One" Willing to... →
I’m okay with this.
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Why You Should Spend a $2 Bill at Starbucks on... →
Institute for Humane Studies Breakout Sessions at... →
sfliberty:
Students For Liberty is excited to announce that the Institute for Humane Studies will be hosting 6 breakout sessions at the Fifth Annual International Students For Liberty Conference.
The Institute for Humane Studies will be hosting break out sessions over a variety of topics, such as:
“The Tea Party and Occupy-Can Both be Right?”
“What Kind of Libertarian are You?”
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<Insert comment on State of the Union>
I didn’t watch it. He said nothing new. The same old tired rhetoric.
Ron Paul's End the TSA Money Bomb →
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theweekmagazine:
Obama’s top 5 successes
The president will surely boast of his accomplishments during tonight’s State of the Union address. So what exactly are they? Paul Brandus tells us:
5. Getting out of Iraq Keeping one’s promise is good currency for any politician, and this was a big one that Obama delivered on. The numbers: 4,484 Americans killed, 32,200 wounded,...
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“We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income...”
– MegaUpload CEO Kim Dotcom a month before his site was shutdown by the federal government for “copyright violations.”
It’s stuff like this that makes me so interested in politics. The emerging and burgeoning internet market place is just one component of the new Digital Age....
Do Ron's supporters find his verbal incoherence...
whatthemassesdemand:
GODWIN’S LAW -
LET’S STOP COMPARING PEOPLE TO HITLER UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY START SENDING PEOPLE TO A GAS CHAMBER. Okay? It doesn’t matter which side of the body politic you are on, eventually someone is going to get compared to Hitler. You can compare the decline of the American Republic to the rise of despotism in pre-WWII Germany all you want, but let’s stop with the...
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Do Ron's supporters find his verbal incoherence...
the-cranberry-tales:
thought-provoking-url:
interruptions:
Like is it supposed to be a sign of his earnestness or something? Or do they just not care? Or are they so far removed from reality they think he’s a competent orator?
We elected the last guy because he could give a good speech. I’d rather have ideas over great speaking skills.
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Hitler was a great speaker.
Dan Mitchell:
Chile used to be the poorest of the three countries and now it is comparatively rich. Argentina has enjoyed a bit of growth. Venezuela, by contrast, used to be the richest of the three nations but has stagnated and now is in last place. …
Chile has reduced the burden of government a lot in the past three decades, Argentina has reduced the burden of government a little, and...
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proclus:
Democracy Now! | U.S. Drone Strike Kills London Man in Somalia - drones http://ping.fm/7CMK7
“School Choice: It’s not a conservative issue or a liberal issue, Republican or...”
– Celebrating School Choice Week. (via theheritagefoundation)
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TSA Detains Rand Paul in Nashville →
Paul apparently set off an airport security full-body scanner “on a glitch,” a spokesman in Paul’s office told ABC News.
The Paul staffer said TSA agents would not let Paul walk back through the body scanner and were demanding a full body pat-down.
The Paul spokesman said his office called TSA administrator John Pistole about the incident this morning.
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Post Letter: Obama far from supporting the... →
Tony and I made it into the campus paper.
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Reblog if you think gay marriage should be legal.
i-breathe-the-phoenix:
Reblog if you think the contractual agreements between consenting adults like marriage shouldn’t be left up to the majority’s opinion. Get the state out it.
Vote for Ohio University Students for Liberty to... →
evilteabagger:
You can vote once per day. Be prepared for me to post this a lot over the next few weeks.
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The Secret Document That Transformed China →
“Back then, even one straw belonged to the group,” says Yen Jingchang, who was a farmer in Xiaogang in 1978. “No one owned anything.”
At one meeting with communist party officials, a farmer asked: “What about the teeth in my head? Do I own those?” Answer: No. Your teeth belong to the collective.
In theory, the government would take what the collective grew,...
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Video: Why is Solyndra Destroying Millions of... →
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“Let’s also think about the timing of this bust. It’s a pretty...”
– Sam Biddle
For the record, if they take mediafire I’ll be ready to take it into the streets.
““For the first time ever, all 100 firms on Fortune’s Best Companies To Work For...”
– Andrew Sullivan, letting people in on the inconvenient fact that markets and the demand for talent *can* indeed solve issues of inequality. Sometimes, it helps to let society change government, rather than vice versa. (via huskerred)
We’re getting Kucinich to come speak on campus about the wars in March. We are sooooo much better than the College Democrats here.
“An indictment accused Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders at least $500...”
– Popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com shut down; founder, others indicted on piracy charges - washingtonpost.com
The very important question I want you all to ask yourselves right now is - where is that $500 million?
If, as it is claimed, online piracy hurts the US economy because people are...
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Vote for Ohio University Students for Liberty to... →
You can vote once per day. Be prepared for me to post this a lot over the next few weeks.
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OUSFL is responding to a horrible article in our campus newspaper that praised Obama as our nation’s savior. I thought I would post a few paragraphs I squeezed out between classes. I haven’t proof read this at all so don’t send me hate messages about my grammar.
I agree that Barack Obama has brought about change. Unfortunately it was not the change we were expecting or what he...
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Store fined $30K for stocking toy guns →
weaponsystems:
A New York discount store was ordered to pay a $30,000 fine for stocking toy guns that were deemed to be too realistic.
People who protest SOPA but support Net Neutrality
sabersandphasers:
“I want them to remember that lawmakers and lobbyists who don’t understand the...”
– Erik Martin, reddit general manager, telling us what he thinks you should take away from today’s Internet blackouts. (via newsweek)
Let’s try it a few more ways too:
“I want them to remember that lawmakers and lobbyists who don’t understand healthcare have no business trying to regulate it.”
“I...