The Delaware Libertarian

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  ... or, the difference between mass production and massive production. But first -- how do you HIDE the fact that the US economy DEPENDS on weapons production? You probably think it ...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-emergence-of-capitalism-primal-link.html

CAPITALISM and FREE MARKETS (or, A MARKET ECONOMY) are two really basic, critical terms for libertarians, so much so that many consider the two terms synonyms. They aren't. THE PURPOSE ...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/defining-capitalism-and-what.html

Let's assume a libertarian community, and visualize a swimming pool on private property (what other kind would there be?) at which a lone individual sits in a deck chair by the edge, reading ...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/libertarians-and-easy-rescue-better.html

A state minister being interviewed about the social value of the "Universal Card" From Authorized Happiness #2 (van Hamme & Griffo) Cinebook has published a tour de force three-issue series...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/comic-books-for-libertarians-authorized.html

I am in the process of working on a new approach to an American History textbook on the collegiate level, which will tell a much broader story that includes not just wars, presidents and socia...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/forgotten-heroes-sir-arnold-savage-and.html

2013: one of my proudest moments in Delaware Libertarian history as my daughter Alexis (who was 17 at the time) joined the Libertarian Party of Delaware and activist Chuck Mead-e garnering sig...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-different-incarnation-of-delaware.html

Posts here have been in short supply as I have been living life and trying to get a campaign off the ground. But "11 questions to see if Libertarians are hypocrites" by R. J. Eskrow, picked up ...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-reply-to-salons-r-j-eskrow-and-his-11.html

Yesterday's WNJ carried a story entitled Stopping 'Chameleon' Bus Lines is No Easy Task . Notice first, the assumption inherent in the title:  somebody in authority is trying to look out fo...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/03/freedom-cheap-buses-journalism.html

Like the Vichy French police official Louis in Casablanca who was "Shocked! I tell you, shocked!" to discover gambling at Rick's Place (while pocketing his winnings), the strategy of Governor Ja...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/03/talking-about-pollution-in-delaware.html

Two months ago, in a post covering the Delaware government's immense surprise at rising Medicaid costs , I quoted this from the WNJ: > Officials in Markell’s administration say they wer...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/03/helping-delaware-and-joe-miro-solve.html

With today's WNJ story about the fact that Delaware flunks any reasonable standard of effective Public Defenders for our poorer citizens, we come full circle to discover the Democrats' and Republ...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/delawares-war-on-poverty-is-war-on-poor.html

There is an old saying, "The beatings will continue until morale improves." This is pretty similar to what various Delaware educrats and (unfortunately) union leaders are saying about the new Sm...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/delaware-public-education-you-are.html

A lot of people have asked me why, if I intended to be a serious candidate for the Delaware General Assembly, I didn't bite the bullet and run as a Democrat. Here's a major reason why I can't...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/senator-carper-takes-stand-and-delaware.html

Every two years the citizens of Delaware take part in taxpayer-funded elections, choosing between the ballot-qualified candidates of two "major" and three "alternate" or "minor" parties. In man...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/democrat-and-republican-parties-owe.html

> “The wireless industry must take action to end the victimization > of its customers.” This moron is San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, who wants the law to require...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/idiotic-statist-comment-of-day.html

In today's editorial about Governor Jack Markell's "realistic" plan to fix Delaware's infrastructure via $250 million in new taxes (highlighted by 10 cents per gallon gas tax increase) and $250...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/its-official-news-journal-thinks-youre.html

> BLOOM SURCHARGE TOPS $5; LAWMAKERS ASK WHY >  Now, of course you can read this question two ways--but either way it is still simple to answer: Reading ONE:  Lawmakers ask why the Bl...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-simplest-question-of-day-to-answer.html

Former Congressman Alan West and a lot of others are seriously disturbed by the Coke Super Bowl ad that had people singing "America the Beautiful" in different languages.   Aside from quoting ...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/just-put-me-down-on-doggone-road-to.html

Today's WNJ highlights what most people already knew :  there aren't enough votes in the Democratically controlled General Assembly to pass a ten-cent-per-gallon gas tax increase in order to ra...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/there-are-numbers-between-zero-and-500.html

. . . let's take a moment to think about pretending to save jobs while actually (a) socializing the losses of millionaires and (b) throwing good money after bad. You will note that today's WNJ ...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/before-we-go-bailing-out-dennis-mcglynn.html

. . . which is almost sure to come up for a vote this week . . . There are important things to understand about the minimum wage in Delaware, not the least of which would be that about 11,000 ...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/about-minimum-wage-increase.html

. . . because this one--the subtitle--is a fascinating piece of work: >>  MORE CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH COMING, APPLICATIONS SHOW >>    >>  Public schools are OK with the compet...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/charter-schools-because-wnj-reporters.html

We live in a state that likes to think good things about itself--sometimes our biggest obstacle to solving problems is our adamant refusal to admit they exist. Here's a problem that undercuts t...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/lets-talk-about-getting-out-of-poverty.html

Here are actual excerpts from Governor Jack Markell's State of the State address , in the order that they appear in the speech (you may assume that at each line break there is a <>): > Only 20...

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