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Nothing to add to what’s been said about this by others. Just my attempt to get a threadjacking off IPR and bring it to where it is on subject. That is, here. If you have thoughts on the question, whether you find this from IPR or elsewhere, please add them in the comments.

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Press release posted on the LP Radicals yahoo group. Starchild has had various offices in the San Francisco and California LP, and is one of the spokespeople for this initiative. The San Francisco Department of Elections announced today that the measure prohibiting city officials from spending money arresting and prosecuting people for prostitution, and mandating [...]

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Back in November, I made the following comments at Loretta Nall Sends Troy King Appropriate Sex Toy: But reasonable people would not include the Alabama legislature, which in is great wisdom passed a law banning dildos, vibrators, and other weapons of mass stimulation. Not content with the law as it stands, Alabama Attorney General Troy [...]

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I have been watching the news reports about the young, extremely pregnant female Marine, Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, who disappeared almost a month ago. What has been most prominent in this case is the systematic marginalization of a young woman who dared to accuse a man, a superior officer, of sexual assault. I expected that [...]

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Something stinks in the Sooner State. Oklahoma voters were the only voters with no choices for president on their ballot except Bush Skull and Kerry Bones in 2004, and Oklahoma is one of 5 states that doesn’t permit write-ins, so Oklahoma voters who wanted to vote for someone other than Bush or Kerry in 2004 [...]

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Less than six months before its 2008 presidential primary, election officials in one of the country’s most important swing states admit electronic voting machines are seriously flawed and can be easily tampered with.A 35-page report released by Florida’s Secretary of State says that hackers can easily change votes without a trace in Diebold optical-scan machines [...]

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A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Iraq War veterans against the US Department of Veterans Affairs. A copy of the lawsuit complaint may be seen at http://www.mofo.com/docs/pdf/PTSD070723.pdf Along with a plethora of abuses alleged in that lawsuit, it is additionally alleged (as previously touched upon in this forum, when I noted [...]

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According to this article, we’re supposed to believe that prisoners being held at Gitmo are being treated as if they’re merely guests of the goverment, while the only real abuse is directed at the guards. However, it’s far more likely that the government is sending military members back to the states with strict orders to [...]

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From the Boston Herald: WASHINGTON – President Bush ordered former Counsel Harriet Miers to defy a congressional subpoena and refuse to testify today about the firings of federal prosecutors, while a second former aide revealed new details yesterday about White House involvement in the dismissals. The possibility of contempt of Congress citations against both women [...]

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Yes, I know, I already had this up in the comments section, but more people probably read this than that, so I thought I’d put it up on the wall too…

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From The Houston Chronicle: Perry ”Bit” Whatley, 84, a former Baytown refinery worker and lifelong Texan, spent his final days in self-imposed exile, a fugitive from a more than two-year-old fight with the state probate courts. Whatley was living in Arizona when he died, but it was not where he wanted to be, away from [...]

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source: http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/ giuliani_reporter_arrested_on_orders_of_giuliani_press_sec.htm Matt Lepacek had valid CNN press credentials and was doing freelance reporting according to InfoWars.com. He asked Adolf Giuliani some inconvenient questions about the events of 9/11/01. Thereupon, Adolf Giuliani’s reichsminister of propaganda press secretary had the gestapo state police rough up Lepacek and fellow reporter Luke Rudkowski. He said police physically [...]

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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) – The White House on Sunday fired back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling him “increasingly irrelevant” a day after Carter described George W. Bush’s presidency as the worst in history in international relations.Carter, a Democrat, said on Saturday in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that “as far as the adverse [...]

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With all the attention we have been paying to Republican Presidential candidates Adolf Giuliani and Ron Paul lately, I thought it would be only fair to say a word or two about creepy warmonger John McCain. Here he is singing “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” and laughing about it. What did the Iranians ever [...]

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Despite what a certain milk shake would like you to believe, Rudolf Giuliani Mussolini is As Far From Libertarian As Possible (click on the link to read about his early history as a psychotically deranged persecutor of victimless white collar “criminals”). Even some of Giuliani’s admirers admit he has fascist tendencies. The amazing record of [...]

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Ed and Elaine Brown have been holed up in their Plainfield, NH house for months, daring federal law enforcement to bother them. While normally that’s not a problem, since I don’t want federal law enforcement to bother me at home either, Ed and Elaine Brown have been not only convicted of federal crimes, but also [...]

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By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer SANTA ANA, Calif. – Staffing was so inadequate at a California senior center that a rat crawled into an Alzheimer’s patient’s mouth and died there before staff noticed, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed Thursday on behalf of 90-year-old Sigmund Bock, alleges that administrators at the Paragon Gardens Assisted [...]

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Hat tip Presidential Election ’08 blog: JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina. April 1 — Vice President Cheney delivered a speech early Sunday morning before a formation of soldiers at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The speech was not publicized and the prepared remarks were intended to boost troop morale. The comments were fairly unremarkable except for one [...]

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An Illinois woman mourns her two young daughters, swept to their deaths in Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters. It’s a tragic and terrifying story. It’s also a lie. An Alabama woman applies for disaster aid for hurricane damage. She files 28 claims for addresses in four states. It’s all a sham. Two California men help stage Internet [...]

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From Classically Liberal …sit down with the kids. Warn them. Tell that there will be people who pretend to be their friends. They hang out outsides the schools, at the malls, anywhere where kids hang out. They lurk around the internet. They will even call at home if they know the parents aren’t around. Not [...]

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By way of Brad Spangler Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth by Philip Mattera and Anna Purinton “The $1 billion figure we cite for total public assistance to Wal-Mart may very well be the tip of the iceberg.” Link above is to the full study. Handy summary available [...]

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I’ve had my share of stories and I’ve heard too many to even begin from other people. It is getting a lot worse with over 100,000 SWAT Team raids a year now, most for simple stuff like routine warrant service, and they get very out of control. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476 http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/01/get-cuffs-ponch.html Check out http://www.theagitator.com/archives/cat_paramilitary_police_raids.php http://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/police-state-of-overkill http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/01/submit-or-well-kill-you.html If [...]

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From LP blog 2004 Libertarian Recount Conclusion There have been several recent media reports about the somewhat exciting conclusion of recount operations in Ohio. Richard Winger of Ballot Access News wrapped it all up quite well: After the November 2004 election, the presidential nominees of the Green Party and the Libertarian Party jointly requested a [...]

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The following reaction to the King George’s latest State of the Union speech at http://kubby2008.com/ got so many hits that it overwhelmed our server yesterday and caused the website to go down for most of the afternoon. We’ve got the site back up now, and Tom Knapp says we will be getting a server upgrade [...]

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Earlier we had a discussion of the Taxes of Evil outreach piece: Taxes of Evil 1 We now have a new update. Final draft of Version1: Susan writes, Send your contributions to help print this to my Paypal account!!! Please! Copies will be sent to all local LPs who request it – courtesy of the [...]

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Here’s something I’ve ben pointing out for quite a while now: Pro-war Clinton candidacy success would mean same mob bosses have ruled U.S. since 1980 “Hillary Heralds 30 Year Plus Control Of America By Interlocking Crime Family” Another Clinton in office would mean America being under the thiefdom of either a Bush or a Clinton [...]

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A few days ago, we reported about how state representative Burridge in NH responded to a constituent’s polite email in favor of decriminalizing marijuana by calling him a dumb pothead who should become a snitch and CC’ed the local cops. Now, Homeland Stupidity reports that all the calls and emails that Burridge has received as [...]

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OK, Free Staters…time to show what y’all are made of and make some serious stink about this out of control politician. This deserves to be in all your letters to the editor, public pickets, call every radio and TV station in the state, hell, make it national news. This psychotic individual is clearly legislating while [...]

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This is an MLK day Message from Steve Kubby, Libertarian for President with markup links by me, paulie cannoli. FREE AT LAST? I wonder what Martin Luther King, Jr., would think of the America we live in — how he’d feel had he and his assassin not met on that fateful April morning and if [...]

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Can we all say Impeachment together yet? At http://www.infowars.com/articles/iraq/bush_vows_no_matter_what_surge_is_on.htm Bush vows to 60 Minutes that ‘no matter what Congress wants’ surge is on Raw Story | January 13, 2007 In an interview set to air on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes, President George W. Bush vows to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq “no matter [...]

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Can liberals and libertarians find common ground on health care solutions? At http://mutualist.livejournal.com/ 01:30 pm – What is worse: socialized medicine or fascist medicine? With the democrats retaking congress socialized medicine (er, “universal healthcare”) will once again take the center stage. While I certainly expect the far left to spew more rhetoric, I do not [...]

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From http://www.clairewolfe.com/blog.html YOU MAY HAVE SEEN YESTERDAY’S ABC 20/20 REPORT or read the related news story about Matt Bandy, the 16-year-old Arizona boy so hideously railroaded on child-porn charges. He faced up to ninety years in prison for viewing (and possibly uploading) some porn pix — despite the fact that the images found on the [...]

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Detention facility currently holds as many as 200 children incarcerated after midnight arrests Prison Planet | January 8, 2007 Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones A detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children swept up in midnight raids, is [...]

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Nifty! “Dishonest Dubya” Lying Action Figure By way of Lisa Morgan Also posted at: http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/unintentional-irony-and-wishful-thinking/

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