Dining hall manager DeZarn announces Libertarian candidacy for 14th district state senator - The Daily Princetonian - Michael Grandvetter:
"Donald DeZarn has announced that he will run as the Libertarian candidate in November’s election for state senator of the 14th Legislative District of New Jersey. While his platform includes advocacy for small businesses and free enterprise, he said he also hopes to initiate a dialogue on what he calls “sensitive” issues by openly supporting gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana.
"Because the New Jersey Libertarian Party does not conduct a primary election, DeZarn will automatically be nominated at a statewide Libertarian convention on March 16. He will run against the incumbent Democratic Senator Linda Greenstein. The Republican Party has not yet announced any candidates.
"The 2013 run for state senator will be DeZarn’s first political campaign. He has been employed by Dining Services for the past 17 years, although he took a yearlong military leave in 2005 to serve in the Iraq War."
Read more: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2013/03/06/33007/
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Rand Paul uses 13-hour filibuster to block CIA director nomination amid drone revelations
Rand Paul filibuster goes nearly 13 hours, blocking John Brennan nomination | World | News | National Post: (Associated Press)
March 7, 2013 - "WASHINGTON — A Republican senator and tea party favorite from Kentucky used an old-style filibuster lasting nearly 13 hours to take control of the chamber and block Senate confirmation of John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director.
"Sen. Rand Paul ended his filibuster Thursday shortly after midnight, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, also a Kentucky Republican, said he would continue to oppose Brennan’s confirmation and resist ending the debate on President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the spy agency.
"Paul’s performance, which centered on questions about the possible use of drones against targets in the United States, clearly energized a number of his GOP colleagues, who came to the floor in a show of support and to share in the speaking duties. And even as the night progressed, Paul appeared invigorated despite being on his feet for so long. Actual talking filibusters have become rare in the Senate, where the rules are typically used in procedural ways to block the other party’s agenda."
Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/07/republican-sen-rand-paul-uses-epic-filibuster-to-block-obamas-cia-director-nomination-amid-drone-revelations/
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March 7, 2013 - "WASHINGTON — A Republican senator and tea party favorite from Kentucky used an old-style filibuster lasting nearly 13 hours to take control of the chamber and block Senate confirmation of John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director.
"Sen. Rand Paul ended his filibuster Thursday shortly after midnight, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, also a Kentucky Republican, said he would continue to oppose Brennan’s confirmation and resist ending the debate on President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the spy agency.
"Paul’s performance, which centered on questions about the possible use of drones against targets in the United States, clearly energized a number of his GOP colleagues, who came to the floor in a show of support and to share in the speaking duties. And even as the night progressed, Paul appeared invigorated despite being on his feet for so long. Actual talking filibusters have become rare in the Senate, where the rules are typically used in procedural ways to block the other party’s agenda."
Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/07/republican-sen-rand-paul-uses-epic-filibuster-to-block-obamas-cia-director-nomination-amid-drone-revelations/
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The Libertarian Republican Heritage by Justin Raimondo - Part II
The Libertarian Republican Heritage (Part II) by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com:
March 6, 2013 - "In the summer of 1983, there was a major split in the Libertarian Party.... The split took out a good portion of the Party’s leading activists, and most of the money: although at the time the internal conflict looked to be over organizational and even personal issues, the split went much deeper than that – but it took time for the differences to play out....
"In the wake of what was a debilitating split, two problems with the LP appeared insuperable: 1) it was clear to me, and a few others, that the LP had peaked. After a few years of seemingly unstoppable growth ... we saw no opportunities for further growth, which led to the second big problem with the LP: ballot access laws. More than half the Party’s resources were spent just getting on the ballot: after that, there wasn’t much left to put into actually campaigning.
"It was time, a few of us decided, to enter the Republican party – not as any kind of capitulation to conservatism, or Reaganism, but as an organized group with an ideological agenda. And so, in the summer of 1986, the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee was born."
Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/03/05/the-libertarian-republican-heritage-part-ii/
Part I: http://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-libertarian-republican-heritage-by.html
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March 6, 2013 - "In the summer of 1983, there was a major split in the Libertarian Party.... The split took out a good portion of the Party’s leading activists, and most of the money: although at the time the internal conflict looked to be over organizational and even personal issues, the split went much deeper than that – but it took time for the differences to play out....
"In the wake of what was a debilitating split, two problems with the LP appeared insuperable: 1) it was clear to me, and a few others, that the LP had peaked. After a few years of seemingly unstoppable growth ... we saw no opportunities for further growth, which led to the second big problem with the LP: ballot access laws. More than half the Party’s resources were spent just getting on the ballot: after that, there wasn’t much left to put into actually campaigning.
"It was time, a few of us decided, to enter the Republican party – not as any kind of capitulation to conservatism, or Reaganism, but as an organized group with an ideological agenda. And so, in the summer of 1986, the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee was born."
Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/03/05/the-libertarian-republican-heritage-part-ii/
Part I: http://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-libertarian-republican-heritage-by.html
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Joseph S. Diedrich interviews Jeffrey Tucker
Libertarian America: A conversation with Jeffrey Tucker | Washington Times Communities - Joseph S. Diedrich:
March 3, 2013 - "Jeffrey Tucker is the Executive Editor of Laissez-Faire Books and the primus inter pares of the Laissez-Faire Club, which seeks to apply 'a conventional commercial model of the digital world, like Pandora or Spotify, to the topical area of classical liberalism.' He has written three books on libertarian ideas: Bourbon for Breakfast, It’s a Jetsons World, and A Beautiful Anarchy....
"Born and raised in Texas, Tucker studied at Howard Payne University and Texas Tech University. He was a graduate student at George Mason University and is an alumnus of the National Journalism Center. Today, he is widely known and recognized for his omnipresent bowties.
"I spoke again with Tucker recently. Here is some of that conversation:"
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/business-living/2013/mar/3/books-bowties-and-bourbon-conversation-jeffrey-tuc/#ixzz2Miudgj9s
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March 3, 2013 - "Jeffrey Tucker is the Executive Editor of Laissez-Faire Books and the primus inter pares of the Laissez-Faire Club, which seeks to apply 'a conventional commercial model of the digital world, like Pandora or Spotify, to the topical area of classical liberalism.' He has written three books on libertarian ideas: Bourbon for Breakfast, It’s a Jetsons World, and A Beautiful Anarchy....
"Born and raised in Texas, Tucker studied at Howard Payne University and Texas Tech University. He was a graduate student at George Mason University and is an alumnus of the National Journalism Center. Today, he is widely known and recognized for his omnipresent bowties.
"I spoke again with Tucker recently. Here is some of that conversation:"
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/business-living/2013/mar/3/books-bowties-and-bourbon-conversation-jeffrey-tuc/#ixzz2Miudgj9s
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Monday, March 4, 2013
The Libertarian Republican Heritage
by Justin Raimondo -- Part 1
The Libertarian Republican Heritage by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com:
Part I: From the Old Right to the New Nixon: Downhill All the Way
March 4, 2013 "The Republican party wasn’t always the party of war, unlimited military spending, and reckless foreign entanglements. There is a long albeit largely unknown tradition of opposition to militarism in the GOP, starting with the so-called "isolationist" opposition to US intervention in World War II and continuing right up until the 1960s....
"The conservative wing of the Republican party had been at the center of opposition to US entry into World War II. They had rightly feared two things: 1) that the war would rescue the Soviet Union from certain destruction, and 2) that we would defeat national socialism on the battlefield, only to find it had triumphed on the home front. In his public pronouncements, President Franklin Roosevelt bowed to popular opinion, which was overwhelmingly opposed to entering the European war, while slowly but surely – and covertly – involving us on the side of Great Britain. He was opposed in this by a coalition of conservative Republicans and Midwestern progressives, such as the Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who resisted the New Deal as a quasi-totalitarian betrayal of American ideals, and who also saw foreign intervention as a way for the New Dealers to further centralize power in Washington and cement their own dominance of the political landscape."
"The major anti-war organization of that time, the America First Committee, was founded and funded by conservative Republican Midwestern businessmen, such as Gen. Robert E. Woods, the head of Sears & Roebuck, and Henry Regnery, a Chicago businessman who would later go on to establish the first large scale conservative book publisher.... At its height, the Committee had 800,000 dues-paying members, and the sympathies of 75 percent of the American people.
"In those days, it was the left that constituted the core of the War Party. While ostensibly opposed to US intervention in principle, the far-left – that is, the Communist Party and its fellow travelers – turned on a dime the moment Germany invaded the Soviet Union. From that point on, it was the Communists who were in the vanguard of the War Party: it was they who led the vicious attack [on] the America Firsters as pro-Nazi and demanded they be prosecuted for treason....
"When war finally came, the America First Committee dissolved.... Rationing was imposed: the economy was militarized, and a wave of political repression swept the nation from coast to coast, as thousands of Japanese-Americans were put in concentration camps and political dissenters from both sides of the political spectrum were charged with 'sedition.' The federal government spent 43 percent of the gross domestic product in the years 1943-45.... A country that had once been the freest on earth was now only half-free, with the rudiments of the welfare state established and thriving. Worse, the outlines of the American empire began to take shape: far from freeing the US from the alleged necessity of meddling in the affairs of other nations, our victory only presaged a deeper involvement."
Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/03/03/the-libertarian-republican-heritage/
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Part I: From the Old Right to the New Nixon: Downhill All the Way
March 4, 2013 "The Republican party wasn’t always the party of war, unlimited military spending, and reckless foreign entanglements. There is a long albeit largely unknown tradition of opposition to militarism in the GOP, starting with the so-called "isolationist" opposition to US intervention in World War II and continuing right up until the 1960s....
"The conservative wing of the Republican party had been at the center of opposition to US entry into World War II. They had rightly feared two things: 1) that the war would rescue the Soviet Union from certain destruction, and 2) that we would defeat national socialism on the battlefield, only to find it had triumphed on the home front. In his public pronouncements, President Franklin Roosevelt bowed to popular opinion, which was overwhelmingly opposed to entering the European war, while slowly but surely – and covertly – involving us on the side of Great Britain. He was opposed in this by a coalition of conservative Republicans and Midwestern progressives, such as the Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who resisted the New Deal as a quasi-totalitarian betrayal of American ideals, and who also saw foreign intervention as a way for the New Dealers to further centralize power in Washington and cement their own dominance of the political landscape."
"The major anti-war organization of that time, the America First Committee, was founded and funded by conservative Republican Midwestern businessmen, such as Gen. Robert E. Woods, the head of Sears & Roebuck, and Henry Regnery, a Chicago businessman who would later go on to establish the first large scale conservative book publisher.... At its height, the Committee had 800,000 dues-paying members, and the sympathies of 75 percent of the American people.
"In those days, it was the left that constituted the core of the War Party. While ostensibly opposed to US intervention in principle, the far-left – that is, the Communist Party and its fellow travelers – turned on a dime the moment Germany invaded the Soviet Union. From that point on, it was the Communists who were in the vanguard of the War Party: it was they who led the vicious attack [on] the America Firsters as pro-Nazi and demanded they be prosecuted for treason....
"When war finally came, the America First Committee dissolved.... Rationing was imposed: the economy was militarized, and a wave of political repression swept the nation from coast to coast, as thousands of Japanese-Americans were put in concentration camps and political dissenters from both sides of the political spectrum were charged with 'sedition.' The federal government spent 43 percent of the gross domestic product in the years 1943-45.... A country that had once been the freest on earth was now only half-free, with the rudiments of the welfare state established and thriving. Worse, the outlines of the American empire began to take shape: far from freeing the US from the alleged necessity of meddling in the affairs of other nations, our victory only presaged a deeper involvement."
Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/03/03/the-libertarian-republican-heritage/
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Cato Institute: Sequestration won't adversely affect most Americans
Cato Institute to Malzberg: Sequestration Won’t Devastate Most People - Bill Hoffmann, Newsmax:
March 1, 2013 - "Yes, it’s serious, but sequestration will not have cataclysmic consequences for the average person as some have feared, according to Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
"'If you receive a government paycheck or you’re a government contractor … there’s going to be a certain amount of pain in the future,' Tanner told Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV’s The Steve Malzberg Show.... 'But for the average American, I don’t think they’re going to see anywhere near the type of consequences that we’re hearing about.'
"Tanner ... said the amount of the cut in question is far less than everybody thinks. 'They keep talking about $85 billion, but the reality is $41 billion of that is cuts in future years that are attributed budgetarily to this year but don’t actually occur.... If it’s $44 billion, which I believe it is, it’s 1.2 percent of federal spending, and that’s from a budget that’s set to increase.'"
"Tanner said the government will actually will spend more money ... next year than it did this year. 'So we’re not even reducing spending. We’re simply slowing the rate of growth,' he said.'"
Read more: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Cato-Institute-Steve-Malzberg/2013/03/01/id/492737
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March 1, 2013 - "Yes, it’s serious, but sequestration will not have cataclysmic consequences for the average person as some have feared, according to Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
"'If you receive a government paycheck or you’re a government contractor … there’s going to be a certain amount of pain in the future,' Tanner told Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV’s The Steve Malzberg Show.... 'But for the average American, I don’t think they’re going to see anywhere near the type of consequences that we’re hearing about.'
"Tanner ... said the amount of the cut in question is far less than everybody thinks. 'They keep talking about $85 billion, but the reality is $41 billion of that is cuts in future years that are attributed budgetarily to this year but don’t actually occur.... If it’s $44 billion, which I believe it is, it’s 1.2 percent of federal spending, and that’s from a budget that’s set to increase.'"
"Tanner said the government will actually will spend more money ... next year than it did this year. 'So we’re not even reducing spending. We’re simply slowing the rate of growth,' he said.'"
Read more: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Cato-Institute-Steve-Malzberg/2013/03/01/id/492737
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Libertarian Party of Kentucky holding annual convention this weekend
Libertarian Party of Kentucky Holding Annual Convention This Weekend | WFPL - Philip M. Bailey:
March 1, 2013 - "The Libertarian Party of Kentucky is gathering in Bowling Green this weekend for its annual convention.
"Last year, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson received less than one percent of the vote in Kentucky and the party has no officeholders at the state or federal level.
"But the party has seen a 30 percent increase in registration over the past nine months, and recently opened up new chapters in Boone and Campbell county.
"Ken Moellman is a former libertarian candidate for state treasurer and is chairing the convention. He says reaching local voters is becoming equally important to the party, and more candidates will be running for those offices in the coming "
Read more: http://www.wfpl.org/post/libertarian-party-kentucky-holding-annual-convention-weekend
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March 1, 2013 - "The Libertarian Party of Kentucky is gathering in Bowling Green this weekend for its annual convention.
"Last year, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson received less than one percent of the vote in Kentucky and the party has no officeholders at the state or federal level.
"But the party has seen a 30 percent increase in registration over the past nine months, and recently opened up new chapters in Boone and Campbell county.
"Ken Moellman is a former libertarian candidate for state treasurer and is chairing the convention. He says reaching local voters is becoming equally important to the party, and more candidates will be running for those offices in the coming "
Read more: http://www.wfpl.org/post/libertarian-party-kentucky-holding-annual-convention-weekend
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