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The Twelve Liberty-minded Days of Christmas

by Phil Denisch

• On the first day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • A shining city o'freedom on the hill.
• On the second day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Two anti-war doves
    • Murray Rothbard
    • Randolph Bourne
  • And a shining city o'freedom on the hill.
• On the third day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Three French minds
    • Fr餩ric Bastiat
    • Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
    • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Two...well you get the idea.
• On the fourth day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Four funny fellas
    • P. J. O'Rourke
    • Scott Bieser
    • Dave Barry
    • Russmo
• On the fifth day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Five golden books
    • The Law
    • Economics in One Lesson
    • The Road to Serfdom
    • The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible
    • The Essential von Mises
• On the sixth day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Six great ideas
    • Capitalism
    • Libertarianism
    • Objectivism
    • iFeminism
    • Egoism
    • Sliced Bread
• On the seventh day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Seven founding fathers
    • George Washington
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • James Madison
    • Benjamin Franklin
    • Alexander Hamilton
    • Thomas Paine
    • John Adams
• On the eighth day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Eight maids amazing
    • Wendy McElroy
    • Karen De Coster
    • Claire Wolfe
    • Maria Montessori
    • Mary Ruwart
    • Camille Paglia
    • Barbara Branden
    • Elizabeth Loftus
• On the ninth day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Nine ladies dil'gent
    • Mary Lou Seymour
    • Karen Michalson
    • Natasha Vita-More
    • Karen Pennebaker
    • Grassroots Granny
    • Joan Kennedy Taylor
    • Margaret Hage Gabbard
    • Sarah Thompson
    • Sharon Presley
• On the tenth day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Ten lords a leading
    • John Acton
    • Ludwig von Mises
    • Lysander Spooner
    • Henry Louis Mencken
    • Friedrich August von Hayek
    • Albert Jay Nock
    • Henry Hazlitt
    • Carl Menger
    • Karl Hess
    • Adam Smith
• On the eleventh day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Eleven people piping
    • L. Neil Smith
    • Nathaniel Branden
    • Vin Suprynowicz
    • Robert A. Heinlein
    • James Bovard
    • Walter Williams
    • Harry Browne
    • John Stossel
    • Thomas Sowell
    • William Anderson
    • Aaron Zelman
• On the twelfth day of Christmas, the Free State gave to me
  • Twelve different drummers
    • Knights of Non-Aggression
    • International Socialy for Individual Liberty
    • Strike the Root
    • Moving Towards Liberty
    • Lady Liberty's Constitution Clearinghouse
    • Lost Horizons
    • Bureaucrash
    • Keep and Bear Arms
    • Pink Pistols
    • The Voluntaryist
    • Anti-war
    • Market Anarchism Online