Action Alert: Support measures to criminalize TSA abuses TODAY

Libertarian Longhorns calls to action all Texans who support civil liberties today! There are two bills in the Texas House of Representatives right now that need our help. First, the bill proposing to ban body scanners (HB 1938) has the votes in committee to be moved to the floor, and likely has a supermajority to [...]

Hayek vs. Keynes: The Second Round!

Remember the Hayek-Keynes Rap from John Papola, Russ Roberts, and EconStories? Well, they have posted their second video on Youtube just today (right now it only has 300 views). And trust me, it is EPIC! What an amazing exposition of Austrian economics ideas, plus some cultural criticism while we’re at it. The video touches on [...]

Rango: A Libertarian Spiritual Epic

Rango, unsure of who he is, imitates a cactus.

I saw Rango to enjoy the combined hijinks of Jonny Depp and other cartoon animals, and in this I was not disappointed; however it was not at all the most memorable aspect of the experience. Rango led me to entirely unexpected places. It is not simply a cartoon about a lizard, but a journey into [...]

Keep TSA Scanners Out of Austin

Here’s a special message from www.tsatyranny.com. Even if you don’t live in Texas, you can have an effect – you can tell the City Council that you are more likely to travel to or through Austin if they can be assured that their rights will not be violated by the TSA. Or, take the example [...]

The Libertarian Longhorns respond to the State of the Union Address

Here’s what we have to say… Nothing. We don’t care, we didn’t watch. After our weekly meeting — which coincided with the speech — we went to The Posse East as we always do for some food, fun, and discussion. The SOTU was all over the TVs, and as we arrived we declared loudly “Look, [...]

Libertarian Longhorns nominated for SFL Event of the Year Award

This week, Students for Liberty announced the nominees for their 2011 Awards, and the Libertarian Longhorns are on the list! Our “More Guns, Less Crime” event with John Lott held this past September is one of the finalists for the “Event of the Year” Award, which recognizes events that had major impacts on their campus [...]

My Little Pony and the Perspective of the Upper Class

My Little Pony: the gang

The New My Little Pony Show I recently watched an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic that, I thought, sheds a lot of light on the mentality of the statist upper class. For those of you who inexplicably have not been watching this new show, let me explain the premise. The show takes [...]

Mary Ruwart’s Talk on Spreading the Message of Liberty

Mary Ruwart, longtime libertarian activist, spoke to Libertarian Longhorns recently about spreading the message of liberty. Click here to listen to an audio recording of the talk.

When the Needy Can Take from the Wealthy

Wants and Needs A typical characteristic of libertarians that is rarely found among other people is an assumption that it is desirable, possible, and practical to bring universal theorizing into politics. Libertarians desire a theory of politics that can be applied everywhere, to all societies, to all people, no matter how differently they should feel [...]

How Capitalism Promotes Equality

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! —The Red Queen, Through the Looking Glass1 The secret of the looking glass world is that we are living in [...]