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As Usual, Government Regulation as Political Payoff I heard the president’s speech at Cooper Union College today and thought it was quite bizarre that he would criticize Wall Street for bad behavior when Washington is currently running our national debt through the roof and the policies that emanated from there in the last ten years [...]

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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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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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Border wall boondoggle: even dumber than I thought! http://freestudents.blogspot.com/ So a gaggle of right-wing racists and faux libertarians want to build a wall on the border. They are going to “secure” the borders. Nice. So what does securing the borders mean? Well, one taste of it is that the historic right of Americans to cross [...]

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A while back I wrote about the Energy Vortex and others have commented on the same issue. The most cited instance of this is the War in Iraq (and possibly Afghanistan; it may have had a lot to do with the proposed oil pipeline through Afghanistan). This view of Operation Iraqi Liberation has worked its [...]

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In this week’s radio address, Steve Kubby discusses the US Senate’s immigration “compromise.” The political community’s been abuzz this week with news of a bi-partisan “deal” on immigration law. We go through this every few years as our politicians try to satisfy everyone, end up satisfying no one, and usually make things worse than they [...]

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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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Sorry it’s late. Been busy with work. Tom, let me know if we can sign you up here so you can post these when I don’t have time. In this week’s “radio address,” Steve Kubby commemorates Tax Day 2007 with a campaign promise: Over the last few years, politicians in the “major” parties have put [...]

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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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Orlando police have unbelievably arrested 21-year-old Eric Montanez, an activist with the charity “Food Not Bombs”, for feeding 30 homeless people in downtown Orlando. A city ordinance, supported by businesses which claim the homeless frighten away customers, prevents feeding more than 25 homeless persons within two miles of Orlando City Hall. The law does allow [...]

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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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Illegal Immigration Quiz by Joseph Knight The Libertarian Enterprise (1) Who will remove you from your home, job, family, and community to lock you in a cage like an animal for no reason other than what you smoke in your pipe or grow in your garden? A. Government B. Illegal immigrants (2) Who demands that [...]

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I’ll just post this one “as is” and note only, with great relief, that Tom is once again acting de facto campaign manager, aka HMFIC, which totally gets me off the hook. Whew! by Tom Knapp via Kn@ppster The good news: Steve Kubby’s presidential campaign is “in the black.” It has money in the bank. [...]

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Via ElfNinosMom today comes the sad news that one of our favorite Presidential candidates may have to drop out of the race due to government persecution. Gene Dropping Out of Presidential Race? Gene posted the following on his blog today: IRS Finds Chapman Well, the IRS has sent a letter to my employer to take [...]

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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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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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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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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 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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