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Libertarian says he can win Congressional race

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St. Petersburg, FL -- While Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly will get most of the attention in the race to fill C.W. Bill Young's Congressional seat, Libertarian candidate Lucas Overby insists he shouldn't be counted out.

"We're running to win," Overby told 10 News. "I don't run to make political statements. We got into this race because we think we have a shot and now moving into the special [election], we think we have an even better shot."

Yes,Overby believes can win the Congressional District 13 race. But political analysts say his biggest obstacle will be money.

"But he may benefit from the backlash against the two major parties and there are about 28% of the people in the district that do not identify as Republicans or Democrats," said USF Professor of Political Science Dr. Susan MacManus.

Sink has already raised more than a million dollars and even Jolly admitted on Tuesday night that he won't be able to match the Democrats' war chest.

"They're going to step out way in front of us in paid media. We're going to win on the message. You give me $5 to get our message out and we're going to win this race," Jolly told reporters after defeating state Rep. Kathleen Peters and Mark Bircher in the Republican primary.

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Marco Ricca— A Case for Hacktivism, or how Hackers will Help Build a Libertarian 21st Century – Video

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Marco Ricca A Case for Hacktivism, or how Hackers will Help Build a Libertarian 21st Century
Speech given on Aug 24, 2013 at International Liberty Conference hosted by the International Society for Individual Liberty in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Yolo County Libertarian Party awarding ‘Libery Scholarships’

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The Libertarian Party of Yolo County will announce it Liberty Scholarship program at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, at the Spring Garden Restaurant, 610 Cottonwood Plaza, Woodland.

The program gives three $1,000 scholarships to Yolo County students for college. Members of the party will be hosting other county and city officials in addition to the press as they kick off this opportunity.

The Liberty Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship offered by the Libertarian Party of Yolo County to encourage Yolo County students in their pursuit of higher education. These funds may be used by students to help pay the costs of tuition, books or other school expenses in one of Yolo County's institutions of higher learning or a nearby Sacramento college. It is offered to one graduating high school student, one community college student and one UC Davis student each year.

"The Libertarian way is a caring, people-centered approach to politics. We believe each individual is unique. We want a system that respects the individual and encourages us to discover the best within ourselves and develop our full potential," said party chairman Stephen Blakeman in a statement, "which is why we want to be part of the solution and reach out to those in our community who need some help getting started."

Scholarship applications will be accepted from Jan. 1 through March 31. Winning students will be notified by the Scholarship Committee of the LPYC by April 30.

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D.C. Notebook: Lee gives Paul a drone for his birthday

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D.C. Notebook: Lee gives Paul a drone for his birthday

What do you get the libertarian senator who has just about everything? That was the conundrum facing Sen. Mike Lee with his tea party buddy Sen. Rand Pauls birthday fast approaching. Lee decided to go with a gag gift, buying a tiny, addictively fun, drone.

Lee and Paul have been tight since they both were elected to the Senate in 2010 and given Pauls concern with drones used to target terrorists the senator held the floor for 13 hours last year lambasting the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to kill people domestically without due justice Lee thought his birthday surprise would elicit a laugh. It did.

"My good friend, Senator Mike Lee from Utah, gave me a drone," Paul said Wednesday night on Fox Newss On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.

The Kentucky Republican said he hadnt yet figured out what to do with his new toy thats the size of his hand but he had one idea.

"You may wonder, what am I going to do with a drone? Well, its got a laser. And Ive been trying to get invited to the Democrat lunch for about a year now and they wont invite me. So you know what? I think Im going to send my drone in."

Of course, Senate rules probably wouldnt permit a senator using a drone to spy on the other side of the aisle, but Paul said he was planning to "check" to see if its possible.

Go Weber Utahs federal delegation was all over the celebration of Weber State Universitys 125 anniversary. Lee turned his weekly Jell-O with the Senator event into a tribute, featuring purple gelatin with white whipped cream in homage to the schools colors. Lee posed for an Instagram shot holding a cup of Utahs favorite dessert.

And Lee made sure to celebrate the schools history in a speech to the Senate, even though hes a Brigham Young University graduate.

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Malaysians should use the word ‘liberal’ with caution and more accuracy

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Being a liberal or a libertarian means believing in the rule of law, limited government, individual liberty and responsibility, and the free markets.

Institute for Demoracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) CEO Wan Saiful Wan Jan said the word liberal has been abused to such an extent that its true meaning had been greatly distorted.

In America, the word has been stolen by those who generally believe in greater state intervention (e.g. Obamas Democratic Party).

In Malaysia, some have been trying to associate liberalism with Pakatan Rakyat, Wan Saiful said in a posting on his Facebook, noting that neither of these associations represent liberalism in its classical sense.

He said classical liberalism was usually used in Europe to describe a political philosophy that in the United States would be called libertarianism, with slight differences in its details.

In his posting, Wan Saiful elaborated on four areas which constitute basic libertarian principles rules of law; limited government; individual liberty and responsibility; and free markets.

A libertarians most basic belief could be traced back to the Abrahamic and Greek idea of a higher law, a law by which everyone, including the ruling elites, could be judged.

The advent of Islam strengthened this belief, and reinforced the idea that those in positions of power are not the ultimate source of authority, he said, stressing that authorities were also subjected to the law under a libertarian model.

When contacted, Wan Saiful told theantdaily his posting was originally written last November for a column published in an English daily but was reshared due to its relevance to the ongoing Christian Allah debacle.

The word liberal has been bandied about quite a lot lately (he wrote in November). Most of the time the term is criticised for something completely unrelated to what the word actually means.

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Upshur County Libertarians to meet Tuesday

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The Upshur County Libertarian Party will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Country Cafe, located across from the county Rock Building on U.S. Hwy. 271 in Gilmer. The meeting is open to the public.

State Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) was originally scheduled to speak at Tuesday's meeting, but his appearance has been postponed until the group's Feb. 11 monthly meeting in order to allow him to attend a banquet on Tuesday, said Upshur Libertarian Chairman Vance Lowry.

The Upshur Libertarians, who nominate any local candidates by convention rather than in primary elections, will hold their county convention March 4, at which time they are expected to nominate Peggy LaGrone for County Clerk. Registered voters who do not cast ballots in the March 4 Republican or Democrat primaries are eligible to participate in the Libertarian convention.

Ms. LaGrone, a former Republican who was County Clerk from Jan. 1, 2007 to Dec. 31, 2010, is expected to oppose Republican Terri Ross in the November general election. Mrs. Ross is unopposed for the GOP nomination, and no Democrat is seeking the post.

Incumbent County Clerk Barbara Winchester, appointed to the office last year when Brandy Lee resigned it to become County Auditor, declined to seek election.

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Judge: Ohio cannot change minor party rules for 2014 ballot

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Ohio cannot change the rules on minor parties for the 2014 ballot in mid-game, a federal judge ruled today.

Republican-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Watson in Columbus issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a new law and ordering Secretary of State Jon Husted to follow through with his original directive granting several small parties spots on the primary election ballot.

The ruling, however, applies only to 2014.

Attorney General Mike DeWines office said it had not decided whether to appeal the ruling.

The Libertarian and Green parties had objected to the retroactive application to the current election cycle of a law theyve dubbed the John Kasich Re-election Protection Act. Senate Bill 193, passed by Republicans and signed into law by Mr. Kasich in November, would have voided the Husted directive putting the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Socialist parties on the 2014 ballot.

The upshot of that provision, along with other provisions in the bill, is that minor parties must start from scratch to qualify for ballot access, wrote Judge Watson, a 2004 George W. Bush appointee. if S.B. 193 goes into effect, the nominating petitions already filed by minor party candidates to appear on the 2014 primary election ballot in reliance on [Mr. Husteds directive] would be nullified, and the time and resources expended on those petitions will have been wasted.

The same judge in November put on hold another law passed last year by majority Republicans that raised the bar for proposed constitutional amendments, referenda, and other initiatives to quality for the 2014 ballot.

Once again, the courts stand with us and with the First Amendment rights of all Ohioans to political freedom and suffrage in Ohio, said Kevin Knedler, chairman of the Libertarian executive committee. The foundation of a democratic society is the right to vote and to have real choices on the ballot.

A lot of voters, especially young voters, refuse to be put in either the Republican or Democrat boxes, and the Libertarian Party offers a true alternative for voters who want individual freedom in every area of life, he said.

Under Senate Bill 193, a minor party faced a deadline of 125 days before the November general election to file signatures qualifying its label for the ballot alongside the two major parties. Minor parties would have had to submit enough signatures of registered voters to equal at least 0.5 percent of the vote from the last presidential or gubernatorial election, about 28,000 based on the 2012 election. Of those, 500 would have to come from each of eight of Ohios 16 congressional districts.

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Judge: Ohio cannot change rules in mid-game

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BY JIM PROVANCE BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF

COLUMBUS Ohio cannot change the rules on minor parties for the 2014 ballot in mid-game, a federal judge ruled today.

Republican-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Watson in Columbus issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a new law and ordering Secretary of State Jon Husted to follow through with his original directive granting several small parties spots on the primary election ballot.

The ruling, however, applies only to 2014.

Attorney General Mike DeWines office said it had not decided whether to appeal the ruling.

The Libertarian and Green parties had objected to the retroactive application to the current election cycle of a law theyve dubbed the John Kasich Re-election Protection Act. Senate Bill 193, passed by Republicans and signed into law by Mr. Kasich in November, would have voided the Husted directive putting the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Socialist parties on the 2014 ballot.

The upshot of that provision, along with other provisions in the bill, is that minor parties must start from scratch to qualify for ballot access, wrote Judge Watson, a 2004 George W. Bush appointee. if S.B. 193 goes into effect, the nominating petitions already filed by minor party candidates to appear on the 2014 primary election ballot in reliance on [Mr. Husteds directive] would be nullified, and the time and resources expended on those petitions will have been wasted.

The same judge in November put on hold another law passed last year by majority Republicans that raised the bar for proposed constitutional amendments, referenda, and other initiatives to quality for the 2014 ballot.

Once again, the courts stand with us and with the First Amendment rights of all Ohioans to political freedom and suffrage in Ohio, said Kevin Knedler, chairman of the Libertarian executive committee. The foundation of a democratic society is the right to vote and to have real choices on the ballot.

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Ruling opens path for Libertarian challenger to Kasich

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By Joe Vardon

The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday January 8, 2014 6:00 AM

Gov. John Kasich might have escaped a primary challenge from the right, but a federal judges ruling yesterday made it more likely that the Republican governor could face conservative competition come November.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Watson in Columbus granted a preliminary injunction against GOP-passed legislation that would have made it more difficult for minor-party candidates to reach the ballot. The ruling allows Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Charlie Earl to be in the November race when Kasich seeks re-election.

Senate Bill 193, passed two months ago by Republican legislators and signed hours later by Kasich, would have blocked all minor parties from having a primary on May 5 and significantly raised the number of signatures needed for a minor-party candidate such as Earl to reach the ballot.

The law was dubbed by critics as the John Kasich Re-Election Protection Act, based on perceptions that he had angered conservatives over policies such as Medicaid expansion and that some conservatives would drift toward Earl come Nov. 4.

Kasich won election in 2010 by 2 percentage points (roughly 77,000 votes), and likely Democratic nominee Ed FitzGerald works in Democrat-rich Cleveland, so a siphoning of votes in either direction could make a difference.

Because the law would have gone into effect on Feb. 5 the filing deadline for all primary candidates Watson ruled that it would violate minor-party candidates constitutional rights, and he stopped its immediate implementation.

Earl said of its passage: It was intentional, and it was ludicrous, and the court saw through it.

In his decision issued yesterday, Watson wrote that the Ohio legislature moved the proverbial goal post in the midst of the game.

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Are banks too big to jail?

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Editor's note: Mark Calabria is director of Financial Regulation Studies at The Cato Institute. Lisa Gilbert is director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.

(CNN) -- A libertarian from The Cato Institute and a progressive from Public Citizen may not often agree on politics or what the proper role of government should be, but we agree the public has been kept in the dark on the "too big to jail" issue for too long.

Just over a year ago, many were stunned when the Department of Justice decided not to indict HSBC, headquartered in London an one of the world's largest banks. The Justice Department made this decision despite the fact that the bank willfully failed to comply with anti-money laundering laws.

HSBC's criminal activities seemed to most observers to provide a strong case for the government. These activities included permitting narcotics traffickers to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of drug proceeds through HBSC subsidiaries. It also facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions on behalf of customers in countries that are sanctioned by the United States: Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).

Mark Calabria

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But instead of charging HSBC, the Justice Department entered into a deferred prosecution agreement. Under its terms, the government agreed not to prosecute the company for its actions in exchange for HSBC acknowledging wrongdoing, paying a fine and agreeing to cooperate with the government and remedy its compliance programs. The back's CEO issued a statement accepting responsibility and saying: "The HSBC of today is a fundamentally different organisation from the one that made those mistakes."

One can question the wisdom of our drug war and whether banks should be drafted into law enforcement duties, but those policy questions do not change a bank's duty to comply with the law.

In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing after the settlement, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Attorney General Eric Holder why the government chose not to indict HSBC.

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