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In a press release Tuesday, the Tea Party Senator from Kentucky, and relentless thorn in the side of establishment Republicans and Democrats, announced he is endorsing the Libertarian Party candidate in New Mexico's 2018 Senate contest: " I have an important announcement today. I'm endorsing Gary Johnson for US Senate. Gary Johnson is a true fiscal conservative. As Governor, he reduced the size of government while improving services. He cut taxes, and he set what may be a record by vetoing more than 700 unnecessary pieces of legislation. His leadership on issues of government overreach, protecting Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights against mass surveillance, and common sense foreign policy is sorely needed in the United States Senate, for New Mexico and the nation. He will be an important ally and a critical independent voice." How you can help if you don't live in New Mexico: DONATE here: https://www.garyjohnsonsenate.com/donate How you can help if...

State nationalism is obviously antithetical to libertarianism, and it's obviously evil. What kind of a bizarre alternate reality have we ended up in that any libertarians at all are falling for this nasty and stupid shit? Well here's the video Stefan Molyneux published Wednesday: Let's dive right in: "If you're going to have... the welfare state, free education, free health care, free you name it... then you have to have borders." This is an argument against the welfare state. Not an argument for the police state. See this is where Stefan Molyneux has abandoned libertarianism completely for racism and state nationalism. Instead of arguing for less welfare state, he argues for more police state. It's very hard to hear from someone who made a name for himself as a formidable critic of the state. Stefan Molyneux is leading his listeners into the time-honored statist death spiral of correcting problems caused by government with even more go...

Another example of how violence against men in this country is trivialized. A lot of people pretty much laughed about Rand Paul getting assaulted and left with 6 broken ribs. Three of them were displaced fractures (where the halves of the broken bone are knocked completely out of alignment) and he also had pulmonary contusions, which are a life threatening injury that can fill a person's lungs up with blood and fluid until they drown. The reaction from most of America was pretty much a big yawn. But you know we would have mobilized to DefCon 1 if a female political leader had been assaulted in her own front yard and severely injured. There would have been such a massive and effusive outpouring of good will and concern for her. She would have gotten her own trending hashtag with its own special Twitter flair icon. There would have been a lot of fierce rage for her attacker. There may have even been a #MeToo campaign for other women ( women only, not men ) who have ...

Paul argues that trying to craft a revenue neutral tax reform means that some Americans will get tax cuts, but other Americans will see their taxes go up to pay for it, and that those with the least influence in the political process will be the ones who see their taxes go up... Read all about Senator Rand Paul's tax reform plan called "The Flat and Fair Tax," in my most recent article at The Independent Voter Network.

Last Friday in "Libertarianism, The Alt Right, and The Real Racists in Politics," I wrote : Now if I seem annoyed, it's because I am. Matt Lewis and The Daily Beast run a headline that there's an insidious connection between libertarianism and the Alt Right... Accuses libertarianism of attracting racist kooks... And then blathers on about nothing with no basis at all to back up his very serious and defamatory claims about libertarianism. And who's calling him out on it? Not even libertarians are calling him out for this! Just me. Well Jay over at PersonalLiberty.com pointed out in a comment that the good folks at Personal Liberty covered the issue and fought back against this smear attack as well. Thanks for bringing that to my attention! I say, it's a good one too ! Sam's use of SPLC quotes and the same reasoning in Matt Lewis' smear piece shows that Democrats have themselves a really bad Nazi problem! Again, thanks, Jay for poin...

So this conservative blogger, Matt Lewis, just wrote : "The Insidious Libertarian-to-Alt-Right Pipeline Is it just a phase they go through—or is there something about libertarianism that attracts, well, uh, you know, racist kooks? Libertarianism has an alt-right problem. Many prominent leaders of the alt-right have, at some point, identified as libertarian. I am curious as to... why?" ...Say what? No. Conservatism has an Alt Right problem. The Republican Party has an Alt Right problem. You won the presidency off that shit. That's yours . Don't try to blame the Alt Right on libertarians. Because I've got the answer for you right here... You know how often times a "racist" is really just a conservative winning the argument with a liberal? Yeah, well sometimes a "racist" is also just a libertarian winning the argument with a conservative. Which shows you just how little difference there is between some so-called conservat...

Former Ku Klux Klan leader Johnny Lee Clary tells how one black preacher defeated the entire Ku Klux Klan.

Remarking on the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, Julian Assange tweeted a picture of it with the words, “The new face of America is eerily familiar.” With all due respect to Mr. Assange for his advancement of truly relevant journalism in our era, what we all saw happen in Charlottsville, Virginia is not the new face of America. A few hundred of these eccentric, openly racist, angry young men do not speak for or represent all of us. They hardly speak for any of us at all. The shock, disgust, and outrage at their racist and divisive message was nearly universal over the weekend. On social media, America resoundingly thundered its disapproval of the racist alt-right groups, and its heartbreak and disbelief at the appalling murder of Heather Heyer by one of the demonstrators. It’s hard for most of us to believe that in this day and age anybody can think the kind of things that these alt-right groups say... Read the rest at: The Indepen...

I was thinking a lot over the weekend about the question: To what extent do we get more of what we pay attention to? And feed our emotion and energy into? Which is a tough question after a weekend like this. Because you don’t want to go ignoring serious problems. That certainly doesn’t make them go away. But at the same time it also seems true that we create a lot of our reality by the way we frame it. So even though probably no one I know would ever go to a Nazi march… When I look and see a Nazi march for a few days, and I see everybody talking about it, and people say this is how it is all over… I might start to feel like this is more common than it really is. And I might get curious about why it’s so popular. And I might start reading some of their literature. And if I’m a lost soul, and full of resentments and bitterness… I might latch on for the same reasons they did. And so all the media attention helped it grow. But if no counter-protesters showed ...

Visitors wait to enter the Museum of Natural History in Pyongyang on Sept. 28, 2016. Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images You might not know as much about North Korea as you think. After all, how much time have you spent really paying attention to the latest news on North Korea ? Or the history of North Korea ? Or the history of U.S. actions on the Korean peninsula? Don't be too attached to a mental image of "North Korea," if the facts turn out to be different... Flag Wavers at a Stadium in Pyongyang in 2014 Eric Lafforgue Take the North Korean Economy and North Korean Famine for Instance If someone's mental image of North Korea is a place where a lot of people are starving, they're like 20 years behind. That's one of the most common clichés about North Korea, that it's a destitute, starving country. But it's not accurate anymore : "In the late 1990s, North Korea suffered a major famine that, according to the most recent re...