who the hell is austin peterson? any relation to austin powers?
He appeared in the two-part Libertarian presidential debate a few weeks ago hosted by John Stossel, along with John McAfee and Gary Johnson. In comparison to "pragmatic libertarian" Gary Johnson, I would describe Austin Peterson as a "doctrinaire, anarchist libertarian". The Libertarian commentators who appeared with Stossell described Peterson as "talking in bumper stickers." (McAfee was described as "strange;" an assessment I agreed with.)