Recent content by Distinguished Gentleman

As I was finishing up college and becoming a libertarian, I was very much immersed in the Rockwell-Mises universe. It could be exhilarating because they presented a worldview that was completely different than what society taught me. I even wrote a political science paper about the moral...

Despite people's impression, Gary is technically brilliant and more aloof than he is cocky. His understanding of economics is advanced, it's just more of the Chicago school. He didn't get where he is being lazy either. The problem is simple. LP style Libertarianism is a niche that only a...

Off the top: Wildcard: Rob Wyden Democrat of Oregon. Civil Liberties-fiscal sanity transcend politics ticket. Oregon and a host of socially tolerant but not addicted to welfare states become flippable. Brian Sandoval. - Nevada, Mexican, and a Governor. Justin Amash- if he could flip...

Lets hope it sullies Obama/Biden/Clinton through 2016.

Oregon maybe. California may be beyond help

I'm assuming this is brought up in relation to the GOP and especially libertarians trouble with females. Paul Ryan was supposed to be a seducer of the ladies but lacked the personality to do it. Being fairly handsome won't win female votes alone. For my money, empathy, a good backstory and...

I write left and throw right like Rand. It's kind of like a political parallel, where my left handed brain makes me more natural friends with liberals and creative types, but my right handed brain makes me pursue paths that team me up with straight laced republicans. Rand actually reminds me...

Even with 100% political will, it will be difficult to end the fed. The entire world of finance is built around it. I kind of like Freedman's idea old replacing it with a computer that acts in a transparent, predictable way. I think auditing the fed will help reign in its power, at the least.

http://www.state.gov/t/isn/armstradetreaty/ Full text I've looked looked through many sources to understand this treaty. As I understand, this treaty doesn't do anything in the way of law, as it leaves enforcement up to member nations, and it is really just a way of promising to do something...

If the email really contains inaccuracies, he should address them or at least, distance himself from the content of the email. This reminds me of Ron's face appearing on John Birch literature and people trying to associate him with everything they put out. The scrutiny on Rand will be...

My main concern with Cruz is that he is ambitious and calculating to the point that I have a hard time reading him. He's obviously smart enough to have a nuanced view on policy but everything he says is simple red meat for the base. On the plus side, he probably isn't the type that has to...

It will be interesting to see where Condi stands on a lot of issues. According to wiki, she thought W had an ideal position on abortion. On foreign policy, I associate her with a lot of awful, but it's hard to know exactly where she stood in the decision process. It"ll be a totally new...

I don't care for the intellectual property put on genetically modified foods. As far as the food itself, all scientific evidence suggests it Is safe. My main concern is that the current climate of fear surrounding them will cause people to avoid them, when in fact they arethe only thing that...

The dollar will be fine, as long as Europe is chaotic. Mike Lee is a guy I could see doing well in Iowa. With us where it counts but appeals to the broader Republican activist base. Rand has the habit of putting himself in hard to defend posiitions and rarely shows the warm parts of his...

Trey was molding himself to be a politician for a long time. Ive read him as a fairly moderate guy who could have ran for either party. The place where he studied, the aspen institute, was non-partisan and fairly conventional. Though to me, being conventional is not much different than...