Parenting Porcupines

By: Kasie Whitener Jessica Ethridge Melissa Couture Alex Thornton
  • Summary

  • Libertarian Moms (and Dads) talk about raising our children by teaching them not to hurt people or take their stuff, how to think not what to think, and that taxation is theft. Unofficially associated with the South Carolina Libertarian Party. Politics, parenting, and free-range day-drinking.
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Episodes
  • Special Episode: The Afternoon Drive with Nicole Sanchez Part 2
    Feb 8 2025

    Sometimes Kasie Whitener sits in for Fran Halloran on The Afternoon Drive with Keven Cohen on 100.7 The Point, local talk radio in Columbia, S.C. In this episode, she interviews Nicole Sanchez, South Carolina Chair for the Better Ballot SC initiative which promotes ranked choice voting.

    Learn more about Better Ballot SC here.

    Learn more about the South Carolina Libertarian Party here.

    Thanks to Parenting Porcupines for letting us use their channels to publish this content.

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    40 mins
  • Special Episode: The Afternoon Drive with Nicole Sanchez Part 1
    Feb 8 2025

    Sometimes Kasie Whitener sits in for Fran Halloran on The Afternoon Drive with Keven Cohen on 100.7 The Point, local talk radio in Columbia, S.C. In this episode, she interviews Nicole Sanchez, South Carolina Chair for the Better Ballot SC initiative which promotes ranked choice voting.

    Learn more about Better Ballot SC here.

    Learn more about the South Carolina Libertarian Party here.

    Thanks to Parenting Porcupines for letting us use their channels to publish this content.

    Check out Part 2 on Episode 65.

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    39 mins
  • All Big Tents Have Clowns
    Nov 10 2023

    Photo by Sachin Bharti on Pexels.com

    The Libertarian Party is a big tent. Someone told me last week he thinks everyone’s a libertarian, they just don’t know it. The Party appealed to me (Kasie) because it’s a place to be socially liberal (marry who you want, wear what you want, etc) and government-conservative (we don’t need laws for every damn thing, ya’ll). But here’s the thing: all big tents got clowns and ours like to show their asses.

    Twitter controversy, LPNH is ridiculous. Explain the basics.

    Our biggest problem in elections, cycle after cycle, is voters not knowing enough about Libertarian principles to support our candidates. When social media messaging like LPNH’s bullshit hits like it did this week, it’s the rest of us that have to sweep up the shrapnel.

    At a time when we need real leadership, what we have is memes and hot takes. Is social media really a place for leadership? For discovering new ideas and exploring potential political fixes?

    Every party has fringe members – the extra-woke left, the racist-as-hell right, and our big tent isn’t any different. But shouldn’t we be?

    Shouldn’t our principles about granting liberty to others as well as ourselves mean we’re tolerant of the worst of us? Or should those principles mean we don’t accept people who reject others on racist, homophobic, or sexist reasons?

    How do we get the right message out when so many wrong messages are louder? More obnoxious? More inflammatory?

    Read more on our blog

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    33 mins

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