A more serious post on libertarianism.

I give libertarians a hard time, but, really, it's only the Rothbard/von Mises/Paul crowd that gets me going. The other types of libertarians are, generally, decent folks with ideas I disagree with but would read and engage with. However, Austrian economics of von Mises' brand is a joke and Rothbard and the Von Mises Institute associate too freely with (or are themselves) racists, neo-Confederates, and anti-semites - see previous posts for the record on that. So does Ron Paul, by the way. Rand Paul seems to associate gleefully with neo-Confederates, but I don't have any record of anti-semitism or racism (except insofar as neo-Confederates are probably racists).

EDIT: an example of all three together at once: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/01/the_rockwell_files