By Request

I’m not sure I should identify the requestor, and I certainly should
not identify the author of this image.
By the way, I’m not trying to be mean. I met Mr. Jackson in
Las Vegas, and he was a nice fellow from what I can tell. I’ve also met and talked one on one with all the other [...]

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Cops Gone Wild: Quadriplegic Edition

I had heard about this, but seeing really is believing.
In Tampa (Hillsborough County, Florida) a quadriplegic man named Brian Sterner was arrested for a traffic violation (I’m not sure what the violation was, since they didn’t say, but obviously the guy wasn’t a violent felon or anything like that). An incredibly stupid cop didn’t believe [...]

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Make Congress read the laws it passes

I ran across this proposed law at DownsizeDC. I absolutely agree that no member of Congress should ever vote to pass any bill they haven’t actually read in its entirety, yet it happens all the time. Worse, far too often special interest items are inserted at the last minute. The truth is that Congress passes [...]

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Libertarian Party’s Resolution on Iraq War

WHEREAS the government of the United States should return to its historical libertarian tradition of avoiding entangling alliances, foreign quarrels, and military adventures and;
WHEREAS the armed forces of the United States have invaded Iraq, a foreign nation that neither directly attacked nor imminently threatened to attack the United States and;
WHEREAS the injustice and imprudence of [...]

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My response to “Ode To Imperato”

There has been a discussion over at Third Party Watch, regarding whether Daniel Imperato should be listed as a Libertarian on the official Libertarian Party website. Among other statements by Stephen Gordon, owner of TPW, he didn’t call the media to cover a Libertarian presidential candidate debate, due to the participation of Mr. Imperato.Just as [...]

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Will Ron Paul presidential campaign cause him to lose his seat in Congress?

From the Galveston County Daily News (letters to the Editor):
District Needs A Better Man To Represent Us
Are we really getting the most effective representation with Ron Paul as our congressman?
The presidential debates have exposed stubbornness and inability to compromise that is at odds with the intentions of the Founding Fathers.
Democracy requires negotiation and compromise to [...]

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Project Vote Smart

I just ran across a website called “Project Vote Smart“. This site gathers information from various candidates for office, so you can view it all in one place, and even very easily compare the candidates if you open them up in side-by-side tabs on your browser.

It is very interesting to see the “political courage test”, [...]

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Blogger keeping track of all taxes paid this coming year

Former National Journal Tech Daily editor Danny Glover (no, not the actor) will be blogging to keep track of every single cent his family pays in taxes for 2008. I have a feeling many people will be shocked. I usually pay attention to how much tax I pay on everything, including hidden taxes such as [...]

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Medical marijuana vending machines

Patients suffering from chronic pain, loss of appetite and other ailments that marijuana is said to alleviate can get their pot with a dose of convenience at the Herbal Nutrition Center, where a large machine will dole out the drug around the clock.”Convenient access, lower prices, safety, anonymity,” inventor and owner Vincent Mehdizadeh said, [...]

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Faux News: “White women are a problem”

On Fox News Sunday this week, the panel discussed the possibility of Hillary Clinton being chosen as a vice-presidential candidate. Bill Kristol picked that apart, saying:
Kristol: Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women. The Democratic establishment, it’d be crazy for the Democratic party to follow an establishment that’s [...]

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WMD ignited at flea market

This, I wouldn’t have believed had I not read it in a print newspaper’s online edition. Honestly, it reads more like an April Fool’s Day joke:
An Elizabethtown man was charged Saturday with possessing a weapon of mass destruction after police said he ignited a device filled with plastic pellets inside Saturday’s Market in Londonderry Twp., [...]

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The UK starts its own Libertarian Party

Libertarianism is growing the world over, and is no longer a singularly American ideal. As of January 1st, even the United Kingdom has started a Libertarian Party.
Unlike the politicians at Westminster, the Libertarian Party looks at the world in the same way that most people do. Libertarians understand that you, and your family, should [...]

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Southwest Michigan LP launches new website

The new website for the Libertarian Party of Southwest Michigan, launched January 1st, is well worth a look. My good friend Jason Gatties is on the Executive Committee, and his beautiful and very talented wife Priscilla is their webmaster. She’s done a great job on the website, and I’m sure Jason will do a real [...]

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The unreported near-slaughter at last week’s SuperBowl

I don’t remember hearing about this before. Do you? Yet, it should have been big news when it happened.
A would-be bar owner angry at being denied a liquor license threatened to shoot people at the Super Bowl and drove to within sight of the stadium with a rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition [...]

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