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"McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958 and was commissioned into the United States Navy. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. He experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. The wounds that he sustained during the war left him with lifelong physical disabilities. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. In 1982, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served two terms. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1987 and easily won reelection five times, the final time in 2016." - Wikipedia I. He certainly must ha...

And why has the rest of America never come to terms with the defining crimes of our age? By Matt Taibbi McCain was not, generally speaking, a man of strong beliefs. One of the most honest things he ever said was that he didn’t run for president to enact reforms or out of some “grand sense of patriotism,” but simply because “ it had become my ambition to be president .” If anything, he often seemed bored by domestic issues, and was even famous after a fashion for “reaching across the aisle” on matters like campaign finance . But he did have one unshakeable conviction: Wherever America had a foreign policy problem, the solution was always to bomb the fuck out of someone. Long before he became a symbol of anti-Trumpism (despite having contributed significantly to the Trump phenomenon by unleashing Sarah Palin on national politics in 2008), McCain defied the mainstream GOP to support Bill Clinton’s air strikes in Kosovo. McCain wanted to go even further to a ground invasi...

I'm not a member of the Libertarian Party. I'm an independent voter. But I am a small "L" libertarian. I think our political institutions are vastly corrupt and tyrannical. I've seen all the ways over the years in which the government in Washington violates its own charter, the U.S. Constitution, and hardly even tries to keep up appearances anymore that it is even trying to follow its own laws. I've seen all the ways in which state and local governments steal money from their states' economies and waste resources. And I've seen how both parties actively participate in this corruption, and how the two main parties are far more alike than they are different, how they are both privileged participants in a system controlled by entrenched special interests, how taken together, their activities closely resemble the one party rule of repressive foreign governments, and how fierce, bitter partisanship disguises this reality behind a loud facade ...

Some thoughts on Rand Paul's endorsement of Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson for Senate in New Mexico in 2018.

In a press release Tuesday, the Tea Party Senator from Kentucky, and relentless thorn in the side of establishment Republicans and Democrats, announced he is endorsing the Libertarian Party candidate in New Mexico's 2018 Senate contest: " I have an important announcement today. I'm endorsing Gary Johnson for US Senate. Gary Johnson is a true fiscal conservative. As Governor, he reduced the size of government while improving services. He cut taxes, and he set what may be a record by vetoing more than 700 unnecessary pieces of legislation. His leadership on issues of government overreach, protecting Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights against mass surveillance, and common sense foreign policy is sorely needed in the United States Senate, for New Mexico and the nation. He will be an important ally and a critical independent voice." How you can help if you don't live in New Mexico: DONATE here: https://www.garyjohnsonsenate.com/donate How you can help if...

"The real question you have to ask, is why do I get the most money from Active Duty Officers? Military personnel?" It's true, Ron Paul raised more money from active duty military members than any other presidential candidate in either party that election, and his top three contributors were : The U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Airforce. I love the talking heads with Ron Paul in this like a reality television show or a mockumentary. This is amazing. Lol at the way Ron Paul looks at John McCain when the warguy calls him an isolationist, like "Oh no, you did not just play yourself like that, son!" Savage: "He's approaching it emotionally. He has so much invested in the war he's invested in. He has a misunderstanding of foreign policy. I don't think he has the vaguest idea about what the Founders taught– how beneficial it is to have a non-interventionist foreign policy. He uses the cliche of isolationism, and that is not what it is. And...

A glowing article about Bitcoin from Big Think Sunday: Crypto could be closer to the mainstream than we think Right now, it might feel like we’re a long way off from a world where crypto is mainstream. However, the industry has come a long way within the past two years alone. With more and more companies working on solutions to solve some of crypto’s biggest problems and making it more practical for real-world application, it could be closer than we’ve been led to believe. There have even been rumors that big companies like Amazon are planning on jumping onto the crypto bandwagon. The retail giant has released no official statements on the topic, but its recent purchases of domain names including AmazonEthereum.com, AmazonCryptocurrency.com, and AmazonCryptocurrencies.com, suggest that it could be gearing up to become more involved in this growing industry. Amazon is also pushing its ‘Blockchain on AWS’ platform that provides users with the resources they need to experiment ...

I'm amazed, but not surprised at the American people's entirely misplaced sense of decorum at this hour. When Charles Manson died no one had a word to say against any one who celebrated as they pointed out the obvious about him– that he was a menace to the world, who ordered people under his spell to carry out murders in cold blood. The only difference between Charles Manson and John McCain is the sheer scale of the mayhem and murder orchestrated by the U.S. Senator from Arizona, who just like Manson, ordered people under his spell to carry out murders in cold blood. The unambiguous agenda of the United States is perpetual violent conflict and war, with a staggering human cost. And John McCain has made a career out of being one of its most extreme advocates for that agenda, at the vanguard of the most extreme militant wing of an extremely militant regime. In the West we have a superstition against speaking ill of the dead– De mortuis nihil nisi bonum – Of the dead sa...

John McCain's final words of advice to America. Alex Jones: "Sometimes I want to get on YouTube and just let loose..." Gary Johnson: "If it were up to me, these lobbyists would stop coming up to me..." Cody Wilson: "A visionary vision is scary..."

"Could start a revolution, polluting the airwaves..." Cody's raising funds to fight the multiple lawsuits filed against him by several powerful state attorneys general for exercising his First Amendment rights and helping you exercise your Second Amendment rights. Alex Jones: "Sometimes I want to get on YouTube and just let loose..." Gary Johnson: "If it were up to me, these lobbyists would stop coming up to me..."

Did you know that in America you are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist? Seriously. That bizarre and unsettling fact is based on statistics from a 2004 National Safety Council report, the National Center for Health Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and 2003 mortality data from the Center for Disease Control. Completely unwarranted, unjustified, and often deadly police violence against the American people is an epidemic of absurd proportions. It's an absolute scandal how bad it is. I probably follow a lot more political groups and pages than the average person, and I almost can't scroll through my streams without seeing video of another obvious act of flagrant police abuse on a weekly basis. If any other organization, or even broad group of similar organizations as in the case of police, had so many, such violent scandals so often, we would not tolerate it. No private industry could get away with this much scandal without being s...

If it were up to Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's 2018 Senate Candidate in New Mexico, lobbyists would stop coming up to him with their hands out like they want something free. If you liked this, check out Alex Jones: "Sometimes I want to get on YouTube and just let loose..."

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By: Wes Messamore The Humble Libertarian

So this judge in Tennessee got in big trouble last year for offering inmates in his county a 30 day reduction in their jail sentence if they volunteered for a sterilization procedure: "When Judge Sam Benningfield of White County, Tenn., offered to shave off jail time for inmates who volunteered for sterilization, a chorus of attorneys, advocates and public officials reacted with horror." Horror? Why? "Benningfield said his goal was to break a 'vicious cycle' of repeat drug offenders with children. But many argued that the proposal, outlined in a May order, was nothing short of eugenics." Don't get me wrong, I am not supporting forced sterilization of anyone, which would be an intolerable violation of their life and liberty, but this program was completely voluntary. No one was being threatened with 30 additional days in confinement if they didn't comply. They were already sentenced to those 30 days for a crime they had committed. These ...

We're all billionaires in Zimbabwe Dollars Donald Trump complained Monday that he was "not thrilled," with the Federal Reserve raising interest rates: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was 'not thrilled' with the Federal Reserve under his own appointee, Chairman Jerome Powell, for raising interest rates and said the U.S. central bank should do more to help him to boost the economy." Trump also pined for cheaper money in private remarks to rich mega donors at a fundraiser on Long Island this past Friday. Fed chairman Jerome Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee has raised interest rates five times so far during Trump’s administration, including two times this year. At best it's yet more proof– on top of tariffs that have driven up raw steel prices 25 percent and touched off a trade war that has cost American farmers billions in lost business– that the self-styled champion of American labor, the...

Gary Johnson supporters are putting together a Labor Day "Money Bomb," an online campaign fundraiser that collects donations in one day en masse to support Johnson's 2018 Senate campaign in New Mexico and draw earned media attention. The hope is ostensibly to make Gary Johnson a very real contender for the U.S. Senate this November and make a strong showing of national support for the Libertarian Party's most credible ever candidate for the most winnable federal office in the LP's history, in what the Money Bomb website calls "The Best Opportunity The Libertarian Party Has Ever Had," noting : "Gary Johnson still enjoys very high name recognition, credibility, and popularity in New Mexico. This 2018 U.S. Senate race with Gary Johnson as the Libertarian candidate is the most winnable federal election opportunity the Libertarian Party has ever had! If there was ever a time to give money to a Libertarian Party cause, if there was ever a chance ...