Humble Libertarian 2.0

Hey Patriots!

As you can see for yourself, I've made some more changes here at The Humble Libertarian. Feel free to tell me how you like them.

Design: On the design side of things, there's a new logo, into which I have incorporated the American Wild Turkey as a symbol of the humble, libertarian life. It also serves as the "L" for "libertarian" in THL. I'm also more formally incorporating what has been an informal tagline for some time now: "Peace, Love, and Liberty.

Features: I already announced the new Facebook Page some days back, but now it's easy for you to find right on the website with the new button in the left sidebar. I've also added a feature-rich, right sidebar for a very robust site! It includes a featured libertarian video, which will update regularly; my personal tweets and featured links; any comments and links that you want to feature on the front page of THL in our new "soapbox" (all you have to do is include the tag #THL in a tweet); an updated list of my articles on other websites; and a BlogTalkRadio widget so you can listen to my weekly radio program.

More to come: There is much, much more to come! I am working on producing a really innovative (seriously, this will be very cool if it works out well), integrated message forum; banners and promotional materials; educational resources for you and others to learn more about libertarianism; an upcoming giveaway contest with a lot of great prizes; and the best articles we've ever written here at THL.

Keep your eye out for these other great changes and please help us to continue carrying forward the message of liberty to a world in desperate need of it.

Glenn Beck Suffers from "Beckaholism"?

Kurt Wallace makes the case at the Liberty Pulse blog:

Beck obviously doesn’t understand himself, the principles of conservatism he preached to the CPAC audience, concerning “progressivism” and “Wilsonianism.” The blind-leading-the-blind Beck might want to go back to step one himself and admit he is himself a disease called “Beckaholism,” a not so rare sickness which consists of party liberty rhetoric, part establishmentarianism and part progressive interventionism.

Though his schizoid mix is a more dangerous form of the disease, there is hope. Mr. Beck, we invite you to join Neoconservatives Anonymous before going off and embarrassing the rest of us who are actually in recovery from the intellectually debilitating disease of neocon denial. I am willing to be his sponsor as I am the founder of the program and all are welcome. But remember it’s for those who want it, not for those who need it.

Read the whole article here.

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New York Federal Reserve Bank Building Gets Tagged "Audit Me"

An apparently new YouTube account entitled TheAuditme, which was created on March 7th, has a single video up of a man vandalizing what the YouTube user says is the New York Federal Reserve Building. The vandal spray paints the words "Audit Me." A quick Google image search of "new york federal reserve" tells me that it looks like the right building.

Here's the video:



Alternate headline:
Petty Criminal Pranks Diabolical Criminal's Headquarters

If you don't know much about the Federal Reserve or the Audit the Fed bill that has stalled in Congress despite the overwhelming majority of co-sponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives, please read: 76 Reasons to Audit the Fed

Paul Krugman's Critique Is Partisan Hackery

Economist Paul Krugman's critique of Senator Kyl in his New York Times blog is just more proof of his partisan hackery and insincerity when it comes to sound economic thinking. Cafe Hayek has the story (h.t. Walt Williams; WSJ) and displays author, Don Boudreaux's letter to the New York Times regarding Paul Krugman's self-contradiction:

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