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Icelandic teenager, whose name means "Light Breeze" in Icelandic, sues for the right to her own name. Her name is not on Iceland's official list of acceptable names, and for 15 years she's been officially known as "Girl."

Gay blog critique of a new video released by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (A Day in the Life of the Regulatory State). Libertarians have a lot to overcome if the comments of this blog piece are any indication of the hurdles.

This is an article on how the lack of intellectual property laws within the bass fishing industry have allowed for a fast paced and highly competitive market where anyone can do well provided they have good products.

New York isn't North Korea, but it's the closest thing you'll find in the U.S. -- at least according to a new report from a libertarian think tank.

A Mercatus Center study has pegged New York as the country's "least free" state, 49 slots behind "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire. Its authors gave the state particular abuse for its taxes, "by far the highest" in the country, according to their methodology.

True to their libertarian ways, however, they also said that New York would have scored higher if it had legalized gay marriage.

“If we want to start winning, we need to start making the moral case for free enterprise, and its actually pretty easy to do. The moral case has 3 key points…" "In short it was free enterprise that saved all those people. If we want more prosperity...we have to stand up for the free enterprise system. It is truly the system for good samaritans." "We have to see we are not in an economic battle for America, we’re in a moral battle.”

Liberty activists need to learn how to win people over before they'll start seeing real success in New Hampshire (and elsewhere). A critique of Free State Project civil disobedience activism and an analysis of its effect on the trial of Ademo Freeman.

Many libertarians, perhaps most notably Thomas E. Woods, support the decentralization of power from the federal government, including the power of nullification. Many people fear and denounce this power, often because they like the immense power of the central state and are supporters of big government. There are, however, some very real concerns by people who desire freedom as their highest political goal.

Users, Service Providers At Odds Over Cloud Security, Study Says
If providers don't get serious about security soon, users will stop buying cloud services, Ponemon/CA survey states

H.R. 748: To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 25 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or as civilian service in a Federal, State, or local government program or with a community-based agency or community-based entity, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, to provide for the registration of women under the Military Selective Service Act, and for other purposes.