Tag: The Big L
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Why I’m No Longer A Libertarian
My old friend Gary Miller is giving a speech to a Young Republican group tomorrow. Or maybe a College Republican group. And it might have already happened, for all I know. But the particulars aren’t as important as the theme of his talk; “Why I’m No Longer a Republican”. Gary was of course the proprietor…
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Weeds Of Our Discontent
The worst kind of political errors are ones where conservatives give liberals an unearned moral victory in a grab for the high ground. Carly Melin – who was a 25 year old HamLaw graduate who was airlifted to northern Minnesota precisely in time to meet residency requirements to run for the seat for which the…
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Big “L”, Small “L”
(SCENE: at a chi-chi coffee shop in South Minneapolis. Mitch BERG’s eyes go a little wide with sticker shock before he orders a light roast with room for cream and Splenda) (As BERG turns to leave, he notices a table with three diners – Carpal POX, Garth MULLER and Viktor VON SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE. He tries to…
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Principle
To: Principled Libertarians From: Mitch Berg, Uppity “Establishment” Tea Party Peasant Re: Bamboozled My Libertarian Friends, I likely agree with you all on more than we disagree. Some of you like to focus on the disagreements, which makes for fun rhetoric, but whatever; I would call myself a constitutional limited government conservative. The battle to limit…
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Growing Pains
Some of you know my political backstory – I’ve written about it a time or two. In 1994, disgusted by the GOP’s capitulation to Clinton on the 1994 Crime Bill along with George HW Bush’s reversal on taxes, I left the Republican Party and joined the Libertarians. Over the course of four years, I did…
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Open Letter To Ron Paul
To:Ron Paul, Personality Cultist and Former Presidential Candidate From: Mitch Berg, Crabby peasant and former big-L Libertarian Re: Dumb Mr. Paul, Y’know, I try. I really do. But when I see things like this on Twitter…: Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.” Treating PTSD…
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I Endorse Paul
It’s long been the policy of this blog to never, ever endorse candidates. Partly because it seems arrogant – I mean, who cares what I think? And partly because even if I do have any influence over what people think about how they vote, I’d much prefer that that influence go to helping, in whatever…
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The Principle Conundrum
Back in 1994, I left the GOP; I was angry that they’d caved in to Clinton on the 1994 Crime Bill. I joined the Libertarian Party. I came back to the GOP in 1998. It wasn’t that I didn’t agree with the Libertarians, at least in the broad outlines. It was that the Libertarians had…
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The Big “L”
In 1994, disgusted by the GOP’s cave-in to the Clinton Administration on the 1994 Crime Bill, I ditched the GOP and went over to the Libertarian Party. Michael Medved’s ridicule aside, it was a great experience. I learned a lot about how politics does, and doesn’t, work. Part of the learning was from being a…