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Another older cartoon. I think I draw much better nowadays, but I still love this cartoon. Poor Free Market Man! Transcript of cartoon here. We can keep creating these cartoons because hundreds of readers are supporting us with inexpensive pledges...
by Barry Deutsch
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 08:44 AM PDT
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Hot on the heels of Poland’s surprising electoral victory for the democratic opposition over the increasingly authoritarian right-wing (but still resolutely anti-Russian) government, Sunday’s first-round presidential election in Argentina dealt an...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 05:47 PM PDT
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Three libertarians set up homesteads, each with riverfront property. After six months the furthest downstream homesteader started getting sick. Then he died. When the next homesteader upstream from him also started getting sick, he told his nephew — a...
by grasspress
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 07:20 PM PDT
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Silicon Valley Bank Libertarians always want government out of their lives. They want no taxes and regulations. They are #capitalist when profiting and #socialist when hurting. SVB Hypocritical Libertarians Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here....
by Egberto Willies
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on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 08:49 AM PDT
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You might be fooled into thinking that the planned rally and march in Washington, D.C., this weekend—dubbed Rage Against the War Machine by its organizers—is some sort of far-left antiwar protest against American support for Ukraine in its defensive...
by David Neiwert
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on Thu Feb 16, 2023 at 08:44 AM PST
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It may seem like I’ve lost my calendar when I tell a story in July about snow skiing in New Hampshire (although the thought of winter is pretty refreshing right now.) Hang on; there’s good reason. Our story begins in the 1930s with Franklin Delano...
by Elwood Dowd
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on Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 07:12 AM PDT
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Why is it that so many on the right find wearing a mask to prevent the spread of disease is an infringement on their freedom, but those on the left don’t? I suspect that behind this difference are three different understanding freedom in a social...
by pastdoc
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on Thu Jan 27, 2022 at 01:22 PM PST
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I just had to post this because it’s at Onion/satire level. And it’s scary as hell. The Libertarian Party of NH’s official twitter account just tweeted this: I’m going to repeat this as a screen shot for those who can’t access tweets and in case those...
by Tamar
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on Mon Jun 07, 2021 at 06:12 PM PDT
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Charlie Daniels sang about it�46 years ago. Most of us grow out of it. Others because of their own inner short comings never do.
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by TexDem
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on Fri May 28, 2021 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Much of what has been billed “criticism from the left” of the Obama Administration ( or criticism from the progressive point of view) has actually been criticism from the Libertarian point of view. [Note: I wrote this in 2013, but since Bob...
by citizen k
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on Wed Dec 16, 2020 at 02:03 PM PST
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In describing the Earth’s atmosphere through the ages, Dr. Wally Broecker once famously said that “the climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks.” With wildfires and hurricanes and 144 straight days of temperatures above 100F in...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Fri Oct 16, 2020 at 06:47 AM PDT
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It seems 2020 was the year that the political right fell into a weird love affair with Sweden. This “high-tax, welfare-loving country” with a universal healthcare system took a unique, “hands-off” approach against the novel coronavirus, much to the...
by Dartagnan
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on Thu Jul 09, 2020 at 03:07 PM PDT
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So in my job, I deal with a lot of people of an “independent” mindset. They were Trump supporters until about the time the brutal push on Lafayette Park happened. Since then, I’ve noticed a hard shift from “Trump is our president” to “I’m going...
by Flyboy254
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on Fri Jun 12, 2020 at 03:26 AM PDT
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There is a much more simple reason why elected Republicans are marching in lockstep behind Donald John Trump into the expected impeachment trial in the Senate: They’re compromised too. “How could that be possible? The people who elected these officials...
by Brian Ross
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on Thu Dec 12, 2019 at 04:00 AM PST
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Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: Like many others on the left, I wondered what a post-heart attack, stent implanted Bernie Sanders would look like when he took the stage on October 15 for the fourth Democratic primary debate. He had suffered chest...
by billofrights
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on Sun Oct 20, 2019 at 01:44 PM PDT
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Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: I write at time when we are in the grip of Democracy’s Despair, at the national level as well, heading towards the necessity of impeachment. Win or lose, that process must proceed as a matter of national honor,...
by billofrights
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on Sun Oct 06, 2019 at 07:45 AM PDT
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It’s Friday, March 15, 2019. It’s the last scheduled news round-up for the week. These news stories are scheduled to appear throughout the day on Liberal Minded Ladies of Substance.
It’s also the Ides of March! As a former English...
by Kittencaboodle
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on Fri Mar 15, 2019 at 08:25 AM PDT
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Welp. George H. W. Bush died this week. among many, many other things that happened, but his death (and the consequent tribute and pillory of him) dominated most of the news since last I popped into ...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Dec 08, 2018 at 02:30 PM PST
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I have Duke University Professor of History and Public Policy Nancy MacLean’s book “Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”. Here is MacLean on Bill Maher’s Aug. 3rd show.
Her book begins in 1820s...
by 464hudson
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on Wed Oct 17, 2018 at 06:53 PM PDT
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I just enjoy pointing how much of a piece of shit he truly is :
New Mexico Democrats blasted Gary Johnson, a Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate, for his past support for raising Social Security’...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Mon Sep 24, 2018 at 10:39 PM PDT
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