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By Bonnie Kristian at 5:38PM

Dave Barry's 2011 Year in Review

Libertarian and generally hilarious person Dave Barry has released his annual Year in Review.  An excerpt:

In Washington, as the deadline for raising the federal debt limit nears, Congress and the Obama administration work themselves into a frenzy trying to figure out what to do about the fact that the government is spending insanely more money than it actually has. At the last possible minute, they hammer out a historic agreement under which the government will continue to spend insanely more money than it actually has while a very special congressional committee -- A SUPER committee! -- comes up with a plan, by a later date, that will solve this pesky problem once and for all.

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By Hans Schulzke at 11:13AM

Seinfeld Teaches Collaboration

Throughout the Seinfeld series, Newman is a consistent irritation to Jerry.  Their relationship is shown through the distinctive greeting Jerry develops for the corpulent postal-worker.

Once their interests converge, however, Jerry is quick to act:

My point?

Even if every libertarian, liberty-minded Republican, anarchist, minarchist, voluntarist, and Christian-anarchist joined forces to vote against the main block of the country, we would still lose.  The sad truth is that we don’t have the numbers.


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By Zak Slayback at 3:05PM

A Little Post-Christmas Humor

This version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is said to have been sung at a Carter Administration Justice Department Christmas party sometime in the late 1970's. 

Enjoy.

You’d better watch out,
You’d better not cry,
You’d better not pout;
I’m telling you why.
Santa Claus is tapping
Your phone.

He’s bugging your room,
He’s reading your mail,
He’s keeping a file
And running a tail.
Santa Claus is tapping
Your phone.


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By Zak Slayback at 3:02PM

Tunes of Liberty: My Way (Frank Sinatra)

If there ever was an anthem of individualism, My Way is that song. 

Written in 1968, this English version of the French song, Comme d'habitude, was written by Paul Anka and popularized by Frank Sinatra. 

This song boasts the importance of doing things as to one's own wishes, because, at the end of the day, you are all you have.


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By Kevin Brett at 7:57AM

"I Feel Like We're Forgetting Something..."

If current TSA regulations had been in place, the McAllisters would have missed their flight, and we never would have seen Home Alone.  Season's Gropings!

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By John Galt at 6:54AM

Postal Service Fail

Below, I have posted a notice I received in my mailbox a few days ago:

postalServiceFail

Although no explanation is required, I would like to pose the following question. If the United States Postal Service is incapable of correctly operating a photocopy machine, why would someone trust them to deliver their mail?

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By Zak Slayback at 8:49AM

What do Tetris and Communism have in common? Everything. Kind of.

I recently stumbled across one of the greatest pieces of creative genius on YouTube that I've ever seen. Ever.

The British Artists Dan Woods and Donald Newholm, "Pig With The Face of a Boy" are collectively known as "the world's best neo-post-post-music hall anti-folk band." And by George, they are. 


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By Wesley Messamore at 3:33PM

Parody: Cartman Sings to Obama

I started singing this song in the YAL office just for the sake of irony while doing work that promotes liberty, but it soon got stuck in everybody's heads. Then I started singing it in the voice of Eric Cartman from South Park and it was so epic that I had to make a video. Apologies to Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

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By Wesley Messamore at 10:10AM
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By Matt Cockerill at 11:41PM

A baby moratorium for liberty?

Sound silly? For the libertarian, it's about as viable as "border security," argues Gene Callahan. (And to pre-empt the inevitable outraged idiot who will cry foul over Callahan's suggestion that we forceably stop pregnant or 'prospective' mothers from delivering their little tykes -- in what would inevitably involve quite brusque forms of coercion -- let me note that this is a satirical piece.)

They're Coming To America

Many libertarians have been far too complacent in the face of a growing threat to our cultural cohesion, our way of life, and our liberty. I'm talking, of course, about the thousands of people who arrive in our country everyday, hoping to make it their new home.

Those arrivals present us with a myriad of social problems. For the most part, they do not speak our language. They are unfamiliar with our culture. It will take time to assimilate them all, and the government's effort to promote multi-culturalism through the public schools and other government institutions can only lengthen that assimilation time.

Few of these strangers arrive in America with job offers in hand. The odds are high that many of them will rely, at some point in their lives, on government handouts. And studies show that the longer new arrivals reside in the country, the more likely they are to receive welfare.

They will make use of public transportation, public roads, public utilities, public schools, and so on, further straining resources that are already stretched thin in many cases. Their arrival results in a "dumbing down" of the public education system, prompting politicians to throw even more money at it.


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