America First Party to GOP: You are not Pro-Life

America First Party

The America First Party splintered from the Reform Party as Pat Buchanan left them, and have become a very staunch right-wing party. This past week, the America First Party bemoaned the apparent lack of dedication of the GOP to a pro-life agenda.

As much as I agree that the current permissive climate around abortion is a tragedy, this is among the least of our problems. A restoration of a free society would do far more to correct this problem than any kind of harping about whether President Bush and the GOP-controlled Congress will overturn Roe V. Wade. Hopefully, parties like this will come to see just how fruitless it is to argue for appointment of judges who will somehow turn things "their" way. Because, obviously, that simply means the other side needs only get back in power and bring "their" guys to the bench to bring it back.

Until then, though, the political fighting will go on.

-RØß-

2005.01.14: Bush Social Security Plan a "declaration of War" on Workers?

2005.01.14: Bush Social Security Plan

The Green Party, USA, the party Ralph Nader used as the basis of his runs for President, has a diatribe up about Social "Security" and how the crisis is, in fact, no crisis.

My own opposition to Social "Security" has little concern for whether the program is solvent or not. It's a system of government-enforced theft from one's own children to pay for one's retirement. It's a Ponzi Scheme on a massive scale, and it's not just endorsed, but enforced by the very government that declares Ponzi Schemes to be illegal.

But, I must admit, Republicans seem hell-bent on making this a "crisis" debate. So, if that's the route this debate is going to take, then the opposite view needs to be address. And this one is better than some, not as good as others.

-RØß-

LP News Online: February 2005: The end of radical environmentalism?

LP News Online: February 2005: The end of radical environmentalism?

It is way too early to declare radical envionmentalism dead. Such a movement has been building for a long time, and the backlash, so to speak, is relatively new. But I like the Libertarians' take on this book, and how it addresses the debate. It's bound to raise some hackles.

There's a glaring omission in the debate around global warming, and, hopefully, this book can do something to spark a debate that is very badly in need of being had.

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