Full Transcript of Schoenberg’s remarks from the February LPQC meeting:

America has many Founding Fathers. Many advocated liberty while owning slaves. Today, we will discuss four presidential Founding Fathers, imperfect as they were, who advanced the cause of liberty. They created a new nation, the United States of America, based upon that concept. These Founding Fathers had aspirations that the USA would become a city on a hill to serve as a shining example of liberty as we Americans all strive to perfect their vision of freedom for all.

I am doing these four presidential Founding Fathers not in the order that they were president but how they contributed to the chronological creation of liberty as if they were involved in building a house: John Adams served as the “architect,” providing the vision and organizing efforts; George Washington acted as the “engineer,” establishing leadership principles like civilian supremacy and serving for a limited time; Thomas Jefferson was the “publicist,” articulating the ideals; and James Madison functioned as the “inspector,” ensuring the legal framework was sound throughout the Constitution…Read the rest

Author Alan Stevo, excerpted below, on the imperfect delivery of populist liberty-friendly policy by Trump, as opposed to the “crybaby idealism” of those who want a perfect statesman in this depraved era. Maybe, all things considered, this is the best we can get:  

A Divide Between Realism And Idealism In Libertarian Thought

…There is a divide in libertarianism between realism and idealism; the divide does not have to exist.

Think deeper. Be as realistic as possible. Try to know the truth as hard as you can, as uncomfortably as you can.

In the life I live, Trump is a night-and-day difference from any Republican or Democrat President. They are not all the same. The two parties often put up similar candidates. But the idea that the two parties are the same has become an unreliable bromide. This is especially true after candidate Trump, essentially running as a third-party candidate for the Republican nomination, took over the White House as an unwelcome outsider, and is in the process of taking over a major American party.

Trump is different. Maybe his masonic handlers have allowed him to be different. Maybe his zionist blackmailers have allowed him to be different. I do not know. He is different.

He is measurably different in my life in a way no other President has been, and it was that way even when he was only a candidate.

Why I Do Not Hate Trump For Iran

What is he doing in Iran? I don’t know. But it’s uncomfortable for me, too.

I know I’m happy Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, and John McCain are not President right now.

Trump does not appear to be the same as those people.

The indication from his first term is that Trump operates with much bluster, and is certainly not anti-war, but he also promotes peace in international affairs, though certainly not calm.

I am not going to join you in being in a state of outrage on this matter. Maybe outrage is deserved. I do not know.

Why I Do Not Hate The Police

Do I support the police state, as you claim? Yeah, sometimes. You see, I understand America needs Jesus. I also understand America doesn’t have Jesus. This divide leaves us in an unpleasant predicament.

I grew up in a place affected in an outsized way by macro-trends. I wish it weren’t that way, but the place I grew up in doesn’t have the luxury of nonchalance the way CNBC commentators do. It is working class.

Broad acceptance of Jesus once held things together. What we have is Jesus replacement #1: “Defund the Police!” And Jesus replacement #2: “Back the Blue!”  I am not in either category, but I know that a neighborhood that doesn’t get policed turns into a mess. That is the case today. It was not the case in 1930, nor in 1950, and in some places it is still not the case, but in most of America it is.

A neighborhood like the one I grew up in needs the police. It is a stop-gap measure. What we really need is Jesus, but absent Jesus and absent the police, everything falls apart.

I live in daily reality that recognizes how nice idealism is; I also know how thankful I am for cops that occasionally strong-arm a thug and get him to stay out of the neighborhood.…More

Carlson interviews Paul about Israel, libertarian philosophy, and the massive round two military interventionism planned against Iran:

Our 2026 LPNY candidate for Governor addresses the GOP field, and the Libertarian meaning behind his own entry into the Republican primary race. Basically, he intends to favorably introduce himself to the broader electorate ahead of his LP candidacy. And of course, he might just win the primary! Forgive the lack of sync in the video:

The new politics of the ‘blue MAGA’ new Mayor of NYC ain’t going so well, note observers from Charles Forte to Bill Maher:

An attempt was made in 2025 to hold a planning meeting to develop a cross-borough committee for LPNY members and activists, to pursue joint projects affecting the whole of NYC. A new effort to accomplish this in 2026 has been scheduled by Zoom call on Thursday, February 12 at 7 pm. Contact details are available for those who sign up for the meet up here.

This planning meeting will be an exploratory review of 2026 election year issues as it bears on NYC, where LP members/activists from the 5-borough area will go over projects and campaigns that could be jointly conducted or coordinated by the existing LP county committees in NYC. It is a Zoom call set up by the LPNY Outreach Director, but with minimal restrictions on who can contribute, so bring your ideas!

Are there Libertarian issues that can be developed and agreed upon for the citywide efforts? Is a citywide group needed to work on them? What can the LPNY people do to impact NYC policies? Should a second such meeting be held (by phone, Zoom or in person) each quarter to help determine this? Borough LP groups are encouraged to field candidates and invite them to this call, to meet and greet all those interested.

From an announcement by Larry Sharpe, who has entered the Republican primary  in New York for Governor. If enough Libertarians choose to switch party registration to GOP by Feb 14 to vote in the primary, it could improve his standing in political polls ahead of the April petition drive, and for his race on the LP line in November. Members can always re-enroll back with LPNY later:

…New York is at a breaking point: crushing taxes, families leaving the state, rising crime, and a political class that keeps failing upward.

That’s why Larry Sharpe is entering the Republican primary for Governor of New York: to bring real reform, real competition, and real solutions to a system that desperately needs them.

But to make this work, we need your help.

Important Deadline: February 14

If you are currently registered as an Independent, Libertarian, or with another party, and you want a real choice in the Republican primary — you must switch your party registration to Republican by February 14.

Changing your registration does not lock you into anyone forever.
It simply gives you a voice in this critical primary — and helps ensure voters, not party insiders, decide New York’s future.

👉 Change your registration here: LINK

Redacted discusses the recent ICE incidents that resulted in the death of a protestor. Are protestors going too far in resisting arrest, or officers too jumpy in presuming danger when confronting a suspect? Can we have reasonable awareness of both civil libertarian protections, and the need to not impede law enforcement? Yes, people have a second amendment right to carry a firearm, but does the sight of one invite an agent to go too far in defending himself? When does accountability begin, on either side? See also Mark Dice’s take on the nuances:

From a statement by national LP on the new politics (or old socialism) of Zohran:

The openly Marxist, openly divisive and openly fraudulent Zohran Mamdani is the new Mayor of New York City, elected with 52% of the vote in a city formerly considered the crown jewel of America, and arguably the most important city worldwide of the past 200 years.

During Mamdani’s victory speech, he spoke words that held true to his Marxist vision, and that should send chills down the spine of any student of history, or any keen observer of our modern world.

“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.”

Of course, every aspect of society, personal choice, foreign intervention, economics, etc., etc., that the government takes an interest in “solving” inevitably results in hardship, stifling regulation, spiraling costs and shortages. That lesson has apparently been long forgotten by the populace of NYC, who fell for the same staple of lies that Socialists always tell: “You will get everything you want for free, and the government can control the market.”

Every one of the promises Zohran Mamdani proclaimed repeatedly on his campaign tour, including freezing the rent, making public transport free, levying brutal taxes on corporations, and more, were on their face lies because the Mayor does not have the power to implement a single one of them. All must either go through the City or State legislature, independent organizations like the Metro Transit Authority, or take votes by the citizenry of the city to enact. Those which he may possibly be able to create, like creating below-market-cost publicly-run supermarkets, are failed propositions that have already gone bankrupt and rot with bare shelves in cities like Minneapolis.

But Mr. Mamdani being denied his Marxist impulses is actually the best case scenario for the residents of NYC, who don’t grasp the irony when they cast their votes that the man who they have chosen would incur on them the absolute opposite of every item promised.

As we have seen throughout history, and can observe currently in Venezuela, which nationalized everything from oil to bakeries to stop “price gouging” – poverty, shortages and starvation are the result. Argentina killed off its rent control, leading to a boom in housing affordability and availability.

Were Major Mamdani’s policies to pass, New York City would see, in very short order:

• An even more major crisis in housing, as landlords stopped renting, stopped building, stopped improving and started exiting the NYC marketplace.
• Overcrowding of MTA busses and trains as “free” riders took advantage of the offer, requiring additional routes and vehicles to be implemented. However, because there is no charge, there is no funding for this increase. Mamdani has suggested that his extra (illegal) taxation would cover the costs, however he proposition that the rich, or corporations would stay in NYC while being taxed an additional 4% (a number he mentioned during campaigning) is dubious at best and, again, would require legislative assistance to venture. What would occur is jammed lines, angry riders, and a breakdown in maintenance and availability.
• Should public supermarkets be installed they would quickly run out of supplies as shoppers have no impetus to cost-save or limit purchases. Manufacturers will not sell goods for lower than the cost required to create them so there would be mass shortages, with bare shelves and long lines for what little remains. In turn, shoppers would be forced to shop at even more expensive grocery retail stores where prices have increased due to the shortened supply that was sold off at below-market prices previously.

Above all, the Marxist Mayor of New York City is an indictment of the city media, and teachers unions. The United Federation of Teachers (one of the largest in the USA) provided massive donations and endorsement for the Mamdani campaign – openly declaring its member support for the Marxist foundations of his platform. This comes as no surprise, as the abdication in schools for including the horrors of Marxist, Socialist and Communist rule has been clear over the past several decades.

Mayor Mamdani may serve as the United States modern-day education, filling in the gaps in our failed education system.

Conservative, libertarian-friendly Congressman Thomas Massie on how Trump’s embrace of Iran-style regime change interventionism spells doom for the alliance he’s tried to form with LP voters he worked hard to woo in 2024. From his interview with Jimmy Dore:

Join LPQC for a lively discussion led by Dr. Philip Schoenberg on the first four US Presidents on February 14 at noon, at our Astoria location, Stamatis Greek and Mediterranean Restaurant at 29-09 23rd Avenue (in the back area, menu details at stamatisrestaurant.net), titled “Four Founding Presidents Who Advanced Liberty.” This address will follow its monthly business session, covering Queens LP planning and subcommittee updates.   Details and Directions

Schoenberg describes the talk this way: “America has many Founding Fathers. Many advocated Liberty while owning slaves. Today. We will discuss four Founding Fathers, imperfect as they were, who advanced the cause of liberty. They created a new, the United States of America, based upon the concept. These Founding Fathers had aspirations that the USA would become a shining city on a hill as a shining example of liberty as we Americans all strive to perfect their vision for all.

John Adams, the organizer of the American Revolution, was the Energizer Bunny of liberty who put the right people in charge.

In 1775, John Adams put George Washington in command of the Continental Army. George established the principle of civilian supremacy of the military and gave up supreme power once he accomplished his mandate.

In 1776, Adams drafted Thomas Jefferson to craft our Declaration of Independence that contains the best sentence on liberty that expressed the aim and the ideal of the American Revolution: “We hold these truths to be self -evident that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

James Madison was also an Energizer Bunny who was instrumental in the creation of a new framework of government, the US Constitution, and an addendum to preserve and protect our rights, the Bill of Rights, that established the first government to be based upon liberty and democratic choice in a world full of despotic monarchies.

In conclusion, the Founding Fathers were imperfect. But in the course of the revolutionary struggle for liberty of the individual and the nation, their road to liberty may not have been straight-forward as we may have wished but they set us in the right direction. They inspired America to become a better country for all, a nation of liberty, that continues to inspire us all and the world.”

In round 1 of the affordability vs. rights battle, a judge says a slumlord still has private property rights, and the government can’t just take its buildings because it owes fines. Perhaps the repairs weren’t made due to all the rent stabilization government regulations, which have made it unaffordable for landlords to pay to fix things up?  City Limits writes:

In an early blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s actions on housing, a federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday denied a motion from the administration to put off the sale of 5,000 rent stabilized apartments.

Tenants who live in the 90-building portfolio have been rallying against their landlord, Pinnacle Group, which has failed to make necessary repairs and has over half a million dollars in mortgage debt.

The new mayor asked the judge to delay the sale to give the city time to put together a solution that would preserve the affordable housing. Intervening in the bankruptcy auction was one of Mamdani’s first actions as mayor.

The judge, David Jones, was unmoved by the city’s argument, writing, “having considered the City’s written application and heard and considered the statements of all parties that appeared at the hearing, the Court denied the City’s extension request.”

Tenants were critical of Pinnacle, saying it over-leveraged its properties in hopes of removing units from rent stabilization. Landlords say New York’s 2019’s rent laws, which made it more difficult for owners to deregulate or raise rents on stabilized units, have jeopardized the financial viability of completely rent stabilized buildings like those Pinnacle owns… More

Dave Smith and other inquiring minds would like to know, if the US prevailed in last year’s 12 day war, and it was only about ending Iran’s nuclear capabilities, why are we ramping up for another one? Is it really about protecting Iran’s “peaceful protestors” (many of whom Mossad has admitted are provocateurs, who have bombed police headquarters or performed other violence)? Or are we at it again about regime change, and obeying Bibi’s wish for another Mideast forever war?

Liberty Vault and Glenn Greenwald explore the breaking story about the latest US regime change op. Anti-war policy, R.I.P.:

Well, Ayn is actually responding to Mike Wallace’s questions about collectivism, from her fabled 1959 CBS interview.  But she would doubtless have the same free market objections to the State today, as now promoted by the lead socialist of our era, Zohran Mamdami: