It will be interesting to see how fast this bill gets tabled.  We have had several attempts at Eminent Domain reform in Colorado, none of them that I know of ever made it out of committee. 

1979: Throughout the Shah's 26 year reign in Iran, fundamentalist Islamic and anti-American sentiments were fomenting. The volatile mixture finally hit the boiling point in 1979 and erupted in the form of the Iranian Islamic Revolution during which 52 American hostages were taken from the US Embassy in Iran and held for 444 days.

1980: Iraq invades Iran. The U.S. armed both sides of the conflict and provided intelligence to Saddam Hussein that was used to pinpoint the locations of Iranian troops to be sprayed with mustard gas. An estimated 1 million Arabs were killed during the 8 year Iran-Iraq war.

1980s: The U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets (who invaded Afghanistan in 1980). The CIA provides Osama bin Laden with $3 billion.

1982: During February 1982 the U.S. State Department removed Iraq from its list of states supporting international terrorism. It had been included several years earlier because of ties with several Palestinian nationalist groups, not Islamicists sharing the world view of al-Qaeda.

1983: The White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis (remember the “Iran-Contra” hearings in 1986?)

1984: In spite of UN reports confirming Iranian allegations that Iraq had been using chemical warfare weapons in the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. restored formal relations with Iraq in November 1984, but the U.S. had begun, several years earlier, to provide it with intelligence and military support (in secret and contrary to this country's official neutrality).

1987: An Iraqi Mirage F-1 fighter jet fires two Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles into the USS Stark. 37 American seamen are killed.

1988: The USS Vincennes mistakes an Iran Air passenger jet for an enemy aircraft and shoots it down with a missile. All 290 civilians on board are killed.

1990: Iraq invades Kuwait using weapons from the U.S.

1991: Under U.N. authority, U.S. forces enter Iraq (Operation Desert Storm). Bush re-instates the dictatorship of Kuwait. The U.S. admit that their estimates of Iraqi dead exceed 750,000.

1991-2003: U.S. planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.

2000-01: The U.S. gives the oppressive Taliban-ruled government of Afghanistan $245 Million in aid.

2000: October 2000 the US destroyer USS Cole is bombed by terrorists (al Qaeda suspected) while in Yemen (the ancestral home of al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden). 17 US sailors are killed.

2001: On September 11, Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to engineer the murder over 3,000 Americans (9-11).

2001: After their refusal to turn over suspected terrorist, Osama bin Laden, the U.S. invades Afghanistan overthrowing the Taliban-ruled government. Guerrilla opposition continues.

2003: The U.S. invades Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom), ousting dictator Saddam Hussein and installing a foreign dictator (U.S. provisional authority chief L. Paul Bremer) in his place. Guerrilla opposition kills more U.S. troops during 2003 than were killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War.

I disagreee, if we have free trade around the world, like we all want, our businessmen will tend to hurt some feelings as we continue to win this zero sum game. Our military must have the freedom to kick ass when needed.

I want open trade but that comes with an asskicking military.

Libertarians are strongly pro-peace and against American military intervention abroad and our excessive military spending. We opposed the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, along with myriad U.S. interventions in other countries.

Libertarians support a genuine free market, but in many cases oppose big corporations: the corporations receiving billions of dollars in subsidies for ethanol and war spending, the corporations receiving unjustified monopolies in banking, cable TV, or other services.

Libertarians have opposed the drug war every day from the beginning. Legalizing marijuana, freeing the pot prisoners in our jails, and ending U.S. intervention against poppy and cocoa farmers in other countries is what we call a good start.

Unlike many progressives, our love of freedom and distrust of government extends to health care, education, and retirement as well, so we may differ on these issues. There are still many issues where we can work together and respectfully.

– Martin L. Buchanan

mlb@backgroundtask.com

Denver, CO

Just compare all of the media coverage that liberals and conservatives get to the tiny bit that Libertarians receive. You think that's fair?!?!? I applaud Colorado Confidential for including their voice!!!! And I would like to see it continue.

Then you compare libertarianism to anarchy! Buy a dictionary and stop embarrassing yourself! Anarchists want NO government. Libertarians promote a Constitutionally limited government whose primary task is to ensure that EVERYONE enjoys their FULL civil and human rights. That's called a “free” society. Where “grown-ups” take responsibility for – and are held accountable for – their actions. But you apparently still want a “Nanny State” to tell you what you can and can not do (e.g., how to use your cell phone or ATV). Just because you still seek parental supervision (from the government) doesn't mean that the rest of us do! So grow up Chris P. – and start accepting some responsibility!

Libertarians let each person decide for him or herself what is better. And as long as that decision does not include violence, the threat of violence, or fraud they are at liberty to move ahead on each decision. And take the personal consequences of those decisions without a government bailing them out of those consequences.

The Libertarians are correct; the more freedom we have the better off we are.  This country became rich from the growth engendered by our previously mostly Libertarian government.  Hopefully Ron Paul will get elected and the federal government can set an example for our state legislature.

I am also hard pressed to believe that the majority of republicans care about economic freedom. Owens was a supporter of Ref C and D, and don't even get me started on Bush and his 6 years of record breaking spending with a republican congress/senate.