Daniel Jahnke has a big comeback in Kirtland’s dual win over Liberty – Video

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Daniel Jahnke overcame an 8-1 deficit to win 10-9 at 120 pounds in Kirtland #39;s 61-18 win over Liberty in the 2015 OHSAA Division III Region 19B quarterfinals on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015.

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Salon.com Founders Speech Blasts His New Bernal Heights Techie Neighbors For Ruining The Vibe

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) The transcript of a recent speech Salon.com founder David Talbot made at Stanford University has spurred some lengthy and heated comment threads.

In it, Talbots paints a grim picture of the future of the City of Love. He chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley, from its birth as the incubator for the technology that helped fight the Cold War, to its present day form a breeding ground for the selfish libertarianism of todays baby tech moguls.

Talbot decries the triumph of techno-capitalism, the machine mentality that all social problems can be engineered away.

He describes his own neighborhood Bernal Heights once home to filmmakers, cartoonists, counterculture artists and community organizers who lived side-by-side with blue-collar workers and Latina grandmothers. Now, he says it is overrun by Teslas and Beamers transformed into what one real estate website crowned the hottest zip code in town.

Talbots rant is not new. Complaints about the changing face of San Francisco and the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods are almost mundane, so common is the practice of urban reclamation and redevelopment. The difference, perhaps, is to hear it from the mouth of someone who admits to having benefited enormously from the wonders of the digital revolution. Sadly, Talbot feels that revolution has grown old and corrupt.

In the end, Talbot challenges his Stanford audience, Are you interested in going public, or in serving the public youre either part of the problem or part of the solution which one are you, a Stanford dick? Or are you different.

Judging from the comments, articles, and reactions to Talbots speech, no one is indifferent. They run the gamut. One commenter wrote, Grow a pair and move on already. The person who wrote that, said it right after another who claims he was reading Talbot as, my wife and I are being evicted from our home of twenty years by a young tech couple. Theres finger pointing at the finger pointers, and they all point back.

Perhaps the ensuing conversations about Talbots speech has spurred are the best part of his rant. Check it out:

READ: Talbots Speech Don't Be a Stanford Asshole.

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Secession Begins at Home

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[This article is adapted from a talk presented at the Houston Mises Circle, January 24, 2015.]

Presumably everyone in this room, or virtually everyone, is here today because you have some interest in the topic of secession. You may be interested in it as an abstract concept or as a viable possibility for escaping a federal government that Americans now fear and distrust in unprecedented numbers.

As Mises wrote in 1927:

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish to belong is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.

Im sure this sentiment is shared by many of you. Mises understood that mass democracy was no substitute for liberal society, but rather the enemy of it. Of course he was right: nearly 100 years later, we have been conquered and occupied by the state and its phony veneer of democratic elections. The federal government is now the putative ruler of nearly every aspect of life in America.

Thats why were here today entertaining the audacious idea of secession an idea Mises elevated to a defining principle of classical liberalism.

Its tempting, and entirely human, to close our eyes tight and resist radical change to live in Americas past.

But to borrow a line from the novelist L.P. Hartley, The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. The America we thought we knew is a mirage; a memory, a foreign country.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is precisely why we should take secession seriously, both conceptually as consistent with libertarianism and as a real alternative for the future.

Does anyone really believe that a physically vast, multicultural, social democratic welfare state of 330 million people, with hugely diverse economic, social, and cultural interests, can be commanded from DC indefinitely without intense conflict and economic strife?

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Why is Deflation So Bad? What Peter Schiff’s Austrian, Libertarian Refuse To Understand. – Video

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Why is Deflation So Bad? What Peter Schiff #39;s Austrian, Libertarian Refuse To Understand.
Any question why Peter Schiff #39;s, Ron Paul (Koch monkeys) Austrian, Libertarian voodoo Economics can never EVER get anything right? Why Every single prediction such as Dollar collapse, Hyper...

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Libertarians: Minority party registration law unfair

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The attorney for the Libertarian Party is asking a federal appeals court to overturn legislation he argued makes it harder to register to vote as a member of a minority political party.

Attorney David Hardy said limiting the checkboxes on voter-registration forms to just Republicans and Democrats is a self-re-enforcing cycle on the part of the two predominant parties.

A person registering to vote is essentially told that there are two real political parties, and some unnamed other ones, Hardy said in his opening brief to a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which conducted a special hearing Thursday at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.

The Arizona Libertarian Party, along with the Green Party, sued Arizonas then-Secretary of State Ken Bennett in December 2011 after the Legislature passed an amendment to an election statute, changing how voters could identify their party of choice.

The paper registration form created under the 2011 amendment offers an option of other, with what Hardy calls a tiny line to fill out voters party preference for those registering as anything other than Republican or Democrat.

Prior to that, the form provided a blank write-in for all party preferences.

Attorney Robert Ellman, representing the state, argued limiting the options to mainstream parties improves the efficiency and accuracy of voter-registration processing and encourages political stability through a healthy two-party system.

Having checkboxes for the two largest political parties will ease the process of reading and counting a substantial number of forms, he said. On the voters part, checking a box is marginally easier than writing the partys name, he added.

According to the states voter registration report, during the 2014 general election, about 1.1 million Arizonans registered as Republicans and about 940,000 as Democrats. About 27,000 people registered as Libertarians.

A figure for the Green Party could not be determined, as the party was dropped from the ballot in November 2013, not having met the legal minimum requirement for the number of people who elected to register as party members.

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Libertarians argue registration law unfair

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The attorney for the Libertarian Party is asking a federal appeals court to overturn legislation he argued makes it harder to register to vote as a member of a minority political party.

Attorney David Hardy said limiting the checkboxes on voter-registration forms to just Republicans and Democrats is a self-re-enforcing cycle on the part of the two predominant parties.

A person registering to vote is essentially told that there are two real political parties, and some unnamed other ones, Hardy said in his opening brief to a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which conducted a special hearing Thursday at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.

The Arizona Libertarian Party, along with the Green Party, sued Arizonas then-Secretary of State Ken Bennett in December 2011 after the Legislature passed an amendment to an election statute, changing how voters could identify their party of choice.

The paper registration form created under the 2011 amendment offers an option of other, with what Hardy calls a tiny line to fill out voters party preference for those registering as anything other than Republican or Democrat.

Prior to that, the form provided a blank write-in for all party preferences.

Attorney Robert Ellman, representing the state, argued limiting the options to mainstream parties improves the efficiency and accuracy of voter-registration processing and encourages political stability through a healthy two-party system.

Having checkboxes for the two largest political parties will ease the process of reading and counting a substantial number of forms, he said. On the voters part, checking a box is marginally easier than writing the partys name, he added.

According to the states voter registration report, during the 2014 general election, about 1.1 million Arizonans registered as Republicans and about 940,000 as Democrats. About 27,000 people registered as Libertarians.

A figure for the Green Party could not be determined, as the party was dropped from the ballot in November 2013, not having met the legal minimum requirement for the number of people who elected to register as party members.

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Hunting the Light : The Northern Light in Henningsvr, Lofoten Islands. Aurora Borealis in Norway. – Video

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Hunting the Light : The Northern Light in Henningsvr, Lofoten Islands. Aurora Borealis in Norway. Aurora Borealis Multimedia is hunting the light in Henningsvr, with a timelapse camera....

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