The idea that the Bill of Rights should be much shorter, for example. This video from Reason.tv nicely illustrates the point:
That’s why those who value freedom should be careful not to align themselves with either the left or the right, and why many of us don’t care for the direction Bureaucrash is taking. Reason’s Brian Doherty does a wonderful job of explaining the vast chasm separating libertarians (if that word is still useful) and conservatives:
This is why the label ‘conservative/libertarian’ is nonsense.
Brad Taylor is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He blogs at 