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Posts tagged as “liberty”

ACA Reduces Labor Supply, Increases Liberty

Jana and I are quite happy to see the Affordable Care Act working just the way we expected to end job lock. We are dismayed to see the media working as we have come to expect, getting the story wrong…

Money Is Liberty: ACA Leaves More Liberty in Your Pocket

Frequent Libertarian campaigner Emmett Reistroffer donned a Barack Obama mask and paraded through downtown Sioux Falls Tuesday to protest the Affordable Care Act. Reistroffer posts his photo and complaint to Facebook, and the comment section explodes with discussion of freedom,…

Minnesota’s Carlbom: Sell Minimum Wage on Dignity, Not Class Warfare

Richard Carlbom helped organize the successful campaign to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota (first weddings happen Thursday—but don't check the Target registry!). He may turn his attention to efforts to raise the minimum wage. If he does, he has a…

Urban Chickens Can Hatch More Personal, Economic Liberty in Rapid City

South Dakota's oh-so-conservative state and local government officials seem to think the only viable ag is Big Ag. We need California transplant Brita Craven and fellow Rapid City Hens urban chicken advocate Savannah Steen to remind us that small-scale ag…

Americans Outgun Government 75 to 1; Why Worry?

Victor H. Sanderson of Flandreau posts a critique of America's gun obsession on the letters page of that Sioux Falls paper. He offers these interesting statistics: One has to wonder what has caused our present obsession with guns. I will…

Dakota Rural Action Liberal… as in Fighting for Your Liberty

My response to Dakota War College's derision of Dakota Rural Action as a "liberal" activist group drew a predictable dodge in which Mr. Powers said he should call DRA "a lot worse" for opposing corporate farms and criticizing John Thune.…