Writes Paul Barnes: “Several years ago I was a libertarian-leaning independent listening to Neal Boortz and voting mostly Republican. Since then I found Mises.org and LewRockwell.com and read some Rothbard including For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, and now consider myself a capital L-ibertarian. I feel like blinders have been removed from my eyes. “You might get a chuckle out of this. In my hometown of Owasso, OK (a suburb of Tulsa), the city government has a program called ‘Character Counts,’ which involves putting up banners all over town with definitions of words with some positive message, in both … Continue reading Government Thriftiness