Dave Stancliff

As It Stands
by Dave Stancliff (libertarian)

Lies on the Campaign Trail 2008: McCain/Palin set new low standards
Published: September 15, 2008
Let's just forget about U.S. taxpayers got ripped of for $3.4 million when Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan went under affecting thousands of Americans, who he now wants to view him as a reformer! Talk about gall.

Oil brokers and energy company employees investigation will make a good miniseries
Published: September 12, 2008
The camera now finds a female sitting in a dimly lite room. Her face is blurred to protect her identity as she admits to having sex with a Shell employee. It get's hotter as she talks about passing out her business cards for her sex toy business.

Here's three double standards that apply to Palin's road to power
Published: September 10, 2008
Let me see now, the President of the United States doesn't get deference from the press. Why should Palin? I can't think of one candidate, or sitting politician, anywhere in America today whose political backers say their pick must be treated with deference or they'll refuse interviews.

'Shadow Government of the West' aka the Bilderberg Group is The New World Order
Published: September 9, 2008
Called "The American Friends of Bilderberg" this front group accepts donations from the Ford Foundation to fund their meetings. Just don't show up at the meeting if you're press, and expect to cover this event regardless of what they say is going on inside!

Genetically modified 'Marijuana food' contest could end prohibition
Published: September 7, 2008
Then there's this very interesting thought that right now there's no states with laws against genetically modified "Marijuana Food." It's not likely that there's a ban against cannabis cantaloupes on any state law books at this time.

Court tells feds they violated the 10th Amendment while harassing medical marijuana patients and state authorties
Published: September 3, 2008
This ruling is important because it recognizes the constitutional significance of the fact that the federal government has gone out of it's way to arrest and prosecute legitimate doctors, patients, caregivers, and dispensary owners that have been working with state and local officials.

History shows feds will ignore California's new marijuana directives
Published: August 31, 2008
With this being a presidential election year there is an opportunity to ask all of the political parties to put their two-cents in on the issues of medical marijuana and state's rights

Paranoid police picked the wrong convention to model riot gear
Published: August 29, 2008
You know what the irony of all this caution at the DNC really is? They got the wrong convention! That's right. Think about it. Who got us into these unpopular wars? What party thinks that Might is Right? The Republican's of course.

Flight attendants now asked to be porn police
Published: August 26, 2008
The flight attendants are supposed to stop people from viewing porn while in flight. On the surface that may seem reasonable, but who defines porn-on-the-spot?

Denver's 'Gitmo on the Platte' meant to intimidate protestors
Published: August 22, 2008
How ironic that this big event celebrating the coronation of a candidate for our next President, is also exposing a first amendment threat to free speech.

Would you let a fox guard your hen houses?
Published: August 20, 2008
Why do we sit and watch Congress judge itself when it comes to questions of ethics and corruption? Are we really that naive?

The news media's conspiracy to narrow our choice for president
Published: August 19, 2008
Why do we only hear about the Democrats and the Republicans in presidential races? Most people aren't aware that there's other choices out there like the third largest political party in this country, The Libertarian Party.

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