[News] Oklahoma Libertarian Party Website Updated

[David Splinter]

Latest News posted at www.oklp.org
   
  James Sliger thinks limiting spending would make politicians lose sleep.
   
  Becky Akers worries that the government wants you to be its snitch.
  U.S. double standard not understood abroad by Sarah Waldrop   Joseph Proffer thinks force is the best way to express “love and compassion.”  He responds to Tanner Jones, apparently thinking we should also use force to limit the “entertainment society.”
   
  OETA’s Stateline investigates the Oklahoma’s Tattoo criminalization....while it lasts.  (Rep. Al Lindley introduced HB 1519 to decriminalize and regulates tattooing.)
   
  Study finds TABOR would limit state government growth.
   
  Michael J. O’Keefe says it is easy for Edmondites to support troops when it costs nothing
   
  Peace Fair March 18th at Lake Hefner Park, OKC.
   
  Bob Herbert thinks Ike saw it coming, as shown in the documentary “Why We Fight.”
   
  Henry proposes an 18.4% increase in state spending (compounded onto last year’s 12.7% increase).
   
  Rep. Ron Paul thinks the port sale is not a true free market transaction.
   
  The Oklahoma Smoking Limits went into effect Wed., March 1st.  Are state governments treating adults like children?
   
  Thomas Sowell thinks there is no such thing as a free lunch.
  
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  "They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?" -Paul Harvey
   
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Events posted at http://www.oklp.org/events.html
   
  Libertarian Political Organization v. Clingman
Pre-trial conference
  March 22nd, 2006
   
  Libertarian National Convention
  July 1-2, 2006
  Portland, OR
  www.LPconvention.org
   
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------QUICK SHOTS...(from The Advocates for Self-Government)

* So why do incumbents keep getting re-elected? A new CBS News/New York Times poll reports that 77% of Americans think bribes are "the way things work in Congress." (January 27).

* Government's function: Patrick Chisholm notes in the Christian Science Monitor (January 23) that government transfer payments -- Social Security, Medicare, and so on -- cost $1.4 trillion, or almost 60% of the federal budget. This means, writes Chisholm, "the U.S. government's main function now is redistribution: taking money from one segment of the population and giving it to another segment."
   
  * "No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have 
died by believing politicians. So why is marijuana outlawed while politicians 
are still legal?" -- Harry Browne, Liberty A to Z: 872 Libertarian Soundbites You Can Use Right Now
   
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