Sentences with phrase «even libertarians»

Republicans / conservatives and even libertarians need to rebrand their complaints though.

As philosopher Jason Brennan points out, even libertarians — and libertarians are, shall we say, fond of property rights — do not regard property rights as absolute.

Even libertarian - leaning Ron Paul and no - longer - contender Donald Trump made appearances.

we don't need laws about what kinds of «treats» are appropriate in schools — and i'm not even a libertarian / conservative!

There are many people claiming to be conservative and even libertarian that really do not fit that description.

Even the libertarian ones.

And don't start calling me a regulation - mad lefty again; Even libertarian Rand Paul says he would regulate drones with his shotgun.

Even libertarian John Mackey, founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, admits «We sell a bunch of junk.»

«Over the last five years, even the libertarian and conservative kids in college are brainwashed.

Not exact matches

«I'm a different kind of Republican and I think I would have crossover appeal because I think that independents and Libertarians and Republicans will vote for me and that would be enough to beat Claire on its face, but even Democrats like me.»

In a modest way, the slogan captured the libertarian idea that a powerful company, like a nation - state, is most virtuous when it governs least — even if that means tolerating hate speech.

If Ron Paul is so libertarian that he won't even police people who use his name, if his movement is filled with incompetents and opportunists, then what kind of a president would he make?

Now sure enough, this evening Forbes reported that the bankroller of the Hogan suit is none other than Peter Thiel, a prominent Silicon Valley billionaire who styles himself a libertarian but somewhat incongruously is a big time supporter of Donald Trump in addition to numerous other right wing causes, most of which have a distinctly Randian cast.

But the man who diverted beer money in college to subscribe to a leading libertarian journal said he had an even greater fear: the bailouts would put the nation on «the slippery slope to socialism.»

«I didn't even know what a libertarian was,» he says.

As hostile as libertarians are to government, even we believe government can legitimately order the withdrawal of life support, and prohibit parents from moving a child to obtain further treatment, when that treatment would fruitlessly prolong a child's suffering — i.e., when further treatment would be akin to torture.

I'm not a Libertarian but even I understand the arguments and complaints about giving too much power to a government, no matter what government that may be.

Libertarian - leaning Ron Paul may idolize thinker Ayn Rand (even naming his son after her) but he is rejecting her atheistic worldview as he hopes to become the GOP's standard - bearer.

The point about trading (even in corpses — which connects this discussion to the one we've been having about how to treat the newly dead) is even more profound and points, of course, to a conclusion about what a completely commercial, ruggedly libertarian society would really be like.

Open borders libertarians already know they have a kindred spirit in Rand Paul (even as he stresses his opposition to Rubio's Gang of Eight proposal when he is in front of broader audiences).

This gets into philosophy - of - law issues, of course, but even some imaginable judicially restrained economic - autonomy - is - Locke's - teaching scholars (i.e., really none of the libertarian con - law scholars I know of) would be advocating a way of life, and a pattern of regular legislation, that centered one's practice of liberty upon, well, business - man, or to speak Republic book VIII, oligarchic - man, accomplishments.

Some think of it as no more than a libertarian system, concerned with economic liberty alone, exaggeratedly individualistic, indifferent or even antithetical to welfare programs for the poor, unconcerned with the public good, focused solely on markets and private profit.

Libertarians say yes, because liberty and prosperity are the bottom line, even if the prosperity isn't shared by those who don't earn it.

George, I've noticed, is getting more libertarian, even embracing the libertarian brand of judicial activism.

There is a disconnect between conservative notions of «small government» and the «thou shalt not» social agenda of the religious right, which is why the Libertarians gained even the small amount of traction they did.

But this much even the most adamant libertarians admit.

I'm just saying that his «libertarian worldview» may not share much in common with the «progressive libertarianism» of our bourgoeis bohemians or even our Straussians....

A stigma on racism, for instance, would hopefully exist even in a libertarian paradise, but it draws a great deal of its potency from the fact the American government has spent the last 40 years actively campaigning against racist conduct and racist thought, using every means at its disposal short of banning speech outright.

She's not even that much of a libertarian.

He follows a libertarian moral logic, in which freedom from restraint comes before freedom to do our duty and obey God, even as he evokes traditional moral values of «family, work, neighborhood and freedom.»

Libertarian atheists like Ayn Rand, however influential they may be, are not worthy of even a mention.

So I am lost about your comment, then again you are Libertarian, even Rethuglicans, (as low as they are) think you guys are out of the loop.

They definitely aren't «lifestyle» libertarians or even Randians.

The fashionable commentators, usually morally libertarian in outlook and hostile to religion, and sometimes amusingly termed the «chattering classes» (or, even better, the «commentariat»), seem to refer now to any but the most fleeting of sexual encounters by the equally coy euphemism of «relationships».

Even in areas where GOP does seem (or is) to be supporting government interference, it is VERY frequently in areas that many libertarians either don't view as undue interference, OR where they disagree with the underlying premise by both parties, or both GOP and DNC are not all that different.

With no option to specify preferences, voting for the actual Libertarian party would split the vote making it even less likely that someone who represents their position would be elected.

Until now, Cruz has had competition in the evangelical and libertarian spaces from Paul, Santorum, Huckabee, and Carson — perhaps even Rubio.

The libertarian right warned ofan uprising even by non-smokers at this nanny state dictatorship.

He emphasizes that leading classical liberals and libertarians — even Ayn Rand — have implicitly or explicitly invoked something like the Rawlsian idea that the social system ought to work to everyone's benefit.

Is it just on LD Iv» e noticed that even when libertarians get what they want they carry - on whinging.

Thanks to iSideWith.com founders Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier, those viewers were able to read the responses from the Reform Party's Rocky De La Fuente, Jill Stein of the Green Party, the Constitution Party's Darrell Castle, independent candidate Evan McMullin and — in moments when he wasn't seemingly too bored and actually stayed on topic — even gleaned a few responses from Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico who made participation in the televised debates the rallying cry of his second bid for the White House.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

Though the rise of political blogs and the netroots in this decade has diluted the place of Libertarians online, even today the audiences of tech - heavy sites such as Slashdot and Digg show a fondness for civil liberties and anti-authoritarian ideas: one sign of Paul's rise has been the large number of votes for stories about him on Digg.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

On January 31, 2012, the Oklahoma Libertarian Party and the Oklahoma Green Party filed a lawsuit, challenging the state's ballot access procedure for newly - qualifying parties, which this year required 51,739 valid signatures due March 1 (the state defends the early deadline on the grounds that all parties, even newly - qualifying parties, must choose nominees in the June primary).

No one is running from the Libertarian Party, or from Americans Elect, even though those parties are ballot - qualified in Arizona.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

Stone has tried unsuccessfully to get the Libertarians to put Davis on their line, and even pushed for Redlich to abandon his gubernatorial bid and run for state attorney general in alliance with Carl Paladino.

I've seen talk of «universal basic income» and have even seen libertarian support for such policies in the context of simplifying the tax code, and providing a «negative income tax.»

And even those who would regard all such concepts as mythical (cosmopolitans or libertarians who do not think that their passport or citizenship involves any social membership) would probably still acknowledge that existing institutions - the British government, the Monarchy, Parliament, Barclays Bank, Everton Football Club, etc - are inheritors not just of their history (good and bad) but indeed of the material consequences of that (eg assets belonging to the state, or the Royal family, or a business; or indeed debts).