Liberty Candidate For N.C.'s 8th District

LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE ANNOUNCES BID FOR U.S. HOUSE


CONCORD (June 29th) Thomas Hill, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Cabarrus County, today announces his desire to be the Libertarian candidate for U.S. House, District 8. Mr. Hill is an at-large member of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina executive committee. He also serves as Region 8 Coordinator for the Campaign For Liberty.

Thomas Hill is a self employed electrician with 27 years experience, including 18 years working for his father’s electrical business. His experience in a small family business opened his eyes to the burdensome rules and regulations placed on small companies. Mr. Hill wants to bring small business common sense to Washington.

Issues at the fore front of Thomas Hill’s campaign include…

Dismantle the Empire, bring our troops home.

Abolish the Federal Reserve, allow competing currencies.

Repeal the Patriot Act, end the War on Civil Liberties.

Like Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, Thomas Hill believes in a policy of non-interventionism, sound money and an end to the War on Drugs. Thomas served as a precinct leader for Ron Paul’s 2008 Presidential Campaign. He would be honored to serve beside him in Congress.

Thomas Hill was born in Charlotte. He is 43 years old and single. He has lived in Cabarrus County since 1972. His past political experience include…

Aide De Camp, Mary Ruwart For President 2008; Precinct Leader, Ron Paul 2008; Past Chair, Libertarian Party of N.C.; Charter Member / Treasurer / Membership Secretary, Cabarrus LP; Candidate for Cabarrus County Commission 2002 & 2004; Candidate for Cabarrus County Board of Education 2006 & 2008; Candidate for N.C. Senate 36 2008 (GOP Primary)

For more information, visit http://thomasbhill2010.com.

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Thomas Hill For Congress
10896 Pioneer Mill Road
Concord, N.C. 28025
Cell: 704-621-8621
Office: 704-455-9200
E-mail: thomasbhill@msn.com

Kokesh For Congress Update...

A message from Adam Kokesh...

This past week, our team had a whirlwind week in Washington, DC watching the war funding bill pass, the support grow for HR 1207, and the enthusiasm for this upcoming campaign build. On our way to DC, we stopped by Norman, OK, and spoke with RJ Harris, then went on to the Campaign For Liberty Missouri state meeting. In Washington, we met with Congressman Ron Paul, Congressman Walter Jones, Ralph Nader, and Senator Mike Gravel. On our way back, we even got a chance to catch up with Rand Paul and get the latest on his potential Senate run to represent Kentucky. There's more info about that on the blog and some more great videos to come, so stay tuned!

We just had another great volunteers meeting here at campaign headquarters this evening and we've got quite a team coming together to support Celebrate American r3VOLution. Special thanks to our volunteer coordinator, Jared Fuller, and Chad Wright of East Main Trade Center in Farmington for hooking up our first batch of fliers. We've got an ambitious program and we need all the help we can get to ensure this event is a success. If you didn't make it to the meeting, don't worry, we've got another one coming up next Sunday. To see the kind of help we have coming for Independence Day weekend, get the graphics for the fliers, and html for a banner to help promote the event, check out the event page.

A few have criticized me for choosing "such a radical title" for this event. Let us not forget that this country was founded in revolution, and the founders that set out a vision of liberty for this country expected us to have a revolution with every generation. As someone who volunteered to serve in the United States military, I feel obligated to remind my fellow Americans that Independence Day is about much more than fireworks and hot dogs. I hope you'll join me in this effort.

Love, faith, respect,

Adam Kokesh
Kokesh for Congress
Exploratory Committee

Rule By Politics...

"Will men continue to submit to rule by politics, which has always meant the power of some men over other men, or are we ready to go it alone socially, in communities of voluntarism, in a world more economic and cultural than political"?

Karl Hess

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The Great Liberator Of Man..

"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."

Emma Goldman

FR33 Agents...

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Dr. Mary Ruwart Joins Cannabis Science Inc....

CSI Appoints Former Upjohn Senior Research Scientist Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D. to Vice President of Research & Development (VP R&D) Further Expanding Its Team of Drug Development Specialists

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cannabis Science Inc. (NASD OTCBB: CBIS), an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mary J. Ruwart as Vice President of Research & Development. Dr. Ruwarts previously held the position of Senior Research Scientist at Upjohn Inc., which ultimately merged with Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) to become a part of one of the largest Pharmaceutical Companies in the world.

“Dr. Ruwart is a pivotal addition to CSI,” COO Ray Carr announced today. “Her years of experience in R& D, coupled with her first-hand knowledge of the drug development process, give her the ability to guide CSI’s first product through the FDA approval process. Dr. Ruwart will be one of the most valuable members of the CSI Drug Development team; we are delighted to have her on board.”

CSI intends to follow the FDA’s regulatory pathway for drug development through early clinical testing. The company will then seek a Big Pharma partner for late stage human studies and subsequent filing of its New Drug Application (NDA) with the FDA.

About Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D., Cannabis Science Inc., Vice President, Research & Development
Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Biophysics from Michigan State University. She did post-doctoral work in the Department of Surgery at St. Louis University Medical School. Subsequently, she was promoted to Instructor and then to Assistant Professor. Dr. Ruwart joined the Upjohn Company in 1976 as a senior research scientist, working with prostaglandins, liver disease, HIV protease inhibitors, and drug delivery systems. Dr. Ruwart spent two decades in the pharmaceutical industry; she has been awarded five patents, and has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Ruwart’s will shepherd CSI’s cannabis-based drugs through the regulatory process required to obtain FDA approval. She will also guide CSI in the patenting and licensing of its intellectual property.

“It’s invaluable to have our development team led by a scientist who is a top-notch researcher as well,” Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Robert Melamede commented. “Since cannabis influences the body’s prostaglandin balance, her expertise in this area can guide us in developing more effective products.”

CEO Steve Kubby concurs. “Dr. Ruwart will be restructuring CSI’s development program to meet the highest industry standards. Dr. Ruwart will help us avoid the expensive mistakes that many pharmaceutical start-ups make. The recent addition of Ray Carr as our COO, followed by Dr. Ruwart as our Vice President of R&D gives CSI a dynamic ‘one-two’ punch in the areas of business and drug development.”

The global market for oral cannabis medications has been recently estimated at almost $6 billion annually. CSI’s proprietary delivery systems, which insure rapid absorption with prolonged blood levels of active drug, are expected to give the company’s products a competitive edge worldwide.

About Cannabis Science, Inc.
Cannabis Science, Inc. is at the forefront of medical marijuana research and development. The Company works with world authorities on phytocannabinoid science targeting critical illnesses, and adheres to scientific methodologies to develop, produce, and commercialize phytocannabinoid-based pharmaceutical products. In sum, we are dedicated to the creation of cannabis-based medicines, both with and without psychoactive properties, to treat disease and the symptoms of disease, as well as for general health maintenance.

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Memorial Shouldn't Rest On Stolen Land...

H/T to Susan Hogarth and The Center For Libertarian Press Information...

Libertarians call on the on the U.S. Government to forgo the threatened seizure of hundreds of acres of privately owned land for a memorial in western Pennsylvania near Shanksville, where Flight 93 crashed in 2001. They further ask the Park Service to reconsider spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on an extensive memorial, and to instead finance any memorial completely through volunteer contributions.

“The Park Service has had nearly a decade to work with local landowners, and NOW they decide that it’s imperative to get the land within the next week,” said Rachel Hawkridge, representative to the Libertarian Party’s National Committee. “Besides the fact that there can be no ‘fair market value’ in a forced transaction, we have the underlying issue that ALL of the tax money spent on the memorial has been taken by force or the threat of force. If folks want a memorial, they will be happy to contribute to one - and it will be the exact size that people want it to be. The idea that the Park Service can propose commemorating the self-sacrifice of 40 individuals with the forced sacrifice of the efforts of other individuals indicates to me that the terrorists have, in some small way, won part of the battle already.”

Libertarians also decry the purchase of nearly 1,000 acres of land from a coal-mining company, with proceeds to be (according to the Park Service) “placed in a trust fund to operate and maintain in perpetuity the treatment of mine water from a sediment pond on a reclaimed surface mine.” To Lee Wrights, representative to the Libertarian Party’s National Committee, “this seems like a not-very-subtle way of getting the taxpayers to pay for post-mining remediation. A great deal for PBS Coals; a terrible deal for Americans who have more pressing personal financial needs than bailing out big businesses.”

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Contact: Susan Hogarth | media@clipr.info
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Anarchophobia...

"Government schools, like some churches, use authoritarian scare tactics based on fear and superstition. This conditioning causes people to doubt themselves and their beliefs. Freedom and fear are polar opposites. They are masters that must be served separately. They cannot exist in the same space. To truly govern yourself, you must overcome the fear."

Thomas Hill

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Libertarianism Rests On The Non-Agression Principle...

"In short: the libertarian principle remains univocal: no aggression against those not themselves guilty of any aggression. And therefore, no aggression against those with whom we disagree, including about the legitimacy of the libertarian principle. But, certainly, we may use force against those who compel others to go along. The touchstone remains the liberty of the individual."

Jan Narveson

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A Dash Of Bastiat...

"Each of us certainly gets from Nature, from God, the right to defend his person, his liberty, and his property, since they are the three elements constituting or sustaining life, elements which are mutually complementary and which cannot be understood without one another. For what are our faculties, if not an extension of our personality, and what is property, if not an extension of our faculties?"

"Hence, if anything is self-evident, it is this: Law is the organization of the natural right to legitimate self-defense; it is the substitution of collective force for individual forces, to act in the sphere in which they have the right to act, to do what they have the right to do: to guarantee security of person, liberty, and property rights, to cause justice to reign over all. "

"Now, labor being in itself painful, and man being naturally inclined to shun pain, it follows—history is there to prove it—that wherever plunder is less onerous than labor, it prevails; and neither religion nor morality can, in this case, prevent it from doing so."


"No greater change nor any greater evil could be introduced into society than this: to convert the law into an instrument of plunder."

Fredric Bastiat

Decentralize The Freedom Movement...

"More than two centuries of experience has provided more than enough evidence of the accuracy of the Anti-Federalist’s predictions, ‘Concentrated power and Central Planning never produce desired results.’ In almost no time at all the interests of the collective become more important than the reason for its creation. Decentralization of power, down to the individual, is the ’secret’ to effective opposition of tyranny."

Ernest Hancock

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Dangers Of Federal Litigation...

"Yesterday's Supreme Court decision in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. should serve as a warning to "libertarian centralists" who promote federal litigation as a simple answer to state-level violations of individual rights. The case itself dealt with a state supreme court judge's refusal to recuse himself. A five-to-four majority of the federal Supreme Court, led by Anthony Kennedy, opted to micromanage the state court's affairs while simultaneously rejecting the notion that there would be any unforeseen consequences."

S.M. Oliva

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Obama Pays The Unions Back...

"The reason there is an interventionist-welfare state is that there are individuals and groups in the society who want "other people's money." The political process is the mechanism that these individuals and groups use to get that money via regulation, protections, and redistribution."

Richard Ebeling

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HR 1207 Has The Fed On The Defensive...

Dr. Mary Ruwart To Address Students At Brown University...

Libertarian author and activist, Dr. Mary J. Ruwart, will take part in a lecture at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island during the fall semester. The event is a part of the Janus Forum Lecture Series.

The Janus Forum is a campus initiative to encourage, facilitate, and develop active thought, debate, and discussion around political ideas at Brown. The Janus Forum seeks to actively promote critical thinking and discourse by exposing students to a variety of perspectives regarding relevant social and political issues.

The event is to take place on Thursday, October 8th, 2009. The lecture is titled, “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Pharmaceutical Industry”. Marcia Angell will also speak. She will be providing an opposite viewpoint to Dr. Ruwart’s presentation.

Dr. Mary J. Ruwart received her B.S. in biochemistry in 1970 and her Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1974 (both from Michigan State University). She then joined the Department of Surgery at St. Louis University where she became an Assistant Professor. Dr. Ruwart came to The Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1976 as a Senior Research Scientist involved in developing new therapies for a variety of diseases, including AIDS.

Dr. Ruwart left Upjohn in 1995 to devote her time to consulting and writing. With her husband, Raymond R. Carr, R.Ph., Dr. Ruwart designed and delivered a communications course for scientists, covering written, oral, and poster presentations. She also provides consulting services for nutraceutical companies, CROs, and IRBs.

Adam Kokesh Reviews Obama's Cairo Speech...

Adam Kokesh on Obama's speech in Cairo...

"He confronted the Palestinian violence head on. “Violence is a dead end. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.” He is so right here, but fails to point out the hypocrisy of our policy. Rockets at sleeping children? Drone strikes into Pakistan. Old women on a bus? “Acceptable collateral damage” in Iraq. Flip-flopping on the release of torture photos? Yes, Obama, your moral authority has been surrendered."

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Principled Opposition To Coercion..

"It's sad to me that such a basic thing as the principled opposition to coercion is considered to be extremist, unreasonable, unrealistic. Why do I have to believe in permanent peace to oppose war? How is it utopian to denounce force?"

bkMarcus

The Failure Of Force...

"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."

Auberon Herbert

Farewell GM...

George Reisman writing at Mises.org...

"What has happened to General Motors is symbolic of what is happening to the United States. The United States is being destroyed economically and culturally by irrational theories and policies. The standard of living of its people is falling. Government officials are preparing to accelerate the fall by means of the imposition of insane policies designed to curtail energy consumption and roll back the production of wealth. The American people have elected a President who has expressed regret that the Supreme Court "never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth" because it "didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution."

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Natural Law Versus Positive Law...

George F. Smith in his review of Judge Napolitano's lastest book, "Dred Scott's Revenge...

"Napolitano makes clear that there are two kinds of law: Natural law, which is given to us by virtue of our nature, and positive law, which is imposed on us by government. Natural law is enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, the “self-evident” truths – “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty , and the pursuit of Happiness.” Positive law emerges from our legislators and, to be binding, must be consistent with natural law. Slavery is the most egregious example of natural law violation. "

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Libertarians And Foreign Policy...

"It is amazing how dangerously radical it has become to truly support the Constitution. Libertarians, in political parties and outside of parties, should be able to publicly and proudly envangelize the Constitution. But to truly understand the Constitution is to also understand the seeds of statism, and the document that libertarians should more loudly promote is the Declaration of Independence. Of course, to do this is to demand real change, likely secessions, and even war against the prevailing state – and the American government today has already identified those who take this stand as living threats."

Karen Kwiatkowski

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Better Living Through Panarchy...

"Panarchy is a condition of human relations in which each person is at liberty to choose his own social and political governance without being coerced. Panarchy means that persons may enter into and exit from social and political relations freely. It means that government exists only with the consent and by the consent of the governed."

Michael S. Rozeff

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Attractive Labels...

"Thus do the people tend to accept almost any idea — communism, socialism, imperialism, or whatever — if those ideas are advanced under attractive labels such as freedom from want, defense against aggression, welfare, equality, liberty, fellowship, and security."

Dean Russell

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Adam Kokesh Money Bomb On July 4th...