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Crew 713 - The Men Who Flew The Irishman's Shanty
                                  A Documentary Film by Alex Mena

http://crew713.com/          Be sure to watch the trailer

Nemesio Mena served his country in the U S Army Air Force during WWII and in the U S Air Force during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. He passed away on December 27, 2007. Inspired by his father's love of God, Country and Family, Alex has dedicated this film to his father, the crew he served with and all the men who served in the 492nd Bomb Group.

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community. — David Boaz 

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One of the problems with being a libertarian is that people expect you to have answers to all the questions they may come up with and there is a temptation to try to satisfy them.  If you admit that you don't have all the answers, then they reject the answer you do have.
The thing about the political scene is that politicians give the impression that they have all the answers - that's what we have to compete with in public discourse. -- Sam Grove
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." -- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mark.Twain.Quote.C620

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth;  to know the worst; and to provide for it." -- Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Patrick.Henry.Quote.8CC2

"Your silence gives consent." -- Plato (429-347 BC)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Plato.Quote.C50C

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It was government that forced Woolworth's and other establishments to exclude blacks in the first place. Jim Crow was imposed by the state, often through police power and over the objection of local businesses, and backed by courts that refused to enforce the 14th Amendment. The Civil Rights Act rightly aimed to uproot not just public discrimination, but private discrimination that government malice had entrenched.

 http://www.jeffjacoby.com/7469/rand-paul-and-the-right-to-be-odious 

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http://www.johnjaymyers.com/

Mr. Myers, what would you do about the banks ?
Mr. Myers, what about the car companies ?
What is your plan for government health care ?
What about helping out the insurance companies by forcing everyone to buy insurance?
Mr. Myers, should gay marriage be legal or illegal ?
What about the War on drugs ?
The federal reserve ?
Should we deploy 20,000 or 60,000 more troops to Afghanistan?
Department of transportation ?
Department of energy ?
Agriculture? Commerce? Education ?
Income tax ?
Patriot Act ?
Social security ? medicaid ? medicare?

Join the Dallas County Libertarians and others for a Liber-Tea!

There  will be free hot dogs, music (Eddie Allen will kick off the night), fun and who knows what else! The  event is free of charge, but many of the sponsors will be accepting  donations.

Saturday May 22nd from 6:00-9:00 (with more fun later)

                            John Jay Myers' House / ClearSky24.com
                                  4440 Lawnview Ave
                                   Dallas, TX 75227
                                     469 939 7141

Libertarian Party ads from 2000.

Harry Browne, Champion of Liberty, passed away in March 2006.

Ed Kless 

"Profitability inside business is an index of the altruism of the organization." 

http://mises.org/daily/4125

Dr Ben O'Neill

William Redpath has served as the Chairman of the Libertarian Party since 2006.
William Redpath

"Tonight's speech was a reminder that, for decades, the policies of Republicans and Democrats alike have failed. Libertarians are asking people to take matters into their own hands. Instead of just complaining, we're encouraging ordinary Americans to step up and run for Congress on the Libertarian Party ballot line.

"I can say exactly the same thing about President Obama's speech tonight that I said about George W. Bush's State of the Union speech in January 2008: 'Tonight's State of the Union address went much as expected. Instead of calling for a more limited role of the federal government in American society, the President laid out plans that would only increase the government's intervention into the realm of economics, health care, education and foreign policy.'

"I am weary of the President's unspoken premise that only government--indeed, only the federal government--can accomplish good in our society.

"President Obama seems to be totally blind to the concept that government can cause problems rather than solve them. His speech was filled with 'More': more handouts, more spending, more programs, more bailouts, more regulations. We Libertarians want less government, not more.

"Not to be outmatched by the Democrats, the Republican Party conveyed its lack of seriousness in addressing this nation's government spending problems by having Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor for eleven (11) days, deliver its rebuttal to the President. If they were really serious about addressing the dire fiscal circumstances of this nation, they would have had Paul Ryan, a six-term congressman from Wisconsin, who has proposed the most serious plan of anyone in the two older parties to keep us from going off a fiscal cliff.

"Last week, Alan Auerbach, Professor of Economics and Law at UC Berkeley and US government fiscal policy expert, said that the Democratic and Republican parties are in a 'death embrace' with their government spending. The only political party that is rationally and forthrightly addressing the need to cut government spending and end our culture of ever expanding entitlements is the Libertarian Party.

"As Americans lose hope in Obama, we Libertarians are warning voters against running back to the Republicans who got us into such big messes in the first place. Republicans started the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans made the false intellectual case for bailing out banks and car companies. Republicans argued that deficits don't matter. Republicans gave us the giant Medicare expansion bill.

"The President's suggestion of a 'spending freeze' was especially ludicrous and insulting to the intelligence of Americans. The amounts involved are minuscule, and Congress won't accept them anyway. Will Obama sign the spending bills that ignore his 'freeze'? You bet he will. Instead, the President should demand across-the-board cuts in all areas, including entitlements.

"The President talked a lot about jobs. Unfortunately, the policies he supports are responsible for most of the unemployment we see today. High taxes, minimum wage laws, hiring regulations, firing regulations, mandatory unemployment benefits, and other government interference make it much more difficult for businesses to hire and keep employees. As expected, the President's prescription is to increase the dosage of this government poison.

"While our nation is declining dangerously right now, a turnaround could be straightforward and simple with steps like these: 1. Bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan; 2. Stop rewarding failed companies with bailouts; 3. Cut taxes and spending and let the free market work.

"Finally, on the matter of political rhetoric, I call upon the two older parties to stop spoon feeding politics to the American people as if we are a bunch of overgrown children. These are difficult times that call for more than rhetorical flourish or positioning a group of diverse people around a politician. Older party politicians need to be specific about their proposed policies, as Libertarians are.

"And, I know I'm probably just wasting electrons, but can't we go back to the days in which the President sent a copy of his speech to Congress and left it at that. The speech last night took 1/7000th of an entire year. I think the vast majority of the American people would agree that we have better ways to spend our time."

http://www.cecilince.com/2010.html

Cecil Ince