Comments on: UPDATED: ‘Libertarian Top 50 Sites’ ‘Misses’ Mercer

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:25:58 +0000

TTFN.

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:31:07 +0000

Some peeps can not handle Peeps that tell it like it is, the none so blind as those who will not see crowd are not worth the time wasting on !

First they ignore you

Then they marginalize you

Then they fight you

Then You WIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep up the Great Work

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:07:00 +0000

DBKP looks to be a useful site…and they do say it takes them several months to get their top- lists together, so it’s not a “slight” that they missed this worthwhile blog. Thought Ilana was one TJ; now I see she’s just another MEKB.

[Could you please refrain from all the acronyms? For the sake of your host? I don’t get them.]

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:56:09 +0000

Ideas matter and right ideas matter a lot …. regardless of “public opinion”. Remember that Barabbas beat Jesus in the 31 A.D. Jerusalem Primary by 32,803 to 11 and even his “campaign manager” denied knowing the guy!!

Personally, I had another setback today with the Government Bureaucracy – not a soul is saying my ideas are technically bad and you might think that with 30 Seals blown up last week by an RPG that people would get off their a** but Paperwork Uber Alles!

When I want the truth, I go to your website – and when I just get burned out, there is always my ubercynic Fred:

http://www.fredoneverything.net/TowardGuatamala.shtml

[Fred rocks. You should work for Apple, Myron.]

By: Nebojsa Malic

Nebojsa Malic — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:41:58 +0000

See, Ilana, I’ve been reading your stuff for years – and I’ve never heard of these DBKP people until today…

[Darn: I gave them publicity.]

By: james huggins

james huggins — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:34:35 +0000

I agree with Myron. Ilana you should stick with the quality you so eloquently represent. Unfortunately, quality and two dollars will hardly get you a Big Mac at Aacdonalds. Even I, with my superficial flirtation with libertarianism and “classical liberalism” recognize your worth to the struggle. Keep it up. There are quite a few of us who care.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:24:54 +0000

The two sites featured on my Mac are you and Lew Rockwell – an individual and a group. Lew, of course, has some very good stuff, but other stuff with silly conspiracy theories (the 8,230,477 people who all killed JFK or Bobby Kennedy etc.), some overboard Israel bashing, or some whitewashing (e.g. it is one thing to view the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the invasion of Iraq as war crimes but don’t elevate the Japanese militarist butchers or Saddam Hussein into innocent flower children in the process). You, on the other hand---unlike these large, well-connected and funded libertarian outfits---are a one-woman operation and don’t have the broad access to many authors or funding, but offer one author who does it all (from property and intellectual property rights, to foreign policy, to political economy and unparalleled pop-culture commentary). All you have is YOU – and you have an excellent batting average for sane, cogent, classical liberal thinking – without the partisan silliness, banal sloganeering, fecklessness, or paranoia found in many other writers. As for numbers – you DESERVE a wider audience – but would you rather have a wider audience by being a partisan hack hucksters like Hannity or Olbermann or Maddow or Coulter?? STICK WITH QUALITY – self-lobotomization is not worth the price to get a larger audience. [I hope your keen assessment of what you get on BAB and from IlanaMercer.com will find its way on to Amazon, to help the book that is a mission ...]

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:02:19 +0000

I have the 'ant toolbar' it ranks you at 205,646. I checked others on the list and yep, you should be in there at about 30 compared to numerous other sites; when I compare their numbers to yours. Laissez Faire Books is not a libertarian site, it is a book site. Nothing against them, I used to buy books from them and I like the "Whiskey and Gunpowder" tee shirts. If I wore tee shirts with writing. Vox Day's site is in a class of its own; though written by a libertarian, it draws on a wide range of popular subjects, rather than staying focused on libertarian concepts. [Laissez Faire Books would not carry "Broad Sides: One Woman's Clash with A Corrupt Culture," my libertarian manifesto. I see that the Kindle version of the "Search Inside the Book" for Broad Sides has been activated. You can see from the Table of Contents the wide-ranging nature of the writing.]

By: irongalt

irongalt — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:40:05 +0000

All that this proves is that DBKP is a third-rate website. Barely a Blog is the leading libertarian website, at least for me. Make that the leading politico-economic site. The only other sites that garner my regular visits are electronics ones...WND used to be on my regular list...until BAB replaced it. Ilana, your articles are most appreciated...The Lord willing, when my business takes off, you will be on my donations list. (Currently my business and personal life are in the black economically...thanks in no small part to our mutual enemy). Ilana Go Bragh