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Posts published in August 2009

Libertarians: Obama promises of postal system-style health care fail to deliver

By on August 14, 2009 3:11 PM

Press release from LPHQ posted at LP.org:

President seeks to assure voters by promising health care will be run like the mail

WASHINGTON — America’s third largest party Wednesday took aim at comments made by President Barack Obama in a New Hampshire press event Tuesday, in which he took questions from a pre-selected audience.…

On The Wilder Side: No clear line between Corporation and Working Families Party

By on August 14, 2009 3:04 PM

On The Wilder Side:

Kevin Finnegan Admits No Clear Line Between WFP And DFS
In WNYC interview, lawyer who set up secretive company admits “there’s no firewalls” between party and for-profit

Kevin Finnegan, the lawyer who set up the secretive company called Data and Field Services which is owned by the Working Families Party, appeared on WNYC Tuesday to respond to City Hall’s extensive investigative report about the depth of connections between the non-profit party and for-profit company, admitting during the interview that as for the line between WFP and DFS, “there’s no firewalls.”

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David Boaz: Independent libertarian voters abandoning Obama?

By on August 14, 2009 2:02 PM

David Boaz of Cato, quoted by Steve Newton at Delaware Libertarian. While the article discusses small-l libertarians choosing among the perceived lesser evil among the two largest parties, the clear tendency of both of those parties against freedom on all sets of issues has clear implications for considering other alternatives:

Libertarian—or fiscally conservative, socially liberal—voters are often torn between their aversions to the Republicans’ social conservatism (and, for some of them, military adventurism) and the Democrats’ fiscal irresponsibility.…