By Brian Irving on September 2nd, 2010
It’s time do more than just “turn the page” on America’s foreign wars. We should close the book and put it pack on the shelf, said potential Libertarian presidential candidate R. Lee Wrights in response to President Obama’s address to the nation Tuesday night.
“President Obama said he was announcing that ‘the American combat mission in Iraq’ has ended and that it was time to ‘turn the page’ on a ‘remarkable chapter in American history,” Wrights said. “It is time to do more than just turn the page. It is time to close the book of war, put it back on the shelf, and never refer to it again.”
“There is nothing remarkable about this chapter in American history,” Wrights said. “If the president really wanted to end the war he would simply tell the joint chiefs to draw up a plan to remove every last American solider, sailor, airman and marine from the region as quickly and safely as possible.”
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By Brian Irving on August 30th, 2010
The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has surpassed one trillion dollars, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While this figure is staggering, a Libertarian presidential hopeful said that the real cost of these conflicts to our economy and our liberty is even more staggering.
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By Brian Irving on August 27th, 2010
A U.S. District Court has upheld the North Carolina election law setting the signature requirements for an independent candidate to get on the ballot for the U.S. House. Judge Graham C. Mullen denied a request for summary judgment by Bryan Greene, who sought to have the statute ruled unconstitutional.
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By Brian Irving on August 24th, 2010
For the second time in the campaign, all three candidates for U.S. Senate appeared on the same stage to answer questions from voters. This time, it was a candidate forum held by the N.C. Agribusiness Council on the closing day of their 41st annual leadership conference yesterday in Durham.
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By Brian Irving on August 23rd, 2010
Supporters of the fair tax plan cheered as a squad of Congressional candidates, three Libertarians and two Republicans, feed a mock-up of the 700,000 plus pages of the U.S. Tax Code into a wood chipper Saturday at the N.C. State Fairgrounds.
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By Brian Irving on August 19th, 2010
The issue of whether or not to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Towers terrorist attack has been hijacked for political expediency, said Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in an op ed on his website. “To collectively blame every Muslim for the actions of a few is probably the most un-American act I can think of,” Beitler said. “Our country was formed by the ideals of individual liberty, not blaming the innocent for a crime committed by the other.”
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By Brian Irving on August 18th, 2010
“Legislators will legislate anything and everything in the name of safety,” Gary Johnson told a meeting of the N.C. Republican Liberty Caucus yesterday. The New Mexico Republican has considerable experience dealing with this penchant. He vetoed more than 750 bills and issued thousand of line-item vetoes in his two terms. Few of his vetoes were overturned.
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By Brian Irving on August 16th, 2010
By Brian Irving on August 13th, 2010
A U.S. District Court judge said he expects to rule on a North Carolina ballot access case by August 20, according to Ballot Access News.
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By Brian Irving on August 10th, 2010
Democratic and Republican party officials are upset that the scandals plaguing North Carolina state government have reached into the board of elections. They are questioning the judgment and professionalism of state elections officials after media reports of private plane flights paid for with taxpayer money and the high cost of printing ballots under a state-granted monopoly contract.
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