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Matt Welch & Nick Gillespie Among "The Only Pundits You Need To Pay Attention To Between Now And The Election"

Nick Gillespie | 11.30.2011 5:22 PM

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The folks at Business Insider have compiled a list of 50 (count 'em) pundits who demand your attention between now and whenever the next election is. Sandwiched between Ann Coulter and Rick Santelli are two folks Hit & Run readers may recognize:

Where To Find Them: At Reason Magazine and Reason.tv respectively. 

Why You Should Follow Them: Matt Welch, editor of Reason, and Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason.tv,  are exactly what you want libertarians to be: funny, cosmopolitan, skeptical and aloof. They are pungent writers who distrust both parties and their celebrated stenographers who are more commonly known as "opinion writers." 

These two libertarian stalwarts co-authored "The Declaration of Independents" and you can expect them to suprise you. Drug laws, teachers unions, military adventurism, crony capitalism, policing tactics, and goo-goo social engineering are all on their list of targets. 

Twitter: @mleewelch and @nickgillespie

Whole list is here.

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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