Sentences with phrase «libertarian leanings»

The nonprofit is devoted to «non-interventionism» and has staunch libertarian leanings.
Ron Paul a retired Republican lawmaker with strong libertarian leanings, has long advocated that the U.S. should return its currency to the gold standard.
«Silicon Valley has undeniable libertarian leanings.
As someone with some libertarian leanings, I'd prefer if people (from whatever political philosophy) would argue policy on the political bases and argue science on scientific bases.
They are not that shy about that at all (Curry: «I am independent, with libertarian leanings.»)
All his facets come through: the satirist, the prankster, the self - described political conservative with libertarian leanings, the anti-authoritarian who urged people to vote, the man tolerant of anything except intolerance.
Paul benefits from the libertarian leanings of the technology community in general, which includes such notables as SpaceX founder Elon Musk and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who wants to build a libertarian island paradise.
Average folk tend to look past his Libertarian leanings, and his office staff is excellent, fast, and responsive.
In fact, few if any neoconservatives were early supporters of Reagan, whom they correctly viewed as a traditionalist conservative with strong libertarian leanings.
As a Libertarian leaning person, I often wrestle with close minded partisans who will not think outside the box due to their party programming.
As a libertarian leaning Christian, I believe that God gives us a mind, an ability to make choices, and the Spirit to guide us.
Assemblyman Bill Nojay, a Republican form the Rochester area who describes himself as libertarian leaning, was never a teacher, but his mother was one.
In this case, those who supported the assertion (not been proved) are libertarian leaning.
I have a Libertarian leaning when it comes to specific solutions.

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Buffett is an agnostic Democrat with liberal leanings who often speaks out; Munger is a reticent Republican holding libertarian views.
«He has met privately in recent months with some starkly different politicians, huddling with both Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian - leaning GOP presidential hopeful, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the populist progressive Democrat.»
A coalition of Democrats and libertarian - leaning conservatives prefer, however, to amend the law with more privacy safeguards.
A libertarian - leaning Republican, Amash is a vocal supporter of Rep. Ron Paul (R - TX) and one of the most far - right deficit hawks on the House Budget Committee.
Following Pai's remarks at an event organized by the libertarian - leaning R Street Institute, two other FCC commissioners said they would support his proposal when they vote on Dec. 14.
Eric Jackson, a former PayPal executive, joked on stage at a conference about what it's like to be a libertarian - leaning conservative in Silicon Valley.
While some academics have begun to question whether there needs to be new rules to limit the power of tech giants, almost no one in libertarian - leaning Silicon Valley thinks Facebook should be further regulated, with some saying it forces the best entrepreneurs to be more creative.
Linebrink suggests a regulatory solution, albeit a difficult one both technologically and philosophically for the libertarian - leaning crypto community: «Tying digital identities to physical identities.
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.
I lean more libertarian.
Much of the media coverage has followed the Tea Party movement's own narrative, which describes it as a grassroots group of libertarian - leaning and independent - minded Americans who have grown disgusted with Washington - a group not beholden to either party, willing to buck conventional politics to get things done.
Even libertarian - leaning Ron Paul and no - longer - contender Donald Trump made appearances.
A survey by David Kirby and David Boaz found a minimum of 14 percent American voters to have libertarian - leaning views.
Right leaning Libertarians may argue that nationalism has no place in a free society as all have the right of movement, but would ignore it should it arise as again Nonaggression principle
With an individual's blog it is possible that you can discern what the agenda is - Paul Staines» agenda is, I think, avowedly «anti-establishment» (at least in his own mind) and libertarian to a degree that is almost anarchistic - he will probably not agree in totality... With the blogs that have numerous contributors, the agenda may be less clear - Liberal Conspiracy for example is less easy to categorise - yes it is left leaning, but the inconsistency in positions can be quite provoking and interesting.
The Mercatus Center has come under scrutiny from liberals in part for its ties to billionaire Libertarian - leaning industrial Charles Koch.
With a wave of tea party - fueled support, the libertarian - leaning Paul beat Conway by 12 - percentage points.
Davis, who now works for a marketing firm in Erie County, said Pataki has a shot at winning New Hampshire, a state that tends to lean more libertarian in GOP primaries.
Paul and Christie tangled in a passionate debate over government surveillance that highlighted the wide gulf in the Republican Party between libertarian - leaning Republicans like the Kentucky senator and national security hawks like the New Jersey governor.
Many activists I talked with during the movement's rapid rise considered him «antithetical to everything the Tea Party stands for,» as one Wisconsin Tea Party leader told me, and their philosophy of fiscal restraint and limited government was much closer to the libertarian - leaning Kochs than to Rove and the party establishment.
True to Staines's libertarian roots, Fawkes is a campaigner, in his own way, for leaner government.
While leaning generally in the direction of libertarian ideals such as smaller government, she voted for retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies whom were discovered to have been conducting surveillance for the U.S. government.
Whether you're a social liberal or a civil libertarian, these left - leaning dating websites will soon have you fired up and ready to date!
Consider the irony and paradoxes of Snowden's (played with fine sobriety by Joseph Gordon - Levitt) personal evolution from a right - leaning Republican libertarian utterly devoted to his government to a right - leaning Republican libertarian cyber-liberator and «traitor.»
Her victory was groundbreaking in several ways: not only was Martinez the first female governor in the state's history (and the first Hispanic female governor in the United States), but her election also delivered the governor's mansion to the mainstream GOP after years of Democratic (or libertarian - leaning Republican) control.
Starting with vouchers, a creation of libertarian Milton Friedman in the 1950s, the ideas for education reform, with few exceptions, have come from right leaning think tanks like Pacific Research Institute, Hoover Institution, Goldwater Institute, Reason Foundation, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, etc..
Nor do the left - leaning San Francisco Chronicle, the libertarian Orange County Register and other California dailies that supported the bill.
As a libertarian - leaning conservative, I've been exulting over the recent successes of Ron Paul's presidential campaign.
People who lean right — especially those who are libertarian — hear about climate change and start thinking, to their horror, about government.
Led mainly by libertarians and libertarian - leaning economists, they've begun to coalesce behind a carbon tax, which they consider the most market - friendly of the available alternatives.
Right - and libertarian - leaning policy centers — such as the Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute — are also facing tough scrutiny.
The Heartland Institute is a conservative leaning think tank funded by a number of business donors, and the main funder of the conference is a local libertarian millionaire who just happens to want a bit of openness and honesty in the debate on AGW.
-LSB-...] to climate change, with progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I - VT) and the libertarian - leaning Niskanen Center backing the idea.
They also make a John Galt wine, if you lean libertarian and cheap, as going Galt will only run you $ 34, but experiencing the purity of Blind Justice will cost you over 10 times that, at $ 375.
The first question that a free - market libertarian - leaning person might ask is whether the public needs protection at all.
He has also inked sponsorships from the conservative Heritage Foundation and the libertarian - leaning Reason Foundation as well as from the Heartland Institute and the National Rifle Association, whose logos are attached to Turning Point events.
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