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A vaccine mandate hides an ID mandate
[NOTE: The author will be the guest speaker at November’s LPSF meeting!] By Edward Hasbrouck (Reprinted from PapersPlease.org) As we have long feared, and as has already happened in other countries, COVID-19 vaccination requirements are being used to impose unrelated ID requirements. There’s a difference between “unvaccinated” and “undocumented” — a difference that’s gotten lost
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Go ahead and engage in vote-buying, just don’t be hypocrites
I heard the same thing about the controversial new Georgia voting law (the “Election Integrity Act of 2021”) that most of you probably have – that it criminalizes giving water to people waiting in line to vote. That part is what many in the media seem to want to focus on. Taken out of context,
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Yahoo! Groups –> Self-Hosted Discourse Forum
We migrated our Yahoo! Group to a self-hosted Discourse! Almost 40,000 posts were imported, and user accounts were created for the group’s existing subscribers. The forum and your preferences can be accessed at https://forum.lpsf.org or via mobile apps. –> If you have an account, you can also reply to a post or start a new
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November 2020 Ballot Recommendations
Proposition A – NO. This $960 million bond measure (the estimated cost to taxpayers of borrowing $487.5 million after all the interest and costs are paid) promises everything but the kitchen sink. Prop. A would supposedly fund “investments” (the Voter Information Pamphlet’s biased language) in “supportive housing facilities”, shelters, parks, recreation facilities, facilities for “persons
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Sympathy for the Sausage Makers
Politicians and bureaucrats certainly give people plenty of good reasons to hate them, but from time to time you have to sympathize with them, because in their power-addiction, serving as cogs in the leviathan they have created, they victimize themselves too. Just because they are oppressing us from the top of the pyramid
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November 2019 Ballot Recommendations
A B C D E F NO – YES NO NO NO Candidates District Attorney: Chesa Boudin, endorsed on October 12 by the LPSF The most criminal justice reform oriented candidate for district attorney, and the only one who has a background of trying to keep people out of jail rather than trying to lock
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FBI Investigates Proposition A’s Political Director
In July 2019, Gail Gilman became the Political Director of the Proposition A “Affordable Housing” Bond campaign. For the prior seventeen years she was the executive director of the Community Housing Partnership (CHP). Before that, she worked for Bridge Housing. Both stand to be the chief contract awardees of Proposition A bond proceeds. Gail Gilman
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5 Practices For Being An Effective Libertarian Activist
Here are a few insights I’ve found in my time as a libertarian (pro-freedom) activist which I consider valuable and thought I’d share in the hope that others may find them useful… • If you find yourself debating or arguing with someone (in person, online, or wherever) whose stance in the conversation is more
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Libertarian Solutions to the Housing Crisis: End Greenmailing
Housing affordability impacts all San Francisco residents. In our official opposition argument to Proposition E’s “Affordable Housing” proposal, the Libertarian Party of San Francisco suggested reform of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as an important to address the current housing crisis. We were delighted Reason Magazine (one of our favorite publications) just published this