Category: Dan’s Diatribes
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Look for the good. Help the helpers
Charity and volunteer work benefits the people who are giving as the people who are receiving. May 1st is the National Libertarian Day of Service. Are you doing anything?
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Laws Require Law Enforcement
Laws require Law enFORCEment which injects FORCE into our society. Too many meaningless law are on the books that allow police to detain people.
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Why We Need Consent Culture
Last week, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a person can’t be found guilty of sexually assaulting someone who cannot consent because they are mentally incapacitated due to intoxication if that person became intoxicated by voluntarily ingesting drugs or alcohol. In this case the victim was so drunk that she was denied entrance to a
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Guns Aren’t About Criminals.
In the wake of two shootings in a week with 18 people dead, there is talk about guns, society, liberty and security. In order to have a conversation we need to establish the basic fact that gun control and alcohol control are the same fundamental question about personal liberty. According to the CDC, excessive alcohol
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The Freedom to Sell Yourself
Some very basic truths we should all be able to agree upon regarding sex work. You own yourself. To deny this would imply that someone else can own you. A free person only enters into a contract if they will be better off for having done so. It should not be illegal to sell something
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Libertarians oppose no policy*
People who don’t understand liberty often say that people who want liberty are selfish. People know that libertarians oppose government controlled healthcare, government controlled unemployment insurance, government controlled education and government controlled social security. What they don’t realize is that people who are for liberty don’t oppose any idea that create any social safety net
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Free Wildstar Update!!!
Holy crap! Just one week ago we had Nickolas Wildstar on the Liberty Lunch Power Hour. If you’re not familiar with what was going on, here’s a quick synopsis. Nickolas Wildstar, had been a victim of injustice at the hands of officers and our court system. Nickolas recorded his traffic court proceedings then uploaded his
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An Open Letter to the Libertarian Party
My fellow “big L” Libertarians, I wanted to wait until the new permanent Executive Director was announced before publishing this. I am delighted that Tyler Harris was selected as permanent ED. Were I to have had any input, he would have been my first choice. I believe very strongly that there needs to be an