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Entries from October 2007

Free Market Thinking on Commuter Gridlock

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

16 miles from work takes an hour and a half to commute? Here is another clip from Drew Carey on Reason.TV discussing how gridlock can be alleviated with libertarian minded solutions. Pittsburgh may not be so bad as L.A., but this shows how privatization is not the evil big government apologists want you [...]

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Tags: Libertarian · Liberty · National Issues · Pittsburgh · Video

Ron Paul in City Paper

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

A local member of the LP forwarded this LTE to the City Paper regarding a recent article worth reading on Ron Paul:
 

Thank you for the great article on Ron Paul by Charlie Deitch.  He obviously put a lot of time into it and talked with a lot of people to produce a well-balanced piece.  I [...]

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Tags: Letters to the Editor

We Can’t Argue With Ron Paul

October 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Why would a Libertarian Party website post a video of a Republican presidential candidate? He may be a Republican by Party, but he’s Libertarian by action.
Libertarians believe the job of government is exclusively to protect the freedom, liberty, and property of the individual. It believes the right of individual consent is far higher [...]

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Tags: Candidates · Libertarian · Liberty · National Issues · Pittsburgh · Revolution · Video

Libertarians Say “No!” to Drink Tax Bailout of Inefficient Government Transportation

October 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Private businesses and citizens are scrambling to protect their pocket books as local politicians seek ways of dodging the real problems of public transit (e.g. government supplied transportation) — an inefficient and bloated socialist model — by using a drink tax to dump the problem on the backs of local citizens who deserve better.
Libertarians do [...]

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Tags: Issues and Policy · Libertarian · Pittsburgh · Transportation

Tired of Republican and Democrat Hypocrisy?

October 4th, 2007 · No Comments

David is right! If you happen to live in California, give that number on the video a call. Otherwise, help strengthen your local libertarian party in Pittsburgh and in Pennsylvania — a region currently dominated by collusion between the big two Parties and their same old pork spending ideas — by contacting us as soon [...]

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Tags: Candidates · Election 2008 · Libertarian · Liberty · Pittsburgh