Libertarian Party of Pittsburgh

A local member of the LP forwarded this LTE to the City Paper regarding a recent article worth reading on Ron Paul:
 

Thank you for the great article on Ron Paul by Charlie Deitch.  He obviously put a lot of time into it and talked with a lot of people to produce a well-balanced piece.  I [...]

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As published by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Climatologist Timothy Ball made an astute observation about the strategy shift that sunspot-deniers are applying to global warming (”The politics of global warming,” Q&A, Feb. 10 and PghTrib.com).
He noticed they “switched from talking about global warming to talking about climate change.” That’s chillingly familiar.
Remember how Osama bin Laden morphed [...]

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As published in the PIttsburgh Post Gazette, December 25, 2006
The real voting problem: third-party or independent candidates are shut out
Paper ballots may stop votes disappearing from recounts (”In Praise of Paper” by Bruce Schneier, Dec. 3 Forum), but they won’t stop candidates disappearing from Pennsylvania ballots.
2006 saw no Pennsylvania third party or independent statewide candidates [...]

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As Run in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Thursday, December 21, 2006
Pittsburgh Councilman Bill Peduto’s traffic cameras are a bad idea (”Drivers will hate Kodak moments,” Mike Seate column, Dec. 14 and PghTrib.com).
They are, at best, the law enforcement counterpart to those maddening automated phone menus. They are, at worst, a dangerous step toward a surveillance [...]

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