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I can't recall reading a single article with more tendentious claims in it than this piece at Crisis by Joe Hargrave defending libertarianism and capitalism from the charge that they are not consonant with Catholic social teaching. These sentences show the complete lack of human solidarity that stalks the piece and places it well outside orthodox Catholic teaching:
Among the poorest areas of the United States one will find high rates of crime, drug abuse, educational failure, sexual deviance, illegitimacy, and so on. This is not to say that people in these areas ought to be written off, but it is to say that no employer is obliged to subsidize their moral failingsand neither are we, the frugal, well-behaved wage-earners to whom Leo XIII refers.
Callous and cold and, just so, not very Christian let alone Catholic.
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Rep. Duncan D. Hunter is broadly expected to cruise to re-election in November, but thats not keeping his two opponents from planning spirited, grassroots campaigns. James Kimber, a Democrat, and Mike Benoit, a Libertarian, are both working to end Hunters congressional career.
Hunter, though, has all the advantages of rich funding and incumbency, plus a name that resonates in the district, which ranges from Temecula in the north to beyond El Cajon in the south.
Hunter filled his fathers shoes in 2008, when Duncan L. Hunter retired from the seat he held from 1981 to 2009, rising to chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. In 2008, the elder Hunter sought the Republican Party nomination for president, but dropped out after failing to gain traction among voters in early primaries and caucuses.
Challenger Kimber, a physicians assistant, said he knows he is in for a rough race, but he believes its worth it because hes frustrated by a polarized, paralyzed Congress.
Its a daunting task (running against such an established candidate); so, people throw their hands up in the air, he said and decline to even try. I guess I believe in serving my country.
The younger Hunter coasted to victory in 2008, winning 56 percent of the vote. In his most recent general election contest in 2012, Hunter bested Democratic nominee David Secor, 68 percent to 32 percent.
University of Virginias Center for Politics, which analyzes races, calls it a safe Republican district. Hunters seat, Claremont McKenna College political science professor Jack Pitney said, remains a lock.
Unless it turns out that he has a secret life as a cat burglar, he has a pretty firm grip on his seat, Pitney said.
Pitney added that the district has the highest Republican share of voters of any district in California. Mitt Romney won it by 22 percentage points.
Additionally, Hunter is far ahead of his challengers in the money game. He has $398,979 on hand, while Kimber has spent more than he has raised and Benoit has not yet started fundraising. Benoit said he will start raising money after the June 3 primary, if he emerges as one of the top two finishers.
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Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum has a penchant for dismissing the libertarian movement, and he made that once again on Monday evening when he dismissed the electoral prospects of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), telling CNN that the Republican Party is not a libertarian party.
Crossfire host Van Jones asked Santorum for his thoughts on the Kentucky senator, who is currently the frontrunner for the 2016 GOP: Do you agree with his ideas, are you going to support Rand Paul?
Theres diversity in the Republican Party, Santorum hesitated, but Jones pressed further: Is he the new face of the Republican Party? Is this your leader?
Well, no, hes not my leader, I can tell you that for sure, the former senator scoffed. His father and I had some disagreements during the last campaign.
Jones then asked him outright: If a libertarian like him becomes the leader of the Republican Party gets the nomination would you vote for them?
First off, I dont think that will happen, Santorum asserted, because the Republican Party is not a libertarian party, it is a conservative party. And it will nominate a conservative, and not a libertarian.
Santorum then went on to reassert his belief in modestly increasing the federal minimum wage.
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COLUMBUS, OhioLibertarian gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Earl will not appear on Tuesdays primary ballot after a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied.
Late Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas denied a request for an emergency order to force Earl and Steve Linnabary, the Libertarian candidate for attorney general, onto the primary ballot.
However, Libertarian Party of Ohio attorney Mark Brown said the party will continue to fight in court to add Earl and Linnabary to the general election ballot.
In March, Secretary of State Jon Husted in March struck the names of Earl and Linnabary from the primary ballot on the grounds that petition signature collectors for him didnt properly disclose that the party employed them.
The Libertarian Party of Ohio asked Thomas to issue a stay and an emergency injunction to overturn Husteds decision. Thomas denied the request on Monday afternoon without comment, according to a Supreme Court notification sent to Libertarian Party attorney Mark Brown.
Two federal courts previously sided with Husted in the case. Justice Elena Kagan also declined to issue an emergency order.
By missing the primary, Libertarians fear Earl and Linnabary will be prevented under Ohio's "sore-loser" law from attempting a write-in campaign for governor in the general election.
Brown said the Libertarians will petition a federal appeals court by the end of the week to have the two added to the general election ballot.
If Earl appears on the ballot, observers say he could draw conservative support away from incumbent Republican Gov. John Kasich to the benefit of Democrat Ed FitzGerald.
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Lucas Jewell, a 22-year-old libertarian activist and former U.S. Navy air traffic controller, has filed to run for the Alachua County Commission District 4 seat Commissioner Susan Baird will vacate after this November's election.
Jewell is relatively new to Gainesville, having moved here in January to be closer to his mother after her husband died in a car accident.
I mean, I'm going to live here for a while and you can either sit back and complain about things or you can say, 'Screw it, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring and see what happens,' he said.
Jewell grew up in North Florida and told The Sun he enlisted in the Navy in 2010 at 18 years old, serving as an air traffic controller before he was eventually honorably discharged in March 2013 after filing as a conscientious objector.
After leaving the military, he got involved as the business manager for Adam vs. The Man, a talk show helmed by libertarian activist Adam Kokesh that has existed in various formats (mostly online).
While he worked with Adam vs. The Man, Jewell said he participated in Smoke Down Prohibition rallies in Philadelphia during which people would smoke marijuana publicly as an act of civil disobedience meant to make the legalization issue more visible.
Jewell told The Sun he was arrested at a Smoke Down Prohibition event in June 2013, while Kokesh had already been arrested at a prior rally.
He said he had a hand-rolled tobacco cigarette and was trying to get the police to focus on him so others wouldn't be arrested. I don't know how regular people get arrested, but libertarians don't really comply, he said.
Jewell said he sat down and forced the authorities to carry him off.
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The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal Monday from the Libertarian Party of Ohio, ending the partys efforts to field candidates for governor and attorney general on Tuesdays primary ballot.
Mark Brown, the Capital University law professor representing the Libertarians, said he will ask the entire 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati for a rehearing as part of an effort to gain spots on the November ballot of gubernatorial candidate Charlie Earl and attorney general candidate Steven Linnabary.
If we get it and win before November, (the Libertarians) can have candidates restored to the general election ballot, Brown said in an e-mail. He added that in 2008, the federal courts added Libertarian candidates to the November election even though they did not run in a primary.
A three-judge panel of the 6th circuit last week unanimously upheld a ruling by a federal judge that the candidacy petitions filed by Earl and Linnabary were faulty.
Secretary of State Jon Husted made the original decision to remove them from the statewide ballot
The Libertarians quickly responded by asking first Justice Elena Kagan and then Justice Clarence Thomas to delay enforcement of the appeals court ruling. After Kagan rejected the request, Thomas referred the entire appeal to the nine-member high court and the justices turned it down.
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(CNN) Rick Santorum said Monday he doubts a Libertarian-leaning candidate, like Rand Paul, could be nominated to lead the Republican Party in a presidential election.
Asked by co-host Van Jones on CNN's "Crossfire" if he could support the Kentucky senator if he winds up running and is nominated in 2016, Santorum said he doesn't think hell have to consider that ultimately.
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"Well, first off, I don't think that will happen because a Republican Party is not a Libertarian Party. It is a conservative party and it will nominate a conservative, not a libertarian," Santorum said.
Paul has been open about the possibility of running.
Likewise, Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania and 2012 presidential candidate, is also eyeing another bid.
Santorum is an arch-conservative who gave Mitt Romney a run for his money in key conservative states last go-around.
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Marxists were notorious for infighting over the most trivial differences. One group would secede from another, reverse the word order of the group it had seceded from, and declare itself the new and pure group. The first group, the new group would declare to the world, was part of the fascist conspiracy to suppress the coming workers triumph, even though the differences between the two groups were completely undetectable even to an expert.
An informal debate taking place among libertarians these days, regarding whether people ought to be thick or thin libertarians, is of a different character. It strikes at the very heart of what libertarianism is.
The thin libertarian believes in the nonaggression principle, that one may not initiate physical force against anyone else. The thin libertarian thinks of himself simply as a libertarian, without labels. Most thick libertarians likewise believe in the nonaggression principle, but they believe that for the struggle for liberty to be coherent, libertarians must be committed to a slate of other views as well.
Before I proceed, let me anticipate an objection. Shouldnt I spend my time attacking the state instead of criticizing other libertarians?
In my work over the years, I have attempted to leave no stone unturned in exposing the evils and lies of the state, and building up the libertarian alternative. As a matter of fact, I have a new book on the verge of release that continues in that tradition: Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto.
Second, theres nothing wrong with what some people disparage as infighting. A respectful exchange of ideas is how a school of thought develops. And I agree with Tom Woods: it is not true, as many allege, that libertarians are uniquely prone to arguments among themselves. Just observe the Democrats, the Republicans, your homeowners association, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims or, for that matter, just about anyone.
Proponents of a thick libertarianism suggest that libertarians are bound to defend something more than the nonaggression principle, and that libertarianism involves commitments beyond just this. One such proponent recently said, I continue to have trouble believing that the libertarian philosophy is concerned only with the proper and improper uses of force. But no matter how difficult it may be for that person to believe, that is precisely what libertarianism is, and that is all it is.
As Murray Rothbard, Mr. Libertarian himself, once explained:
There are libertarians who are indeed hedonists and devotees of alternative lifestyles, and that there are also libertarians who are firm adherents of bourgeois conventional or religious morality. There are libertarian libertines and there are libertarians who cleave firmly to the disciplines of natural or religious law. There are other libertarians who have no moral theory at all apart from the imperative of non-violation of rights. That is because libertarianism per se has no general or personal moral theory.
Libertarianism does not offer a way of life; it offers liberty, so that each person is free to adopt and act upon his own values and moral principles. Libertarians agree with Lord Acton that liberty is the highest political end not necessarily the highest end on everyones personal scale of values.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- With the primary election just a couple of days awa, US Senate candidates for the Libertarian Party met for the third and final forum in Wilmington, but the turnout for the debate was less than stellar.
Few seats were filled at the Cape Fear Country Club for Sunday's forum, but that didn't stop candidates Tim D'annunzio and Sean Haugh from sitting down to a conversation-style debate.
D'annunzio says even though our political system gives third-party candidates a slim chance at election, their goal is to present a true alternative to the other parties. He says he is not discouraged by the turn out because the debate streamed live online.
"People these days are more interested in sitting in the comfort of their own home and being able to hear the candidates than they are interested in coming out to events like this," D'annunzio said.
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The Libertarian Party of Ohio asked Justice Clarence Thomas yesterday to delay a ruling by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati that upheld the removal of the partys candidates for governor and attorney general from the states primary ballot.
The party made the request in the U.S. Supreme Court a day after Justice Elena Kagan rejected its initial attempt to get a delay. The Libertarians hope Thomas will grant their appeal, a first step in having the high court hear the case before Tuesdays primary.
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a ruling by a federal judge that the candidacy petitions of Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Charlie Earl and attorney general candidate Steven Linnabary were faulty.
Secretary of State Jon Husted made the original decision to remove them from the statewide ballot.
The decision could be a factor in the November election. If Earl is nominated and thus appears on the fall ballot, he could siphon votes from Republican Gov. John Kasich in his race against Democrat Ed FitzGerald.
Judges noted the involvement of both the state Democratic and Republican parties in the legal maneuvering to get Earl on the ballot because of the stakes.
The Libertarians also lost an earlier try to win a spot on the ballot via the Ohio Supreme Court.
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TALLAHASSEE On some issues this year, Florida lawmakers channeled their inner libertarian.
They gave their blessing to higher speed limits, medical marijuana for kids and the firing of warning shots against perceived attackers.
On other issues, they ignored that voice.
Legislators killed measures that would have allowed whiskey to be sold near Wheaties, permitted teachers to pack heat on school grounds, and expanded gambling to the point blackjack tables would have bloomed like a thousand flowers.
It could be a symptom of the peculiar dynamic of an election-year legislative session, which ended Friday, forcing a kind of multiple political personality disorder.
The governors office, half the Senate and every state representative seat is up for grabs in November. Many incumbents will go home to their districts to trumpet what they accomplished.
Every year the Legislature makes changes that affect Floridians, for good or for bad, depending on your view.
This year, they tried making 1,900 changes the number of bills filed. Only the strong survived, or at least the ones with the strongest backers.
Here are several initiatives sure to be felt by people in the Tampa area. One thing to bear in mind: No bill passed by the Legislature becomes law until Gov. Rick Scott signs it.
Tax and fee cuts: Itll be cheaper to register your vehicle under legislation already approved by Scott.
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