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Is it the End of Communist Health Care in Canada?
Why It's Right for Libertarians to be Involved in Electoral Politics
Thomas Paine on Warmongers


Is it the End of Communist Health Care in Canada?


National Post, Jun 9 '05: Chaoulli Case:Quebec law banning private health care struck down by Supreme Court

The country's top court has delivered a powerful blow to Canada's single-tier system of health care, striking down a Quebec law which banned private insurance for medically necessary services.


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Why It's Right for Libertarians to be Involved in Electoral Politics


L. Neil Smith, Libertarian Enterprise, Oct 31 '04: I vote as an act of self-defense: The Nightmare After Halloween

Foremost, if you wish to discuss political philosophy with folks in this culture, the context in which it's done, like it or not, is electoral politics...

I vote as an act of self-defense. This insistence by libertarian theorists on an obligation without explicit consent is pretty damned collectivistic for people who claim to be individualists, don't you think? ...

I've often said that libertarians are better than anybody in the world at thinking up perfectly logical reasons to do nothing, to avoid taking necessary action. Frankly, the whole non-voter thing reeks of pacifism to me. Electoral pacifism...


Thomas Paine on Warmongers


That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations, is as shocking as it is true...