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Politics: Modern Whig interview gets attention

Posted in Politics with tags , , on August 26, 2008 by Billy Dennis

Yesterday’s interview with Modern Whig Party Chairman Mike Lebowitz picked up some links from here, here and here, which made this comment:

I highly recommend taking a few minutes to read the interview.  It’s a great insight into the thinking behind America’s freshest and perhaps most innovative political party.  Listen up, Libertarians and Greens alike, because I have a feeling that these people might surprise us with their success.

That was my conclusion too. My politics lean toward the libertarian, but I’m no Libertarian Party member. My complaint about the LP can easily be applied toward the Green Party as well:  They demand that everything change. And thus, they achieve no change. Politicians promise change, but in reality, voters just want things to run a little bit better today than they did yesterday.

The LPers and the Greenies don’t get that. They want to smash it all and rebuild it according to their political aesthetic. Trouble is, 90 percent of the voters are happy enough with their political party of choice. They will, occasionally, vote for someone across the aisle whose views are close enough to their own.

The Modern Whigs fit that bill.

Any comment, third party members?

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Confederate losers

Posted in Overset with tags , , , , , on November 25, 2002 by Billy Dennis

I know that some ideologically correct Libertarians believe the South had every right to secede and that Abraham Lincoln was Satan on Earth. My concept of libertarianism is such that freeing the slaves was a good thing. I have little patience with those who wrap themselves with any of the many flags flown by the Confederate States of America. John Scalzi has little patience either. It’s a good read, but the good stuff starts about half-way down.

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Stossel takes on the War on Drugs

Posted in Watchdog with tags , , on July 27, 2002 by Billy Dennis

Stossell is the only out-of-the-closet libertarian in journalism. As such, he is the target of all sorts of attacks. He is sure to get it from both sides when he takes on the entrenched war-on-drugs crowd in his latest report, an hour-long which will air at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central on Tuesday, July 30, on ABC. I am not sure complete legalization is the answer, but I admire Stossel for asking the questions. I once watched several dozen National Guard members and a multi-county drug-fighting unit stage a raid on a corn field an informant said was rife with marijuana. They found ONE plant. I interviewed a county sheriff who said he didn’t care if 100 studied show DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) programs did not reduce drug use among students, the parents liked it and he was going to fight a cut in its budget.

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