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is a happily married father-of-two health-care professional who had always considered himself a conservative. It took him the better half of two decades and the experience of living in four different welfare states to realize his libertarian leanings: the midwifes of this moral and philosophical rebirth were the likes of Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and Frederic Bastiat.
Lamenting the epidemic lack of self-ownership and self-responsibility in the West, he began to write this blog in 2011. For years, his family, as well as his colleagues and employees had bravely shouldered the burdens of his sometimes incoherent ranting and rambling about political and social issues from a libertarian perspective. Now it was the time to make others suffer too.
Almost a year later, he has amassed both encouragement from fellow-libertarians, as well as death-threats and malediction from statists, to continue spreading the idea of liberty ever so much more vigorously.
Some of the ideas and opinions expressed in this blog might not resonate with other libertarians. And so, it just might spark a lively debate. However, whenever you find yourself in disagreement, remember the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson: If it neither picks (your) pocket, nor breaks (your) leg , dont let it bother you ! Its an exercise of Freedom of Expression and Opinion, and therefore an exercise in libertarianism itself.
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TALLAHASSEE If the race for governor were a popularity contest, Adrian Wyllie would feel good about his odds.
Wyllie, 44, a former radio host and IT consultant from Palm Harbor, is taking the longest of long shots by running on the Libertarian Party ticket. But by virtue of a Florida's scorched-earth gubernatorial contest, he may just have a chance to swing the outcome.
The two major-party candidates current Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist are beating themselves silly with a barrage of negative commercials. Surveys have shown voters don't really care for either.
"People are so disgusted by the Republican-Democrat duopoly right now. People don't like either of these guys," Wyllie said.
Florida witnessed a historically close gubernatorial election in 2010 when Scott inched out a victory over Democrat Alex Sink by 1.2 percent of the vote. This year, the electorate remains divided and disgruntled.
"Anybody that can pull 1 or 2 percent in either direction can affect the outcome," said University of South Florida political scientist Susan MacManus.
Wyllie gregarious, confident and quick to crack jokes decided to skip the business and school photo ops to barnstorm through three dozen microbreweries last month.
Inspired by breweries standing up to legislative efforts to increase regulations last spring, Wyllie drew stout crowds and hearty applause with his pledge to "get government out of your wallet, out of your bedroom and out of your business."
But Florida politics isn't a beer-hall popularity contest. It's a mega-money-fueled, statistically modeled, head-butting, art-of-war affair between major political institutions and interests.
It is doctors and insurers vs. trial lawyers. It is Big Sugar vs. environmentalist million- and billionaires. It is a media orgy of attack ads burning through millions of dollars a week in Florida's 10 television markets.
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U.S. Senate candidate David Patterson said what he likes about the Libertarian Party is that it holds that individuals should be able to live their lives the way they see fit.
Speaking to members of the Bowling Green Southern Kentucky Tea Party on Thursday, the Harrodsburg police officer said he is a Christian, and that informs how he lives his life.
I dont expect anyone to tell me how to live my life, and Im not going to tell anyone how to live theirs, Patterson said.
Patterson is a third-party candidate in a Senate race that has garnered national attention as Democratic candidate and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes challenges Minority Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.
He said the the rise of a third party will encourage compromise in politics.
The two-party system is broken, Patterson said.
The whole thing doesnt work anymore, he said.
Patterson said he really started paying attention to political issues during the 2012 presidential election and getting both Republican and Democrat perspectives on issues.
As I became painfully aware that Ron Paul was getting pushed out of the election, I knew that I was not going to vote for Mitt Romney, he said.
Instead, he decided to vote for former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate.
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The Republican Party's libertarian tide, which waxed strongly over the last four years, has begun to recede in the face of growing public fears about Islamic militancy in the Mideast.
The latest evidence of the shift comes from a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday that shows, among other things, fewer conservatives are worried that government anti-terrorism activities will lead to violations of civil liberties. Concern over the tradeoff between civil liberties and security had risen sharply after Edward Snowden's revelations of the widespread surveillance by the National Security Agency, for which he had been a contractor.
Just a little more than a year ago, 47% of Americans said they were more concerned that government anti-terrorism policies had gone "too far in restricting the average person's civil liberties" compared with 35% who said they were more concerned those policies "have not gone far enough to adequately protect the country." A second Pew poll later in the fall found a similar result.
Now, however, only 35% say they are concerned that anti-terrorism policies have gone "too far" and 50% say their greater worry is that the policies will not go "far enough."
The Pew survey, conducted Sept. 2-9, has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
The shift in public opinion comes mostly from the GOP side. Republicans went from an almost even division in November, 43% "too far" and 41% "not far enough," to a lopsided 24% "too far," 64% "not far enough" response in the current survey. Among Republicans, the shift was particularly strong among those who said they identify with the tea party movement.
Democrats remain closely divided on the issue, with self-identified liberals more likely to say they fear the government has gone "too far."
The split among Democrats has been notable in Congress, where a group of mostly western Democratic senators, led by Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, have been prominent critics of the NSA and the Obama administration's continuation of some surveillance policies adopted during the George W. Bush administration.
Among Republicans, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has led the critics of the NSA. His denunciations of government surveillance, highlighted by a 13-hour filibuster against the nomination of CIA Director John Brennan in March 2013, catapulted him into the first ranks of Republican presidential prospects.
But if the shift in the Republican mood persists, with growing support for the use of military force overseas and declining concern over civil liberties, Paul's appeal could wane. Notably, the senator has appeared to shift ground in recent days. Wednesday night, after Obama's speech, he said in an interview on Fox News that he was "all in for saying we have to combat ISIS.
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Senate campaign of Libertarian Robert Sarvis has a strong connection to the Roanoke Valley. Caleb Coulter (Cole-ter) is a Roanoke native who has been active in Republican politics. Last year, he sought the gop nomination for the 11th district seat in the House of Delegates. But recently, he left the gop and signed on as manager of the Sarvis campaign. Caleb Coulter/Sarvis Campaign Manager: i was attempting to be a part of a change for the better for the Republican party, that i think they could use if they want to stay valid in today's politics, and there's a lot of resistance to that change. And i think I'm a lot more comfortable with the Libertarian party. Sarvis is making his second run for statewide office in the last two years. Coming up at six, Political reporter Joe Dashiell will profile his Senate campaign.
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Adrian Wyllie Libertarian Candidate for Florida Governor Town Hall
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Good news for Republican Don Ytterberg, who has the unenviable task of trying to knock off Democratic powerhouse Ed Perlmutter: Libertarian Tyler Bagley has withdrawn from 7th Congressional District race and endorsed him.
Understanding this race is so close, I am honored to support Don Ytterberg, Bagley said, in a news release. I believe his small business background and common sense solutions will benefit Colorado families. I ask third party and swing voters to support Don Ytterberg for Congress.
Libertarians in recent years have been blamed for costing Republicans close state Senate races in Jefferson County and El Paso County.
After analyzing Dons agenda and meeting with him, it became apparent that we agree on most matters of importance to the people of Adams and Jefferson counties, Bagley said. Im confident Don Ytterberg will improve things for District Seven.
Democrat Ed Perlmutter has represented the 7th Congressional District since taking office in January 2007. (Matthew Jonas/Longmont Times-Call)
But knocking off Perlmutter, a lifelong resident of CD 7 and a former state senator, is a formidable task, even in what is expected to be a Republican wave year and without a Libertarian.
Perlmutters been able to handily disarm opponents such as Joe Coors of the Coors family and Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier, deemed an up and comer in the GOP. Perlmutters strength at the top of the ticket has been credited with helping Jefferson County Democrats win legislative seats.
Still, Republicans are optimistic.
This is a race to watch, said Ytterbergs campaign manager, Phil Kelly. People are really frustrated with Congress and are looking for fresh faces and better options. Don Ytterberg is a man people like and can trust. He is a man of action who has a history of working to defend private interests from public intrusion.
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Libertarian drops out, endorses Republican in race to unseat Rep. Ed Perlmutter
Libertarian candidate Samuel Davenport overcame a second effort to disqualify himfrom the 2nd Congressional District race Tuesday. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled8-3 that the challenge to his candidacy, filed by Eliza Eugene and Lawrence Galle, had no legal merit, affirming the decision of Civil District Court Judge Lynn Luker.
Davenport greeted the ruling with jubilation and a challenge to incumbent Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans. "My opponent, instead of trying to bully himself an election, should just let the people decide," he said. He encouraged his supporters to help him win another victory, this one at the ballot box on Nov. 4.
Ike Spears, a Richmond ally and the lawyer who argued on behalf of Eugene and Galle during the appeal, did not immediately return a message left at his office.
Eugene and Galle's objection to Davenport's candidacy was made predominantly on the grounds that Davenport filled out the wrong address on his forms to register for the ballot.Davenport listed his domicile as 317 St. James Place in LaPlace, where he said he plans to move at the end of the month from a Metairie apartment where he currently lives. The LaPlace residence is in Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District; the Metarie apartment is not.
The qualifying form implies that residency in the district is required, as it is for state offices. However, federal rules do not require congressional candidates to live within the district that they wish to represent, and the 4th Circuit Court's majority said in its opinion that thestate has no authority to impose additional requirements.
Davenport was one of three candidates in the 2nd District race to see his qualifications challenged.Rufus Johnson and Gary Landrieu were both disqualified by lower courts due to outstanding ethics fines related to late campaign finance reporting.
Landrieu appealed that ruling to the 4th Circuit and succeeded in having his candidacy reinstated. Johnson did not appeal the decision.
Voting with the majority were Judge Joy Cossich Lobrano, Judge James McKay, Judge Dennis Bagneris, Judge Max Tobias, Judge Roland L. Belsome, Judge Paul Bonin, Judge Daniel Dysart, Judge Rosemary Ledet.
Dissenting were Judge Terri Love, Judge Edwin Lombard, and Judge Cabrina Jenkins.
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Advocates of free markets harbor a well-justified distrust of the European Union (EU). I, for example, have spent a fair amount of time criticizingits populist overregulation,moral hazard,the damage created by the common European currency,EU structural fundsorCommon Agricultural Policy. Like many, I am convinced that the EU is a deeply flawed organization and that it mostly deserves much of the criticism that it receives from pro-market circles. At a more fundamental level, I also think that institutional competition and voting with ones feet is important, and see the thoughtless harmonization of legal and regulatory regimes across the continent as extremely damaging.
However, I no longer think, as I once did, that the EU is the single biggest threat to freedom and prosperity in Europe. Neither do I believe that an exit from the EU either by the United Kingdom or some of the smaller central European states, such as my home country, Slovakia would make these countries, or the continent as a whole, more libertarian. If a break-up were to occur, it would likely push Europe towards nationalism and protectionism, and undo some of the real benefits of European integration.
First, whatever one thinks of the EU, it has sometimes been a force for good. It would be foolish to take the free movement of goods, capital, people, and also to a more limited extent of services, for granted. Vicious protectionism, not free trade, has been the historical norm. The second half of the 19thcentury, is often cited as a counterexample, culminating in thefirst age of globalization. But one should not succumb to retrospective optimism due to measures suchGermanys iron and rye tariff of 1879andFrances Mline tariff of 1892,fin-de-sicleEurope was no free-trade zone. Or, for a different example, think of the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Whether one likes the EU or not, the prospect of membership was clearly one of the engines of economic and political reforms that would have been otherwise very difficult.
EU break up would lead to more nationalism and protectionism.
Second, it is helpful to keep a perspective on the magnitude of the problem. The EUs annual budget amounts toone percentof its GDP. Even the structural funds, which Irecently blamedfor the rise in corruption in some of the Central and Eastern European countries following their accession, are relatively modest, cumulatively accounting for some 4 percent of their GDP.
What rightly bothers the critics of the EU is not the absolute size of the spending but rather its wasteful nature. Over the period of 2014-2020 the EU is planning to spend312 billionon agricultural subsidies. And the non-fiscal side of the EU, namely the unnecessary red tape and regulation it generates every year, is a much greater problem. This of course has to do with the lack of accountability of Brussels mandarins and with their belief that for every European problem there is a one-size-fits-all European solution.
These are all valid criticisms. However, it seems odd to think that the EU is acting as an external, exogenous force, dumping bad legislation on unsuspecting member states. After all, theEuropean Council, composed of the representatives of national governments, is an integral part of the legislative process. In only a handful of areas, in which such powers have been explicitly delegated by the Council, can theEuropean Commission(that grey, anonymous, unaccountable bureaucratic body) act alone.
Eurosceptic groups arecorrectto point out that much of the legislation adopted across EU countries originates in Brussels as does a dominant part of the regulatory burden facing European businesses. However, that is a reflection both of the institutional structures which make the adoption of bad, EU-wide legislation, more likely but also, quite independently, of an intellectual climate which sees all human problems as amenable to improvement by legislative action, without regard for costs and benefits. It seems plausible that bad European legislation is acting in part as a substitute for bad domestic legislation. That does not make it any better, of course, but it should shed some doubt on the notion that, if it werent for the EU, national policymakers would be adopting significantly better policies.
The EU often acts in ways that are inimical to freedom and prosperity. But so do other political organizations, groups, and movements, and we need a sense of perspective to identify our key enemies. For one, I am much more afraid of the rise of Europesneo-reaction, of Vladimir Putins imperial ambitions in the EUs immediate neighborhood, of thetiesthat connect the regime in the Kremlin with the populist nationalists within the EU, and of the damage that these can generate when in power. These are not just abstract threats. In Hungary,Viktor Orban who wants tocreate a Hungarian alternative to liberal democracy, inspired by Russia and China already nationalizedthe pension system,populated the board of the central bank with his political cronies, and helped electa former skinheadas thedeputy speakerof the Hungarian Parliament.
One may say that the choice between Orban or Putin on the one hand andJean-Claude Junckeron the other is a false one. Indeed, I havearguedthat the current anti-EU populism is largely a response to the heavy-handed policies and catastrophic response of European leaders to the financial crisis of 2008, which led to a six-year recession in Greece. The continent needs a compelling intellectual alternative to the way the EU is being currently run, taking into account the importance of institutional competition and trying to limit the arbitrary powers exercised by unelected bureaucrats (orsham parliamentary bodies). However, such an alternative is not going to come from Europes populist Right. In the meantime, taking the prevailing intellectual climate as a given, we may still face the unpleasant choice between virulent nationalism and a flawed EU.
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Lack of Libertarian Impact, Rand Paul is Not a Libertarian - Free Talk Live 2014-09-05
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During his recent campaign stop in Marshall, Libertarian Party nominee for Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rocky Palmquist said hes tired of taxes, regulations and the two-party systems promises, which is why he decided to run for office.
I got into this race for the mere fact that the two-party system, which I like to call bipolar politics, says the same thing over and over again every four years, said Palmquist, a farmer, rancher and independent horticultural consultant from Bastrop County.
And it doesnt matter whether its the Democrat or the Republic, its the same coin, its just two different sides of it, he said.
So, somebody had to step up and say weve been regulated enough or taxed enough. Were tired of the agricultural department agency looking over our shoulders. Were tired of having to pay $125 to grow a flower, Palmquist said.
Were tired of the school lunch programs and school breakfast programs that have been infiltrated by the feds ... mandatory lunches. And not only is it the lunch, theyre about to be serving breakfast and supper, too, all across the state year round, he said..
Palmquist believes that since the agriculture department is the agency that will administer that, the first thing he would do, if elected into office, is start looking at how many programs are unfunded mandates imposed by the federal government.
What I think we need to do is have somebody thats got the guts to tell them OK, you want us to do this wheres the money because were not going to take it out of the taxpayers pockets in the state of Texas anymore, Palmquist said.
The federal governmen, according to Palmquists opinion, has no idea what Texas needs.
They have no way of knowing. So what we have to do, we have to get in there, get the offices leveled out, Palmquist said. We need some top-down job attrition. We need cuts in the school lunch program, breakfast program, supper program not additions. The money is already there; we dont need it.
In addition to the lunch programs, he also wants to take a look at giant corporations that are impacting the agriculture industry such as Monsanto and ADM (Archer Daniels Midland).
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Agriculture Commissioner hopeful touts taxes, regulations, two-party system
The Caddo and Bossier parish libertarian parties held a liberty session this afternoon.
Candidates for local, state, and federal positions talked about the issues they want to take on in office.
The audience was able to ask questions followed by short speeches from the candidates.
Randall Lord, Candidate for US House District 4, says as a libertarian he can vote based on issues and not party politics.
"If a civil liberties issue comes up that the Democrats are very much in favor of but the Republicans are opposed I can vote with the Democrats, Lord said If a spending issue comes up that I agree with the Republicans on, I will vote on that side. So I can go back and forth. I will vote with the issues not with the political parties."
Lord is running against Republican, John Fleming.
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WASHINGTON (AP) A pizza deliveryman in North Carolina, a "libertarian cop" in Kentucky and an Alaska candidate but not the one who was expected hope to do what a Kansas businessman did this week: shake up Senate races as third-party candidates, an often-dismissed lot.
Greg Orman isn't a household name, but he's getting attention now. The independent Senate candidate in Kansas fared so well in his third-party bid to unseat three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts that the Democrat in the race, Chad Taylor, abruptly canceled his candidacy on Wednesday. With that, conservative Kansas landed on the list of conceivable, if improbable, Democratic gains in the national battle for Senate control.
Republicans must pick up six seats in November to win the majority, and the new uncertainty over Roberts' fate complicates their drive.
Kansas Republicans, worried about Orman possibly consolidating anti-Roberts sentiment, challenged the legality of Taylor's withdrawal. The Kansas secretary of state said Thursday that Taylor's name must remain on the ballot.
Orman's case is unusual. Most third-party candidates have no chance of being elected themselves. But in a handful of extremely tight races, including North Carolina, Alaska, Georgia and Kentucky, third-party candidates could help decide who wins and which party controls the Senate in the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency.
Third-party candidates are chiefly a worry for Republicans. Many of these long-shot hopefuls are libertarians who tend to appeal to conservative voters, who otherwise might lean GOP.
The biggest impact by a third-party Senate candidate thus far came in Kansas. As Roberts was fighting a bitter GOP primary against Milton Wolf, Orman aired ads that declared "something has to change." In one, he looked over at a muddy tug of war between Republicans and Democrats and asks: "You guys accomplishing anything? Didn't think so."
Orman briefly ran for the Senate as a Democrat in 2008, when he says he voted for Obama. And he says he might caucus with Democrats in Washington if elected this fall. These details could help Roberts in a state that has elected only Republicans to the Senate since 1932.
Established Republicans are quick to note that most third-party candidates become nonfactors, winning minuscule portions of the vote.
The notion that Libertarian candidate Sean Haugh could cost Republican nominee Thom Tillis the Senate seat in North Carolina, for instance, "is a story line being created by the media," said Paul Shumaker, a top Tillis adviser. He said Haugh, a pizza deliveryman, doesn't have enough campaign money to identify and turn out his potential supporters on Nov. 4.
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