Comedy can say it better than anything else:

I surprisingly have caught some flack for Ed Coleman’s vote on the water deal. I fully support his yes vote because it makes sense.

What is unlibertarian about transferring a public utility to a nonprofit public trust that answers to the people, and not politicians. Why should the government own two public utilities when they have failed at their job for 7 years? A public trust is not a for-profit corporation. There are significant differences in their operations.

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I had a conversation with someone over the weekend about why so many people are angry. They said that if every politician read this, maybe they’d get it. Their point was that politicians don’t seem to understand the righteous anger most middle class Americans are feeling at the moment. Who is on our side? Who is on our team?

My message has, and consistently will be: YOU! Wake up and yank their chain.

“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice . . . you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

(Warning, cursing. Don’t play the video out loud at work.)

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I was struck by something from  Judge Napolitano’s interview with Glenn Beck (Click here for Video):

“Are you a Libertarian?” – The Judge

“Yeah, I think so. I say that with respect to Libertarians because sometimes I don’t think they want me to be in their camp.” – Glenn Beck

Way to make new people feel welcomed… Ugh. The infighting and constant purity policing has to stop. Yes, we should be principled, but far too many libertarians are more worried about purity than persuasion. When people start to tip our direction (especially people that speak to 30 million a week) we should engage them instead of making them feel unwelcome.  Continue reading »

(Collecting writings on this blog from other places. Originally written for the Indiana Chamber Blog.)

Chris Spangle is executive director of the Libertarian Party of Indiana.

Since the closing of the polls on November 4, 2008 there has been a rush to find out exactly what a Libertarian is and why a third party may be the only viable option left for responsible government. The word is said more often now than two years ago. The failures of both Republicans and Democrats to keep their promises in the last 30 years have led to a growth of the Libertarian Party base in Indiana by Hoosiers unwilling to reform broken parties that refuse to mend. (Don’t be fooled into thinking we are all “R’s” in “L” clothing. Half of our current statewide leadership are former Democrats. It’s my vote anyways.) Continue reading »

Here’s the long and short of this “comprehensive energy plan” they want to pass: For 40 years, no President has “found” a solution getting us off of oil. The Free Market has no desire because most believe oil isn’t near its peak point. SO the Democrats want to put ENORMOUS tax increases on all carbon based energy (your… monthly electric bill and gas) to outrage you at the price of oil, forcing the government and major corporations to immediately find solutions to lower the price. There is NO plan to get us off any oil at this moment.

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The group IBRG (Indiana Business for Responsive Government) always puts out a post-election report with interesting facts about the contests. I ran across some numbers in their report (Page 6) that I think should scare the crap out of Indiana Democrats: Continue reading »

*Warning, there is a curse at the end.

One of my favorite media figures is the Judge. One of my favorite media outlets is Reason.tv. Put them together, and you’ve got gold!

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