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Candidate Endorsement: Chris Bennett for Vice President

[NOTE: Originally posted on Last Free Voice] As you are hopefully all by now aware, longtime LFV contributor Chris Bennett is seeking the LP’s Vice Presidential nomination. While he would have my support simply for being an LFV contributor and a great guy, there is so much more to his candidacy that I have decided [...]

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Disturbing medical marijuana case involving an AIDS patient

Tom Faltynowicz, a 43-year-old gay rancher in Meade County, South Dakota, was diagnosed with Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1990, and is currently facing criminal charges for possessing and growing marijuana for medicinal usage.For those of you unaware of the specifics of that disease, a patient infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) may [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report.The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than [...]

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From The Smoking Gun: A Cleveland City Councilman wrote the following to a constituent who was arrested on felony drug trafficking charges. (I had to shrink it to fit this forum, so if you can’t read it, hit Ctrl + to enlarge the document.) Not at all surprisingly, the young man’s mother considers the letter [...]

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From Cannabis News: California — The nation’s top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their “reefer blindness” and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public’s health and safety, as well as to the environment.John P. Walters, President Bush’s drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens [...]

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Sorry, I’m behind on the campaign updates. Catching up… Steve Kubby wraps up the weekly podcast series and discusses future plans: Subscribe Free  Add to my PageLatest campaign newsletter update after the jump.

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From FOX News: Connecticut’s governor, a cancer survivor, vetoed a bill that would have allowed people with certain serious illnesses to use marijuana, saying it was fraught with problems and sent a mixed message to children. Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Tuesday that she struggled with the decision. “I am not unfamiliar with the incredible [...]

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Incarcerex

H/t Liberty And Power

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H/T BureauCrash

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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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Jury nullification is a process by which a criminal jury determines that a law is unconscienable, either morally or as it applies to a specific case, and therefore is to be ignored despite the guilt of the defendant. The US Supreme Court has determined that juries do have the power to nullify, but they also [...]

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In this week’s “radio address” (slightly late due to maintenance at the Gcast site) Steve Kubby discusses former Congressman Bob Barr’s decision to join the Libertarian Party (and the Marijuana Policy Project): I’m sure that Congressman Barr’s ideas about what it means to be a libertarian are very different from mine … and that’s okay. [...]

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This past weekend I went to the LNC meeting, State Chairs Conference and Florida LP Convention in Orlando and handed out some Kubby brochures, and then went to an Alabama Ballot Access Case hearing at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. More details in a later post. Several candidates for the LP Presidential [...]

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We’re sending out an “open call” to drug law reform folks to support the LP and the Kubby campaign. We would like to make future appeals like this to the peace community, environmentalists, immigrants rights activists, and many others, but we have to start with a base. For anyone who is involved in drug policy [...]

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Posted by Steve Kubby at Kubby2008.com I’ve recently been asked a number of times — by friends, fellow Libertarians, supporters of other candidates and even my own campaign volunteers — if my personal legal situation has any bearing on my presidential candidacy. More pointedly, I’ve been asked if the fact that I’m on probation in [...]

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by way of LP blog

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An exchange provoked by the Libertarian Response to Bush’s State of the Union Speech Andrew L Sullivan writes… You have a choice of drilling for oil in your own damn country or fighting for it in the Persian Gulf. PICK AND CHOOSE! http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/ Well, yeah, those are a couple of choices. But there are others [...]

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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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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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The new Kubby 2008 website is up, thanks to Knappster. http://www.kubby2008.com The previous Kubby.com was not specifically about the campaign, rather, it was a combination of everything Steve Kubby has done in the last decade or so of his life. This one is more focused, and more modern looking, but does not have a whole [...]

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Eric Dondero asks over at Third Party Watch Any press for Kubby or Phillies? Bush vs. Beyonce Video Includes Kubby Steve Kubby appears briefly in this music video parody of Beyonce’s #1 single “Irreplaceable,” and it examines the political overtones in her lyrics. With George W. Bush’s approval ratings at an all-time low and Beyonce’s [...]

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