ATHF- Around the Horn Friday, Black Market Edition

OK boys and girls, you are at my tender mercies and I am going to sell you the goods faster than a South East Asian pirate sells spare boat parts at a floating marine market. That is, even faster than our politicians sell votes to lobbyists. Maybe.

This week's best story goes to Duffy who has a piece on why there is a Thieves Market located a few blocks from the UN. While over at Down with Absolutes, Mat Marshall has been sold as the youngest communications director ever to Karen Hartley-Nagle. Congratulations Mat you are going to be a national figure soon!

Delaware Liberal is bashing (un) "free" markets and that bastion of corporatism Walmart for selling out a woman who was paralyzed and they are sure someone owns Dave Burris.

Shirley at Delaware Curmudgeon is selling something that we really need, wind power.

While the Great Orange Satan known as the Daily Kos is selling cautionary books about religious cults.

Dana at Delaware Watch is selling us the fact that no one from the Delaware GOP wants to run for governor. Mike Protack asks, "Dana why did you forget me? I am running."

Kavips, continues to send out a beacon call for independents, to sway the political winds of the state.

Over at FSP (Sorry Dave I like the old school) David and the guys are cutting the hell out of the budget so we don't buy too much. And William Chandler made a guest appearance to call for a reasonable approach to the politics of development in lower Delaware. A voice of reason? Wow. Moving on....

At the Colossus of Rhodey, Hube is ripping the ignorant, but I still can't get his site to work. Hmmm. Wonder why?

While taking on the complex problem of Mid-East Peace, apparently Nancy stole George W. Bush's monogrammed bath robe. Good Job Nancy.

Jokers to the Right have been on spring break but have some interesting articles about state-wide politics. Buying all the good stuff I suppose....

Finally Waldo is taking aim at Sally Kern for comparing homosexuals to terrorists. They are not- everybody knows they all want to be firemen, Indian chiefs, construction workers and pirates....who can tell me I'm wrong? Anyway, nobody shops more than a bitchy queen boy when they are really frustrated, screw that Kern lady. She needs to get laid.

You'll have to trust me on this one.

And be prepared this Saturday morning, Tommywonk, Shirley and Dace will be on WILM 1450 AM to discuss all the things that need discussing.

While Becky the Girl in Shorts always discusses what I like....And I was worried about the relationship between men and women...

Before you leave the market make sure to check out Steve, Tyler and my idiosyncratic Libertarian rantings and drug legalization arguments.....we have been jamming all the goods into this black market blog.

While Tyler got the big headlines this week by announcing that Tom Ross will running for the GOP chairmanship, let's hope he pirates the party for the Libertarians.....And Steve's brilliant analysis of exactly how much property the government landlord owns is worth more than a read, well, it is brilliant. Good job Prof.

It's been fun, before you go remember to take this weekend to reflect on all the things we will have to write about next week.

Next week, I nominate Jason330 at Delaware Liberal for Around the Horn Friday, unless Dave Burris wants to do it....Peace out.

A Libertarian Martin Luther King Jr. Day post

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More of This, Please

Or perhaps I should say, "Less of this one, please." Or how about just, "None of them. Ever again. Please....For the Love of God." Sunshine State Poll: Grayson In Trouble The latest Sunshine State/VSS poll shows controversial Democratic incumbent Alan Grayson trailing former state Senator Dan Webster by seven points, 43 percent to 36 percent. A majority of respondents -- 51 percent -- disapprove of the job that Grayson is doing. Independents have an unfavorable view of him as well, by a 36/47 margin. Grayson has ignored the conventional wisdom that a freshman should be a quiet member who carefully tends to the home fires. The latest controversy involves his " Taliban Dan " advertisement, where he explicitly compares his opponent to the Taliban, and shows a clip of Webster paraphrasing Ephesians 5:22 -- "wives, submit to your husbands." An unedited version of the clip shows that Webster was actually suggesting that husba...

A reply to Salon's R. J. Eskrow, and his 11 stupid questions about Libertarians

Posts here have been in short supply as I have been living life and trying to get a campaign off the ground. But "11 questions to see if Libertarians are hypocrites" by R. J. Eskrow, picked up at Salon , was just so freaking lame that I spent half an hour answering them. In the end (but I'll leave it to your judgment), it is not that Libertarians or Libertarian theory looks hypocritical, but that the best that can be said for Mr. Eskrow is that he doesn't have the faintest clue what he's talking about. That's ok, because even ill-informed attacks by people like this make an important point: Libertarian ideas (as opposed to Conservative ideas, which are completely different) are making a comeback as the dynamic counterpoint to "politics as usual," and so every hack you can imagine must be dragged out to refute them. Ergo: Mr. Eskrow's 11 questions, with answers: 1. Are unions, political parties, elections, and ...

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