Sunday, July 10, 2011

Rick Santelli makes sense to me

http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/2011/07/10/another-epic-rick-santelli-rant

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Looks like California and school funding are really in the tank these days

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/10/3759047/dan-walters-legislature-has-made.html

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State Hypocrisy on Anti-Bribery Laws

State Hypocrisy on Anti-Bribery Laws
July 10, 2011 by Stephan Kinsella

In 1977 the US enacted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which makes it a crime for American citizens and businesses to bribe foreign public officials for business purposes. It also imposes certain accounting standards on public US companies, which I wrote about in a 1994 legal article, " The Accounting Provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act." The hypocrisy of the law is blinding: it's okay for the state to bribe (and extort and coerce) private business by means of threats, subsidies, tax breaks, and protectionist legislation; it's okay for businesses to bribe elected officials (campaign contributions); and it's okay for the US central state to bribe foreign governments; and it's okay for US companies to be forced to pay bribes in the form of taxes, that are less than the amount of bribes they would have to pay to foreign officials. But it's not okay for US companies to bribe foreign officials–even if this is customary and essential to "doing business" in that country, and even if this puts American businesses at a competitive disadvantage with companies from other countries that do not prohibit such bribery–some countries even permit such bribes to be reported as an expense for tax purposes.

As Lew Rockwell notes in Extortion, Private and Public: The Case of Chiquita Banana,

Paying bribes and being subject to this kind of extortion is just part of what it takes to do business in many countries. This might sound awful, but the truth is that such payments are often less than the companies would be paying to the tax man in the US, which runs a similar kind of extortion scam but with legal cover.

In fact, it was the Bananagate scandal (in which Chiquita Brands had bribed the President of Honduras to lower taxes) which helped to spur passage of the FCPA.

Naturally American businesses squealed at the competitive disadvantage this law imposed on them. So of course, instead of repealing this ghastly law, the US used its legislative imperialism to force other countries to adopt similar laws (it also twists the arms of other countries in a number of areas, including IP (see my post Intellectual Property Imperialism), antitrust law, central banking policies, oil & gas ownership by the state, environmental standards, labor standards, tax levels and policy, and so on). It did this mainly by pushing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, now ratified by 38 states which are required by the Convention to implement FCPA style laws nationally. The UK has just done so in The UK Bribery Act, which just came into force this month. According to this Freshfields release, the UK Bribery Act is "the most far-reaching bribery legislation in the world." The spread of such laws prove the Whig Theory of History is wrong…

Interesting article of what it was like to group up tought during the 30's and 40's in Boston

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/07/10/whiteys_generation/?page=full

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Why They're Democrats

Excellent video.

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/07/why-theyre-demo.html

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Project Gunrunner: Now In Theaters Everywhere!

http://sadhillnews.com/2011/07/09/project-gunrunner-now-in-theaters-everywhere

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Movie of the Week #77 – Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 06:04 PM PDT

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Since in about a week or so I'm going to be over run with tomatoes from the garden – I thought this a fitting movie, but at least I'll have salsa, sauce, spaghetti sauce, marinara, sun dried, relish and BLT's on toast. Not to mention I pick up a even worse movie at Big Lots today "Killer Tomatoes Eat France"… they're so bad they're good. So anyway the movie…

After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit, a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent veggies and put a stop to their murderous spree. Included in this crack team are a lieutenant who never goes anywhere without his parachute, an underwater expert who's never out of his scuba gear, and a master of disguise who conceals his appearance by dressing as a black Adolf Hitler.

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Arthur Ekirch on American Militarism

Arthur Ekirch on American Militarism
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
by Ralph Raico

In 1783 the treaty ending hostilities between Great Britain and its rebellious colonies along the eastern seaboard of North America was signed in Paris. For their part the English proclaimed that, "His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations … " -- there followed the rest of the thirteen colonies -- "to be free sovereign and independent states," with the British Crown relinquishing all claims to "the same and every part thereof."

Amazingly, a collection of artisans, merchants, and mostly farmers had defied one of the great military machines of Europe, and the greatest empire, and won. It was a triumph that gladdened the hearts of lovers of liberty and republican government the world over.

Today, this United States, now definitively in the singular, is itself the world's greatest military machine and sole imperial power. How did this happen? In The Civilian and the Military: A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition,[1] Arthur A. Ekirch traces this portentous transformation to 1972 (counting his preface).

Murray Rothbard called Ekirch's work "brilliant," and praised it as "an example of a revisionist outlook on all three great wars of the twentieth century." Robert Higgs, in his foreword to the Independent Institute's edition of Ekirch's The Decline of American Liberalism, provides a summary of the life and productive academic career of Arthur Ekirch. He notes that Ekirch registered as a conscientious objector in the Second World War but was nonetheless sentenced to work without pay as a logger and later in a school for the mentally retarded, experiences that did not endear the American state to the feisty scholar.

Militarism can be defined as the permeation of civil society by military institutions, influences, and values.

As Ekirch sketches it, the Anglo-American heritage of explicit antimilitarism began to be formed in 17th-century England, especially with the Levellers and resistance to a standing army.

This tradition continued among the British settlers of what became the United States. It is evident in the attitudes of the leaders of the American Revolution. James Madison, for instance, stated:

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

The connection between antimilitarism and nonintervention in the affairs of foreign nations what its crafty opponents have succeeded in labeling "isolationism" -- was often marked among the rebellious colonials. Ekirch points out that "an important argument for independence had been that it would free the American people from involvement in the wars of Europe and from the necessity of helping to support a British army." The radical republican position was put boldly by Jefferson: "I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment."

But during their presidencies, Jefferson and especially Madison reneged on their noninterventionist and antiwar position. The war hawks in their party clamored for confrontation with England, hoping to acquire Canada. Though this proved impossible, Madison's War of 1812 was considered a success. A military spirit was awakened, shown in the popular adulation of war heroes and military displays at Fourth of July parades.

As war with Mexico drew near, Daniel Webster criticized the maneuvers of President James Polk. His words were to be the key to America's future wars, from the provisioning of Fort Sumter on: "What is the value of this constitutional provision [granting Congress the sole power to declare war] if the President on his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?" Easy victory over Mexico, however, further fueled the military spirit.

If the Jeffersonians can be accused of surrendering their principles, what are we to say of some of the celebrated antistatists of the 19th and early 20th centuries? Henry David Thoreau, whose conscience rebelled at the US war against Mexico, became an enthusiast for the "just war" against the slave states. He revered John Brown, referring to him as a Christ upon the cross when Brown tried to raise a servile rebellion among the millions of slaves of the South, a move "credited" with helping start the Civil War. That awful bloodletting cost 620,000 lives.

Charles Sumner, famous classical liberal and free trader, wrote in his 1845 work, The True Grandeur of Nations, "Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?" But he also found an honorable war in the attack on the South.

Later, Benjamin Tucker, individualist anarchist, was a cheerleader for the Entente's war with Germany. For his part, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin urged Russia on to war with the Central Powers in 1914. Poor Kropotkin was bewildered by the way it turned out, a Bolshevik tyranny worse than anything ever experienced before. The war itself cost many millions of lives, the worst bloodbath in European history to that time.

The point is that these individualists were no Bastiats or Herbert Spencers. None could resist the pull of a just war. None understood the insight of Randolph Bourne whom Ekirch calls one of the few who "stood firm" in the first crusade against Germany -- that "war is the health of the state."

During the Civil War the United States "was placed under what, for all practical purposes, amounted to a military dictatorship." Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, shut down newspapers critical of his policies, and held thousands as political prisoners. His conscription law led to draft riots, particularly in New York City, but a precedent had been set.

Union veterans formed the Grand Army of the Republic, demanding pensions and preference in government jobs. The US Army continued to justify its jobs by its taxpayer-funded backing of the railroad barons in the West and the campaigns to exterminate the Plains Indians. Military training and "education" proliferated in schools and colleges.

In the 1880s and '90s, navalism surged ahead, with industries, steel above all, promoting their own vested interests. The tradition of a navy solely for the coastal defense of the country -- as old as the republic -- was abandoned.

There were critics of the new militarism, E.L. Godkin of The Nation and William Graham Sumner, whose essay, The Conquest of the United States by Spain (1898), against the war on the Philippines has inspired anti-imperialists ever since. (His great essay is now available online.)

But the few critics could not prevail against the powerful cabal of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt, which represented a turning point on the road to empire.

Mahan was not much of a naval commander (his ships tended to collide), but he was a superb propagandist for navalism. His work on The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 was seized upon by navalists in Germany, Japan, France, and elsewhere. It fueled the arms race that led to the First World War, proving to be no great blessing to mankind.

In the Senate, Lodge pushed for war with Spain and the takeover of the Philippines, later for war with Germany, and following that war, for a vindictive peace treaty that would keep the Germans down for the foreseeable future. Throughout, Lodge pressed for a navy second to none, demanded by America's new empire. The Navy League, funded by big business, helped the cause along.

Heaven only knows what Theodore Roosevelt is doing on that endlessly reproduced iconic monument on Mount Rushmore, right alongside Jefferson. Roosevelt despised Jefferson as a weakling, and Jefferson would have despised him as a warmonger. The great historian Charles Beard wrote truly of "Teddy" that he was probably the only major figure in American history "who thought that war in itself was a good thing."

Included in the cabal was Elihu Root, secretary of war and then of state under TR, who advocated "the creation of a military spirit among the youth of the country."

The acquisition of the Philippines cast the United States into the arena of contending imperialisms in the Far East, including especially Japan's. Antiwar congressmen exposed the links between the drive for a great ocean-going navy and the munitions industry, to no avail.

Ekirch is perhaps too lenient on Woodrow Wilson. Already, Wilson's note to Germany following the sinking of the Lusitania, in which he reiterated the US position, that Germany would be held to a "strict accountability" for the deaths of any Americans at sea from U-boats, even when traveling on armed belligerent merchant ships carrying military munitions through war zones, set the United States on a collision course for war. Here Walter Karp's The Politics of War presents a more reliable account.

During the war, the Espionage and Sedition Acts were used to curb dissent. The Creel Committee on Public Information propagandized for war to a hitherto unprecedented extent. The mass media incited public opinion against the demonized enemy as would become standard to our own day.

Historical revisionism flourished as the archives of major powers were opened up, forced by the Bolsheviks' unlocking of the Russian archives. True accounts of the machinations by which the European powers and then the United States entered the war led to the brief flourishing of antiwar sentiment after 1918.

In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt was sworn in as president. This genial master of deception was not only a fanatic for naval expansion but also harbored grandiose plans for reordering the world. The geopolitical situation of the 1930s in Europe and the Far East gave Roosevelt ample opportunity for overseas meddling. The formally opposition party in 1940 nominated for president Wendell Willkie, as much of an interventionist as FDR. The greatest antiwar movement in history, the America First Committee, boasted 800,000 members, but it quickly folded when Roosevelt got the war he wanted, at Pearl Harbor.

In the Second World War America embraced militarism wholeheartedly. It has never looked back.

The worst violation of civil liberties was the rounding up and imprisonment of some 80,000 Japanese citizens and 40,000 resident Japanese aliens (not eligible for citizenship because born in Japan). Emblematic of the hysteria generated by this most just of just wars, the US Supreme Court upheld their incarceration. Renowned liberals Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, and William Douglas joined the majority. California Attorney-General Earl Warren was a passionate advocate for incarceration.

Following the war, "the atmosphere of perpetual crisis and war hysteria" engendered by Washington never let up. Harry Truman initiated what Ekirch rightly calls "the aggressive American foreign policy of the Cold War." Dozens of entangling alliances were formed, committing the nation to defending the existing international order against any who would challenge it. A new enemy intent on world-conquest was conjured up in the form of the Soviet Union and international communism. This conflict included two "hot wars" and entailed vast, continuing military budgets, now to pay for ever-more deadly nuclear weapons as well. It lasted over 40 years and cost civil society trillions of dollars.

As Ekirch presciently foresaw, even a peaceful resolution of the Cold War was not "sufficient to release the American people from the power of the Pentagon and its corporate allies." Incursions of the armed forces occurred in Yugoslavia, the Philippines, Somalia, and elsewhere.

Now the United States is involved in wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, soon perhaps also in Iran.

Today there is no conscription, which caused too many problems for the militarists in the Vietnam years. But the American empire bestrides the globe. The United States has over 700 military bases overseas, plus some dozen naval task forces patrolling the oceans, with a multitude of space satellites feeding information to the forces below. Every year its "defense" (i.e., military) budget is nearly equal to those of all other countries combined. Does anyone doubt that for America there are more wars, many more wars, in the offing?

As the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter wrote of the military in imperialist states, "Created by the wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required."

Ralph Raico, Professor Emeritus in European history at Buffalo State College is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He is a specialist on the history of liberty, the liberal tradition in Europe, and the relationship between war and the rise of the state. He is the author of The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton. You can study the history of civilization under his guidance here: MP3-CD and Audio Tape.

Notes

[1] Ralph Myles, Colorado Springs, 1972.

http://mises.org/daily/5375/Arthur-Ekirch-on-American-Militarism

A Pretense of Regulatory Reform

A Pretense of Regulatory Reform
Thursday, July 07, 2011
by Gary Galles

After taking office, President Obama massively expanded regulation, from Obamacare to the proliferation of regulatory czars, and proposed still more. That contributed substantially to the Democrats' midterm shellacking.

In response, the newly Republican House of Representatives planned an extensive re-examination of federal regulations. So to reposition himself away from his attacks on market arrangements for every problem and proposals for more government as every solution, President Obama signed an executive order requiring that regulations be justified and not unduly burdensome. Unfortunately, it was only a pretense of regulatory reform.

Four months later, Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar, with plenty of self-congratulation and references to "21st-century regulation," proudly announced hundreds of millions of dollars in savings. (This is the same Cass Sunstein, by the way, who coauthored Nudge, the manifesto of "libertarian paternalism.")

The intent was to defuse attacks on Obama's regulatory abuses by claiming the reform mantle. But an "intense review" of burdensome regulations that only turned up hundreds of millions of dollars in savings, from an annual regulatory burden of over 1 trillion dollars, could not really be intense, especially when the waste and abuse discovered were obvious and longstanding.

Consider the milk reform. Sunstein wrote, "Since the 1970s, milk has been defined as an 'oil' and subject to costly rules designed to prevent oil spills." But the EPA has now concluded the burdens were unjustifiable, and given dairies an exemption saving them $140 million a year. Unfortunately, rather than demonstrating that Americans no longer need worry about abusive regulations, it illustrates the opposite.

The fact that a clearly nonsensical and costly policy persisted for decades, despite multiple "reforms," reveals that almost no attention is actually given to outdated and overly burdensome regulations. But when public outrage becomes severe, a few idiocies must be recognized and sacrificed to pretend regulatory responsibility. Once such a minimal reform diminishes outrage, Americans will again stop paying much attention to the regulatory bureaucracy, and the constraints on abusive regulations will once again shrivel. And thanks to Obama's regulatory expansions, abuses then will apply to more of our lives than ever.

Also revealing is that during this unjustified regulation hunt, the EPA issued extraordinarily costly new rules requiring US coal-fired power plants to further reduce their emissions of mercury and other air pollutants, finding the costs justified in lives saved and medical benefits. But the benefit claims were bogus.

Power plants contribute less than 0.5 percent of the mercury in America's air, and their emissions have long been falling. Eliminating such a minuscule source of mercury will not save many thousand lives, as the EPA asserts. But it will dramatically raise the cost of coal-powered electricity, which is about half of all domestic electricity production (and far more in some states).

Perhaps most troubling is the EPA's selective science. It ignored the CDC's findings that show blood mercury levels for American women and children as falling and already below the levels found safe by the EPA and FDA, and well below the standard set by the World Health Organization. Instead, it based its criteria on a study of the people of the Faroe Islands, whose diet includes a great deal of pilot-whale meat and blubber, which gives them far higher mercury and PCB "doses," but little selenium (which limits conversion to methylmercury), fruits, or vegetables. Given that in epidemiology "the dose makes the poison," their circumstances are virtually irrelevant to Americans.

The Obama administration's regulatory reform is political window dressing. Finding a few long-established, obvious examples of waste to eliminate actually revealed how inattentive regulators are to the burdens imposed, with little likelihood of continuing vigilance after public outrage wanes. And in the midst of supposed reform, the EPA imposed very costly new regulations based on misrepresentation and ignoring powerful contradictory evidence.

Reining in a few regulatory stupidities, while introducing far more costly ones, may advance Obama's agenda, but it will not benefit Americans buried in an avalanche of burdens that have rapidly expanded on his watch.

Gary M. Galles is a professor of economics at Pepperdine University.

http://mises.org/daily/5436/A-Pretense-of-Regulatory-Reform

Gary Johnson Calls Family Leader Pledge “Offensive and Unrepublican”

Gary Johnson Calls Family Leader Pledge "Offensive and Unrepublican"

July 9, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada – Presidential candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson charged today in a formal statement through his campaign that the Family Leader "pledge" Republican candidates for President are being asked to sign is "offensive to the principles of liberty and freedom on which this country was founded". Governor Johnson also plans to further state his position against the Family Leader pledge this afternoon in Las Vegas, NV at a speech he will deliver at the Conservative Leadership Conference.

Johnson went on to state that "the so-called 'Marriage Vow" pledge that FAMILY LEADER is asking Republican candidates for President to sign attacks minority segments of our population and attempts to prevent and eliminate personal freedom. This type of rhetoric is what gives Republicans a bad name.

"Government should not be involved in the bedrooms of consenting adults. I have always been a strong advocate of liberty and freedom from unnecessary government intervention into our lives. The freedoms that our forefathers fought for in this country are sacred and must be preserved. The Republican Party cannot be sidetracked into discussing these morally judgmental issues such a discussion is simply wrongheaded. We need to maintain our position as the party of efficient government management and the watchdogs of the "public's pocket book".

"This 'pledge' is nothing short of a promise to discriminate against everyone who makes a personal choice that doesn't fit into a particular definition of 'virtue'.

While the Family Leader pledge covers just about every other so-called virtue they can think of, the one that is conspicuously missing is tolerance. In one concise document, they manage to condemn gays, single parents, single individuals, divorcees, Muslims, gays in the military, unmarried couples, women who choose to have abortions, and everyone else who doesn't fit in a Norman Rockwell painting.

The Republican Party cannot afford to have a Presidential candidate who condones intolerance, bigotry and the denial of liberty to the citizens of this country. If we nominate such a candidate, we will never capture the White House in 2012. If candidates who sign this pledge somehow think they are scoring some points with some core constituency of the Republican Party, they are doing so at the peril of writing off the vast majority of Americans who want no part of this 'pledge' and its offensive language.

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/gary-johnson-calls-family-leader-pledge-offensive-and-unrepublican

JP Travel on High Tension Electric Lines

Cyclists travel on High Tension Electric Lines

Have you ever thought that you can travel on power lines on the bike. See how it is.

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Rs and Ds

Big surprise that Boehner and Obama are rumored to have agreed to more taxes and phony spending cuts, exactly as Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Citibank, Bank of America, etc. want, along with the inevitable debt ceiling increase. But then, the Party of Lincoln--of aggressive war, aggressive taxation, aggressive spending, aggressive inflation, aggressive imprisonment--has never stood for freedom. -- LHR, Jr.

Clarification on Political Labels

Clarification on Political Labels
by Anthony Gregory on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 8:14pm

OK once again: Progressivism is an ideology of corporatism, war, and puritanical statism. Conservatism is an ideology of corporatism, war, and puritanial statism. Liberalism was good up until FDR or so, but then became an ideology of corporatism, war, and puritanical statism. There are differences among these groups, but if you oppose corporatism, war, and puritanical statism, you are a libertarian, or a radical, or an anarchist, or an individualist, or maybe a paleocon (a misnomer). Heck, even "socialist" used to mean pro-liberty, in a sense. But conservatism and progressivism? They were always on the side of the ruling class and always will be.

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Half of the year has already passed and we're on our way to the very important 2012 election cycle.

Local and state chapters of the Republican Liberty Caucus are busy hosting events, recruiting candidates, and networking with GOP clubs in their locales.

Below you can find noteworthy news and events from the RLC. As always, please consider joining the RLC. Your generosity keeps us afloat.

News from the RLC

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To spread word of the RLC, we hope you'll consider changing your profile image to the below image. Just right click, save, and upload a new picture in your profile at Facebook.com.

We're trying to reach 6,000 fans on the RLC Facebook fan page.

Join Your RLC State Chapter Online!

Connect with other liberty lovers via the RLC's Facebook and Yahoogroups. Here is a listing of our current state/local Facebook and Yahoogroups. These are the best tools we have to connect you with RLC'ers in your location:

· Alabama RLC on Facebook -- RLCAL Yahoogroup

· Alaska Facebook -- Alaska Yahoogroup

· Arizona RLC on Facebook -- RLCAZ Yahoogroup

· Arkansas Facebook -- Arkansas Yahoogroup

· California RLC on Facebook -- RLCCA Yahoogroup

· Colorado RLC on Facebook -- RLCCO Yahoogroup

· Connecticut Facebook -- Connecticut Yahoogroup

· Delaware RLC on Facebook -- RLCDE Yahoogroup

· DC RLC on Facebook -- RLCDC Yahoogroup

· Florida RLC on Facebook -- RLCFL Yahoogroup
· Georgia RLC on Facebook -- RLCGA Yahoogroup
· Hawaii Facebook -- Hawaii Yahoogroup

· Idaho Facebook -- Idaho Yahoogroup

· Illinois Facebook -- Illinois Yahoogroup

· Indiana RLC on Facebook -- RLCIN Yahoogroup

· Iowa Facebook -- Iowa Yahoogroup

· Kentucky Facebook -- Kentucky Yahoogroup

· Louisiana Facebook -- Louisiana Yahoogroup

· Maine RLC on Facebook -- RLCME Yahoogroup

· Massachusetts RLC on Facebook -- RLCMA Yahoogroup

· Maryland Facebook -- Maryland Yahoogroup

· Michigan RLC on Facebook -- RLCMI Yahoogroup

· Minnesota RLC on Facebook -- RLCMN Yahoogroup

· Mississippi RLC on Facebook -- RLCMS Yahoogroup

· Missouri RLC on Facebook -- RLCMO Yahoogroup

· Montana Facebook -- Montana Yahoogroup

· Nebraska RLC on Facebook -- RLCNE Yahoogroup

· Nevada Facebook -- Nevada Yahoogroup

· New Hampshire RLC on Facebook -- RLCNH Yahoogroup
· New Jersey Facebook -- New Jersey Yahoogroup
· New Mexico Yahoogroup

· New York RLC on Facebook -- RLCNY Yahoogroup

· North Carolina RLC on Facebook -- RLCNC Yahoogroup

· North Dakota Yahoogroup

· Ohio Facebook -- Ohio Yahoogroup

· Oklahoma Facebook -- Oklahoma Yahoogroup
· Oregon Facebook -- Oregon Yahoogroup

· Pennsylvania Facebook -- Pennsylvania Yahoogroup

· South Carolina Facebook -- S. Carolina Yahoogroup

· South Dakota Yahoogroup

· Tennessee RLC on Facebook -- RLCTN Yahoogroup

· Texas RLC on Facebook -- RLCTX Yahoogroup

· Utah RLC on Facebook -- RLCUT Yahoogroup

· Vermont Facebook -- Vermont Yahoogroup
· Virginia RLC on Facebook -- RLCVA Yahoogroup

· Washington Facebook -- Washington Yahoogroup
· West Virginia Facebook -- West Virginia Yahoogroup

· Wisconsin RLC on Facebook -- RLCWI Yahoogroup
· Wyoming Facebook -- Wyoming Yahoogroup

To get involved in the RLC in your state, check out our chapters page.

RLC Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on Arizona Campaign Finance Law

The Arizona campaign finance law which subsidized underfunded candidates with taxpayer money was a mockery of free speech and open elections, according to Republican Liberty Caucus National Chairman Dave Nalle upon hearing the announcement that the Supreme Court had struck down the law last month.

In his ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts echoed the RLC Statement of Principles when he quoted Buckley v. Valeo, which declared that "A restriction on the amount of money a person or group can spend on political communication during a campaign necessarily reduces the quantity of expression by restricting the number of issues discussed, the depth of their exploration, and the size of the audience reached."

The RLC Board believes this ruling signals the beginning of real campaign finance reform, beginning with states like Maine and New York (which have similar laws) and continuing until the government gets out of the business of dictating who can spend money in elections and that money is spent.

"Speech must be free under the First Amendment and the financing of political speech should not be restricted arbitrarily or subsidized unfairly with taxpayer dollars," concluded Nalle.

Sizzling Summer RLC Events Listing

Attend an upcoming RLC event in your state!

Check the RLC blog for our listing of events. If you live in Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, South Dakota, or Texas, you won't want to miss our upcoming events!

Congressman Amash Threatened by Michigan Legislature

The specific threat to Justin Amash is that parts of his district were removed to strengthen the districts of more establishment Republicans, replaced by areas which are more evenly balanced between the parties. This includes giving several towns and suburbs where he won very strong majorities in 2010 to the neighboring 2nd District GOP seat held by Bill Huizinga and replacing them with parts of Calhoun county - which have traditionally voted Democrat. They also moved the home of popular Democrat former representative Mark Schauer into Amash's district, giving the Democrats a ready-made challenger for the young radical.

Read more at the RLC blog.

CANDIDATES in 2011

The RLC is looking for candidates worthy of our support in 2011.

All candidates seeking the endorsement of the Republican Liberty Caucus are strongly encouraged to sign the Liberty Compact and fill out the Candidate Questionnaire.

If you wish to submit a candidate's name for consideration, please include the following information about the candidate:

· Candidate's name, contact information, brief biography, and website;

· Nature of the race, e.g., office sought, opposition, voter demographics, likelihood of victory, campaign funding, etc;

· The personal characteristics and viability of the candidate;

· The candidate's position on many of the various key barometer issues, e.g, taxes, spending, eminent domain abuse, war on drugs, asset forfeiture, free trade, Real ID, etc.; and
· A case for endorsement (optional)

Submissions can be sent to the RLC.

Former Arizona RLC Chair Roy Miller hands a check for $1,000 from the RLC-USA PAC to Congressman Jeff Flake in 2008.

Articles & Opinion

The Forgotten Tradition of Localism
by Andrew Canfield

Andrew Canfield discusses America's forgotten tradition of localism. Read more ...

A Path to Victory for Libertarian Ideas in the 2012
Republican Primary
by Kyle R. Johnson

Kyle R. Johnson discusses how the 2012 cycle can be a win for libertarian Republicans. Read more ...

TSA Anti-Groping Bill Scuddled in Texas
by Dave Nalle

A tiny faction of the Texas GOP stopped the bill from passing. Read more ...
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