The No. 1 Libertarian Blog? You're Reading It.

A website dedicated to web entrepreneurship comes up with a thorough and useful list of "The Top 100 Libertarian Blogs." Why?

While we at WebPreneur typically try to steer clear of politics, it is clear that issues such as net neutrality and controlling the size and scope of government are of increasing importance to web entrepreneurs. Thus a growing number of web entrepreneurs are expressing new found interest in libertarian principles. So to assist those of you interested in educating yourselves further, we’ve sorted through thousands of sites and selected the best of the best for what we believe to be the top 100 libertarian blogs...

Coming in at number one is this very blog you are reading, reason's Hit and Run.

Hit and Run has been previously praised by Playboy as one of "five winning political blogs" and by Washingtonian as one of the "best political blogs." Of course, what we are proudest of is how every day we are able to earn the attention and readership of each and every one of you.

Comments

Elemenope | November 12, 2008, 11:57am | #

Of course, what we are proudest of is how every day we are able to earn the attention and readership of each and every one of you.

You suck up, you.

Episiarch | November 12, 2008, 11:59am | #

Of course, what we are proudest of is how every day we are able to earn the attention and readership of each and every one of you.

Feel free to kiss my ass any time. It works.

TallDave | November 12, 2008, 12:02pm | #

No Instapundit or QandO?

I'm all for Libertarian Hotties, but come on.

At least they got Volokh. Eugene for CJotSCOTUS!

JW | November 12, 2008, 12:04pm | #

There's actually 100 that are worth reading?

Of course, what we are proudest of is how every day we are able to earn the attention and readership of each and every one of you.

I think I just got a partial woody from that.

JLM | November 12, 2008, 12:04pm | #

Was there ever any question about who is #1?

Pro Libertate | November 12, 2008, 12:05pm | #

No Urkobold? But, but, we're "a widely-read libertarian culture site"!

Hit & Run deserves such recognition, in any case.

mitch | November 12, 2008, 12:08pm | #

What with Weigel, I think that reason.com is also the #1 Democratic party blog.

R C Dean | November 12, 2008, 12:08pm | #

Thus a growing number of web entrepreneurs are expressing new found interest in libertarian principles.

Given the reports of widespread support for Obama in Silicon Valley, they must have found their interest in libertarian principles since November 4.

cfpete | November 12, 2008, 12:09pm | #

This is a Libertarian blog?
I thought this was an Obama blog.
If that is the case, then screw you Glibertarians.

24AheadDotCom | November 12, 2008, 12:09pm | #

Finally! A list of libertarian blogs in which Reason not only beat GovExec and FederalTimes but DC Cocktail Party Chatter Weekly! Congrats!

Of course, some unknown website's naming of Reason as something or other pre-dated Weigel's recent post in which he downplayed BHO's "civilian force" and didn't even think about what happens when that "force" comes back to the "homeland" and whether they could be activated here.

J sub D | November 12, 2008, 12:10pm | #

Contributors -

Allow me to extend my congratulations for getting some well deserved recognition, guys and gals.

Commenters who actually contribute something to the discuassion can take an unacknowledged bow as well.

Reinmoose | November 12, 2008, 12:13pm | #

Wow, 100 libertarian blogs?!
Do some libertarians have more than one blog?

Episiarch | November 12, 2008, 12:13pm | #

Of course, what we are proudest of is how every day we are able to earn the attention and readership of each and every one of you.

Finally! A list of libertarian blogs in which Reason not only beat GovExec and FederalTimes but DC Cocktail Party Chatter Weekly! Congrats!

When you say each and every one, that doesn't include LoneShithead, right? RIGHT?!?

J sub D | November 12, 2008, 12:14pm | #

Those commenters I mentioned above of course excludes lonewacko, lefiti and the like.

Reinmoose | November 12, 2008, 12:14pm | #

Also, congratulations to Balko for placing 5th. He is a major contributor to libertarianism and awareness of very important issues.

anarch | November 12, 2008, 12:17pm | #

Commenters who actually contribute something to the discuassion can take an unacknowledged bow as well.

If an commenter bows and no one acknowledges it, has he actually contributed?

Not that the question pertains to me.

R. Totale | November 12, 2008, 12:17pm | #

WebPreneur is a truly terrible name for a blog.

Warty | November 12, 2008, 12:18pm | #

"Curse" you, "Lonewacko"!!!!!!!!"!"

The Wine Commonsewer | November 12, 2008, 12:24pm | #

Of course, what we are proudest of is how every day we are able to earn the attention and readership of each and every one of you.

Including the guy who sent you the link last night? ;-)

[reaches around and pats hisself on the back while looking for the horn button marked 'TWC']

Tulpa | November 12, 2008, 12:24pm | #

Hit and Run has been previously praised by Playboy as one of "five winning political blogs"

Was that in the Girls of Reason issue?

Jesse Walker | November 12, 2008, 12:26pm | #

Weigel's recent post in which he downplayed BHO's "civilian force"

This would be the post that says the force is "not a good idea" but takes issue with the claim that it was "exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany."

The Wine Commonsewer | November 12, 2008, 12:27pm | #

Wow, 100 libertarian blogs?!
Do some libertarians have more than one blog?

I was kind of thinking along similar lines. DelMarDave sent me the link/list and my response to him was: Huh? There's that many libertarian blogs?

libertarian democrat | November 12, 2008, 12:30pm | #

Congratulations. Well deserved.

P Brooks | November 12, 2008, 12:32pm | #

Libertarianism is a big tent, dude.

domoarrigato | November 12, 2008, 12:32pm | #

*pats self on back*

Ska | November 12, 2008, 12:37pm | #

*pets self on dick*

Urkobold™ | November 12, 2008, 12:38pm | #

ALTHOUGH THE URKOBOLD IS FOND OF HIT & RUN, HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW IT SURPASSED LIBERTARIAN HOTTIES ("FREEDOM IS SEXY") FOR THE NUMBER ONE SPOT. THE URKOBOLD IS VIEWING THE GALLERY RIGHT NOW. OH YEAH, BABY, TELL ME ABOUT FREEDOM.

FREEEEEE-DOOOOOM!

sage | November 12, 2008, 12:38pm | #

Congrats, everyone.

Now that the Republican brand is thoroughly tarnished and has been defeated soundly in the election, we just need to do the same thing for the Democrats. Then, teh victory will be ours!

*twirls imaginary mustache*

Salvius | November 12, 2008, 12:42pm | #

*pats self on back with dick*

pistoffnick | November 12, 2008, 12:42pm | #

I confess that I come here for the excellent quality of snark, not necessarily the articles.

Tacos mmm... | November 12, 2008, 12:44pm | #

Given the reports of widespread support for Obama in Silicon Valley, they must have found their interest in libertarian principles since November 4.

You can always count on R C Dean to play the commissar.

fresno dan | November 12, 2008, 12:47pm | #

This is the best!!???!?!?
I'm like Charlie Brown - I buy the most pathetic Christmas trees, adopt the ugly and deformed puppy, and I read what I thought was the most pathetic blog.....things are much, much worse than I ever imagined.
:)

domoarrigato | November 12, 2008, 12:48pm | #

*pets dick with your sisters cervix*

Dagny T. | November 12, 2008, 12:54pm | #

From Libertarian Hotties:

Creating this website has given me an excuse to network with some of the most beautiful, interesting, intelligent women I've ever met. If they are able to use their physical charms to draw attention and further disseminate a worthwhile message, then hey, bonus. ;)

Women after my own heart. Take that, Feministing!

Episiarch | November 12, 2008, 12:59pm | #

Take that, Feministing!

Did you just fist Feministing? Holy shit, dude. That's hardcore.

"Ladies, I'm a pacifist. I pass a fist. Get it?"

R C Dean | November 12, 2008, 1:06pm | #

I confess that I come here for the excellent quality of snark, not necessarily the articles.

Oh, yeah. Snark drives traffic. Content, not so much.

You can always count on R C Dean to play the commissar.

Na Zdorovie!

JW | November 12, 2008, 1:07pm | #

Women after my own heart.

Olivia Munn is a libertarian? C'mon, that's a just a random sampling of young hotties in their undies.

egosumabbas | November 12, 2008, 1:10pm | #

Huh, missing:
http://www.nolanchart.com/
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/
http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/

John-David | November 12, 2008, 1:11pm | #

DailyKos didn't make the list?

Hazel Meade | November 12, 2008, 1:11pm | #

Now, can you get us a decent discussion forum. threaded comments maybe?

Orange Line Special | November 12, 2008, 1:13pm | #

The frequently p0wned Jesse Walker says This would be the post that says the force is "not a good idea" but takes issue with the claim that it was "exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany."

Good to know Weigel doesn't think it should be top of BHO's list, but somehow his condemnation was a little on the light side and didn't include him showing any evidence of being able to think through all the implications. And, he ended with "Obama is proposing a new civilian force that he'd command as he commands every branch of the military." OK!

Say, has Jesse Walker ever walked back that smear of me?

phalkor | November 12, 2008, 1:15pm | #

What is snark? How can I get some?

Please tell me I can snort it.

Dagny T. | November 12, 2008, 1:15pm | #

C'mon, that's a just a random sampling of young hotties in their undies.

Random hotties that have what many don't have.

"It has a philosophy. And that is what makes it dangerous."

Did you just fist Feministing? Holy shit, dude. That's hardcore.

Dude, they were practically begging for it. I bet they just love James Joyce, too.

Mo | November 12, 2008, 1:18pm | #

You can always count on R C Dean to play the commissar.

Don't turn around, uh-oh
Der Kommissar's in town, uh-oh

Jeff P | November 12, 2008, 1:19pm | #

Hurry, don't be late
I can hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And feministing...

FrBunny | November 12, 2008, 1:19pm | #

H&R spurred me to subscribe to Reason, so this does not surprise me. Well done! (And for the record, I give 68.4% of the credit to Balko.)

Jeff P | November 12, 2008, 1:22pm | #

FrBunny: How ironic. H&R is what made me drop my subscription.

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 1:26pm | #

Wow, I guess the saying about one-eyed man in the land of the blind is true. In the movement of totally irrelevent people, the occasionally though not usually relevant is king.

FrBunny | November 12, 2008, 1:27pm | #

Not ironic at all, Alanis. Too bad you hate it though. Why do you still hang around?

Episiarch | November 12, 2008, 1:27pm | #

I bet they just love James Joyce, too.

Are you implying that they're fat and fart a lot? That's a horrible thing to say.

Boston | November 12, 2008, 1:28pm | #

Wait a Goddam second...no Dondero on this list?

You don't say.

JW | November 12, 2008, 1:28pm | #

Random hotties that have what many don't have.

Oh, I'm down with that. I just want to know where this mad libertarian scientist's lab is that is cranking these babes out. As a rule, they don't occur in nature. (Yeah, yeah, I know, you *tell* us you're hot....)

JW | November 12, 2008, 1:30pm | #

c.o.--You seem to know a lot about certain things: idiocy, irrelevancy, chronic public masturbation, etc. It can't all be a coincidence.

Reinmoose | November 12, 2008, 1:33pm | #

I bet they just love James Joyce, too.

I once tried to read James Joyce out loud in a sexy voice. I got surprisingly far

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 1:42pm | #

@JW-Have fun being irrelevant. If you hadn't noticed, your candidate didn't get elected. He didn't place second. Or third.

SugarFree | November 12, 2008, 1:47pm | #

I bet they just love James Joyce, too.

Dead White Man? Ha. Tear down the canon! Let's read Beloved eighty fucking times!

SugarFree | November 12, 2008, 1:51pm | #

Congratulations, much-adored Reason staff.

And, by the way, I don't come here for the snark... I come for the ignorant, malformed, and poorly punctuated pronouncements of our nano-dicked trolls. Every day they are like a breath of dumb air.

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 1:55pm | #

@Sugfree-Right everyone who disagrees with you has a tiny dick. Right. That's some interesting congitive dissocnace you've got ging there.

FrBunny | November 12, 2008, 1:55pm | #

Have fun being irrelevant. If you hadn't noticed, your candidate didn't get elected. He didn't place second. Or third.

I'm still surprised sometimes to see how politics for some people is exactly the same as having a favorite football team. Actual, y'know, ideals are irrelevant.

Boston | November 12, 2008, 1:56pm | #

CO,

I have this irrelevant bum in my neighborhood that just needs reasoning with, you should try that.

SugarFree | November 12, 2008, 1:57pm | #

CO,

At least you have the courage to admit it. Have fun jacking off with tweezers.

JW | November 12, 2008, 1:58pm | #

congitive dissocnace...

OK, who's spoofing c.o? Fess up. You *know* his maximum syllabic limit is 2.

Ska | November 12, 2008, 2:00pm | #

We'll go walking through the park
And feministing...

Bad.....song.....parody....stuck...in...head...

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 2:04pm | #

"AT least you damit it. Have fu jacking off with tweezers"
I was being sarcastic you fucking douchebag.

TheOneState | November 12, 2008, 2:05pm | #

Wow, deep field!

But the blogs are grouped by theme, not ordered by overall rank. So technically you're *tied* for number 1 with "Libertarian Party of Allen County" etc.

Not that that's not an accomplishment....

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 2:06pm | #

Hey Boston, guess how many syllables the word "observer" has. Why don't you respond to something I actually said, rather than making juvenile insults?

SugarFree | November 12, 2008, 2:11pm | #

JW,

It's probably him. Look at the completely incorrect way he used the term "cognitive dissonance."

Thinking that a half-literate ass-stain whose only purpose is to hurl crude insults correlates to possessing a tiny penis is, in no way, shape, form, or fashion, cognitive dissonance.

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 2:13pm | #

@Sugarfree-"Ass stain"? Who's the one hurling curde insults?

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 2:14pm | #

I don't really know why I bother you people have your haeds so far inserted into your anuses that it's imposibe to extricate them.

SugarFree | November 12, 2008, 2:16pm | #

Crude: Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

This is the last vocabulary lesson, you cretinous jackanape.

FrBunny | November 12, 2008, 2:17pm | #

I don't really know why I bother you people

Me neither.

Kaiser | November 12, 2008, 2:17pm | #

Congrats to H&R on their achievement. I just recently started commenting here, stumbled across it a few months ago and it has since become a regular part of my day.

zoltan | November 12, 2008, 2:18pm | #

Now, can you get us a decent discussion forum. threaded comments maybe?

Can we second, third and fourth this please?!!?!? At least outsource it to some free message board site!!!

matt2 | November 12, 2008, 2:20pm | #

Come on, CO, tell us more tall tales about your literacy. I bet no one noticed that you somehow managed to write "irrelevent" and "relevant" in THE SAME POST earlier.

SugarFree | November 12, 2008, 2:22pm | #

FrBunny,

He must put on his righteous armor and slay the dread Reason dragon, home of the simultaneously incredibly dangerous and utterly irrelevant libertarianism.

Which is, of course a fine example of, wait for it... cognitive dissonance.

Jefferson | November 12, 2008, 2:22pm | #

You are welcome.

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 2:26pm | #

@Sugarfree-You libertarians are rightly ignored most of the time. However when some people are actually stupid enought to believe anything you say, it really fucks things up.

SugarFree | November 12, 2008, 2:29pm | #

Thank goodness you're here to put a stop to all our nonsense with hyperbolic insults and an army of strawmen. That totally distracts from your minuscule penis. Which I see you haven't even bothered to deny...

zoltan | November 12, 2008, 2:29pm | #

Is it not a coincidence that CO has the same initials as "Correctional Officer". Methinks he might have a corresponding intelligence quotient to that group. Of course, you can counter that the leader of a gypsy band couldn't possibly be too smart either.

SugarFree | November 12, 2008, 2:31pm | #

And yes, everyone, I'll stop feeding the troll.

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 2:36pm | #

I don't see why my penis size is an issue, but it's perfectly normally sized. It's not my fault that you people have a phallic obsession.

JW | November 12, 2008, 2:44pm | #

Hey Boston, guess how many syllables the word "observer" has.

Hey moran, Boston didn't say that. Besides, we all know your mom wrote that for you.

Crude: Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

I really think he meant curd. He clearly has issues with not only spelling, but also with Big Milk.

Yeah, I'll stop feeding it now too. After a while, smacking around 13-year olds it just gets boring.

Shane P. Brady | November 12, 2008, 2:52pm | #

This is pretty cool. I'm honored to be the in same group as Hit and Run.

Ed Niedermeyer | November 12, 2008, 3:02pm | #

No surprise here, only one beef. Where is your coverage of the auto industry bailout? You people every hear of British Leyland? It's about to happen here, and every time I check H&R I expect to see the topic get the trademark Reason treatment. Granted, there's a whole world of turd to cover, but the #1 libertarian blog should be all over this issue.

Otherwise, keep kicking ass!

hlm | November 12, 2008, 3:09pm | #

While Reason's blog is great that list isn't. From the looks of it they did a google search for libertarian blogs and compiled the first 100 they found. Clearly the writer of the article doesn't spend much time reading the blogs since some listed are rather pathetic while other good blogs are ignored.

Jesse Walker | November 12, 2008, 3:09pm | #

Say, has Jesse Walker ever walked back that smear of me?

I appreciate the fact that this sentence appeared in the very same post in which OLS walked back his comment about Dave.

matthew hogan | November 12, 2008, 3:39pm | #

No Unqualified Offerings? For shame.

Windypundit | November 12, 2008, 4:29pm | #

That website is just a bunch of knuckle-dragging link trollers trying to drum up backlinks to improve their pathetic Google PageRank.

Not that I'm bitter.

concerned observer | November 12, 2008, 4:49pm | #

My dick is actually so big that I can suck it, and I do.

MSC | November 12, 2008, 4:58pm | #

How the hell did my blog come in at #9?!?!?!

R C Dean | November 12, 2008, 5:03pm | #

Now, can you get us a decent discussion forum. threaded comments maybe?

I'll take formatting buttons before threaded comments.

Urkobold™ | November 12, 2008, 5:06pm | #

Now, can you get us a decent discussion forum. threaded comments maybe?

I'll take formatting buttons before threaded comments.

THE URKOBOLD WILL TAKE THE BLINK TAG OVER THREADED COMMENTS AND FORMATTING BUTTONS.

Old Bull Lee | November 12, 2008, 5:58pm | #

I find threaded comments hard to keep track of. I'd rather refresh the page and have them all in order.

Gabe | November 12, 2008, 6:19pm | #

lewrockwell's blgo seems pretty good too...although no discussion...they at least don't advocate carbon trading schemes or interventionist foreign policy. You can also be sure that none of them voted for Obama.

Stevo Darkly | November 12, 2008, 6:38pm | #

Congratulations!

(And thanks to the mighty Urkobold for the hottie link he provided above!)

Ray Tapajna | November 12, 2008, 10:01pm | #

If you want background information about the failures of Free Trade and the so called Free Market, go to Tapart News and Art that Talks since 1994 with data back to 1956 related to so called Free Trade.

We need to first define what the term Free Enterprise means and what Fair Trade means before letting loose so called Free Market idealogy that is not really Free.

Far too many Free Market enthusiasts are like horses leaving the starting gate without the jockey.

Most of the Free Market today is based on making money on money instead of making things. The only real value left in the USA as a money standard is labor and workers. And unfortunately, workers have no voice in the Free Market process during our times.

See http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/
http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/
http://www.bizarrepolitics.com
http://www.therationale.com/

The Wine Commonsewer | November 12, 2008, 10:48pm | #

H&R is what made me drop my subscription.

Drink!

Brandybuck | November 13, 2008, 12:57am | #

Hey thanks for letting me know about all those other sites I can waste my time on! Maybe one of them will actually be libertarian!

[drink]

L. Belle | November 13, 2008, 10:42am | #

haha
I'm lovin' these comments. Especially, "I just want to know where this mad libertarian scientist's lab is that is cranking these babes out." I may have to quote you, JW.

It's kind of sweet that some of you guys doubt we're for real.

Urkobold- I've got your full frontal freedom right here, baby.


Congratulations, Hit& Run!

economist | November 13, 2008, 11:27am | #

The drinking game alone is enough to keep me coming back to H&R.

Randy Marsh | November 13, 2008, 11:28am | #

Merry Christmas H&R!
Hark the herald Obama sings
Glory to the newborn Obama...