Timothy Hannan, Libertarian candidate for California Attoney General

Timothy Hannan – Official Campaign Website

About 80 percent of hard-core crimes—murder, rape, assault, and theft—are committed by 20 percent of the criminals.  State law enforcement people obviously should concentrate on dangerous repeat offenders and get them off the streets.

One sensible solution to the crime problem would be to legalize drugs. Like the prohibition of whiskey in the 1920’s, the prohibition of marijuana, cocaine, etc. guarantees that drugs will be sold by criminals. Drug addicts turn to robbery, burglary, embezzlement to pay for their habits. If reputable firms were allowed to produce and sell such drugs in liquor stores, far fewer people would be the victims of such crimes. If we legalize drugs, we’ll make available police resources, court time, and prison cells for the hard-core criminals.

One response to violent crime that will not reduce it is gun control. There are millions of privately owned guns in California, and no ban on guns will change that. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently affirmed, law-abiding individuals have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, not just for hunting but for self-defense.

California Attorney General election, 2010

Carlos Rodriguez, Libertarian candidate for 28th Congressional District

Smaller Government

This is the issue that keeps me up at night more than any other. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems as though the lunatics are running the asylum, with all due respect of course. Folks, how can we continue to spend at least double the amount of revenue coming in? Who manages their home like this? If we continue down this course, national bankruptcy is INEVITABLE. I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating, we have got to cut spending in the public sector drastically. We have too many programs, departments, entitlements, public empoyees, etc. The natural tendency of government is to grow, and after 200 plus years, ours has become too big and bloated.

We need to begin having a serious discussion about downsizing many of the programs and departments in existence such as: the Dept. of Energy, Agriculture, Education, Commerce, HUD, the Federal Reserve, the FDA, Homeland Security, etc.

Carlos Rodriguez, 28th Congressional District

http://www.rodriguezgoestowashington.com/

Edward Gonzalez, Libertarian candidate for 16th Congressional District – San Jose

Edward Gonzalez is a social liberal, fiscal conservative, who believes in a constitutionally limited government.  He believes that the only legitimate use of government power is in the protection of people’s individual rights.

Edward Gonzalez, 16th Congressional District – San Jose

http://www.edwardmgonzalez.com/

Christina Tobin, Libertarian Party candidate for Secretary of State of California

Christina Tobin has devoted her life to protecting the right of all people to vote and run for office, and ensuring all elections are free and equal. As Ralph Nader’s national ballot access coordinator in 2008, she has a deep knowledge and familiarity not only with California’s election law, but also alternative approaches nationwide, which California voters may consider in the future.

Christina is Founder and Chair of The Free and Equal Elections Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, public-policy and advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the politically marginalized and disenfranchised, particularly those of third party and Independent voters and candidates. She is also CEO of Free and Equal, Inc., a ballot access consulting and petitioning firm.

Christina Tobin, Libertarian Party candidate for Secretary of State of California

http://www.tobinforca.org/

Democratic-Republican Party

The Democratic-Republican Party was founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison around 1792. Supporters usually identified themselves as Republicans, but sometimes as Democrats. The term “Democratic Republican” was also used by contemporaries, but mostly by the party’s opponents. It was the dominant political party in the United States from 1800 to 1824, when it split into competing factions.

Jefferson created the political party to oppose the economic and foreign policies of the Federalists, a party created a year or so earlier by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. The Democratic-Republican party opposed the Jay Treaty of 1794 with Britain (then at war with France) and supported good relations with France before 1801. The party insisted on a strict construction of the Constitution, and denounced many of Hamilton’s proposals (especially the national bank) as unconstitutional. The party favored states’ rights and the primacy of the yeoman farmer over bankers, industrialists, merchants, and other monied interests. continues…

Businesses Cite Government as the Problem

CATO@Liberty February 24, 2010 – Tad DeHaven

According to the latest Small Business Economic Trends survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, 31 percent of respondents said the single most important problem facing small businesses is “poor sales.” “Taxes” and “Government Regulations and Red Tape” came in second and third place at 22 percent and 13 percent respectively. Combining the two, the biggest problem facing small businesses according to respondents is government. continues…

Chief Justice John Roberts: Scene at State of Union ‘very troubling’

Washington Post March 10, 2010 – Robert Barnes

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has presented the rebuttal argument in Obama v. Supreme Court.

Roberts’s remarks Tuesday protested the timing of President Obama’s State of the Union disapproval of the court’s decision in a major campaign finance case. It has begun Round Two in what appears to be a growing inclination from the White House and Democrats in Congress to criticize the court’s decisions.

The White House fired back Tuesday night with a statement that did not address the substance of Roberts’s comments but with another broadside at the court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. Press secretary Robert Gibbs accused the court of opening “the floodgates for corporations and special interests to pour money into elections — drowning out the voices of average Americans.”

The court ruled 5 to 4 in January that corporations and unions had a First Amendment right to use their general treasuries and profits to spend freely on political ads for and against specific candidates. continues…

All the President’s Economists

CATO cato.org March 10, 2010 This article appeared in the Washington Times on March 10, 2010.

The Congressional Budget Office, in last week’s update of President Obama’s budget forecasts, estimated that budget deficits will average nearly $1 trillion per year for the next decade. There is no school of economics (classical, Austrian, Keynesian, etc.) that says deficits of this magnitude for a decade or longer will not result in great economic hardship or worse. Greece, here we come.

The operative question is, why would the president sign off on such a budget without presenting some plan to get the United States out of the mess – and where are his economists? continues…

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The Declaration of Independence continues…

The Constitution of the United States

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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