Sentences with phrase «libertarian thought which»

There is, for example, a tradition of libertarian thought which argues that people (can) establish moral rights to highly unequal amounts of private property and income in a state of nature.

Not exact matches

The Fed Audit, which has consistently been fought by the Senate, could easily be dropped - with Republican legislators being able to point to the endorsement of the beltway's leading libertarian think tanks as evidence of being tough on the Fed.

This comes after a year in which ALEC, with help from groups like the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change, failed in all of their coordinated attempts to roll back renewable portfolio standards (RPSs).

Here is a post from Libertarian News that begins, «I recently got into an argument over on the Reddit Bitcoin boards where I held the position that fractional reserve banking with Bitcoins was not possible,» which sounds fun; he recants that view but does make what I think is a very valid point:

He is a senior scholar at the school's conservative Mercatus Center, and has ties to the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is «dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.»

Donors Trust's board of directors, which ultimately decides who gets funded, reads like a conservative who's - who directory: Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute; John Von Kannon, vice president of the Heritage Foundation; William Mellor, president of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal firm; and Kris Alan Mauren, director of the Acton Institute, a Michigan - based conservative think tank.

The modified argument supposes a situation in which humans are aware of possessing only compatibilist free will, whereas Griffin's argument has God deceiving humans into thinking that they possess libertarian free will.

Which of the two countries do you think a random libertarian would prefer to live in, 1950s USA sans segregation / racism; or 2000s France?

NP: You seem to offer a way of thinking about the state which, as opposed to some libertarian or communitarian perspectives, doesn't give up on the terrain of government as a necessarily disempowering and standardising Fabianism.

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.

Libertarians are running in every nonjudicial statewide race and have filed in a number of congressional and state legislative races where, even if their chances of victory are remote, some think they could play a role in close outcomes that could help determine which party controls both Congress and the Ohio House.

For the most recent report, Green Scissors 2012, the two organizations were joined by free market think tank R Street, which was started by former staffers of the libertarian Heartland Institute (previously a Green Scissors partner).

That fits with the views of the Republican primary electorate, which tends to see warming as a low priority, according to Jerry Taylor, president of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank that supports conservative policies to address rising temperatures.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

But all we get here is the most blithe and moronic kind of «let's put on a show» magical thinking, in which ripping up the union contract and wresting control of the school from the bureaucrats becomes an end in itself, and what happens later is shrouded in the mists of an imaginary libertarian paradise.

His work, which refers extensively to Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises, has profoundly influenced the American libertarian movement by formulating a body of thought Rothbard called «anarcho - capitalism» or free - market anarchism.

The Niskanen Center, which calls itself a libertarian think tank, has a Center for Climate Science directed by Dr. Joseph Majkut, a climatologist who previously served on the staff of Brulle's ally Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.52 The think tank R Street is so well known for its friendliness to a carbon tax that when we published a study critical of the carbon tax, we invited it to contribute a defense of the tax.53 And as the present study goes to press, prominent Republicans at the Hoover Institution like George Schultz and James Baker are advocating vigorously for a carbon tax.54

There is no reference in Eisenhower's speech to ignoring the advice of the National Academy of Sciences (which was established for a reason) and every other serious scientific society in the world in favor of libertarian think tanks and online aggregators of pseudo-scientific nonsense.

As I posted on WTFIUWT: ============= Donald Rapp has connections with the libertarian think tanks GMI, CATO, Heartland which probably explains his problem as being more of a belief system one.

Taxpayers can't pay the full costs of what's needed, and they shouldn't have to, says the lawsuit, which has the backing of the libertarian think tank Niskanen Center.

He decided to become the lead dog in the witch hunt, going after not just records from ExxonMobil but from groups, such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank (where this writer used to work), for donor records, which are private, and all communications with ExxonMobil.

This secretive organization, which has no web site and leaves little paper or electronic trail, is a network of Canadian neoconservative and libertarian academics, politicians, journalists and think tank propagandists.

A cherry pie that serves your argument not at all, but still, a skewing of views that tends to cater to paranoid conspiracy theorists and those who think libertarian means, «gubmint = satan» (which view is not hard to empathize with, however it is clearly nuts).

The quotations from Greenpeace, Tony Juniper and Reuters are similarly distorted by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that also employs Milloy and that opposes action to address global warming, as well as by the Cybercast News Service (which used to call itself the «Conservative News Service» before changing its name, in an evident effort to disguise its political agenda).

Since then, he has associated with R - Street Partners, which calls itself a libertarian think tank, but which is very vocal in support of his tax.

Or, if one were to consider the civil libertarian streak of Democratic thought (which they wouldn't, since the party in power always looks to its adherents who favor perpetuating that power, the foresight to reflect that its opponents will eventually come to power being quite beyond it), Randy Barnett and quite a few others.