Liberals and libertarians (small "L" for both)

On one hand, Democracy in America (an Economist blog) gives some constructive advice as to the improvement of political thought in the good ol' US of A, whereas Richard Maybury reaffirms why I will never be a true libertarian (i.e., the market rules all for starters and they appear to be as willing to be revisionist about historical events as the "statists" they oft decry); I first saw this because I'm on an e-mail list providing announcements from the Libertarian Party of Virginia.