Dr. Mary Ruwart And The Heartland Institute...

Dr. Mary Ruwart took part in the Heartland Institute's Heath Care Roundtable event in Dallas, Texas on July 8th.

To see Dr. Ruwart's Power Point presentation, follow the link below.

http://www.heartland.org/events/Roundtables/agenda_Dallas.html

The Radical Libertarian...

"To the radical libertarian, we must take any and every opportunity to chop away at the State, whether it’s to reduce or abolish a tax, a budget appropriation, or a regulatory power. And the radical libertarian is insatiable in this appetite until the State has been abolished, or – for minarchists – dwindled down to a tiny, laissez-faire role."

Murray N. Rothbard


http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard75.html

Rothbard believed minarchists should be radical in their opposition to the State. He believed abolitionists and minarchists should walk in harmony on the path to Freedom.

Rothbard also considered the division in the liberty movement to be a rift between radicals and conservatives. I have seen evidence of this in the LP.

His remarks concerning this belief are below..

"Where are the Paines and Cobdens and Nocks of today? Why are almost all of our laissez-faire limited governmentalists plonky conservatives and patriots? If the opposite of "radical" is "conservative," where are our radical laissez-fairists? If our limited statists were truly radical, there would be virtually no splits between us. What divides the movement now, the true division, is not anarchist vs. minarchist, but radical vs. conservative. Lord, give us radicals, be they anarchists or no."

The moral of this story teaches us to unite in our shared contempt for the coercive State. The future of freedom requires nothing less.

Equal Ownership Of Life

"Libertarianism is the view that each man is the absolute owner of his life, to use and dispose of as he sees fit: that all man's social actions should be voluntary: and that respect for every other man's similar and equal ownership of life and, by extension, the property and fruits of that life, is the ethical basis of a humane and open society. In this view, the only — repeat, only — function of law or government is to provide the sort of self-defense against violence that an individual, if he were powerful enough, would provide for himself."

Karl Hess

Harrisburg July 4th Report

I really enjoyed the fellowship and fun the Harrisburg July 4th Festival afforded me. I saw some old friends and met some new ones. The weather was great, with a gentle breeze blowing much of the time. The humidity was bearable, which is unusual for this time of year.

The LP Cabarrus outreach efforts were well received. We also promoted the Campaign For Liberty and Young Americans For Liberty. We also gave out Republic Magazines and pocket Constitutions. The left-over Ron Paul 2008 DVD videos were popular as well. There were quite a few Ron Paul fans in attendance this weekend. There were also a lot of folks wanting information about the LP. There is r[evol]tion in the air, indeed.

The Cabarrus Democratic Party also had a booth. The GOP was nowhere to be found. I was thrilled with the number of disgusted Republicans that came by and picked up Libertarian literature. With the Ron Paul Republicans fighting on the inside and Libertarians chipping away on the outside, the neo-con GOP edifice of empire and corporatism is crumbling away.

May it's destruction be sure and swift!

Freemasonry And Progressive Metal Mix

Dream Theater tackles Freemasonry on their new single, "A Rite of Passage". The lyrics are below...

Since the new world order
Played upon our fears
Spreading accusations
Of radical ideas

The brotherhood of wisdom
Strength and dignity
Its rituals and secrets
Remain a mystery

Beneath an ever watchful eye
The angels of the temple fly

Turn the key
Walk through the gate
The great ascent
To reach a higher state
A rite of passage

The final stage
A sacred home
Unlock the door
And lay the cornerstone
A rite of passage

Men of wealth and power
Influence and fame
Philosophers and leaders
Are members of the trade

Bound by oath and honor
Like the rose and cross
An enigmatic union
Of esoteric thought

Beneath the ever watchful eye
The angels of the temple fly

Turn the key
Walk through the gate
The great ascent
To reach a higher state
A rite of passage

The final stage
A sacred home
Unlock the door
And lay the cornerstone
A rite of passage

Turn the key
Walk through the gate
The great ascent
To reach a higher state
A rite of passage

The seven stars
The rising sun
A perfect world
Where new life has begun
A rite of passage

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

MHD Visits The Campaign For Liberty...

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
PRLog release version w/PDF: Click here

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

Read the rest at libertyforall.net.

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

Read the rest here.

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

Read the rest here.

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

Read the rest here.

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

Read the rest here.

HR 1207 Has The Fed On The Defensive...