Virginia Libertarian

In doing my research for Virginia’s gubernatorial race in November, I ran across the Democratic parties current strategy: A 20 year old Masters Thesis.? In reading part of the thesis, my thoughts were “god, we don’t want this guy in office”, but then I thought about it a little more (I know, that’s expecting a lot from the average voter.? Feel free to send flames about that to IDontGiv@damn.com).? My thoughts were “Gee, how much has my thinking changed over the past 20 years?”? I started out as a devout Democrat, moved to a staunch Republican, and I’m now of the libertarian (small “l”) mindset.? I’m of the opinion that pretty much all politicians are crooks and liars, so it doesn’t really matter what party they run under.? But before you throw a 20 year old thesis in someone’s face, think to yourself “how much have my views changed over the past two decades”)

The event of Ted Kennedy’s death has prompted me to finally get moving and write this post.  I’ve been contemplating for a while now on how one person can really make a difference (legally) in politics today.  Sure, you can be an advocate, push your ideas, vote in all the elections, donate money and time.  But where does all that really get you?  There is still someone else out there making the decisions for you, and no matter how much you make like them, and think that they think like you, you really don’t know how they are going to be influenced by the political game and how they are really going to end up voting.  The only way to guarantee that someone is going to do things the way you want them done, is if that someone is you.  So, with that said, my home county of Louisa’s supervisor elections are coming up this November, and I am, even though I will be rather late entering, if I can do so at all at this point, going to try to run for my districts seat.  Hopefully the process to get on the ballot isn’t too prohibitive.I’ll keep everyone posted on the process.

VA Senator Mark Warner had a couple of articles published over the weekend, one on economic/monetary policy, and one on health care.? Unfortunately I was not surprised by his view on either issue.? What he proposes in his articles is, of course, more government.?

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Looks like there may be a good development coming up in gun control.  Alan Gura, the man behind the District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290) case that got the Washington, D.C. handgun ban struck down, may be heading back to the Supreme Court to fight basically the same battle again in McDonald, et al., v. City of Chicago, except this time he has to successfully argue that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that such rights (i.e. the Second Amendment) “may not be violated by any form of government throughout the United States”.  If he argues successfully, this would mean that no government entity could take away your right to carry.  Since D.C. is run by the Federal government (they are not a state), this is a new case as it is applying the Fourteenth Amendment to over-ride states rights to legislate away your “fundamental” rights (like your right to carry as granted by the Second amendment).

Some People out there actually get it

If my employer decides they no longer want me as an employee, then it should be their right to fire me." she told me. "I understand the desire for people to have government step in and try to protect women, but there’s real costs to government intervention.

This is going to be a short post, I’m just going to try to re-enforce the Principles of Government yet again, and hope that more people at least try to understand.