The mission of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) is to train, educate, and mobilize youth activists committed to "winning on principle". Our goal is to cast the leaders of tomorrow and reclaim the policies, candidates, and direction of our government
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Antiwar.com reports on Obama's next step in Afghanistan. To close the article gives hope by stating... The premier libertarian youth organization, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), is the fastest-growing political group on campus, these days, and no task would suit them better than assuming the leadership of the moribund, leftist-dominated antiwar movement....
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Posted:2009-11-25 23:27:49 GMT
Disgusting, dehumanizing euphemisms aside, Vance is correct in asserting that the American People's uncritical military-worship allows the US state to get away with all sorts of atrocities overseas. Take, for example, this sort of thing. The US government's "abandoned," landmines continue to kill innocents in Vietnam e...ven to this day. The murderer-in-chief is by necessity a numbers-guy and "pragmatist," that won't bother to think about such things in lieu of his "grand vision." So it's not surprising...
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Posted:2009-11-25 22:59:49 GMT
Laurence Vance is always excellent on the subject of war, particularly when he writes about its relationship to Christianity. I saw him speak in June, and he did not disappoint. I was particularily impressed by his boldness in discussing the biblical conception of war and countering arguments for a more hawkish perspe...ctive presented by the audience -- even those wishing to have their military records validated. Now, he's composed a pretty long list...
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Posted:2009-11-25 21:43:37 GMT
Today, Ruth Marcus wrote an article in which she somehow reasons that Congress has the authority to mandate individuals to buy insurance. She advocates two "Constitutional" modes of doing so: the always "reliable," Commerce Clause and the power of Congress to tax. She goes on to say: If you arrive uninsured at an eme...rgency room, that has ripple effects through the national economy -- driving up costs and premiums for everyone....
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Posted:2009-11-25 21:35:13 GMT
The Daily Texan is the newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin. Yesterday, an opinion column was published that proposed a federal tax for "any meal well above a third of your recommended calorie intake" that is served at eating establishments.I wrote a response, which was published in The Daily Texan today....
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Posted:2009-11-25 18:08:41 GMT
Remy is a musician local to Arlington (where the YAL headquarters is) who happens to be anti-card check (And anti-taxes. This video was made for a TurboTax competition, but its anti-tax commentary is great.). The card check bill (Employee Free Choice Act) doesn't seem to be moving forward right now, but the video is still amusing and makes a good point:
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Posted:2009-11-25 04:35:04 GMT
Several Days Old, but she is a very important activist that makes this interview more than worth listening to. We talk about everything from her personal advice to activists, to the non-aggression principle, the spiritual and moral justifications for liberty, and the implications of the LP's 2008 nomination of the far less radical Bob Barr....
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Posted:2009-11-25 04:07:52 GMT
2004 - America Will 'Finish the Job' in Iraq, Bush Says.2009 - Barack Obama: 'I'll Finish the War' in Afghanistan.Change is Coming to Afghanistan!
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Posted:2009-11-25 01:14:29 GMT
If you haven't heard, some e-mails recently surfaced revealing that certain climate researchers took active steps to suppress climate research skeptical of global warming:In another, Jones and Mann discuss how they can pressure an academic journal not to accept the work of climate skeptics with whom they disagree. "Per...haps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal," Mann...
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Posted:2009-11-25 00:29:17 GMT
Fortunately, it seems President Obama's health care proposal, despite two "historical votes," in its favor, is losing some steam. With infighting in the left over the Stupak amendment and the public option itself, the divides in the Democratic party over the issue seem to be growing by the day. With a crazy holiday sc...hedule added to the mix, there is very little time to debate and pass a bill in the senate, merge it...
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Posted:2009-11-24 20:04:00 GMT
Members of YAL at Ohio State took to the streets to protest rising government debt and runaway inflation. For most of the afternoon, YAL blanketed campus with their giant debt poster. Despite the rain and the cold, many students stopped by to get more information on the national debt, inflation, and the Federal Reserve.... Later in the evening, YAL moved downtown to the steps of the Statehouse to let people know that we...
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Posted:2009-11-24 15:25:46 GMT
Patrick Deneen is one of my favorite bloggers. His recent piece "Social Injustice" shows liberal "Social Justice" (2 links there) to be nothing more than fluffy words and groupthink. He clearly explains how colleges and universities that indoctrinate students into thinking that success comes when they graduate and mo...ve into progressive enclaves of educated 'creative class' types, do much more harm than good (if any good comes from it). The piece...
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Posted:2009-11-24 15:24:54 GMT
Sherrod Brown is a very liberal US Senator from Ohio. And if his collectivist voting record is not enough: his daugher is the Organizing Director of SEIU 1199 which is a kissing cousin of ACORN. SEIU 1199 is a popular proving ground for liberal statists who have close ties with the upper echelons of Washington DC's e...lite. This is more than just concerning: it's downright alarming. Here's the Senator drumming up emotional support from Health Care for America...
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Posted:2009-11-24 15:23:10 GMT
Yesterday, November 22nd, was the National End the Fed Rally. At locations all across the country, individuals came together to protest the unchecked powers of the Federal Reserve. Click here to watch videos of the day's event.
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Posted:2009-11-23 19:47:13 GMT
According to the Washington Post, senators John Kerry and Orrin Hatch are trying to pass an amendment into the proposed health care bill. Senator Kerry's spokeswoman said the Amendment would: "prevent insurers from discriminating against benefits that qualify as spiritual care if the care is recognized by the IRS as a legitimate medical expense....
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Posted:2009-11-23 19:43:39 GMT
Nowadays, it's no surprise that the government wants have its hands on everything. From the auto industry to light bulbs to what type of television you can own, government has always sought to meddle with private enterprise. It should come as no surprise, then, that the NSA has been involved with Microsoft in the devel...opment of the new operating system Windows 7....
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Posted:2009-11-23 19:43:28 GMT
In the wake of the 'Death of the Dollar Vigil' held in Bloomington this past week, the YAL Chapter at Indiana University held an End the Fed protest as part of National End The Fed Day. The group informed students and non-students alike about how the Federal Reserve operates and how it has contributed to the destructi...on of both the value of the US Dollar and our economy. Additionally, thanks to...
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Posted:2009-11-23 18:10:04 GMT
Bonnie, cop-worship is one of the creepier phenomena in American society. The whole point of classical liberalism was the upholding of individual rights through the limitation and de-sanctification of the state. Can you believe that a country based on these ideals has become so insanely nationalistic that we grovel before every uniformed Earl?...
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Posted:2009-11-23 12:21:52 GMT
Ernest Hancock reports that Judge Napolitano is in negotiations with Fox News to put "Freedom Watch" on the air--Right now! To those unfamiliar with Napolitano's program, it is the real deal. "Freedom Watch," is no wussified, watered-down version of liberty, but rather, a fearless upholding of classical liberalism in o...pposition to government theft, coercion, and mass murder.* Regular guests include Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, Peter Schiff, and Ron Paul; YAL executive director Jeff Frazee has...
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Posted:2009-11-22 23:06:33 GMT
As an editor, I feel obliged to note that these enthusiastic drug warriors (who now drive a Caddy at the taxpayers' expense -- see estimated gas mileage here) should have put a period after "car." Yay drug war!
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Posted:2009-11-22 11:01:10 GMT
A major vice of humanity is the inability of many people to admit they're wrong about--well-- anything!. You see it all the time in day-to-day life. An intellectually dishonest professor failing to take responsibility for a flawed mode of thinking. A "post-revolution" "bro," failing to take responsibility for treating ...women like slabs of meat....
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Posted:2009-11-22 04:09:57 GMT
According the the Congressional Budget Office, the health care "reform" bill will cost $848 billion and would cut the deficit by $130 billion over the next decade. This is ludicrous. Watch the video below to see just how irrational this mode of thinking is:
Source:YAL Blog
Posted:2009-11-22 03:39:33 GMT
Government run health care is morally unsound..We need to free the market!
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Posted:2009-11-22 03:28:33 GMT
Watch as Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) calls out Treasury Secretary Tim Geither about how the administrations actions have affected our current economic problems. I've never seen Brady before, but like Joe Wilson and Alan Grayson before him, I would guess that this should make him some friends.
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Posted:2009-11-22 00:38:56 GMT
"wouldn't you just lose it to see this scam exposed? People will revolt when they see how they've been hosed!"
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Posted:2009-11-21 22:59:26 GMT
Glenn Greenwald has a great take on the passage of the Paul-Grayson Amendment reviving HR1207. I have to admit I was rather cynical when the state-friendly Mel Watt version was passed. I thought HR1207 was history, as I'm sure many of you did. It is not hyperbole, then, for Greenwald to say: "A congressionally manda...ted audit that The Fed (and much of the DC establishment) desperately oppose would be a serious step towards changing the...
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Posted:2009-11-21 19:21:12 GMT
The LA Times' Top of the Ticket blog, which regularly covered Ron Paul throughout his presidential campaign, reports that support for the Afghan war has hit a new low: Fifty-two percent of the 1,001 adult Americans polled Nov. 12-15 now say the war there has not been worth the cost, down 13 points in the last 11 month...s.... Once, Obama's war policies were his strongest poll suit (63%)....
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Posted:2009-11-21 18:36:45 GMT
I stumbled across this wonderful .gov site today while perusing the Internet. It informs our young children as to why government is such a necessary function in society. My favorite excerpt: Why do we need a government? Imagine what your school would be like if no one was in charge. Each class would make its own rules....
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Posted:2009-11-20 23:13:55 GMT
Medical Marijuana has become a major issue for Americans. As the memories of "Reefer Madness" fade and the facts about the drug war's consequences get out, support for Medical Marijuana is somewhere between 70% - 80% across the nation. The total amount of states that have passed medical marijuana laws has reached 13....
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Posted:2009-11-20 23:10:47 GMT
I am an editorial writer for my school newspaper at Ole Miss, and I wrote this article about a week ago. It discusses how the Democratic and Republican Parties are disregarding the express constitutional limits placed on them by Article I Section 8 of the Constitution. My article focused primarily on the current debate... over the public option for healthcare.Evidently, what I had to say angered a certain professor of modern languages...
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Posted:2009-11-20 20:52:12 GMT
Writing on the origins of the Federal Reserve, Murray Rothbard discussed the philosophy which helped produce it and which still dominates our political discourse today: progressivism. It's not a commonly used word in modern politics, though it has of late become more popular as a self-descriptor on the left. Nonethe...less, progressivism is a philosophy of social democracy, based in the general will of Rousseau, which seeks to improve society -- to...
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Posted:2009-11-20 16:59:23 GMT
