Since the Washington Libertarian is now online, the SEC is conducting a Pilot Project. If you volunteer to read WL online, the LPWS will save a lot of money on printing and postage. For details, email liberty@wolfenet.com.

Wired types may also be interested in subscribing to the "liberty" mailing list, a low-volume email list of announcements of interest to Washington State libertarians. To subscribe, send email to majordomo@jazzie.com with the following in the message body (not the subject line): ''subscribe liberty <your email address>''.

More Internet info: David Boaz's new book, Libertarianism: A Primer, has its own web site with extended excerpts. Check it out at http://www.libertarianism.org

Left-liberal pundit Michael Kinsley, in his back page essay on libertarians in the February 17 issue of Time, says, ''The libertarian vision is appealing in many ways, and libertarians are often appealing people,'' but most of their ideas are ''just plain awful.'' I think we're winning him over . . .

In a recent Wall Street Journal column political science instructor Bruce Newman quotes Abe Lincoln as saying that he had never had a political sentiment that did not derive from the Declaration of Independence. ''It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland,'' said Abe, ''but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time.'' Does Jefferson's masterpiece have any serious rival as the most inspiring and influential political tract ever penned?