Last weekend on our native Black Sea coast, we witnessed something that we could laugh at like a circus, if it weren't such a sad demonstration of political incompetence. The media exploded with photos and video footage of Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov touring Sunny Beach to regulate the level of...
More »Majoritarian or proportional system? The problems are different.
Author: Kaloyan Pravov In 2016, the parliament passed an unprecedented law that made voting mandatory, thus revoking the voting rights of all citizens. Although the texts providing for criminal sanctions for non-voters were repealed, voting is still “mandatory” by law. This year, the political class decided to bring a new dose of confusion …
More »Monuments game
Author: Ivo Kolarov The shamelessness of the left-wing political spectrum by nature has no limits. Its main apologists at home and abroad are able to deny and justify all the crimes of the followers of their political ideology from the Holodomor in Ukraine to the current situation in Venezuela. In order to take the position of “fighters …
More »Analysis of the effect of active registration on the Bulgarian electoral system
To participate in elections, you must register in advance. This is what we recommend from the Bulgarian Libertarian Society in a special report prepared by Kaloyan Pravov. It examines the main problems of the Bulgarian electoral process such as controlled voting, electoral tourism, dead souls on the lists and the potential for manipulation of the real electoral vote through …
More »Ants and Crickets - a fundamental tale for the new classes
Author: Gratsian Kolev Wooden philosophy has repeatedly given specific characteristics for the phenomenon called intellectual* and for this reason I will not emphasize today the dissection of this phenomenon. Today's talk will be directed to one (also considered by wooden philosophy) Painful question, which can be called: WHAT ARE …
More »Socialism in conservatism
Author: Stefan Kichev Man is born naked into this world, equipped only with his mind and body, which, forced by circumstances, he uses to transform the resources given by nature so as to satisfy his needs and improve his standard of living. The only way he can do this is through …
More »There is a left, there is a right!
Author: Kaloyan Pravov Background The summer of 2013 is a turning point in modern Bulgarian history. This year marks the birth and conduct of the last major political campaign of the Bulgarian pro-European democratic civil society. For over 400 days, citizens in most regional cities of Bulgaria demonstrated their defiance to the state, which dared to betray the services …
More »Trump and Saudi Arabia - from enemies to allies?
Trump made his first visit as head of state to Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh, he signed the largest military equipment deal in history, worth a total of $350 billion (or at least a preliminary agreement for it). It is important to note that as president of the largest economy and military …
More »Democratic (denial) of private property
Author: Ivo Kolarov Human rights are a main topic of all political programs in Europe and the rest of the "Western" world. Along with the so-called "natural" ones, new ones are increasingly sneaking in, such as the privileges of receiving free medical care, education, income, etc. In Bulgaria, populism has long been ...
More »A Libertarian in the World of Radical Feminists, the Frankfurt School, and Cultural Marxism
American university campuses have been turned into battlefields – masked men chase inconvenient lecturers with batons, far-left students boycott the “patriarchy”, administrations ban “offensive to minorities” Halloween costumes of Indian warriors and Mexican musicians. The property of youth conservative groups is being destroyed, radical professors incite students to attack their colleagues, and …
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