This week's edition of Meet the Press featured an interesting discussion on the direction of the Republican Party between Joe Scarborough, Ed Gillespie, and moderator David Gregory. During this segment, Scarborough offers an excellent analysis on the GOP's failures of the last decade on both foreign and fiscal policy. Watch it here. The discussion continues on the "Take Two" web extra, during which Scarborough declares, "The country is becoming more libertarian.

In reference to my previous post, as I suspected Adam Kokesh announced on "The Liberty Restoration Hour" that he would run for Congress, and has formed an Exploratory Committee. Kokesh has been a huge liberty activist and is on the Board of Directors for Iraq Veterans Against the War. His announcement came during his guest spot for the full hour of "The Liberty Restoration Hour" with host Catherine Bleish.

Buchananite conservative Jack Hunter (a.k.a.

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.