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Antitrust Laws Actually Promote Monopoly

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

We thank the Three Rivers Post and Standard for Allowing this reprint of their material on our site.

Above is a worthy discussion about the anti-consumer / pro big and connected business fraud that is anti-monopoly legislation with Ron Paul. While the video is some 25 years old, the content is perfectly valid today [...]

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Tags: Free Lunch Myth · Healthcare · Monopolies · National Issues · Pittsburgh · Politics · Regulation · pennsylvania

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments

January 24, 2008
Letters to the Editor
Pittsburgh Business Times
2313 East Carson Street, Suite 200
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Dear Editor,
With regard to the recent article on the development of the Don Allen site at Baum and Liberty, it was interesting to note that the story is quite different than the story presented in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in which [...]

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Tags: Pittsburgh · Politics

Eminent Domain Gone Wild

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Pittsburgh residents are all too familiar with “eminent domain”, the constitutionally sanctioned practice where governments take private land for legitimate public uses. Traditionally, that’s meant things like roads and schools. Over the past several decades, however, governments have gone hog wild with eminent domain, routinely condemning property (or freezing its improvement for years like 5th [...]

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Tags: Eminent Domain · Libertarian · Liberty · National Issues · Pittsburgh · Politics · Video · pennsylvania

More Ron Paul: On the Colbert Report

June 14th, 2007 · No Comments

If Paul’s comments are new to you and sound a bit extreme, we encourage you to read up on well reasoned arguments behind such thinking. It is very much in line with the thinking of the Founding Fathers, who understood liberty and its relationship to your right to say “no thanks” to government meddling you [...]

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Tags: Election 2008 · Politics · Video

Pork Party in D.C. Goes on Unabated

March 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Whichever of the two big parties running the majority at the asylum on the Potomac is not in charge tends to be for full disclosure of the details behind “earmarking” — the practice where politicians attach (hide, really) their own pet pork projects onto bigger bills with very important sounding names… Names that few dare [...]

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Tags: Libertarian · Liberty · National Issues · Politics · Pork · Video

What is Libertarian Philosophy?

February 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Libertarians believe some things are too important to trade for votes… Like your freedom and liberty.
After all, someone who claims superior rights to the fruits of your labor — be it through taxes or how you use your private property — is really claiming rights to own your past labor. Since labor is [...]

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Tags: Freedom · Libertarian · Liberty · Pittsburgh · Politics · Video

We’re Government… And You’re Not.

February 15th, 2007 · No Comments

This is perhaps one of the funniest things we’ve seen in a while. Well, actually, its funny but it is also sad because it is so very true.

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Tags: Freedom · Libertarian · Liberty · Politics

Feeling Politically Homeless?

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Did you Feel Politically Homeless in the Past Election? Have you had it with your vote being betrayed, or being forced with a lousy choice between the lesser of two evils?
Did you hate of being stuck with….

A Choice between the Bush War and mealy mouthed Democrat opposition?
A Choice Between a government that grows really, [...]

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Tags: Freedom · Libertarian · Liberty · Politics · Revolution

3rd Party Candidates Hamstrung by Discriminatory Election Laws

August 15th, 2006 · No Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Libertarian Party of Pittsburgh
contacts: Harold Kyriazi: 412-478-4012 (cell); htk@pitt.edu
David Posipanka: 412-983-5451 (cell); 412-464-0660 (home)
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Pittsburgh, PA — August 15, 2006
The Libertarian Party of Pittsburgh is sad to announce that one of its most popular and energetic candidates, David Posipanka of Homestead, has been forced to withdraw from his race for State Representative [...]

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Tags: Libertarian · Politics · Press Release · voter choice