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Learn from Libertarians | Commentary | thestatehousefile.com – The Statehouse File

Posted: March 10, 2024 at 5:54 am

My Republican and Democratic friends could learn a lot from my Libertarian friends.

No, I'm not talking about the general libertarian philosophy of less intrusive government, more personal responsibility and individual liberty and freedom. Now, my Republican friends will say they believe in all those things, but let's be honest. These days, instead of governing as social conservatives, they seem more like conservative socialists, but I digress.

No, what Im talking about is how Libertarians choose their candidates for public office, as opposed to Republicans and Democrats who have taxpayers foot the bill.

Not long ago in Fishers, Libertarians from across the state of Indiana got together and held their annual convention where they chose candidates for the U.S. senate, governor, lieutenant governor and several other offices.

And they did it on their own dime. No taxpayers had to foot the bill for what is basically a private, political function.

Now juxtapose that to the latest antics in the Republican and Democrat world.

In the D and R world, you cant run in a Republican or Democrat primary unless you voted in two of those respective primaries or you get a letter from your county chairperson saying its okay to do so.

If you think this is easy to do, just ask John Rust, who is trying/or tried to get on the ballot to challenge Jim Banks. All the legal back and forth in this matter has made my head spin like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. And when it was done all I wanted to do was throw up pea soup.

I have no problem with political parties picking their candidates; however, I do have a problem with an exclusionary process when it's the taxpayers who are footing the bill. If the taxpayers are going to foot the bill for political parties to pick their candidates, then the process should be more open, and as long as you meet the constitutional qualifications for the office, you should be allowed to run.

If thats not what my Republican and Democratic friends want to do, then they should pay for their own selection process. They should hold a convention, a caucus, or whatever, and pick their candidates and present them to the voters. Heck, they already do it now. It happens at their statewide conventions. The delegates get together and choose who they want to represent the party at the ballot box.

This year, Republicans and Democrats will choose candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general and with the exception of lieutenant governor on the Democratic side, there are competitive races on both sides.

Why should Republicans have to pay for Democrats to choose their candidates, and why should Republicans have to pay for Democrats to choose their candidates?

Heres a thought: everyone pays for their own selection process.

Now, if we are going to keep the current primary system, it should be an open one. In the open system, I recommend that the candidates show up on the ballot: Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, anarchist and the voters pick the candidate. The top vote-getter (50 to 60%) is declared the winner of the general election. If no one gets 50 percent, then the top two vote-getters face each other in a runoff.

And heres another added benefit.

Part of the reason our politics is so polarized is because a lot of districts are so gerrymandered that the only way to win is in a primary. And since only more diehard Ds and Rs participate, the only way to win is usually to run further to the right or to the left than where the general electorate is and therefore, we get a much more polarized legislative body. And on top of that, more bills are introduced to cater to the far right or far left and the folks in the middle (which is most of the electorate) are left with no place to go.

So, we can either switch to a nomination process for candidate selection or a more open primary system. Either one is much better than the system we have now.

Which why I said at the start of this column my Republican and Democratic friends can learn a lot from my Libertarian buddies.

Abdul-Hakim Shabazzis the editor and publisher ofIndy Politics. He is also a licensed attorney in both Indiana and Illinois.

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Review: Sheriff in ‘Fargo’ Gives Libertarians a Bad Name – Reason

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Season five of showrunner Noah Hawley's TV version ofFargotells a violence-filled story exploring domestic abuse, PTSD, the concept of debt (on multiple levels), and the purpose and efficacy of the institutions of marriageandpolice.

Its villain is designed to cause discomfort for libertarians: Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), who self-identifies as a libertarian and a constitutionalist, and does seem to adhere to a certain peculiar right-wing belief in the county sheriff as the main source of authority. The only libertarianish qualities he evinces are a contempt for the FBI and the ability to recite a few silly, pointless laws. But the writers seem to want his stated ideology to add spice to the audience's dislike of him for being an abusing, murdering, and corrupt bully laundering his own rage and sin through a twisted vision of God.

In one scene, Tillman says he'd rather see orphans fight each other for sport than help them, and another character accuses him of being like a babycrying for freedom with no responsibility. The whole thing is reminiscent of when on old college pal thinks he istotally crushinglibertarianism with a masterful Facebook post.

If Tillman becomes smart quality TV fans' go-to image of libertarians, replacing the weirdly obsessed but well-meaning Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation, it will be a shame. But hopefully a smart viewer will know, when Tillman calls on the spirit of western resisters of federal power such as Ammon Bundy and LaVoy Finicum, that it's no part of any proven public record that either man ever did anything a hundredth as evil as Tillman does in pretty much every episode.

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Why Libertarianism Is Not Mainstream (But Should Be) | Henry Gardella – Foundation for Economic Education

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Donald Rainwater to lead Indiana Libertarian ticket as party chooses its 2024 nominees – WFYI

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Donald Rainwater was the Libertarian Party of Indiana's nominee for governor in 2020, earning the highest vote total for a Libertarian candidate in state history.

The Indiana Libertarian Party chose its 2024 nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and U.S. Senate this weekend and the ticket includes some familiar names.

Donald Rainwater will lead Indianas Libertarian Party ticket, making a second consecutive run for governor. In 2020, Rainwater a software engineer garnered the highest vote total by a Libertarian candidate in state history, earning more than 11 percent in the gubernatorial race.

His running mate is Tonya Hudson, a southern Indiana real estate broker who previously ran as a Libertarian for Congress in 2020 and 2022.

And the Libertarian Partys nominee for U.S. Senate this year is perennial candidate Andrew Horning. Horning has run for Senate once before, in 2012. Hes also been the partys nominee for governor twice and run for Congress as a Libertarian five times.

Join the conversation and sign up for the Indiana Two-Way. Text "Indiana" to 765-275-1120. Your comments and questions in response to our weekly text help us find the answers you need on statewide issues, including our project Civically, Indiana.

Ballot access in Indiana is determined by the number of votes earned in the race for secretary of state.

While Libertarians have automatic ballot access, they have not garnered enough votes to have primary elections. The partys nominees are chosen at a state convention.

Brandon is our Statehouse bureau chief. Contact him atbsmith@ipbs.org or follow him on Twitter at @brandonjsmith5.

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Could the Libertarian Party nominate RKF Jr.? – NewsNation Now

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2024 election: These Libertarians will be on Indiana’s ballot – IndyStar

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Iwj Creators Imagine Adventure In Lagos Of The Future – Bossip

Posted: March 6, 2024 at 3:55 pm

If youve been looking for a fun watch for the entire family to enjoy, look no further than Iwj, streaming on Disney + now!

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Kugali filmmakersdirector Olufikayo Ziki Adeola, production designer Hamid Ibrahim and cultural consultant Toluwalakin Olowofoyeku spoke with BOSSIP about their new Disney series Iwj. The project tells the story of a privileged island girl Tola and her friend Kole as they face tremendous danger from an evil man and his formidable helpers. Powered by their unique friendship, the pair use technology to overcome all obstacles!

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The series is set in a futuristic Lagos, but the Kugali team used the real Nigerian city as their main source of inspiration.

Lagos is a huge city, one of the biggest cities in in in the world, so representing its entirety in a six episode miniseries is beyond the scope of that particular project, Olufikayo Ziki Adeola told BOSSIP.

Nevertheless, we wanted the show to at least give people a snapshot into the feel of Lagos, so although we feature a finite number of areas, the breadth of the areas that we feature give a representation as to the to the larger Lagos in many ways.

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Lagos is divided into the island where the wealthy live, and the mainland where the working class and those less fortunate live, and the physical locations that we go to in the story in both places give you a very clear sense, Adeola continued. So even though we feature one specific area of the island, if you go to almost anywhere in the island, having watched the show, you wont feel like a fish out of water. Similarly in the mainland I think a lot of the mainland is centered in a specific place but if you go to other parts of the mainland, theyre also quite similar. So the key thing here is giving people a feel for Lagos and building something that is authentic.

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Viewers are sure to love the advanced technology featured in Iwj, including flying cars, robot pets and more.

The first thing I looked at was Where is Lagos, Nigeria right now? What would that future look like? Hamid Ibrahim told BOSSIP. I tried to avoid outside influences as much as I can but we try to make it make sense for the Lagos were building and with Lagos everything was almost a consequence of the other thing. With the cars, in Lagos everybody I drives in a really crazy way, the traffic is insane so the way the cars are built they have spherical wheels because you can move in every direction right, left, back, front, very easily and that allows you to dodge around that craziness of traffic and then the wheels open up so you can fly. Of course they have flying cars! I dont know why, maybe it just looks cool, but the specific reason was if youre in Lagos traffic and you have enough money to fly over the traffic, you are going to fly over the traffic! So you have the flying cars to fly over the traffic. In Lagos, on the streets, a lot of vendors come to sell you stuff at your [car] window. In this world, youre up in the air if youre the most wealthy person. The venors want to reach the most wealthy people and make more money so they create drones that can fly up there to sell this stuff, so everything was built to serve real life Lagos where it is right now and kind of extend the vision of that 100 years from now and kind of build the possibility of it.

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The Lagos of Iwj is one where class issues continue to persist and our beloved Tola is too young to fully understand the dangers ahead. Her best friend Kole has a better idea of the realities of the world and they end up being put to the ultimate test of their relationship.

The relationship between these two characters very was very deliberate because I wanted to give viewers the ability to experience a breadth of perspectives, Adeola told BOSSIP. With Tola you have a young girl who lives an affluent and privileged life and in Kole you have a young man who has had to deal with a significant amount of struggle in his life. When I reflect on my own childhood, I definitely was more in the Tola camp in terms of the conditions in which I grew up, and I often never could really fully understand the circumstances of people like Kole because there is such a huge division between these two worlds, even though you have people from the the mainland or from poorer communities coming to the wealthier communities to to work and and do a variety of of of tasks, it almost felt like we were of two separate worlds and I think part of what the story tries to achieve is how do we potentially bridge this gap.

Iwj is streaming exclusively on Disney+.

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Startup backed by Tesla investor says preorders for its $300,000 futuristic flying car have reached 2,850 – CNBC

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Startup backed by Tesla investor says preorders for its $300,000 futuristic flying car have reached 2,850  CNBC

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Cybertruck Crashes, Entire Wheel Ripped Off – Futurism

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At least the hotel's sign is fine. Stop Sign

Another day, another Cybertruck mishap and this one crashed into the Beverly Hills Hotel sign.

Images from the collision show the futuristic steel-silver pickup stopped headfirst at the base of the palm-lined sign. It appears that the front right wheel was ripped clean off, while the driver-side wheel was close to joining it.

While the iconic signage was fortunately unharmed in the incident, the reputation of the hotel's valets took something of a hit after a prankster decided to "joke" that one of the hotel's valets had been driving the Cybertruck when it crashed.

Naturally, TMZ and othersran with the valet story, and Elon Musk himself weighed in on the platform he owns to suggest that the misidentified hotel worker who crashed the vehicle might have been caught off guard by its raw power.

"Cyberbeast is faster than a Porsche 911, but looks like a truck," Musk tweeted, "so perhaps the valet wasnt expecting so much acceleration."

But the hotel's parent company, the Dorchester Collection, later told TMZ through a spokesperson that none of its valets were involved in the crash.

Notably, there was a significantly more dangerous Cybertruck crash that went viral on the Musk-owned social network over the weekend and in that case, the driver definitely doesn't appear to be at fault.

As Phoenix-based lawyer Matthew Chiarello said in a post on X, his Cybertruck experienced a "catastrophe [sic] failure with steering and brakes" while he was taking a road trip with his wife and toddler.

As if that weren't bad enough, the attorney noted that Tesla's service center wasn't open when he tried to reach it. In the post, Chiarello shared a photo of his truck being loaded onto a flatbed truck, and quipped that the whole situation was "pretty pretty pretty not good."

Now that Cybertrucks are on the road, we're going to keep seeing these kinds of mishaps, which do seem, as the Phoenix lawyer said, "pretty pretty pretty not good" indeed.

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Scientists Intrigued by Moving Sand Dune With Star-Like Arms – Futurism

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While giant "star dunes" have been observed all over the world, their age and origin have remained something of a mystery but now, new findings could shed light on these magnificent desert structures.

In an interview withThe Guardian, Earth scientist Geoff Duller, one of the researchers behind a new paper about a star dune he and his colleagues studied in the Sahara called Lala Lallia, touted how amazing these slow-moving structures are.

"They are extraordinary things, one of the natural wonders of the world," Duller, who chairs Wales' University of Aberystwyth, told the British newspaper. "From the ground they look like pyramids but from the air you see a peak and radiating off it in three or four directions these arms that make them look like stars."

Created by winds blowing in three different directions, the structures are extraordinary for a whole 'nother reason as well: they appear to move about 19 inches per year, adding to their mystery.

As noted in a press release from Wales' Aberystwyth University about the research, which was just published in the journal Scientific Advances, star dunes like Lala Lallia have been observed in deserts all over the world and elsewhere in our Solar System, but have rarely been found on Earth's rocky geological record. It now appears that part of the reason why they haven't been found written in stone is because, as it turns out, they're pretty young.

"These findings will probably surprise a lot of people as we can see how quickly this enormous dune formed," Duller explained.

"Quickly," however, is a relative term.

As the geographer and his colleagues at the University College London found using a bespoke sand luminescence dating technique, the oldest parts of Lala Lallia which means "highest sacred point" in the Berber language are some 13,000 years old.

While that seems ancient by human standards, it is indeed fairly recent on the geographic scale, which deals in the hundreds of thousands and millions of years when discussing mountains and other such venerable formations.

What's more, the youngest part of the dune formed within the last thousand years, which is the blink of an eye on a geological time scale.

At more than 200 feet high and nearly 2,300 feet wide, Lala Lallia isn't even the planet's largest sand star. That distinction, as the school's press release notes, belongs to the star dunes of China's Badain Jaran Desert that reach almost 1,000 feet into the sky.

More on deserts: NASA Rover Spots Dead Mars Helicopter in Its "Final Resting Place"

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