Too much of a good thing

Government is what keeps a country going. It makes and enforces laws to ensure that people can live and work together in relative harmony. Sometimes, however, government tends to interfere too much in people’s lives. Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once...

Not A Libertarian Among Them

"The Blogging Tories are at it again, they are now doing a blog burst to oppose the reinstatement of funding for the Court Challenges Program. It is the same kind of campaign they launched in favour of cuts to the Status of Women. As usual these social conservative dweebs...

Libertarian Communism Redux

"A couple of comments on my posting of Kropotkin's 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica definition of Anarchism and Libertarian Communism decried my use of such outdated material. Why it was almost 100 hundred years old. Blow the dust off that. So here is a more recent comment on...

Libertarianism

"In preparation for my workshop at the Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair this weekend I came across this; P.J. Proudhon's definition of libertarianism, the supersession of both communism and property/invidualism in favour of the law of liberty, from What Is Property."

Libertarianism and Stem Cells

"John Tierney makes an excellent point today (TimesDelete). Unlike me, he favors embryonic stem cell research (I have serious ethical qualms), but he's not concerned about restrictions on federal funding for the research."

Libertarian Left Blogs

"The Libertarian Left blog exchange shows the diversity of the market in ideas, pages, design, comments, all that is the politicks of those of us who are Left-Libertarians."

Bucky Fuller

"I always liked Bucky Fuller . He is another great unsung American thinker his work is overlooked after his heyday in the sixties."

Six of One and Half a Dozen of Another

I'll let you in on a little secret: I really don't care anymore which party wins which election. Why? Well, let me tell you.First of all, I am sort of in the middle on a number of issues. On some things, I can be extremely conservative (e.g., immigration), but on others I can...

Smoking Signals?

Do we live in a liberal society? Is the individual supreme? In a way, yes, but anyone’s right to act as he or she pleases ends where the well-being of another is impaired.Canada now has some of the toughest anti-smoking laws: New laws have gone into effect in the provinces...

Support Our PeaceMakers

This post is not about the Canadian Troops now doing 'police' work in Afghanistan for the Americans in their failed War on Terrorism. Supposedly acting as "Peace Makers" instead of Peace Keepers.This is about the four Christian PeaceMakers who are still held hostage...

Internationalism, Free Trade and Mutual Aid

"In researching Isolationism and Internationalism I came across this interesting article. I have highlighted those sections which I leave for your eruidition, without comment. I think my friends on the Libertarian Left will appreciate the irony of it."

Small Government Pioneer - A Retrospective

Sir John Cowperwaite, former Financial Secretary for Hong Kong (UK), has recently died.  This article details how the man used small government principles to make the colony thrive tremendously.

Free State Project offers safe haven for San Francisco gun owners

San Francisco handgun owners who are unwilling to comply with the city’s new gun ban and confiscation that goes into effect over the next two months have at least one promising alternative: Join the hundreds of other Californians who have signed up for the Free State...