Maybe the sky isn't falling

[Russell Kanning]

yea the news will make you think our sky is falling ... or overheated

[Tom Sawyer]

Libertarians are flexing their political muscle

The American Health Care Act—the "ObamaCare-lite" legislation championed by most Republicans including President Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan—is dead.

[blackie]

I wouldn't call those guys libertarians, but I guess that is what a libertarian is nowadays.

[KBCraig]

I wouldn't call those guys libertarians, but I guess that is what a libertarian is nowadays.

Amash and Massie are much more so than Rand, but even Rand is... well, practically "Rand" compared to the rest of the Senate.

[Russell Kanning]

btw the sky was falling for me this morning
84 in Vegas yesterday. 3 inches of snow on my truck this morning at 6400 feet in Ely.
In one large valley the clouds were below me. The sky had fallen.
btw Jim I saw people swimming ..... in a pool in Vegas.

[Jim Johnson]

[Tom Sawyer]

I wouldn't call those guys libertarians, but I guess that is what a libertarian is nowadays.

These are the first guys to not only stand up to this kind stuff in my lifetime... they are in the Senate. Before there was one Representative, now there is a coalition in the US Senate.

The Socialists accumulated small victories under the Democrat banner until they had most of the Socialist agenda imposed. The Libertarian ideals will have to follow a similar path.

Most Libertarians seem to want an Anarchist Candidate...      That's an oxymoron for ya, right there.

[Tom Sawyer]

btw the sky was falling for me this morning
84 in Vegas yesterday. 3 inches of snow on my truck this morning at 6400 feet in Ely.
In one large valley the clouds were below me. The sky had fallen.
btw Jim I saw people swimming ..... in a pool in Vegas.

We walked on the Glacier up above Ely and saw Bristle Cone Pines that were old when Jesus was walking around.

[Russell Kanning]

yea kinda crazy around there with big valleys and rows of mountains

[Tom Sawyer]

Do Muslims Commit Most U.S. Terrorist Attacks?

For those five years, the researchers found, Muslims carried out only 11 out of the 89 attacks, yet those attacks received 44 percent of the media coverage. (Meanwhile, 18 attacks actually targeted Muslims in America.

[Tom Sawyer]

Steve Bannon Hates Libertarians Because *We're* Not Living in the Real World?
"Economic nationalist" Trump adviser blasts people foolish enough to believe in "Free Minds and Free Markets."

...the Republicans, it's all this theoretical Cato Institute, Austrian economics, limited government — which just doesn't have any depth to it. They're not living in the real world."

I remember when the CATO Institute built their glass and steel headquarters right in the belly of the beast. Many Libertarians have accused them of not being libertarian enough. Well, we now see the effect of organizations like them and the Mercatus Center have had by working to educate the mainstream politicians. When working for the Mercatus Center we were told not to use the "L" word in front of the political "students" at the lunch time educational sessions in the Capitol. It was funny how when they had left the room we would do the equivalent of our secret hand shake with the economist etc.

Much more effective than standing on the fringe and yelling about someone's lack of purity.

[KBCraig]

Much more effective than standing on the fringe and yelling about someone's lack of purity.

Statist!

[Tom Sawyer]

Much more effective than standing on the fringe and yelling about someone's lack of purity.

Statist!

Results trump academic debate. Well except in some debatatarian/contrarian circle (jerks). 

[Jim Johnson]

Much more effective than standing on the fringe and yelling about someone's lack of purity.

Statist!

Results trump academic debate. Well except in some debatatarian/contrarian circle (jerks). 

Pragmatist!

[Tom Sawyer]

Much more effective than standing on the fringe and yelling about someone's lack of purity.

Statist!

Results trump academic debate. Well except in some debatatarian/contrarian circle (jerks). 

Pragmatist!

Tough crowd. 

A friend, who considers himself a libertarian, laughs at the hardcore that can't seem to get 10 people to show up at the Sizzler, thinking they are going to have an impact.