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Weekend Insights – Give it to me straight, Doc.

Philosophy

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Good News Bad News March 9, 2021: Outrage Culture

Media

From being outraged by the Texas governor removing mask mandates and opening the state and Dr. Seuss books being unpublished to CPAC’s trolling the media with a golden Trump statue, ...

Renewing the True Patriot Dream

History

Texas House Representative David Simpson delivered the following speech on October 8, 2014 at a Students For Liberty Event in Houston. This text was originally published at the SFL website. ...

Meet the CFL Speakers: Rep. David Simpson

Events

Introducing Christians for Liberty Conference keynote speaker Rep. David Simpson of the Texas Legislature. David is a personal friend of mine and I respect him deeply. He has been elected ...

The Texas TSA Bill Story – What Really Happened

Libertarianism

I had the honor of giving the keynote address at the Third Anniversary Party for Texans for Accountable Government. They asked me to do this because, besides being a TAG ...

Texas House passes legislation banning Security-Theatre Patdowns

News

David Simpson, the heroic Texas representative who is taking a serious lead in fighting back against the TSA and more in the Texas House. I think he is the Ron ...

Action Alert: Support measures to criminalize TSA abuses TODAY

News

I do not normally post stuff this intensely “legislative” on LCC, but today is an exception.  StopAustinScanners.org calls to action all supporters of civil liberties today! There are two bills ...

Keep TSA Scanners Out of Austin

News

Here’s a special message from www.tsatyranny.com. Even if you don’t live in Texas, you can have an effect – you can tell the City Council that you are more likely ...

Post Event Recap of the Libertarian State Leadership Alliance

Announcements

On February 27, the city of Austin was visited by the Libertarian National Committee and other LP leaders from around the nation for the 2010 Libertarian State Leadership Alliance.

Happy Texas Independence Day!

History

Too bad they didn’t stay that way. Oh well, today we Remember the Alamo! The Texas Declaration of Independence The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the ...

Joe Stack and the IRS: A Christian Libertarian Response

News

On behalf of the libertarian community in Austin, I want to offer our most sincere condolences and prayers for the victims and their families. Our hearts go out to ...

Mises Circle Houston Recap

Events

I've been reticent to post a recap of Mises Circle Houston because I didn't have any photos of the event until yesterday. But now, everything is here and I'm happy ...

Why being a candidate can be beneficial for liberty

Economics

Though I think it is misguided to believe that electoral politics is the primary means of effecting change for the cause of liberty (especially at a national level), local activism ...

What does it mean to be an effective local activist?

Politics

As I've aged, I've found myself transformed from scientist to engineer, from artist to performer, from philosopher to pragmatist. It's a pretty typical pattern. Be it accident or serendipity, ...

LP National Just Made Their Best Hiring Move EVER

News

Friends, in the past I have been critical of the Libertarian Party at the national level for trading principle for political expediency. I thought they did a poor job capitalizing ...

LP Texas Helps Defeat $1 Billion Scheme of Fake “Private Roads”

News

Over the past two days, the Libertarian Party of Texas has done a splendid job in saving Texans a truck-load of money from a scheme that fleeces taxpayers of their ...

Texas Senate Passes Concealed Carry on Campus Bill

News

Big news in Austin! Yesterday, the Texas Senate passed the bill that would allow concealed carry on university campuses in Texas. While I still have some issues with the government ...

Texas Independence Day 2009

History

Every Monday, the Libertarian Party sends out a message to all their subscribers. Today’s message reminded me that today, March 2, is none other than Texas Independence Day. I may ...

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