From RT:

Note: This poll is NOT scientific. But funny still.

Who would you vote for in the US Presidential Election:

16% : Democratic incumbent Barack Obama all the way

11% : Republican challenger Mitt Romney to get America back on track

19% : Any of the third party candidates, left or right

54% [...]

James Tuttle at C4SS ponders why this is.

I often think of those two quotes, especially when people ask why there are so few women anarchists and libertarians. The recent anarchist survey came back with 82% of the respondents being men. Libertarian surveys also have lopsided results.

Why?

From CNN:

Obama has already authorized 283 strikes in Pakistan, six times more than the number during President George W. Bush’s eight years in office, Bergen wrote earlier this month. As a result, the number of estimated deaths from the Obama administration’s drone strikes is more than four times what it was during the [...]

From RT:

On Thursday, legal documents intended to be cloaked indefinitely were accidently unsealed in US District Court in Seattle for a moment, finally offering a small bit of insight as to why the FBI has been targeting adherents to a specific ideology and intensifying what some have equated to a politically-motivated witch-hunt aimed [...]

The third presidential debate is over. The air has been filled with mindless drivel. But the so-called election continues. Tomorrow, and for a few more days, the talking heads will also tell us what to think. They will continue to sprout the pseudo-gospel of politics, the lie that we have a choice, a voice in [...]

I didn’t watch the debate. I didn’t see much point in it. If I had watched it, I probably would have felt about twenty percent dumber.

As far a voting goes, I’m not really opposed to it if it’s going to help spread the message of liberty. Some people don’t share my opinion, and [...]

2012 elections are upon us.  We are seeing great divides in the movement amongst libertarian statists and libertarian anarchists.  Many are caving further and further into the political process, although everyday we see great losses for liberty using this method.

Once great libertarian organizations are becoming statist and tyrannical in the way that they manage [...]

In 1923, the war for leadership in the power vacuum of post-Tsarist Russia was decided in favor of the Bolsheviks. The anarchists were prosecuted, banished, sometimes executed. In order to prevent anarchist insurgents from revolting against the newly installed Marxist government in Moscow, Lenin ordered Trotsky to find a way to keep the anarchists “intellectually [...]

On February 4th, we remember one of the great feminists of our time: the American writer and activist Betty Friedan. She is remembered today as a well-spoken and intelligent defender of women’s rights and approached subjects such as sexism and gender-rolls from a psychological, rather than a sociological point of view. In the sixties and [...]

Happy Birthday W.H. Auden!

(To JS/07/M/378) This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be

One against whom there was no official complaint,

And all the reports on his conduct agree

That, in the modern sense [...]