libertarians for obama

#rsrh It’s not that I DISLIKE Reason.com…

…it’s not even that they’re complaining now about how awful the President is while studiously ignoring that INFINITELY PREDICTABLE OUTCOME when they were making their endorsement picks in 2008. Everybody makes mistakes. But Reason.com has to own up to them. 2008 was a disaster for the country and a disaster for the GOP… but – and this is a person who is pretty sympathetic to libertarian arguments speaking – it was an unmitigated disaster for libertarians. In the great game of bad vs. worse, Obama was ‘worse.’ And, by God but we have been paying for it since then. Including me, despite the fact that Obama getting elected was not my fault.

Kind of grates, honestly.

Via Instapundit.

Moe Lane

#rsrh Massive DoJ Online Poker raid.

I personally don’t give a flying leap about online poker one way or the other, although I thought that banning it in 2006 was kind of counterproductive and gave enemies of the GOP yet one more weapon to use against us with regard to libertarians. So the news that the FBI went after three of the biggest online poker websites hammer and tongs doesn’t have any real personal significance for me.

But watching libertarians get reminded that there is “bad,” and then there is “worse?” …Well. Let me simply note that yes, indeed, the Democrats were trying to make themselves look better on this issue than they have apparently turned out to be. I will also note that while libertarians and conservatives are often at loggerheads with each other, the true opposite of a libertarian viewpoint is always going to be a liberal one…

Moe Lane

(Via Instapundit.)

Then don’t put your photos on Flickr, Mr. President.

Via Instapundit, comes the latest slap in the face to Libertarians-for-Obama by the Obama administration. Slashdot:

“US government policy is that photos produced by federal employees as part of their job responsibilities are not subject to copyright in the US. But Kathy Gill writes that after originally putting official White House photos in the public domain, since January the Obama White House has been asserting that no one but ‘news organizations’ can use its Flickr photos taken by the official White House photographer, who is a US government employee…”

You mean, like this?

Original here. Relevant language on the Flickr account:

This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

A shame whoever wrote that didn’t read this (linked to by the White House Flickr account itself). Continue reading Then don’t put your photos on Flickr, Mr. President.