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LP files Suit To Stop State Funding Of 3rd Debate

Mike Oliver writes "Arizona Libertarians have filed a lawsuit that could stop Arizona State University from sponsoring the third presidential debate between George Bush and Sen. John Kerry, scheduled for Oct. 13. The lawsuit maintains that by spending up to $2 million to sponsor the event in Tempe, the university is making an illegal campaign contribution to the Republican and Democratic parties."

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  1. What say ye still faithful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The chief US weapons inspector in Iraq said Wednesday that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003.

    Where is everyone that just days ago was saying, "Iraq did have WMD!"? Do you yet admit that you were fooled by government propaganda?

    1. Re:What say ye still faithful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      But Iraq did have WMD. We found a few warheads full of sarin gas, enough to kill 20,000 people. So stfu.

  2. A libertarian cyberthalamus future. by Thinkit4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was a card-carrying, rabid libertarian not so long ago. But I see now that it will have its place in the future. Post-singularity, a cyberthalamus will not need much in the way of health care and gun control to survive. But for now, some balance has to be struck.

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    -I am an elective eunuch.