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		<title>Could a Santorum Nomination Bring About a Libertarian Renaissance in the GOP?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Daily Caller headline caught my eye yesterday from the Cato Institute’s John Samples: Is there a libertarian case for Rick Santorum? If Samples aim was to write an outlandish headline to bring attention to his article, it certainly did the trick*. In the article, Samples does not make the case that Rick Santorum is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/02/09/could-a-santorum-nomination-bring-about-a-libertarian-renaissance-in-the-gop/</link>
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		<title>Observations from the Colorado Republican Caucus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just one day before the deadline late last year, I changed my party registration from Libertarian to Republican so I could participate in the caucus that took place yesterday evening (Colorado’s caucuses are closed to independent and third party voters). Being new to the caucus process, I didn’t know what to expect. Now that I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/02/08/observations-from-the-colorado-republican-caucus/</link>
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		<title>Impossible Ideology, False Dichotomy, and Unacceptable Conclusions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is a clarification of an ongoing theme I&#8217;ve addressed before&#8230; and which has been addressed many times before by myself, by other bloggers, and by scholars like Victor Davis Hanson, and Thomas Sowell. I&#8217;m talking about the &#8220;Stupid or Evil&#8221; false dichotomy. Those of us with a libertarian, or economic conservative bent (social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/02/08/impossible-ideology-false-dichotomy-and-unacceptable-conclusions/</link>
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		<title>SCOTUS: Police Placing GPS Tracking Device on a Vehicle Without Warrant Violates the Fourth Amendment [or Does it?]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How about some good news on the civil liberties front to kick off the week for a change? Robert Barnes writing for The Washington Post reports that SCOTUS ruled 9-0 in United States v. Jones stating that the police placing a GPS tracking device on a person’s vehicle and tracking said vehicle over days, weeks, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/23/scotus-police-placing-gps-tracking-device-on-a-vehicle-without-warrant-violates-the-fourth-amendment/</link>
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		<title>An explanation for&#8230; Almost everything really&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don&#8217;t mean to do harm-but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.&#8221; &#8211; T.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/22/an-explanation-for-almost-everything-really/</link>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t go black&#8230; We try to turn on lights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re not going black today, over SOPA or PIPA. In case you by some miracle hadn&#8217;t noticed it yet, tens of thousands of web sites around the country and around the world, are &#8220;going black&#8221; or putting up banners explaining that they are not available or there is no content today etc&#8230; In protest against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/18/we-dont-go-black-we-try-to-turn-on-lights/</link>
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		<title>Romney Would Have Signed the NDAA; Trusts that President Obama “Would not abuse this Power”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In last night’s debate, Gov. Mitt Romney said something quite incredible when asked if he would have signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): Yes I would have [signed the NDAA] and I do believe it’s appropriate to have the capacity to detain people who are threats to this country who are members of Al [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/17/romney-would-have-signed-the-ndaa-trusts-that-president-obama-%e2%80%9cwould-not-abuse-this-power%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the Day: MLK Day 2012 Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is unquestionably one of the most infamous famous speeches in American history. In listening to the speech today, I found the following passages that aren’t as often quoted to be some of the most powerful lines in the speech. In a sense we have come to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/16/quote-of-the-day-mlk-day-2012-edition/</link>
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		<title>Will Romney Have To Answer For Polygamy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at David Friedman&#8217;s blog, he discusses the thorny position Mormon Presdential candidates (which at the time of posting included Huntsman) may face when taking a position against same-sex marriage. Many opponents of same-sex marriage use the slippery-slope argument that if two consenting gays can marry each other, why not three or more consenting adults [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/16/will-romney-have-to-answer-for-polygamy/</link>
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		<title>The Good And The Popular</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That I believe the set of what&#8217;s popular and the set of what&#8217;s good aren&#8217;t always the same thing should come as no surprise to readers here, especially in the wake of my Kardashian post the other day, but I should make it clear that this idea extends quite a bit farther. As such, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/13/the-good-and-the-popular/</link>
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		<title>Vermin Supreme: “Friendly Fascist” and “A Tyrant You Can Trust”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meet Democrat presidential candidate Vermin Supreme. The man wears a boot on his head, advocates a mandatory dental hygiene program, ponies for every American, and harnessing the energy of zombies to wean America off of foreign oil. Best of all, in his closing statement (following his singing!), Vermin tries to turn his political rival Randall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/13/vermin-supreme-%e2%80%9cfriendly-fascist%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9ca-tyrant-you-can-trust%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Dilbert For President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I doubt he&#8217;s filed any sort of FEC paperwork, or has actually put any effort into his candidacy with the exceptions of blog postings, but Scott Adams is better than Obama or Romney: I will assume for now that the pundits are correct, and Obama will face Romney in the coming election. Both of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/11/dilbert-for-president/</link>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radley Balko: Greece adds pedophiles, exhibitionists, and kleptomaniacs to list of disabilities eligible for state benefits. Sounds like some politicians are ready to retire. Hah!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/10/quote-of-the-day-192/</link>
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		<title>Rick Santorum is Not as Pro-Family as He Would Have Us Believe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If someone were to pose the question: “Among the candidates running for president, who would you say describes himself as the most ‘pro-family’?” I suspect that most people would say Rick Santorum and for good reason. To Santorum, the decline of the traditional, nuclear family is the root cause for every problem facing America right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/10/rick-santorum-is-not-as-pro-family-as-he-would-have-us-believe/</link>
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		<title>A New Approach To &#8220;Government Research&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Cato, Jim Harper responds to proponents of gov&#8217;t research that point to the products of that research as justification &#8212; they never really consider that such products would still occur via private-sector investment. He takes a bit of a swipe at IP policy in the middle, and in his discussion of the history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/09/a-new-approach-to-government-research/</link>
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