These are the lyrics Macklemore's hit song "Thrift Shop" as written in classical prose. The song, which exquisitely details the troubles and tribulations of a young man in Washington, conquered the music industry with its message championing the virtue of frugality, meekness, and sensibility.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama took the stage Wednesday night at the 2012 election cycle's first presidential debate, and they made it clear beforehand: libertarian candidate Gary Johnson ain't invited.

In response, Johnson actually filed an antitrust lawsuit charging the RNC and DNC with conspiring in restraint of...

Take a look at an interesting excerpt from Monday's edition of The Hill:

Ryan was asked why voters should not vote for Ron Paul. The Republican vice presidential candidate responded that a vote for Paul, who ran for the 2012 GOP nomination, would effectively split the vote in...

Young libertarian journalists, the future is up to you. The government will hate you. Its friends will hate you, too. But beyond the censorship and ostracism politicians will create, libertarian journalists need to remember the one factor that is equally important to evading political regulations: winning public opinion.

Let us...

Libertarians are skeptics. We question the history we're told and we question the future we're promised. It is only natural that people with curious minds -- especially those with no previous interest in politics -- find comfort in libertarian circles (if not for the ideology, at least for the skepticism)....

An astonishing discovery was revealed to the Obama administration this week: gays, too, like the government to leave them alone.

The president sat down for the interview on Wednesday, at which time he announced his support for gay marriage. He concluded, "...it is important for me to go...

This week Michele Bachmann endorsed Mitt Romney for president of the United States, referring to him as our "only option [to] preserve the American dream of prosperity and liberty." Tea Partiers really aren't sure why she chose a flip-flopping moderate over the Tea Party's "intellectual godfather,"...

[The following is a slightly satirical yet deadly serious prediction of what I assume will come of the future sex industry, based on Frédéric Bastiat's "Candlemakers' Petition."]

A Petition from Sex Workers as well as the Manufacturers of Condoms, Jewelry, Boxes of Chocolate, and of Generally Everything Connected...

The government's ideas always seem to appear in a steady stream of weird trends. It's like they have one idea about how we can "make the world a better place," and then they mistakenly apply it to every possible scenario they can think of.

Take intellectual property, for example, which...

"She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented 'place'... She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand."
-- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The old capitalists were robber barons -- pocket the profit, and sell the loss.

The...