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Abolition and Libertarian Principles

December 29, 2024 Wanjiru Njoya

In “Abolition: An Acid Test,” Murray Rothbard criticized libertarians who defended slavery as part of their defense of property rights. Those libertarians had argued that slaves were classified as property and, therefore, abolishing slavery would be tantamount to expropriation of the slaveowners’ property. This was indeed one of the arguments put forward by slaveowners who … Read more

The Cultural Issues Tainting the Libertarian Movement

May 12, 2024 Op-Ed

For years, I have always tried to give the libertarian movement the benefit of the doubt. I know there are different factions/degrees in the movement that may be more left or right leaning than others that claim to invoke or promote various concepts of voluntary, individual liberty.

Jason Osborne’s Self-Serving, Nonsensical Definition Of Tyranny

April 10, 2024 Ed Mosca

You bought a home in a single-family-zoned neighborhood precisely because it was zoned single-family. Then, some supposed “Republican” State Reps joined forces with the Democrats to outlaw single-family zoning throughout New Hampshire—the one-size-fits-all, big-government solution that Republicans supposedly oppose.

Why I’m Not A Socialist

August 29, 2025November 19, 2019 Op-Ed

Recently, Senator Jeanne Dietsch wrote an article about how she isn’t a libertarian (her voting record already let us know that). Her first thought is that libertarian is bad because it was responsible for slavery. I think we need to back up and explain to Senator Dietsch what a traditional libertarian might mean. Foremost, it … Read more

An Open Letter to Senator Jeanne Dietsch

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Dear Senator Dietsch; In your letter today slamming ‘libertarianism’ you seem to insinuate that Government solved the slavery problem. While that may be true, in part, in the United States, it is not a fact globally. There are, according to estimates, over 40 million humans still being victimized by one form of slavery or another … Read more

Wayne Allyn Root

July 15, 2024October 13, 2015 Steve MacDonald

Libertarian author, speaker, and former vice presidential candidate, Wayne Allyn Root talks to us about Obama and Columbia University, Donald Trump’s disruptive effect on the election, what happened with Scott Walker, and why you always want to be on offense.

So what did Union Leader’s Ted Seifer wish to accomplish with this line?

September 26, 2018May 23, 2012 Skip

Filling a vacancy on any Supreme Court–be it the US Supremes or the NH Supremes–is a big deal, so it is no surprise that people are talking and reporting on it (as we have here, here, and here). So did the Union Leader; Ted Seifer interviewed Tim, asking him about the NHLRF‘s position on Gov. John Lynch’s nominee for the NH Supreme Court, Jim Basssett. Having gotten the link from a friend I decided to read the piece and this caught my eye:

Condon, its current chairman, is a Grafton attorney who has been active in the Free State movement.

Factually true, but what does the Free State Project connection have to do with the NH Constitutional basis that forms the basis for the NHLRF activities?

Jesus and the Democrat

September 26, 2018December 30, 2011 Steve MacDonald

JESUS AND THE DEMOCRAT

Jesus in a Coffee shop A Republican, in a wheelchair, entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Republican looked across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus sitting over there?” The waitress nodded “yes,” so the Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.

… The next patron to come in was a Libertarian, with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus, over there?” The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, “My treat.”

The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Democrat on crutches.

Honey Puterbaugh for State Rep

September 26, 2018June 24, 2011

Honey is a solid small government candidate who will do her best to keep the state off your back and out of your face. She will support realistic revenue projections, budgets that address real world needs instead of ideological wants. And as a homeschooler, she supports real choice in education.