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The Freedom Files
by RS Davis (libertarian)
About The Author
RSDavis is author of The Freedom Files, a blog dedicated to the subjects of freedom, punk rock, injustice around the world, civil rights, politics, music, movies, television, philosophy, free markets, or simply oddities from around the world.
You never know what you're gonna get with The Freedom Files, but you know it will be interesting. http://www.thefreedomfiles.net About The Column
Irreverent political commentary, satire, and discussion from the world's coolest punk rock libertarian... Blacks and California's Prop 8
Published: November 14, 2008
The proposition that ended gay marriage in California shines a light on the cultural divide between blacks and gays.
A Big Victory for the LP in North Carolina
Published: November 7, 2008
Nobody won anything, but one LP candidate took advantage of NC's new progressive attitude toward third parties.
A Tale of Two Cities
Published: October 30, 2008
Two cities, two different approaches to the problem of drug addiction.
A Sad Excuse for a Law Professor
Published: October 28, 2008
In the 2001 sound-byte that's going around, Barack Obama shows a frightening Constitutional ignorance.
Barr Gets Smacked Down Again!
Published: October 24, 2008
Man, this election year has REALLY shown how the two-party system strangles third parties...
Who Could Have Predicted This?
Published: October 22, 2008
Hawaii ends its Universal Healthcare for children...
Open Source Government?
Published: October 19, 2008
Hedge fund millionaire makes a fortune off the sub-prime collapse, quits, smokes a bowl, and then solves all our problems.
A Culture of Death?
Published: October 16, 2008
Justifiable homicides were up in 2007, but does that statistic tell the whole story?
I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin Me...
Published: October 15, 2008
The UK's Surveillance Society gets an upgrade, but who's watching the watchers?
Cobb County Police Get a New Toy
Published: October 13, 2008
The militarization of police forces in this country is a frightening and dangeous trend.
Oil Markets Get Limber
Published: October 10, 2008
What was that about the inelasticity of demand for petroleum?
3rd Parties Get No Respect
Published: October 9, 2008
Barr left off the Louisiana ballot. Nice double-standard, there.
The Sex Offender Registry
Published: October 9, 2008
Why are we targeting the very people we are charged to protect?
A Racial Catch 22
Published: October 8, 2008
White people are so scared of offending black people, they don't say anything at all...
The Thinker, The Creation of Adam, and Sonic the Hedgehog
Published: October 6, 2008
Are video games art?
When Sgt. Fido is Wrong
Published: October 3, 2008
How effective are drug-sniffing dogs, anyway?
Obama/Barr '08
Published: September 30, 2008
Strange bedfellows could make for some interesting politics.
Tempest in a Teapot
Published: September 29, 2008
Are Barack Obama's Truth Squad goons coming after you?
Why Bob Barr Is Right
Published: September 26, 2008
Inside the Texas Election Code, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tyranny.
Barr Gets Smacked Down
Published: September 25, 2008
The Texas Supreme Court makes a decision about Obama and McCain's right to be on the ballot after missing the deadline.
Goldwater's Heir?
Published: September 23, 2008
Is John McCain really Goldwater's heir?
Barr Finally Fights For Texas
Published: September 19, 2008
Obama and McCain didn't file in time to be included on the Texas ballot, and Bob Barr is trying to make sure they aren't.
Scientology - Silencing Critics for Decades
Published: September 9, 2008
Scientology's assault on its critics moves to YouTube...
Free Katie
Published: September 3, 2008
Is Katie Holmes a prisoner to that freaky Scientology cult?
Barr Fights for Texas
Published: September 2, 2008
This battle could mean big things for the Libertarian Party
In the UK, Every Window is a Rear Window
Published: September 1, 2008
A recent program in the UK takes them one step closer to 1984.
Can't We All Just Get Along??
Published: August 29, 2008
Political infighting may just rob the Libertarian Party of it's greatest opportunity.
Do You Really Need a License to Arrange Furniture?
Published: August 29, 2008
The Institute for Justice: Taking on the rent-seekers, one cartel at a time.
Is Wesley Snipes the New CEO of NewEgg.com?
Published: August 27, 2008
Tax protesting hits the big time.
The UK's War on Unpleasant Children
Published: August 25, 2008
The Nanny State Issues 1000 Time Outs...
Torture by Proxy: The Case of Maher Arar
Published: August 19, 2008
Does the US send terror suspects to other countries to be tortured?
Did Scientology Kill Isaac Hayes?
Published: August 11, 2008
South Park star, Oscar winner pushed into untenable situation by that wacky cult.
GOP Saves Big Oil from Windfall Profits Tax
Published: June 11, 2008
But are they willing to do what it would really take to fix this problem?
Highway Robbery
Published: June 10, 2008
Asset forfeiture laws have turned American law enforcement into pirates.
rEVOLution Interview with Dr Eric Schansberg
Published: June 6, 2008
The next in a series of interviews with rEVOLution candidates, we have a fascinating conversation about God, government, economics, and adoption.
Welcome to the Police State
Published: June 5, 2008
Washington DC's War on Drugs has turned into an Iraq-style occupation.
Time Doesn't Make You Innocent
Published: June 4, 2008
Why even HAVE a statute of limitations on rape?
Drunk Driving Hysteria and the Neo-Prohibitionists
Published: June 2, 2008
No wonder Candy Lightner left MADD...
Progress for New Zealand's Sex Workers
Published: May 30, 2008
When will prohibitionists learn?
New York Recognizes Gay Marriage (For Now)
Published: May 29, 2008
The political and Constitutional labyrinth that led to New York recognizing gay marriages from other states.
Is Samuel Adams Spinning in His Grave?
Published: May 28, 2008
The descendents of our most inspired patriot sell out. I guess integrity isn't hereditary.
Pragmatism or Purity?
Published: May 27, 2008
Inside the Great Libertarian Debate.
Eddie Walker Walks
Published: May 23, 2008
South Carolina principal quits over Gay-Straight Alliance Club. Good for him.
It’s a Cult Cult Cult Cult Cult Cult Cult Cult Cult Cult Cult
Published: May 22, 2008
Why is the British government shutting down the opponents of Scientology?
The Case of Mehdi Kazemi
Published: May 21, 2008
The life and death struggle of just being yourself in Iran.
Say it Ain't So, Joe...
Published: May 20, 2008
Joseph Lieberman's war against the First Amendment.
RPR: MO Caucus Coup Update
Published: May 20, 2008
rEVOLution delegates struggle with power-hungry GOP insiders...
The Invisible Genocide
Published: May 16, 2008
Why don't Gypsies get any respect?
The Postal Robber Barons
Published: May 15, 2008
It's time to end this nation's most enduring monopoly.
A Speed Bump on the Road to Paulville
Published: May 14, 2008
What happened to Paulville? Did it disappear with the website?
Another Innocent Victim of the Drug War
Published: May 13, 2008
Add another name to the list of people destroyed by our nation's unholy war on consensual commerce.
GOVERNMENT: Putting the cart before the horse for 232 years
Published: May 12, 2008
The White House's new report on teen drug use is more of the same old propaganda
RPR: rEVOLution interview - Dan Druck
Published: May 12, 2008
This is the 3rd Freedom Files interview with rEVOLution Candidates.
Islamic Religious Freedom in the Western World
Published: May 9, 2008
Yes, they deserve it, too.
Conyers Questions the War on Sick People
Published: May 8, 2008
Why don't we all?
RPR: Want to Move to Ron Paulville?
Published: May 7, 2008
Development tries a new twist on a classic libertarian scheme
So the UK is as Messed Up as We Are
Published: May 7, 2008
Drug War insanity is not a local phenomenon...
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Right
Published: May 6, 2008
Fallwell, Robertson, and the Political Schizm in the Evangelical movement
Bureaucracy vs The Market
Published: May 5, 2008
Why do people keep looking to government for help?
Gay Holocaust Victims Get Their Due
Published: May 2, 2008
There may have been no group more harshly dealt with in WWII than homosexuals.
The World Goes Topsy-Turvy for One Marijuana Researcher
Published: May 1, 2008
Is cannibas the most therapeutic drug known to man?
FDA Follies
Published: May 1, 2008
How many people does the FDA kill? And how many are we willing to let it kill?
Two Incredible Men
Published: April 30, 2008
One in jail, and one that got him out.
Wait - A Water Heater Installer is Not a Drug Expert?
Published: April 29, 2008
No-knock paramilitary raids are destroying law and order.
BREAKING NEWS: Hell Freezes Over!
Published: April 28, 2008
Am I actually down with the Reverend Al Sharpton??
RPR: A Call to Arms for Ron Paul Supporters!
Published: April 26, 2008
The GOP is continuing its efforts to subvert democracy.
I Hope You Didn’t "Always Bet On Black..."
Published: April 26, 2008
Wesley Snipes goes down, along with Constitutional principles.
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