Kenn Jacobine over at Break The Matrix has an excellent piece about our ballot access laws -- how they limit our choices and support the 2-party system. He systematically and eloquently makes his case in 4 parts, and puts the spotlight on a recent lawsuit in North Carolina by the Libertarian Party. Mr. Jacobine writes:

Ballot access laws are detrimental to our political system because they are anti-democratic. They can only be defended with anti-democratic rhetoric like that spoken by Alexander Peters. Now I understand that we live in a republic.

Now with more confidence from President Obama! Created by Matt Finn for Campaign for Liberty, an illustration of inflation:

Shameful treatment of a veteran at the Las Vegas airport.

Ron Paul's latest "Texas Straight Talk" is on the topic of secession. That subject has ignited a firestorm of controversy recently when Governor Rick Perry of Texas made remarks about a state's right to secede from the Union. Dr. Paul writes:

America was born from an act of secession. When King George’s rule trampled on the rights of the colonies, we successfully seceded from England.