Word: libertarian
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...Republican district without a Republican on the ballot. The only names voters will see in the District 22 space on the general election ballot will be Democratic front-runner Nick Lampson and Libertarian Bob Smithers. If they want to vote Republican in the race for the new term beginning in January they will have to write in Sekula-Gibbs' name...
DIED. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, former three-term G.O.P. Congresswoman from Idaho whose libertarian views endeared her to antigovernment militia leaders; in a car accident; near Tonopah, Nev. During her tenure in the House, she was one of its most colorful personalities, mocking the Endangered Species Act by serving canned salmon at "endangered salmon bakes" and, while denouncing slavery, labeling the South's position during the Civil War a "states' rights issue...
...more discussion. We want The Salient to have fun with this; we want people to be putting out their own responses to this.” The Salient is Harvard’s right-leaning weekly. John M. Sheffield ’09, vice-president of the Harvard Libertarian Forum who has explored the Disorientation Guide’s website, said that he is frustrated because it “claims to speak for me and my economic class.” “I come from a single–parent family, my family has lived...
...political demagoguery. Likewise, his treatment of sexual liberty is wonderfully balanced—he challenges the most basic assumptions held by dogmatic liberals and conservatives alike. It is worth noting, however, that Fried does this by relying on a tried-and-true formula: he quickly tacks to the libertarian position and proceeds to flagellate the moralists on both sides...
Custer, a blond, round-faced Californian, first attended a YAF conference in 1999, when he was still in high school. Afterward, he followed the organization's playbook to the letter. During black-history month his freshman year, for instance, he brought black libertarian Reggie Jones to campus. Barlas perfectly played her role by refusing to help fund the hip-hip promoter's speech, even though her department was paying for other black-history-month speakers. Her reasoning was that Jones "does not, from all appearances, support ... the vision that gives this month its political meanings." Custer was then able...