LP Jeffco Blog

The Associated Press has reported that Hillary Clinton has released her new “broad economic vision”. Looks like the same old economic vision that the world spent most of the 20th century experimenting with and failing. Call it socialism, collectivism, or nannyism — just don’t call it “new”.

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LibertarianTV.com features gobs of videos from conventions, commercials, etc. Watch Mary Ruwart, Harry Browne and Michael Badnarik. Learn about the Free State Project and see what’s playing on HempTV. These are generally not current, but they are free!

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A major deficiency in Libertarian Party methods is a lack of communication between members. The ultimate participation is, of course, your vote–but, how do you know to make your vote effective? Collegiate opportunity exists! Attend meetings.

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“Libertarians can believe, with some justification, that we are in some sense
already living in their world… We are not living in Karl Marx’s world… We
live in a world energized and shaped by the beliefs of Marx’s political-
economic rivals and enemies — the classical liberals, the thinkers who
believed a harmony of interests is manifest in unrestricted markets, that free
trade can prevent war and make us all richer, that decentralized private
property ownership helps create a spontaneous order of rich variety.”

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I am so fed up and angry with this recent campaign supporting the war on terrorism. The Bush supporters like Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc., go on the news and talk shows and say that “of course the war on terror is working. Obviously it’s working because we’ve gone five years without an attack on U.S. soil!”

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We missed you at the 2007 convention of the Libertarian Party of Colorado. Travis Nicks was re-elected Chairman for another term, and a celebrity speaker (Badnarik) emphasized the need for passion in performance for the commonweal. Nicks does an exceptional job in herding cats, and the state direction seems to be improving during his administration.

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I’ve been doing some thinking the last few days about DRM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management) and I can’t seem to come to a conclusion on how I should feel about it. Generally with any issue I can look at it with my moral lens of libertarian ideas, and it becomes very clear what is right and wrong. In this case, I’m lost, so I wanted to toss this question out there and see if anyone has any opinions one way or the other.

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