On February 27, the city of Austin was visited by the Libertarian National Committee and other LP leaders from around the nation for the 2010 Libertarian State Leadership Alliance.

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by Norman on March 10, 2010 · 0 comments

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This is the second article in a series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by our friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct [...]

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Austrian Scholars Conference 2010

March 8, 2010

A few of us Libertarian Longhorns will be attending the Austrian Scholars Conference this week at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. I’m really excited that one of our long-time members and my great friend, Daniel Krawisz, will be presenting this year in a panel with Hans Herman Hoppe, M. Garrett Roth, Bernardita Escobar, and [...]

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LL presents “Barry Cooper!”

March 1, 2010

LL presents Barry Cooper! Barry Cooper is a former police officer who was considered one of the best drug officers in the state of Texas. Now, he has changed his ways and through two projects, nevergetbusted.com and kopbusters.com, he is fighting back against the evil War on Drugs!
Barry Cooper spoke to us last year and [...]

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LL presents Chuck Young from Texans for Accountable Government

February 14, 2010

LL is proud to welcome back Chuck Young, founder and current treasurer of Texans for Accountable Government (TAG). Chuck will be talking about the various projects that TAG is currently undertaking, including battling with Vampire Cops and Fusion Centers! He is a very entertaining speaker and we hope many of you will be able to [...]

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LL presents “The Domination of the Ruling Class”

January 30, 2010

Fellow LL’er Daniel Krawisz will be giving an uber-exciting/awesome presentation on social classes from a libertarian perspective. Come discuss why class warfare is a creation of the parasitical State and what a libertarian society would be like!
The meeting will take place from 8:00-10:00 on Tuesday, Feb. 2 in ETC 2.114.
Also, we will be going to [...]

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Communism Kills

January 30, 2010

Communism is the vision of an egalitarian society with common ownership of property. Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated that the prevailing capitalist environment is responsible for class struggle and inequality among people. He believed that people’s lives are determined by their economic environment and in order to achieve the communist utopia, that environment has to be changed. For this change to occur, the working class (proletariat) must overthrow the existing regime, dismantle all capitalist institutions, and eliminate the possibility of a counterrevolution by the merchant class (bourgeoisie).

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Panderer to Power: The True Story of Alan Greenspan

January 20, 2010

Book Review of Panderer to Power, by Frederick Sheehan. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2010. Retail: $29.95
For the bulk of my life so far, I have lived in the age of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank from 1987 to 2006. Mentioning a Federal Reserve chair like this in the past would not [...]

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Man Arrested and Bullied for Trying to get Cop’s Badge Number

January 18, 2010

A man with whom I went to high school, C. C. of Royal Oak, MI, just recounted to me a chilling tale.
I called them [the pigs] due to a noise complaint and he proceeded to call me “stupid for living there.” when i was explaining that we were in process of finding a house He [...]

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LL member nominated for SFL Student of the Year Award!

January 16, 2010

Dear fellow Libertarian Longhorns and the Austin libertarian community,
I was surprised to find out a few days ago that I have been nominated for the Students for Liberty “Student of the Year” Award. I feel very honored to be among these other amazing nominees, and I am quite excited to join these nominees at the [...]

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