Word: libertarianism
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...could only dream of a Jesse Ventura in my state. The politicians I get to choose from are either Bible-thumping Republicans hell-bent on a theocracy or Democrats who want to solve everybody's problems with my tax dollars. A Libertarian couldn't get anybody's attention here if he were to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. I wish those scientists would start cloning this guy--and soon. JOHN F. SCHULLER Morrow...
...cannot believe the law should ever sanction euthanasia--the very word sounds sinister to me, an Orwellian corruption. The trouble is, I also like the libertarian thought that a person damn well has a right to die when he wants to. The solution I propose to Cathy is this: what we already have--a quiet, informal, private routine in which families and physicians agree, without fuss and in an unofficial zone below the purview of the law, to withhold further treatment, to cut off nourishment, to shut down the IV, even to administer a little more morphine (a gray area...
...confess by word or act" any particular view of "politics, nationalism, religion or other matter of opinion." The Supreme Court has protected under this aspect of free speech a Jehovah's Witness's refusal to salute the American flag and a refusal to carry a license plate with a libertarian state motto...
...mandate for your agenda when you won only 50 percent of the vote. Instead, it's up to you, as you finally take over the State House in your own right, to consider what the 50 percent of us who voted for Democrat L. Scott Harshbarger '64 or Libertarian Dean Cook might have been saying when we went to the polls. You have a new role before you as a coalition builder, someone who needs to join two visions of the future of the Commonwealth into one cohesive platform...
Richard Young, an associate professor of political science at Seattle University, said Murray's moderation seems more in sync with the state's voters. "The alliance of Christians and Libertarian Republicans has taken over the party, and their candidates fall into the category of being extreme...