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The IRS decides to audit Ralph, and summons him to the IRS office. The IRS auditor is not surprised when Ralph shows up with his attorney. The auditor says, "Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I'm not sure the IRS finds that believable." "I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it," says Ralph. "How about a demonstration?" The auditor thinks for a moment and says, "Okay Go ahead." Ralph says, "I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye." The auditor thinks a moment and says, "No way! It's a bet." Ralph removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor's jaw drops. Ralph says, "Now, I'll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye." The auditor can tell Ralph isn't blind, so he takes the bet. Ralph removes his dentures and bites his good eye The stunned ...

So I hope no one's getting tired of the anti-Obama foreign policy graphics and quips, because here's yet another one. You can tell when I'm really angry about something because I start getting more snarky and obsessively making little graphics about it. Enjoy!

Some of you may remember a CPAC contest earlier this year, and I just wanted to publicly thank the contest winners for bearing with me so patiently while I procrastinate in getting their prizes to them.We did in fact meet the first recruitment goal and got a nice check courtesy of the generous donors at Young Americans for Liberty . All that generosity and hard work paid off when Ron Paul won the straw poll. I will be making arrangements to get out those t-shirts this week and doing a drawing to find out which contest entrant will get half of the recruitment bonus that Young Americans for Liberty paid out. I'll post all the results here at The Humble Libertarian by very early next week at the latest. In the meantime, I want to sincerely thank Amagi Clothing for helping us reach the recruitment bonus by offering its excellent t-shirts to the first four people that signed up. This was an awesome collaboration between multiple organizations and their stakeholders to benefit ev...

Yeah so if any of you "misses him yet," it looks like Bush is back with a vengeance. Undeclared wars without the authorization of duly-elected representatives of we the people , a progressive obsession with spreading Washington's version of democracy throughout the world, irresponsibly running up the national debt, and putting our troops in harm's way to serve an internationalist agenda... pretty much sounds like Dubya never even left. Copy the image code for your blog or website below: <center><a href="http://www.humblelibertarian.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="HumbleLibertarian.com - Bush Miss Me Yet Parody: I'm baack!" border="0" src="http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp4/humblelibertarian/c4cec536.png" /></a></center> Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

A friend of mine and a libertarian who I admire very much for her tenacity and the courage of her convictions recently put a question to me about Ron Paul's political career, a question that was written to serve as a catalyst for a discussion about the most effective approach to actually create the free society we libertarians believe in. This post is my long form answer. Her question was: "Dr. Paul has been saying the same thing for over 20 years, expecting different results...hasn't that been defined as insanity?" First and foremost, I would say this: If it is impossible to forge a free society by working "within the system" of partisan politics and Washington's representative bodies, and the most effective catalyst for substantial and lasting change is to educate people about liberty, then at the very worst, Ron Paul has been by far the most effective advocate for libertarian ideas in at least a generation. Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campai...

So I have a dilemma. We're going to take a dive into some pretty heavy libertarian political theory here, but I'm going to break it down into the most simple terms I can. Before posing the question, let me acknowledge that I am embarrassingly unfamiliar with a lot of the academic libertarian literature on this and that perhaps Rothbard has solved my problem already quite directly and convincingly. If this is the case, please summarize the solution for me in the comment thread below or link to a relatively accessible (as in not a million pages long) web page whose contents address and solve my dilemma. Essentially, I am faced with the alternatives of minarchy and anarchy, but I find that each alternative has its own unique and seemingly insoluble problem. To briefly define my terms: libertarians want to maximize human liberty, but disagree as to what form of society will accomplish this best. Anarchy would be a society with no government at all, while minarchy would be a soc...

With everything going on in Libya, I figured I'd make a foreign policy Mad Libs game! How exciting, huh? Just fill in the blanks, and see how American foreign policy stays the same and the only thing that changes are the names of the dictators we spend money and spill blood to support and then oppose. Let's just stop supporting them in the first place, and then we won't have to oppose them. Let's just tell Washington to stop arming America's future enemies. That's the best foreign policy of all. Did ya like that? Grab the code for your blog or website below: <center><a href="http://www.humblelibertarian.com" target="_blank"><img alt="Humble Libertarian's Foreign Policy Mad Libs" border="0" src="http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp4/humblelibertarian/6f3dc619.png" /></a></center> Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page