[EGPWS]

A good libertarian columnist quickly learns that if he's doing his job right, he'll be bombarded with hate e-mail from both liberal and conservative sides - often simultaneously.

Well, it's true...

If the third shoe fits the third foot, what is the third shoe?

A right shoe, or a left shoe?

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Let's not forget another Good Libertarian from the Trib, Dimitri Vassilaros, do we see the beginnnings of a Trend here?

[headsonpikes]

"Libertarians have feelings too, you know."

If I was a member, I'd rip up my card.

Luckily, I'm a free-lance freedomite!

[explodingspleen]

I generally get along pretty well with libertarians. Both libertarians and conservatives (by which I mean classical liberals) believe strongly in personal liberty, and as far as that is concerned we pretty much tend to agree on things. The difference is that conservatives recognize that liberty by itself cannot stand--it must be coupled with virtue. The minimalist government true libertarians and conservatives strive for is an implausible reality unless it is to rule over a virtuous people. So while conservatives believe in maximizing freedom, they acknowledge that we must at the same time foster virtue, or it is all in vain.

[irv]

enrage tax-happy Nanny State liberal Democrats in one paragraph and puritanical Police State conservative Republicans in the next.

So you're not a libertarian because you believe in liberty, but because you hate everybody else.

I lost interest at this point.

[JudgemAll]

In the last two months, I've sniped away at the enemies of personal freedom, limited government and liberty that surround and annoy me

The REpublic is not against limited government per say. If anarchy reigns, the Republic is there to reign in the law of the anarchist with a counter-law.

This is the essence of limited government: there is a numerator and a denominator and hopefuly we have a good balance.

[CWOJackson]

"Under the provocative headline "It's time to bail out," I humbly -- and sensibly, I thought -- suggested that it might be time for President Bush to cut our losses, declare "mission accomplished," scrap his grand plans to franchise a chain of democracies in the Middle East and exit Iraq before things there got any worse, which they most likely will."

Liberal? No.

Ignorant willing dupe of the liberals? Yes.