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National Gazette

Submitted by: Croaky
Created: Jun 22, 2007, 1:49 am

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The Republican and Democratic parties are the same: they both want to make the federal government larger, more powerful, and more authoritarian.

The American national media is complicit in the quagmire of the Iraq War and every other "statist" policy that these two political parties advance.

In the 1790s, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison published a newspaper that they named National Gazette.

I am reviving this newspaper under the same political ideology, which is called "Jeffersonian," "libertarian," or "constitutionalist." I have also built modern, Web 2.0 features that I expect in an online newspaper such as befriending, commenting, tagging, user-generated content, and information markets.

This is already built and launched at http://nationalgazette.org/

I thought of this idea when I was...

Reading about the passion of Jefferson and Madison during the months prior to the ratification of the Bill of Rights.

Comments Posted

vanhees Posted: June 22, 2007, 3:56 am

I'm not amarican, so less familiar wit hjefferson an madison but it sounds like a good idea.
Ill check out the website.
Tommy

fossiloflife Posted: June 22, 2007, 4:23 am

so is it kinda job posting?

Croaky Posted: June 22, 2007, 5:58 am

fossiloflife: not in the sense that I have any money to pay someone. Haha.

No, I'm more looking to promote the site to people who are blogging anyway about libertarian politics and want to simply consolidate their efforts to one, beautiful place. If the advertisements begin to bring in revenue that outweighs my technical costs (and if the law ever allows prediction markets to be used with real money in the U.S.), then I can start paying editors.

Fitzpatrick Posted: June 27, 2007, 8:52 pm

In the future, the forum (People > Forum) would be a better place for something like this. =]

Croaky Posted: June 28, 2007, 2:53 pm

Fitzpatrick... not sure I understand the need for the Cambrian House forum... The idea gets comments and a rating here!

I posted an already-built website because it is still early in its development and I'm hoping to get feedback here.

sewerhobo Posted: June 28, 2007, 5:08 pm

The website looks great, but I'm kind of at a loss trying to decide why this was posted here!

Squint Posted: July 2, 2007, 8:02 pm

How is this a business idea- how will you generate income and who is your target market?

Brenden Posted: July 2, 2007, 9:45 pm

so this is a citizen journalist site?

White_Tulip Posted: July 4, 2007, 2:21 am

i dont get this... sorry for my poor vote!

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