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What an outrage!, I just finished listening to the 2000 Libertarian Candidate for President Harry Browne on Hannity and Colmes. What an OUTRAGE!. Harry Browne said Bush was a liar that was lying to the American people, that we were bombing innocent civilians that did nothing when it cameto the terror attacks,that we did not try to solve the situation by negotiating with the terrorists, that America was a mean bully, that Tony Blair's document proving Osama did it was all a fraud, and the whole world hated us and most people did not like us!

The most admirably fascinating aspect of the books Harry Browne wrote to accompany his two quixotic attempts to capture the White House for the Libertarian Party -- Why Government Doesn't Work (1995) and The Great Libertarian Offer (2000) -- was his total lack of any interest in sharing a story of personal growth. George W. Bush's A Charge to Keep, for contrast, begins with a sappy convoluted discussion of the many wonders of evangelical sermons and the various Bush family inaugurations. John Kerry's A Call to Service opens with his mother's environmentalism, his father's diplomacy, and the "steady diet of...

-snip- Browne's vision of minimal government allowed for no state role in environmental protection, health and safety regulations, or building and maintaining highways. His platform included immediate repeal of the federal income tax and dismantling of Social Security. -snip-

Preamble: As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives, and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others. We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized. Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world...

Harry Browne, R.I.P. Harry Browne, two-time Libertarian Party presidential candidate, has died of effects of a neurological disorder that had been plaguing him suddenly in past months. Beyond his early libertarian movement bonafides, as a disciple and colleague of the amazing and bizarre Joseph Andrew Galambos (a libertarian educatational entrepreneur in Southern California in the 1960s with his Free Enterprise Institute), Browne was also a prominent voice and thinker in two major, though inchoate, social movements, or at least idea-viruses, that helped make the 1970s as funky and fascinating as they were: a "me decade" pioneer with his How I...

Harry Browne, who was the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, is reported by multiple sources to have died yesterday. I just confirmed the general information with Jim Babka of DownSizeDC. DownSizeDC intends to be distributing pertinent information by e-mail and on their website later this evening. Pending a statement from family or friends, the best (speculative) published source of information about his condition is currently on Wiki: "In June of 2005 an unknown neurological illness confined him to a wheelchair. After spending a considerable amount of time in the hospital, he resumed some of his writing and...

There's a good argument, to which I'm somewhat sympathetic, for small-government types in non-swing states to vote Libertarian this year; Jeremy Lott laid out the case last week. But while I do consider myself a small-l libertarian, the big-L Libertarians cannot expect my support. In 2000 I lived in New York, solidly in Al Gore's column according to every poll. So I pulled the lever for Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate. For months afterward, I kept hearing that President Bush lacked a "mandate" because of the popular vote/electoral vote mismatch. It seemed that, the Constitution aside, the popular vote...

What is the worst step that's been taken on the road to American serfdom? In my view, it was allowing government to educate our children. Given that our children learn about the world from government employees, working in a government system, it's no surprise that children grow up believing: • That government is the fair and impartial arbiter, as opposed to private businessmen who act from self-interest; • That government programs actually do what they promise to do; • That the U.S. government liberated Europe and Asia in World War II; • That Franklin Roosevelt saved America from the Great...

"Changing Course"Harry Braun's Vision for America & Spaceship Earth The Image was painted by Artist William Bond for The National Geographic Society   Windship Hydrogen Production Systems Will Save Ocean Ecosystems While Making America Energy Independent of Fossil & Nuclear Fuels Analyst and author Harry Braun is running as an Independent Candidate for President because unlike President Bush or Senator Kerry, he has a Phoenix Project (PhoenixProject.Net) plan that will employ millions of Americans and supercharge the economy by making America energy independent of all fossil and nuclear fuels by 2010. This will be accomplished by mass-producing wind-powered hydrogen...

The revelations that Iraqi prisoners have been abused and tortured have prompted the typical deep thinking by America's pundits. But, as usual, they are ignoring the central point: Atrocities and war go together like ham and eggs. When soldiers — American, Iraqi, or of any nation — go to war, they are transformed into different people. This is because of the nature of war. Battles aren't fought in the clean, antiseptic style of a John Wayne movie. In a real war, men's limbs are blown off, they see their insides pour out onto the ground, and they die in excruciating...

In his latest article, Harry Browne, who I used to admire, draws several conclusions. Among them: He says that war and atrocities go together and that the best way to avoid atrocities is to not go to war in the first place. He claims that although Bush was informed of the atrocities in January, nothing significant was done until CBS broke the story recently. To illustrate his point he cites a link to a timeline of events. Ironically, Browne's own cited timeline link shows significant action had been taken much earlier and that Harry Browne is a liar. He also...

Front and center of the Dixie Daily News today is a Bush hit piece by Harry Browne titled "The 19 Dumbest Statements By Bush During the Last Week" I emailed Ron Holland, the site admin, owner, etc. the following: Dear Editor,Harry Brown's 4/20/04 article referenced above is a political hit piece against President Bush that has absolutely nothing to do with Southern issues. By running this article, the Dixie Daily News aligns itself with the anti-Bush crowd..a position that will not be well received by Southerners. If you look at the famous red/blue map of the 2000 election, you will...

Sunday's capture of Saddam Hussein made it a great day — a great day for empty rhetoric and meaningless posturing by politicians and journalists. Somehow it was assumed by politicians and the press, without explanation, that Hussein's capture has vindicated the Bush administration's attack on Iraq. But from September 2002 to March 2003, George Bush said nothing about capturing Saddam Hussein. Instead, Bush talked incessantly about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq's ability to attack the U.S. with them — as well as Al Qaeda camps in the Iraqi desert. How does finding Saddam Hussein make Bush's claims any more...

The Limits of Gun Ownership by Harry Browne October 23, 2003 Gun-rights advocates aren't the only people who believe that individuals should be free to own guns. Even gun-control advocates usually specify that they aren't trying to ban all guns. But most activists on both sides of the gun issue say there must be limits on gun ownership. Why? So that guns don't fall into the "wrong" hands. But if a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no violent crime at all. Just pass a law specifying that bad people...

A Little History Can Be a Dangerous Thing by Harry Browne February 12, 2003 George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Perhaps a corollary of that axiom should be: Those who know only historical slogans should quit using them to support their causes. For example, amateur historians remind us impatiently that the reason Iraq must disarm (which no one else is doing) is that Hussein promised to disarm at the end of the Gulf War in 1991. Of course, they neglect to tell us that the "promise" was made at the point of...

Demonstrating that libertarianism has appeal in Hollywood, Ruprecht lists as out-of-the-closet libertarians: Kurt Russell, Penn and Teller, Clint Eastwood, Drew Carey, John Larroquette, Howard Stern (who briefly sought the LP ticket for NY guv), Tommy Chong ("Although he may be a one-issue type person."), P.J. O'Rourke, Russell Means, [TV movie producer] Aaron Russo, and possibly Bill Maher ("I used to enjoy [Politically Incorrect] at the beginning, but then it got so Left, it got so weighted heavily against ..."). Not all libertarians places a high value on attracting celebrities. One Region 63 attendee marveled that actors comment on political matters...

AT THE FEE CONVENTIONby Bill Bonner "What was it like in prison?" I asked my friend, a woman who had just spent 8 years behind bars at a federal penitentiary. "Well, I don't want to pretend to be a martyr for the cause of liberty," she began. "It could have been a lot worse. It's funny, but you adapt. Or you go crazy. "For some of those women - there were a lot of foreigners from Africa and Asia - it was the best life they ever had. We had three meals a day. It was clean. Nobody beat us....

Two weeks ago, I suggested that George Bush's presidency had turned out to be amazingly similar to what we had feared from Al Gore. The only major difference is that there's very little conservative opposition to Bush's expansion of government, while we could have expected fierce opposition to Gore. The article provoked some angry reactions from people who said that only a fool could fail to notice all the good deeds George Bush has done. The Bush agenda: Not wanting to be a fool, I've compiled a list of the good things conservatives believe George Bush has achieved so far....