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“Legislators will legislate anything and everything in the name of safety,” Gary Johnson told a meeting of the N.C. Republican Liberty Caucus yesterday. The New Mexico Republican has considerable experience dealing with this penchant. He vetoed more than 750 bills and issued thousand of line-item vetoes in his two terms. Few of his vetoes...
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The Tea Party Movement has often been called fragmented and ineffective. That is natural for a grassroots movement, composed of a variety of organizations and groups across the nation. To at least partially remedy this, the Constitutional Freedom Alliance is inviting North Carolina Tea Party movement members and groups to an organizational and planning...
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President Obama has endorsed a compromise between Congress and the Defense Department to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, an agreement that may sidestep a key obstacle to repealing the military’s policy banning gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces. Three Libertarian candidates for Congress endorse repealing “don’t ask,...
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It is frightening enough when “conservative” politicians use military slang to describe government actions, as in the “War on Drugs.” It is positively terrifying when coming out of the mouths of “liberal” politicians. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said recently that the Federal government had its “boot on the throat” of BP to insure they...
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New banking regulations being considered by Congress will only make the national’s financial crisis worse, the Libertarian Party executive director said. “Instead of removing harmful regulations that reduce competition, create winners and losers, and stifle the choices of consumers and financial firms, this legislation merely adds to that heap of regulations,” said Wes Benedict....
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One of the most prominent features of Tea Party movement events has been a field of red, white, blue and yellow, emblazoned on the American and Gadsden flags and other banners of the American Revolution. Organizers of the Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party are concerned the police will won’t let that field blossom at...
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While Republicans are calling for Congress to “repeal and replace” the new Federal health care law, North Carolina’s Libertarians want to make more fundamental changes. Most are skeptical of Republican opposition, particularly Sen. Richard Burr’s pledge to “repeal and replace” that has become the GOP battle cry. “Burr’s statement ‘repeal and replace,’ tells you...
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I responded to the 2020 census form. Inspired by this article by Robert Greensdale, I didn’t fill out the form, but sent this letter: Dear Sirs, There are two people residing at 206 Clancy Circle, Cary NC 27511. Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution of the United States of...
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Dr. Mike Beitler was the first candidate to file for U.S. Senator today. Beitler is seeking the Libertarian nomination. No other Libertarian candidate is expected to file, so Beitler will probably be in a three-way race in November. He was joined by three Libertarian candidates for U.S. Congress at the State Board of Elections...
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“Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. The threat is not from socialism in the sense of State ownership of the means of production, much less a proletarian uprising. Rather, he’s pushing good old American progressive-corporate elitism, or corporatism. (Some would simply call it capitalism.)...
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