MLK Says....

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Davis On The Issues - The Series

The United States has one of the highest tax rates on her workforce in the world, especially on businesses and business owners. Abolishing the Internal Revenue Service and the complicated Tax Code has been offered as a solution and to be replaced with a “Fair Tax” system. What do you feel is the best solution for the mess that the tax system has become and what avenue do you believe the government should use to raise revenue?

"I believe the primary issue is to reduce the size and scope (and thus cost) of the federal government to its constitutional limits. We can then establish what revenue is actually needed for the federal government to exercise its constitutional duties and powers. I believe it should be provided by a system of excise taxes and user fees replacing the income tax (and the IRS), supplemented if necessary by a system of consumption tax on all consumption beyond basic needs at established and defined levels for food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and health care. (Meanwhile we need aggressive action to reduce and ultimately pay off the national debt, with strict limits on any new borrowing for long term capital projects in the absence of emergencies like war.)"

Dr. Richard Davis

2010 District 1 Congressional Candidate for The Maryland Libertarian Party

MLK Says....

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Masonic Conspiracies or Truth?

"When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty."

George Mason

Libertarian Quote of the Day

"No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words no and not employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights. "

Edmund A. Opitz

Freddy's Bar Fighting Eminent Domain in Brooklyn

Libertarian Quote of the Day

"It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by Congress. "

David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom

MLK Says....

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Julian Sanchez evaluates the Patriot Act.

The Truth

"A great many laws in a country, like many physicians, is a sign of malady. "

Voltaire

On Moral Hazard

Great American Quotes

"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all."

Justice William O. Douglas

Bioethics and the Progressive Neocons

Some progressives have progressed so far that they've become technophobic reactionaries.

Ronald Bailey | January 12, 2010

Let's play a game. Take a minute to guess the background political ideologies behind each of the quotes below dealing with the ethical implications of new biotechnologies:

(1) "The technologies are going to be accessible to affluent couples and would be used in ways that could increase inequality. The last thing we need now is a genetic elite.”

(2) “Practically speaking, cloning is the opening wedge for a series of technologies that ultimately lead to designer babies. If cloning is allowed now, it will be harder to oppose germ-line engineering to enhance babies in the future.”

(3) "Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."

(4) “Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by cloning would radically alter the very definition of what a human being is.” READ MORE REASON

Dr. Davis On The Issues - The Series

One of the toughest decisions Congress must make is whether or not to authorize the President to go to war. The two current military operations, Iraq and Afghanistan, are obviously two different situations. Would you have authorized the President on either of those situations? And why or why not?

"Assuming information to confirm links of the Afghan terrorist camps to 9/11, with refusal of the Afghan government to cooperate, I would have voted for war on Afghanistan to the extent of eradicating the camps and terrorists, followed by our withdrawal. I believe we should at that point have focused our intelligence resources on monitoring for any signs of recurrence, in Afghanistan or elsewhere. In the absence of extensive further information, I would not have voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq. I have yet to see any evidence of real justification for it and I believe there should be VERY high standard of proof to justify a declaration of war. I do believe that there are times and places where it is justified and necessary to go to war, but that these times and places are few and far between – which is why this power is reserved to the entire Congress in the Constitution, that it not be resorted to very easily or too hastily."

Dr. Richard Davis

2010 District 1 Congressional Candidate for The Maryland Libertarian Party

MLK Says....

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Michael Swartz Provides Us With a Great Charitable Opportunity

A use for Al Gore’s writings is found!

Apparently struggling seniors in Britain need help, the above link provides the necessary information.

Libertarian Quote of the Day

"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. "

Harry Browne

Hitler on Rhetoric

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."

Adolf Hitler

Reason Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan discusses new TSA restrictions on RT - January 4, 2010

Headlines & Commentary

Headline: Dodd Retirement Leaves Financial Future Up in the Air
Comment: Yeah, it will help the Financial Furture with his grubby hands out of it.

Headline: Top Senate Dem apologizes for describing then-Sen. Obama as 'light skinned' and 'with no Negro dialect'
Comment: LOL. Certainly helps his re-election efforts. The other thing many ignore is the inherent racism in the Democratic Party. It comes out in stupid comments, VP Biden is perfect example.

Headline: Obama Highlights Immediate Benefits of Health Bill
Comment: Just like the Stimulus Bill would immediately create jobs.

Headline: Schwarzenegger Calls Health Care Bill a 'Rip-Off'
Comment: Ohh, I almost forgot he is a Republican.

Headline: Bank CEOs to face Congress CNNMoney
Comment: Not sure if that would scare me or the thought of - ROAD TRIP.... on a private jet.

Headline: GOP aides clash over Michael Steele
Comment: Apparently Steele does not think that Republicans can regain the House. So he is not to think independently. He is not allowed to see reality or freely express it. No wonder the GOP is on the decline. Nobody is willing to see reality and change.

Headline: For NBC, one bad decision after another Complaints about Leno's show not being funny, audiences and advertisers not satisfied. They are second guessing not having scripted programs instead.
Comment: First, these critics obviously didn't stay up to watch the the "Tonight Show", "Leno" is essentially the same format. Second, there has not been enough quality scripted programming available because of Cable Networks USA, TBS, TNT, FX, and Premium Channels producing their own original content. This has also led to the over saturation of Reality TV. With CBS having the best actors, writers, and shows (NCIS, The CSI Franchise, and the best new shows) the other networks are stuck with mediocrity.

Comments are provided by Muir W. Boda and do not necessarily represent the opinions or platform of the Libertarian Party.

War

"War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support."

Gen. Colin Powell

Jon Stewart Realizes Barack Obama is George Bush

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We're the TSA and You Can Count on Us! (to overreact to tiny threats and ignore big ones)

CATO's Chris Edwards New Paper

Cost-Cutting Needed at State and Local Level

State and local governments face large budget deficits as revenues have stagnated and spending has remained at high levels. To reduce deficits, large savings can be found in the generous compensation packages of the nation's 20 million state and local workers. In a new paper, Cato scholar Chris Edwards examines state and local compensation costs, with a focus on the lucrative pensions enjoyed by public sector workers.

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Employment Compensation in State and Local Governments

Libertarian Quote of the Day

"Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. "

Jack Hugh

Libertarian Party wants open health care negotiations

WASHINGTON - The Libertarian Party (LP) calls on President Obama to not break yet another campaign promise by directing Congress to have an open, televised format for all future negotiations on the health care overhaul bills under consideration in Congress.

In 2008, then-Senator Obama promised at least eight times on the campaign trail to have open, transparent negotiations regarding a health care overhaul bill. That promise has been broken. Most substantive negotiations have occurred behind closed doors, not "on C-SPAN" as the President repeatedly promised.

The LP urges President Obama and Congressional leaders to hold all future negotiations in an open, televised format, as the President promised.

William Redpath, LP National Chairman, commented, "The President has no power to force Congress to hold televised negotiations, but he is clearly the driving force behind the health care legislation being considered by the Congress. Unfortunately, the President doesn't want to keep his promise. And, we all know why. Public approval of health care overhaul is down to about 40% and is sure to plummet further once a little sunshine is inserted into the legislative process."

Redpath continued, "Open negotiations would let Americans see how esthetically pleasing sausage making is when compared to Congress' negotiation process and the details of the health care legislation. The public would gain a much better understanding of how horrible this legislation is. President Obama and Democratic Party leaders probably think open negotiations would create a public groundswell that would effectively kill their ill-considered remake of one-sixth of the American economy that would likely bring the day of our next financial crisis that much closer."

Redpath concluded, "Government has an enormous cost estimate credibility problem. When Medicare Part A started in 1965, the projected cost in 1990 was $9 billion. It turned out to be $67 billion. When Medicaid's special hospitals subsidy was added in 1987, it was only supposed to cost $100 million per year, but, by 1992, it cost 110 times that amount. If the government is wrong by a factor of 7.5 or more this time, the result will truly be catastrophic for the US economy."

The LP opposes both the House and Senate versions of the current health care overhaul bill.

On the subject of health care, the LP Platform states:

We favor restoring and reviving a free market health care system. We recognize the freedom of individuals to determine the level of health insurance they want, the level of health care they want, the care providers they want, the medicines and treatments they will use and all other aspects of their medical care, including end-of-life decisions.

For more information, or to arrange an interview, call LP Executive Director Wes Benedict at 202-333-0008 ext. 222.

The LP is America's third-largest political party, founded in 1971. The Libertarian Party stands for free markets and civil liberties. You can find more information on the Libertarian Party at our website.

Sam Adams on a Sunday Afternoon

"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."

Samuel Adams

Real World DC (Health Care Remix)

President Jefferson Says.....

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. "

Thomas Jefferson

Libertarian Quote of the Day

"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic."

H.L. Mencken

The future of airport security

Henry Payne | January 8, 2010