If the Vietnam example tells us anything, it’s that young voters who are now Obama-ites could turn right if the Democratic Party lurches to the left of Obama, but I don’t see that happening. They probably will get more conservative in some respects as they get older, but Pew studies suggest that voting patterns don’t shift too easily as people age.

… No one has a right to be born and no one has a right to reside inside the body of another against that person’s consent. …”

I disagree with Micheal’s statement. The Law of Action and Reaction contradicts it (known also as the Law of Consequence). If a woman knowing performs actions for which the consequence is pregnancy, then she has given her consent and that child has a right to be born. In cases of non-consent such as rape and incest, or in a case where the life of the mother would be a required sacrifice to birth the baby (that is to say, she would die), the rights of the baby do not preempt the rights of the mother.

Of course Murray Rothbard, Mr. libertarian himself, feels the Federal Government, and especially, the Supreme court, has no right to enforce legalization of abortion.

Go to http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics.pdf the ebook of Ethics of Liberty, page 38:

“Thus, while in favor of a woman’s
right to have an abortion, Rothbard was nonetheless strictly opposed to the
U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, which recognized such a right.
This was not because he believed the court’s finding concerning the legality
of abortion wrong, but on the more fundamental ground that the US.
Supreme Court had no jurisdiction in the matter and that, by assuming
it, the court had engendered a systematic centralization of state power.”

Also, runoffs should be required for statewide general elections when no one gets a majority in the first round.
http://rangevoting.org/HonestRunoff.html
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21-23 of the delayed runoff countries listed above have multiparties.
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And easy ballot access, of course.

None of them see that no matter who is in power, the nation’s direction goes the same way. Gay rights? Abortion? Forcing people into buying private health insurance as ‘health care reform’? (So hilarious). Nothing more than carrots to keep the masses trotting along.

Wakey wakey:) Almost time for your corporate news feeding.

libertarians will never accept something like a federal ban on gay marriage, again, goes to the states.

I am a die hard libertarian. libertarianism: individual and economic liberty, is incredibly compelling and the battle of ideas among youth can, in fact, be won, though it will be hard.

But I can tell you for certain that appeals to religion will not work. It will have the opposite effect. Republicans must dial down the family values rhetoric, nobody wants to be preached too, and it they looks badly on us when they get caught cheating due to hypocrisy.

You must also abandon desire for expansion of empire, we can’t afford it. You also cannot speak of freedom and liberty while supporting the Patriot Act.

I don’t mean to be harsh, but I am speaking the truth. There is an incredibly large body of philosophical work defending natural rights by locke and others, and an equally large body of work by the classical liberal economics defending economic freedom.

IF WE USE REASON ALONE, WE CAN WIN.

It’s do or die. If you want to defend against socialism, aggressive state-enforced secularism and state worship we must be consistent, and we must use reason alone. It has more force than anything else in the world.