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And it was fascinating. Here’s the story. Alexander McCobin, founder of Students for Liberty, spoke yesterday at CPAC about activism and liberty. In the name of freedom, I would like to thank the American Conservative Union for welcoming GOProud [a coalition of gay republicans] as a co-sponsor of this event, not for any political reason [...]

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Dammit, New Hampshire

Via Hit and Run, Maine makes the news again and it’s not pleasant. A Kensington man was found guilty of criminal threatening for holding an open pocket knife at his side while asking two people who were walking behind him at midnight, “Why are you following me?”The pair walking behind Dustin Almon, 28, of 27 [...]

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Can you renounce your state citizenship?

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I’m officially blogging at the Mercatus Center’s Neighborhood Effects blog.  My first post is about Maine’s TABOR bill.  At this point, it seems unlikely to pass, although I’ve crossed my fingers and sent in my absentee ballot.

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Say One Thing

Do another.  That’ s my biggest problem with politics in general, but I think it’s likely that liberals are more prone to that kind of posturing than ‘conservatives’.  At the very least, statists of all stripes fall prey to that more so than liberty-minded folks. Case in point: environmentalists and building heights in the district.  [...]

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Just a random thought this morning: history has progressed to this point, and seen several revolutions in the formal arrangements that govern societies. Since pre-history, people lived in chaotic tribal groups, often warring with their neighbors.  Power and leadership coalesced around the warlord.  Eventually warlords ceded some power to a King, who could ensure a [...]

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This weekend a good friend of mine came to town.  She’s been one of my best friends for years, but she wasn’t coming exclusively to visit me.  While we don’t always (or even rarely) see eye-to-eye on social issues, there’s one we can agree on.  It’s pretty indefensible to keep homosexuals from having legally binding [...]

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