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Linked News and Essays Infighting rains on McCain's party Senator John McCain is sailing toward his coronation as the Republican presidential nominee while the Democratic candidates battle fiercely. But Republicans also are engaged in some tough infighting that could disrupt the national convention and make it more difficult for him to unite the party in the fall.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment Libertarian Fringe Comes Unhinged We all know the Democrats are having a dickens of a time getting its act together and rallying around a presidential nominee. The party of affirmative action is in a quandary as to whether or not to cast their November lot with the liberal black man or the liberal white woman. Decisions, decisions. Meanwhile, Republicans are having their own problems getting the party faithful to unite behind the candidacy of John McCain. Indeed, a reported agreement at the Nevada Republican Party convention a week ago to elect a "unity" slate of candidates which was to include both McCain supporters and supporters of Ron Paul broke down when the Paul supporters decided to chuck the deal and instead attempt to capture the entire Nevada delegation. The convention recessed in chaos with the delegate elections postponed indefinitely.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment Bob Barr’s nanny Bob Barr, ready to run as a libertarian, takes to YouTube to complain about the Nanny State as exemplified in seven warning labels on Christmas-tree lights. From there he complains about government telling you to wear a helmet when you ride a motorcycle.  Watch some videos here... 0 comments | Write Comment Time For Public Comment On New Rules For Guns In National Parks On April 30, the U.S. Department of Interior, through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, issued a proposed rule to amend the current strict regulations on firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges.  NRA-ILA led the effort to amend the existing policy regarding the carrying and transportation of firearms on these federal lands.  The public has until June 30 to comment on the proposal, and NRA-ILA strongly urges members to file comments in support.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment Is this man John McCain’s worst nightmare? Bob Barr, former GOP congressman from Georgia, is an all-but-announced presidential candidate - as a Libertarian.  The possibility of a run by Barr has sent shudders through the mainstream of the Republican party.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment Greenpeace Founder: We Must Go Nuclear Speaking before an audience in Boise, Idaho last week, Greenpeace Founder Dr. Patrick Moore confirmed that there is no proof that humans are causing global warming, and he wisely advocated a dramatic shift toward reliance upon nuclear power.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment The Relentless Process of Socializing Health Care The movement towards socialized medicine is strong but widely misunderstood. Many ordinary people see health care as a right and complain that it is too expensive. Some economists also see problems with the existing health care system and propose public-sector alternatives. One serious problem with those who want socialized medicine is that they fail to see the problems that already exist with governmental involvement in health care.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment Be Judicial in Your Compassion What ever happened to the sanctity of private contracts? Consider the bill now pending in Congress that would essentially wipe out existing mortgages — allowing their terms to be rewritten for the benefit of troubled homeowners.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment The CRA Scam and its Defenders "Liberal" economists are overjoyed by the bursting of the housing bubble, for it provides them with what they believe is another "market failure" story. "Most analysts see the sub-prime crisis as a market failure," Robert Gordon gleefully declared in the April 7 online edition of The American Prospect magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment Paul No. 1 on Amazon.com Ron Paul’s loyal supporters helped him set campaign fundraising records and capture more delegates during his presidential run than some of his high-profile Republican rivals. They even managed to briefly shut down Nevada’s GOP convention earlier this month over a rules change controversy.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment Hurricane Expert: School Silencing Me Over Global-Warming Views A pioneering expert on hurricane forecasting says he may soon lose funding due to his skepticism about man-made global warming, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.  Read more... 0 comments | Write Comment Old News: Who's Going to Get Your Wasted Vote? Rebate Barr's campaign for White House taking shape Congressman Ron Paul Wants A Free Market in Gasoline Economics 101: The Price of Gas The little party that could GOP cracks down on Ron Paul activists Wal-Mart To Create Gun Buyer Database 29% Favor National Health Insurance Overseen by Federal Government Bob Barr polling nationally at seven percent Obama Wants Your Guns Petraeus Points to War With Iran Please, Not Another FDR The Real Cost of Public Schools Bob Barr's nomination would offer conservatives a choice Gun Search Program To Be Request Only An Inconvenient Announcement Kelo, M.I.A. Bob Barr Expected to Launch Libertarian Presidential Bid on Saturday Ron Paul On Money, Inflation and Government Barr To Announce Presidential Bid Next Week Time to Listen to Ron Paul? Chick N. Little Landmark Gun Ban Case Heard By Supreme Court Carbon Copies Libertarians seek Barr candidacy Big Corn and Ethanol Hoax Root ahead on Libertarian Lists survey The Inequality Myth Montana moves to reject Real ID Act All the old news...

Original Essays Bob Barr Enters the Race It looks like Bob Barr is going for the Libertarian Party nomination for president and has very high odds of getting it.  From what I can tell, his position are very similar to those of Ron Paul (who may well endorse him), but he seems to me to be a much more polished speaker.  He also has more built in Conservative credibility due to his part in the Clinton impeachment situation, and his track record in Congress. Check out his new web site at bobbarr2008.com. Read more. 3 comments | Write Comment Fox News Editing Ron Paul out of AP News Stories Someone over at Paulunteer.com noticed this, and it's quite amazing.  First Fox blatantly left Paul out of the New Hampshire round table debate, and now this.  Could they be any further from "fair and balanced"?  It's amazing that I once considered Fox to be less biased, or at least biased more in my direction.  It turns out that if you deviate from their party line at all - that is, the neoconservative Republican establishment (a relatively recent turn for Republicans) - all pretense of journalistic objectivity goes straight out the window. Anyway, here's the... Read more. 15 comments | Write Comment Democrats: Vote for Ron Paul in the Primary Yes, I'm suggesting that you dyed in the wool Democrats register as Republicans (if necessary in your state) and vote for Ron Paul in the primary.  Of course, I also hope that you'll see the light and vote for him in the general election, but even if you won't go that far, here's the argument for voting for him in the primary.  First of all, I'll assert that no matter how you vote in the Democratic primary, you're going to get either Hillary or Obama.  Right now it looks like Hillary is unstoppable.  My guess is that the Democrats will end up with a Hillary/Edwards ticket to get some southern, white male flavor on the team.  Second, I'll assert that there is really no significant policy differences between Clinton and Obama.  Wh... Read more. 11 comments | Write Comment Ron Paul Gets 9% in Iowa Straw Poll I drove two hours to Ames this weekend to vote for Ron Paul in the Iowa Straw Poll.  In the end, Dr. Paul got 9% of the vote.  Should "9%" be prefaced by the word "only"?  On the one hand, 9% is a small number, and he got 5th place.  On the other hand, the major press has all but ignored him to this point, and the biggest poll number I've heard for him before this was 2%. Unfortunately, the major press appears to still be ignoring him, even though this result is highly indicative of him gaining steam.  McCain and Rudy got a pass for doing incredibly poorly in this poll (10th and 8th respectively) since they didn't attend or actively campaign, but in fact Paul only showed up a few days before the contest himself.  The winner, Romn... Read more. 2 comments | Write Comment Democrats vs. Republicans Freedom oriented people are often known to throw up their hands and claim that there is no appreciable difference between Republicans and Democrats.  Among libertarians, the party line is that Democrats want to control you economically, and Republicans want to control you socially (or morally, or something).  Just for the fun of it, I decided to tabulate every issue I could think of and compare my position to that of the two major parties.  What I did is admittedly totally bogus mathematically, but I went ahead and put a number to the match between me and the two parties: 3 means strong agreement, and -3 means we're opposite.  I also put a number 1-10 for how much I care about the particular issue.  The score for each party on e... Read more. 12 comments | Write Comment Archives: A Libertarian Opposed to Open Immigration My Platform Do Liberals Celebrate the Fourth of July? Hybrid Hysteria Goodbye to a Good Guy: Harry Browne Don't Try to Rationalize Socialized Schools Thoughts on Vioxx and Drug Liability Reluctant Support for Gun Maker Liability Reform Live-8: What a Crock In Defense of Eminent Domain The NAP and "Men with Guns" A More Fair Approach to Smog Control Thoughts on Social Security and Private Accounts The Indifference Vote Democratic Sore Losers Drugs, Guns, Cigarettes and Cheeseburgers Libertarians and Gay Marriage, Part 2 The Gullibility of the Governed It's Not About Crime-It's Your Property They Want Libertarianism and Morality All the essays... ... Blog Format ...

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