Libertarians for Ron Paul

Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation looks at problems with Sen. McCain’s proposal for a summer “gas tax holiday” and proposes a better solution to lift the tax burden from drivers - privatise the roads http://www.reason.org/outofcontrol/archives/2008/04/mccains_gas_tax.html

Ontheissues.org has a page detailing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s views on War & Peace drawn from public sources  http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Hillary_Clinton_War_+_Peace.htm

The eleventh item is chilling:

“ On March 21, 1999, Hillary expressed her views by phone to the President: “I urged him to bomb.” The Clintons argued the issue over the next few days. [The President expressed] what-ifs: What if bombing promoted more executions? What if it took apart the NATO alliance? Hillary responded, “You cannot let this go on at the end of a century that has seen the major holocaust of our time. What do we have NATO for if not to defend our way of life?” The next day the President declared that force was necessary.”

Source: Hillary’s Choice by Gail Sheehy, p.345 Dec 9, 1999

Antiwar libertarians have often invoked the insight of Randolph Bourne, who noted that “war is the health of the state.” Perhaps more to the point, war has all too often meant, along with death and destruction, the wholesale obliteration of individual rights.

Congressman Ron Paul has opposed the Iraq War and invoked the concepts of Just War Theory, particularly within the constraints of Christian Doctrine. Just War Theory is a broader philosophical category, including secular philosophers and classical liberals. George H. Smith presents an outstanding examination of Just War Theory in the May 2008 Liberty Magazine, online @ http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2008_05/smith-war.html

“Forget campaign promises. The next president will face a stack of unpaid bills.”

Nicholas von Hoffman looks at the mess that the next President will inherit. Makes you wonder how the Democrats can promise new social programs, and Sen. McCain can commit America to 100 years in Iraq.

Read it and weep at The American Conservative http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_04_07/cover.html

Dr. Michael Munger was nominated as the Libertarian candidate for North Carolina Governor today at the party’s state convention in Burlington. Dr. Munger is a professor and chair of the Duke University political science, economics, and public policy departments.

“We have have planted the tree of liberty, now it’s time to pick the fruit,” Dr. Munger told the convention after the unanimous vote.

His campaign themes will be controlling municipal aggression against property, establishing a broad-based education vouchers system, ending corporate welfare, and imposing a moratorium on capital punishment.

“We’re not the third party in North Carolina,” Dr. Munger declared. “In many legislative districts we are the second party, since nearly half of the General Assembly seats are unopposed races.”

Read the rest @ http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/14/nc-libertarians-nominate-duke-poli-sci-professor-as-gubernatorial-candidate/

“Last month, the House amended the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government’s ability to monitor our private communications. This measure, if it becomes law, will result in more warrantless government surveillance of innocent American citizens.”

“Though some opponents claimed that the only controversial part of this legislation was its grant of immunity to telecommunications companies, there is much more to be wary of in the bill.”

Congressman Ron Paul looks at the latest police state power grab http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/003292.html

“The War on Terror is now more expensive than Vietnam or World War I–but the dishonest way Washington is paying for it may prove costliest of all.”

Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University examines the long-term cost of America’s military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan http://www.reason.com/news/show/125438.html