Recent and Upcoming Declaration of Independents Events and Appearances!

Yesterday, Matt Welch and I talked for an hour on Philadelphia's WHYY about the themes and issues in our new book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America.

Listen to the show here.

Tonight, I'll be on John Stossel's Fox Business show at 10pm ET, talking about dirty political campaigns through the years. As a bonus, Reason's Damon Root will also appear, talking about FDR and the many myths surrounding America's only four-times-elected president. Go here for more.

Tomorrow night, I'll be on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, which airs at 11pm ET. Other guests include political consultant Donna Brazile, actor John Turturro, and Mayor John Fetterman of Braddock, Pennsylvania (alas, Ben Affleck dropped out).

On Sunday, Matt Welch and I will host a reception in San Francisco. Details:

Sunday, July 24: Coffee and Chocolate at TCHO
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Pier 17 on the Embarcadero at Green Street
San Francisco, CA

RSVP by Friday, July 22 to Mary Toledo at [e-mail] or 310-391-2245

TCHO is the award-winning artisanal chocolate created by Jane Metcalfe and Louis Rossetto, the co-founders of Wired magazine. Check out the company's site.

And on Monday, Matt and I will appear at the City by the Bay's legendary Commonwealth Club. Details:

"WWLD: What Would Libertarians Do?"

Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, Reason Magazine and Reason.tv; co-authors, The Declaration of Independents
In conversation with Joe Garofoli, Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle; Author, Politics Blog, SFgate.com

What do health care, same-sex marriage, marijuana law, the budget and social service policies look like on a Libertarian ticket? Authors of a new Libertarian manifesto, Gillespie and Welch offer up principles of "free minds and free markets" as their fix to what's wrong with America. Come hear how Libertarian solutions for modern America match up against the other platforms.

Location:  SF Club Office
Time: 6 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program, 8 p.m. networking reception
Cost:  $20 standard, MEMBERS FREE, $7 students (with valid ID)

RSVP by going here.

And on Friday, July 29, Matt and I will appear in Los Angeles's famed Book Soup. Details:

Friday, July 29

7PM PT

Book Soup

8818 Sunset Blvd. 

W. Hollywood CA 90069

Email: [e-mail]
telephone: [phone] or
fax: [phone]

Free parking behind the store via Nellas St.

More events to come in Portland, Oregon; Chicago, IL, and more!

Comments

[Hugh Akston]

I'll be at the Book Soup event.

[Paul]

I'll be sure to key your car.

[Hugh Akston]

My car is already such a shitbox that nothing you do can possibly make it look worse.

[Paul]

I'll buff it as I walk by.

[Hugh Akston]

You don't have the guts.

[rather]

Paul, you can get into trouble keying the prison van, and FCS, those prisoners earned their trip out felating the boss

[Mr Whipple]

I heard you guys on WHYY's Radio Times. Where was Marty Moss-Cuane? She needs a lesson on libertarianism.

[Jon Jon Gould]

come to Phoenix, AZ you sunburnt freekz. geez!

[heller]

Oh god yes, more about TDoI. Please post more.

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[Aqua Buddha]

My new mission in life is to have the last comment in every thread.

[rather]

I like a man with ambition

[Hugh Akston]

There's something here you should see.

[sage]

Sorry. This thread is closed. Please comment elsewhere.

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Cops Apprehend Machete Man

Police went to three local hotels before finding a woman who had placed a 911 call saying that her boyfriend had tried to slash her throat with a machete on April 28. Police finally ended up at the Gateway Motel, 4657 W. 95th St., around 2:10 p.m., where they found the victim.

The victim told police that while she was lying in bed, her boyfriend became enraged and jumped on top of her, placing a machete against her throat.

Carlos V. Torres, of Chicago, was charged with aggravated assault. Nothing else happened.

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[Zak Willow]

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[Brandybuck]

I will be at TCHO admiring The Jacket.

[me/dwc]

Well, Nick gave it the old college try with Maher. Unfortunately, he didn't make a dent with that crowd. Someone need to inform people that indignation itself is not proof positive of virtue. Also, you really have to go back to first principles to get people to rethink. Personally, I could care less if billionaires have to pay more tax, so it ain't about looking out for rich people. When you tax wealth you drive it away and certainly rich people all know how to shelter their wealth. When you tax corporations, you drive them out. In fact, reducing taxes is often the best way to increase revenue because it attracts wealth. And besides, rich people don't typically get salaries, do they? So a payroll tax only effects those dependent on payrolls and not billionaires - isn't that the case?

All this completely aside from the fact that government and government entitlements are grotesquely huge beyond even anyone's imagination 50 years ago. At what point does this absurdity become obvious to even the dimmest of wits? Also, while I do agree that tea baggers are by and large dim wits, that certainly doesn't met that everyone who agrees with them with respect to government expansion is also one. Personally, I think this country is a lost cause and we should give the progressives full reign until it becomes obvious even to the likes of Bill Maher where this inevitably leads. anyway, blah, blah, blah. Nice try Nick. Bill had it in for you anyway.

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