Slimy politics help advance ObamaCare in the Senate
by GOA staff By now, you have probably heard the bad news regarding Saturday night’s vote on the anti-gun ObamaCare bill. Sixty Senators voted to bring the legislation to the Senate floor for discussion and debate, which means that rather than killing the bill outright, we must fight to defeat it another day. Saturday’s vote was very, very important.  And every Senator who supported the legislation should be taken to the woodshed for casting an all-important vote in favor of the bill, at a t

A libertarian for life: Mine and yours
by Roderick T. Beaman Like many other libertarians, I cut my ideologic teeth on William F. Buckley, Jr. and his National Review. I have always had a deep resentment for those who try to exercise their authority over me, whether some leech like bureaucrat or a local cop impressed with his own badge. As Ronald Reagan once observed, many an evening I spent with National Review (NR) on my lap and a dictionary o

Republicans continue their march toward death
by George Phillies    There is some really good news out there politically.  America has a two-party electoral system, meaning that third parties such as ours have problems with winning elections.  Fortunately, the national Republican Party is preparing to get out of our way by committing political suicide and transforming itself into a regional party of eccentrics, namely the Party of Southern Sectarian Christian White Male Conservatives.  Liberal Democrats have proposed for them a new political mascot: GOPY t

Should we put God back in schools?
by Tessa Rose This post is in response to a Facebook conversation resulting from the question: Should we put God back in Schools? Okay, since people seem determined to address this question seriously, I will try to be serious myself, instead of just poking fun at the question itself. It can be very hard to say which particular moves are better or worse within a political system as screwed up as this one is. Ideally, there would be no public schools, no taxes, no guys with guns taking kids away from th

Market driven health care saves lives
by Donald Beezley Connor was so sick when my wife and I took him to the emergency room; lethargic and unresponsive. I remember someone saying it looked like [type 1] diabetes. We knew nothing about diabetes or the implications. We knew how bad it looked. As parents, we worried about worst-case scenarios. After making it through ICU, a lot of tears and fears and a crash course in diabetes man