Monday, April 5, 2010

We’re on Facebook and Twitter

by on April 5, 2010 @ 10:51 pm · 1 comment

in Admin Updates

For those who don’t already know – we’re on Facebook and Twitter. You can become fans of The Libertarian Standard on our Facebook fan page. All of our posts are partially re-posted there with a teaser and link to the full post; you can “like” the posts, share them with friends on Facebook, discuss them, and more. You can also follow us on our official Twitter account – libstandard — where you’ll receive  announcements of all our blogposts as soon as they are posted, and other updates besides. We created a Twitter list of our personal accounts — those of us on Twitter at least – that you can follow as well; it is displayed in the widget to the right. There is now a “Follow Me” button on the right side of our site with links to our Facebook fan page and Twitter account. Finally, we’ve made it possible for you to easily subscribe to The Libertarian Standard’s rss feed as well as individual author and category rss feeds.

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The price others pay for our “freedoms”

by on April 5, 2010 @ 10:09 pm · 6 comments

in War

If you believe we all sleep a little better at night knowing our military is overseas defending our freedoms against evil terrorists, I hope this video upsets your slumber a bit:

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The Division of Responsibility

by on April 5, 2010 @ 4:25 pm · 3 comments

in Drug Policy, Health Care, The Basics

It is odd, perhaps, that just as the federal (read: national) government moves to take primary responsibility for our medical lives, the several states are moving in the other direction. The right to self-medicate is, increasingly, being seen as important. First medical marijuana — a slap on the face to federal nannies — and now recreational use, sees advocacy and advance at the state level.

Any advance in taking full responsibility for medicine, on the part of citizens, individuals, goes against the grain of our collectivist age, and sparks some hope.

Of course, in a sense, it seems 35 years behind the time. [Keep reading…]

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Why I Am a Census Resister

by April 5, 2010

Libertarians are often split on the issue of how to respond to government requests like the Census. It is plainly obvious that taking money from the people by force in order to engage in this glorified demographics survey is unjust, and many worry that the questions we are required to answer are far too intrusive. [...]

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