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Libertarian, one of the two longest shots in the field, upset the Group 2 Dante Stakes on Thursday at York.

The Dante is considered a prep race for the Epsom Derby, but few will be rushing to back Libertarian in the big race. While Libertarian is by the same sire New Approach as Derby favorite Dawn Approach, Thursdays victory was just the second of his career and first in a stakes race, where Dawn Approach is a multiple Group 1 winner, and a perfect 7 for 7.

It was Dawn Approachs stablemate, the Jim Bolger-trained Trading Leather, who wound up closest to Libertarian at the finish, coming home 1 1/4 lengths behind the winner, who was ridden to victory by William Buick for trainer Elaine Burke. In third, another three-quarters of a length back, was favored Indian Chief, who made an imposing bid between horses after being held near the back of the field, but could not quite finish off his run in his first group stakes effort.

This was the second stakes start for Libertarian, whose debut victory produced a win at Pontefract, a spacious course suitable to Libertarians big-boned body type. Libertarian came off the bridle in the early going Thursday while racing near the rear, but commenced a steady rally three furlongs from the finish, and came home best while rallying along the inside of rivals in the Dante. Winning time over about 15/16 miles on a course rated good to soft was 2:10.59.

Declaration of War heads Lockinge

The Group 1 J.T. Lockinge Stakes was the focus of the racing world one year ago, when Frankel made his 4-year-old debut in the race. Unsurprisingly, the 2013 edition of the race is attracting far less attention, except from gamblers, who several days ago hammered the Aidan OBrien-trained Declaration of War down to favoritism in the one-mile race at Newbury. Four-year-old Declaration of War, an American-bred colt by War Front, appears to be bursting with upside. He went 2 for 2 as a 2-year-old in France two seasons ago, won 2 of his 3 starts last year in Ireland, including his first venture into group stakes competition, and began his 2013 campaign last month at Leopardstown with a flashy victory over four overmatched foes in a listed stakes functioning or so it seems as a mere Lockinge prep.

Chief among his 12 rivals in the Lockinge are Farhh and Cityscape. Farhh, who makes his seasonal debut for Godolphin, won only 1 of 6 starts in 2012, but had a strong campaign nonetheless, finishing second in five important Group 1s in England and France.

Seven-year-old Group 1-winning Cityscape, like Farhh, makes his first start of the year, a change from recent seasons when he wintered in Dubai.

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Dante Stakes, prep for Epsom Derby, goes to Libertarian in an upset

Updated: Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:42 | Comments Libertarian can be backed at 25-1 for the Derby

Libertarian caused a huge shock when staying on best of all to win the Betfred Dante Stakes at York.

All eight runners had something of a chance two furlongs out, but the unheralded Libertarian had been off the bridle for some time.

Sent off at 33-1, William Buick moved to the inside on Elaine Burke's colt and he powered home to beat Jim Bolger's Trading Leather, with Aidan O'Brien's Indian Chief, the 11-4 favourite, back in third.

Dashing Star took them along with Trading Leather not far behind, but two furlongs out Ghurair quickened into the lead and looked sure to play a part in the finish.

The previously unbeaten Windhoek threw down a challenge but the race had still to develop in earnest.

Joseph O'Brien tried to find a way through on Indian Chief but he did not quicken up as impressively as the winner, who was well beaten behind Patrick Prendergast's Sugar Boy in the Sandown Classic Trial.

To his credit, Trading Leather stayed on again, a length and a quarter away, and Bolger is likely to be the happiest behind the Burkes as his Dawn Approach was cut across the board for the Investec Derby on 1 June.

Karl Burke, the winning trainer's husband and assistant, said: "It is a great win for the yard and everyone connected with the horse.

"He's a proper horse and having not had many (Derby) horses, or Dante horses even, you are tilting at windmills at bit. We have always thought a lot of him.

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Libertarian ran out the shock 33-1 winner of the Dante Stakes at York.

The son of 2008 Epsom Derby winner New Approach triumphed by one-and-a-quarter lengths from Trading Leather with favourite Indian Chief third.

It was a local success for trainers Elaine and Karl Burke, who train in Yorkshire.

Their winner, ridden by William Buick, is now a 25-1 chance for the Derby on 1 June, for which Dawn Approach has hardened as favourite.

Dawn Approach, another son of New Approach, won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket for Irish trainer Jim Bolger and owners Godolphin.

The colt was initially about a 2-1 chance for a second Classic after his Guineas win, but is now nearer 5-4 after the major Derby trials have been completed.

Top Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien had won four trials in the last week - with Ruler of the World (Chester Vase), Magician (Dee Stakes), Nevis (Lingfield Derby Trial) and Battle of Marengo (Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial).

And at one stage he looked on course for a fifth when his son Joseph brought Indian Chief through to a prominent position at York.

But the Montjeu colt faltered as Buick brought Libertarian through for a surprise success in the Group Two mile-and-a-quarter contest.

Dante was the last north of England-trained winner of the Derby, in 1945, and while Libertarian may be an outside chance to repeat the double, his stamina should be an asset in the rollercoaster mile-and-a-half round Epsom.

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Libertarian activist Adam Kokesh, who admitsto a history of mental instability and post-traumatic stress disorder, is calling for an armed march on Washington, D.C., to protest against tyranny.

Kokesh proposed a march with loaded rifles from Virginia in D.C. on July 4. D.C. police have promised to block the march from crossing into Washington.

This is now a call for mass civil disobedience on July 4th anywhere in Washington, D.C., he wrote on a Facebook page for the event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny.

Kokesh, 31, who served as a non-commissioned officer in the Marines and reservist, wrote a 2005 college thesis entitled Hot, Dirty, and Dangerous: Seven Months of Civil and Not-So-Civil Affairs In And Around Fallujah.

He mentions PTSD in the thesis, writing I had a number of anxiety attacks those first few days back [from Iraq].

I didnt feel comfortable getting drunk, and the crowds made me nervous. When dealing with crowds in Iraq, I was always armed and I always had someone watching my back, usually with a machine gun. A cardinal rule for interacting with crowds was to never let anyone get behind you, Kokesh wrote. We had all heard the horror story of a Marine who was killed with his own pistol. When crowds got close around me I would often just leave one hand on my pistol and let my rifle dangle on the sling in front of me.

Used to getting his way, Kokesh eventually got his college to let him carry a gun to class, despite its firearms policy.

Every time someone bumped into me from behind at a party I instinctively reached down for my pistol and had a moment of awkward panic before realizing that I was being absurd, he wrote in his thesis. I had developed such a strong habit of waking up two or three minutes before my alarm that I often woke up thinking I had to be somewhere. I was so used to being on guard when in public that it was hard to truly relax at first.

The idea of loaded weapons at a protest march was met with disdain from pro-gun groups.

Thats a good way to provoke something, and thats not likely to end well, said Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.

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In 2008 Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch hailed a libertarian moment, encompassing everything from the Internet to the collapse of legacy industries and legacy entitlement programs. Ive used the same term here, when NPR talked about Ron Pauland when polls showed rising support for smaller government, gay marriage, and drug legalization.

But suddenly, today, everyone seems to see a libertarian moment. Driving in to work, I got so tired of the smug self-satisfaction on public radios pledge drive, I switched to the vigorously right-wing Chris Plante Show just in time to hear Plante say, This is a great day for libertarianism in regard to the abuse-of-power stories dominating the mainstream media.

And then, mirabile dictu, I got to the office, opened the Washington Post, and found todays column by Michael Gerson. Now, as he says in todays column, Gerson is conspicuously not a libertarian. Indeed, he is the most vociferously anti-libertarian columnist in contemporary punditry. And yet his column today is titled (in the print paper):

Making libertarians of us all

Man, youve got to abuse power something awful to make Michael Gerson start thinking libertarian. So thanks, IRS and Justice Department!

And now that the Obama administrations abuse of power has got our attention,can we broaden our focus to take in health care mandates, recess appointments, campus speech regulations, the anti-constitutional Independent Payment Advisory Board, similar extra-legislative bodies in Dodd-Frank, the expropriation of Chrysler creditors, and illegal wars?

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Is This the Libertarian Moment?

Tea Party protestor Greg Hetherington at a recent rally in Pennsylvania. The IRS admits targeting conservative groups.

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WASHINGTON Suppose that the Environmental Protection Agency were to admit offhandedly that the fluoridation of water had only modest communist mind-control effects. Or the United Nations were to concede it has been running fleets of black helicopters over American cities, but only in the course of conducting extensive good will tours.

The IRS has managed a similar confirmation. For years, tea party and patriot groups have breathlessly alleged that federal bureaucrats were conspiring against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Then federal bureaucrats conspired to target conservative groups because their tax documents contained the words "tea party" or "patriot," and because they were "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights."

As the scandal has unfolded, the IRS has shown characteristic forthrightness and transparency. In March 2012, the then-commissioner of the IRS, Doug Shulman, assured a congressional committee: "There's absolutely no targeting." But senior officials at the agency, according to a leaked IRS inspector general report, were briefed about the targeting as early as the summer of 2011. Now the agency has backtracked to this position: "IRS senior leadership was not aware of this level of specific details at the time of the March 2012 hearing." It will probably take many further congressional hearings to explore the considerable gap between "absolutely no targeting" and "not aware of this level of specific details."

The IRS has found few defenders, mainly because it is the IRS. Can you imagine the reception that similar arguments would receive if made to the IRS during an audit? "I was not aware of this level of specific details when I claimed that I absolutely deserved a massive tax deduction." The IRS is granted the level of sympathy that it would display to others.

What is most maddening about the IRS response is its complacency. Lois Lerner, in charge of nonprofit vetting at the IRS, has termed the heightened scrutiny of conservative groups "insensitive." When asked why her apology was made during an obscure conference, she responded, "I don't believe anyone ever asked me that question before." This after years of complaints by conservative groups of harassing and improper requests for information, including details of their postings on social networking sites and material on the political ambitions of board members and their families.

The practices already admitted by the IRS were not political insensitivity; they were political corruption. They amounted to an intrusive, ideologically targeted federal investigation of an American political movement. And complacency, in this circumstance, is self-indictment. As Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, put it: "If it had been just a small group of employees, then you would think that the high level IRS supervisors would have rushed to make this public, fired the employees involved, and apologized to the American people and informed Congress. None of that happened in a timely way." And perhaps not coincidentally, even the IRS' onset of mild remorse came well after the 2012 election.

I am conspicuously not a libertarian. I believe that government has valid purposes that are more than minimal, and that public service is essentially noble. But most Americans, myself included, become libertarians when a policeman is rude and swaggering during a traffic stop. Give me that badge number. It is precisely because police powers are essential to the public good that abusing them is so offensive. The same holds for overzealous or corrupt TSA agents. And it is doubly true with IRS personnel who misuse their broad and intimidating powers. It is enough to bring out the Samuel Adams in anyone.

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HAMILTON Staring off into Veterans Park, the Libertarian candidate slowly raised the marijuana cigarette to his lips and took a deep breath.

As photographers snapped pictures, his wife captured video of Don DeZarn on a cellphone and asked him who it was for.

Who is this for? DeZarn said, exhaling a puff of smoke. This is for all my brothers and sisters who are currently being held prisoners of war by our government as a result of the war on drugs.

Though no police were on the scene to arrest him, DeZarn, 46, of East Windsor, called the stunt a public statement for marijuana legalization, one of the chief tenets of his campaign for the state Senate seat in the 14th District.

Alongside Assembly candidates Sean OConnor and Steven Uccio, both of East Windsor, DeZarn represents the Libertarian party, running on a platform that focuses on cutting property taxes, increasing government transparency and legalizing, regulating and taxing marijuana in New Jersey.

The fact that our state freely regulates, sells and taxes alcohol while prosecuting people who use marijuana in the privacy of their own home is insanity to me, DeZarn said. Its completely insanity that we spend that type of money when theres far worse things out there.

Calling himself a lightweight, DeZarn said the drug should be regulated similar to alcohol no smoking in public or behind the wheel of a car in order to reap benefits for the states coffers while saving on the costs of pursuing drug charges against marijuana users, including police time, prosecutions and incarceration.

It wouldnt be a free-for all, DeZarn said. You should be held to the same standards as anyone under the influence of alcohol or any other drug, DeZarn said.

The Colorado and Washington legislatures have already approved legalization, and DeZarn said the influx of revenue could inspire the New Jersey Legislature to pass similar laws.

DeZarn said he saw it first-hand in his native Kentucky: When one dry town finally started allowing alcohol to be sold within its borders, other municipalities soon followed.

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The Bulletin recently featured a front page article concerning the Libertarian Party of Connecticuts plan to mount a full-scale campaign to take Norwich City Hall in the next election. Considering that Libertarian candidates rarely poll more than 1 percent of the vote, it may have been a slow news day. But the story was interesting because it revealed a new strategy for Libertarians, who usually grasp for more unattainable brass rings, like the 2nd Congressional District or Libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Pauls, R-Texas, repeated unsuccessful forays into presidential politics. Before laughing off a Libertarian city council, Norwich voters should weigh how well Democrats and Republicans have handled the citys affairs the past 40 years, then consider how a Libertarian administration might differ. Libertarians are great critics of the status quo, but can they actually govern? Norwich might just be the ideal test tube experiment. As Libertarians advocate small, efficient government, you might expect an administration that would reign in city spending, lower the burgeoning property tax rate and get tax-foreclosed properties back in private hands. While it would be unwise to completely cut the state and federal grant umbilical cord, there would be less faith in Hartford and more in the private sector. Could that revive a troubled town? Consider what happened in downtown Putnam when a small measure of it was applied. Putnams downtown enjoyed a brief revival as an antiques Mecca, but it was sliding back into oblivion as the Internet and other factors shuttered one shop after another. Then, the owners of two restaurants made what seemed to some to be an outrageous request: Lease them, for a nominal fee, the public parking spaces in front of their establishments so they could build patios (at their expense) for outdoor seating. Fortunately, the towns Democrat administration agreed to this reverse eminent domain arrangement. Now on warm Friday and Saturday nights, the streets are crowded with well-behaved people, dining al fresco before going to one of two downtown theaters or patronizing several well-managed pubs. There are now four street-patio restaurants, and dilapidated nearby buildings are being overhauled by developers who want to be part of the action. Why cant that happen in downtown Norwich, an admirable collection of architectural gems surrounded by a population that would respond to an entertainment and arts center? A business-friendly Libertarian administration might find a way where Democrats and Republicans have struggled. Martin Fey, a resident of Putnam, can be reached at uniboardcorp@msn.com.

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The Lower Mainland was a hotbed of talk radio during the 1970s. Almost everyone listened to the banter, idealistic and otherwise, that bounced around the airwaves, and young Lewis Dahlby was an avid listener.

Two of Dahlbys favourite hosts were the gravelly voiced Pat Burns and controversial Ed Murphy. Burns would talk about a little French book titled La Loi, or The Law, written in 1850 by Frdric Bastiat espousing values adopted by Libertarians, while Murphy had a couple of guests promoting the philosophys values that oppose governments using force or coercion to get what they want.

Dahlby, who is running for the BC Libertarian Party in the New Westminster riding in the May 14 provincial election, became convinced it was the way society should go when he tried to put a mobile home on his property in Coquitlam.

The city said he could only do so if he went to all his neighbours in the area to see if it was all right with them.

All but one was in favour.

When it finally went before council, most of its members supported him but the rigmarole he had to go through to make it happen only deepened his beliefs.

Why should seven councillors have the right to decide what kind of house I live in? Its up to me, not them, says Dahlby.

Libertarianism is the most morally valid philosophy there is. I like to say were at the pinnacle of integrity.

For example, even something as simple as a minimum wage law violates individual rights to work for whatever rate they want or be willing to pay, says Dahlby.

On top of that, he believes its also bad policy since increasing the minimum wage creates poverty because employers have to reduce staff to pay for the rise in pay.

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) Havent decided which party to vote for May 14? Depending on your riding, you may have a number of parties to choose from, besides the standard four.

If youve never heard of the Excalibur Party, youre not alone. The party was launched by Michael Halliday only months ago.

This year I didnt have a clue who to vote for. And 50 per cent of the people I talked to said they wouldnt even vote, he says, explaining why he founded the political affiliation.

The party stands for alternative health care, commuter rail for the Fraser Valley and no school fees for post-secondary students.

Well actually pay for their tuition, and then theyll work for the government for five years, he suggests.

He says the party is about government transparency and getting people to understand the issues. Because when people learn about how wild salmon are being wiped out, they get concerned.

On the opposite end of the political spectrum is the Libertarian Party. It too espouses controlling your own destiny, but with less government getting in the way.

Governments tax us and regulate us. It doesnt help us. It makes us worse, says party vice president Paul Geddes.

We think people should be allowed to do whatever they want to do in their personal lives. You should be able to marry who you want to marry, ingest what you want to ingest.

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