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Every so often, something reminds you that good fortune has brought you in touch with a remarkable family. Friendship seems to work that way: it brings families as well as individuals together. When my mother came to the United States from the Netherlands after World War II, she lived in Minneapolis to see if my [...]

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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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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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I found this very disturbing local story while looking for updates on the cop who hit and killed a pedestrian, dragged his body under the police cruiser for over half a mile, then claimed he didn’t know he had hit anyone. Apparently a lot of young soldiers are making it through the war, and coming [...]

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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 [...]

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  At this point, there should be no doubt in the mind of any intelligent person that George W. Bush has repeatedly lied and altered the truth to fit his own agenda. His “war on terror”, based on lies and prevarications, has resulted in the deaths of untold numbers of people – both Americans and [...]

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Does this actually surprise anyone? The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about the C.I.A’s secret detention program, according to current and former government officials. The videotapes [...]

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Bush lies. Again.

Bush continues to ignore the latest report about Iran’s nuclear program, claiming Iran is a serious nuclear threat, while simultaneously taking credit for the end of Iran’s nuclear program. Huh? Is it just me, or does that not make any sense at all? The Bush administration has spent years warning that Iran’s development of nuclear [...]

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I thought I’d post this before it goes down the memory hole ….. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-iran.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building [...]

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    We Don’t Attack Our Allies share_data={max_recipients:20} Share 8:35am Today FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, August 16, 2007 Phillies: We Don’t Invade Our Allies “It’s very simple. Invading a foreign country is an act of war,” Libertarian Presidential candidate George Phillies said in answer to fellow candidate Barack Obama. “I am shocked that an allegedly [...]

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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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From Reno Gonzalez’s myspace blog….. Understand this please… Current mood: peacefulfor those that do not yet understand; I am not at Elaine or Ed’s home any longer. There are three stories, what I was told by Ed and what Ed tells others, then the real reason. You can go ask ed why, I am tired [...]

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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 ABC News: A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers ordered them to “crank up the violence level.” Cpl. Saul H. Lopezromo testified Saturday at the murder trial of Cpl. Trent D. Thomas. “We were told to crank up the violence level,” said Lopezromo, [...]

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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 ABC News: The CIA ran secret prisons in Europe, including in Poland, said the head of a European investigation who was to present new findings Friday on what he has called a “spider’s web” of human rights abuses during the war on terror. “We have proof, on the basis of information collected, of the [...]

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By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 7 minutes ago WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move its terror suspects to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned. Senior administration officials said Thursday a consensus is building for a proposal to shut [...]

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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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H/T djomama

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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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H/T Reason Hit & Run Eric Dondero, who commented on some of last night’s debate threads, has made an announcement at Redstate. I am this morning, declaring my candidacy for Congress in the GOP primaries against Ron Paul. If he does not resign his seat, and if another Republican candidate does not declare against him, [...]

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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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Via Brad Spangler Dana Rohrabacher wants me dead. Well, not just me. Dana Rohrabacher wants a whole bunch of Americans dead. “I hope it’s your family members that [sic] die,” said US Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to American citizens who questioned the Bush administration’s unlawful extraordinary rendition policies. Rohrabacher, bring it you fucking traitor. “But in [...]

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I hate to say I told you so. But, I told you so.

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This is an attempt to get Andy and Gary to stop sending this stuff to my email. Here you go guys, have at it. Source material for the debate: 1 (continues for 12 pages when you hit (“previous entries”). 2 The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration Both sides OK, now you can quit [...]

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Iconoclastic novelist, essayist and humanist Kurt Vonnegut Jr has died, at the age of 84. While Vonnegut would be best described as a libertarian socialist (putting him in a category with such groups as the ACLU and Food Not Bombs), he was the writer whose work most strongly influenced my left libertarian beliefs. The loss [...]

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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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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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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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From Wally Conger by way of LeftLibertarian.org

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The American Freedom Agenda has come forward with a Freedom Pledge which has been endorsed by some Libertarian candidates, including Steve Kubby and George Phillies (in the comment section at LP blog). We hope all the other candidates sign it too. LP Presidential nomination Candidates, supporters and staff, please let us know any other candidates [...]

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In this week’s “radio address,” Steve Kubby discusses the war on Iraq: Over the last four years, a majority of Americans have come to agree with what libertarians have been saying all along: That this war was a mistake and that it is a continuing atrocity. That this war makes us less, not more, secure [...]

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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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For those of you who have been following this food fight, There’s a wanker who does not like our blog because we act rowdy and curse. I think the problem stems from him getting fired from the Badnarik 2004 campaign as webmaster, and he has had it in for Steve Van Dyke and Steve Gordon [...]

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By Brian Doherty and Angela Keaton This was a key document in a rejected version of U.S. plans for Iraq. It was found, damp, crumbled in a State Department trash can. Dear Iraq: When I decided that we belonged together, I had the best intentions. Our relationship was never about control for me. I truly [...]

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by way of LP blog

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posted by Justin Raimondo at AntiWar.com blog This video (hat tip: Lew Rockwell) is revealing in a number of different ways. First of all, it shows up Hillary Clinton for what she truly is: an opportunist who is only tenuously acquainted with the truth. She now claims that if she had known then what she [...]

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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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