With 'freedom' in fashion, is libertarianism back?
Ron Paul
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks during a campaign stop at Bethel University in Arden Hills, Minn. Something's going on in America this election year: a renaissance of an ideal as old as the nation itself - that live-and-let-live, get-out-of-my-business, individualism vs. paternalism dogma that is the hallmark of libertarianism. But what looms are far larger questions about whether an America fed up with government bans and government bailouts - with government, period - is seeing a return to its libertarian roots. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Gary Johnson
FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 file photo, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson speaks at a news conference during which he announced he is leaving the Republican Party in favor of seeking a presidential nomination as a Libertarian, at the State Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. Something's going on in America this election year: a renaissance of an ideal as old as the nation itself - that live-and-let-live, get-out-of-my-business, individualism vs. paternalism dogma that is the hallmark of libertarianism. But what looms are far larger questions about whether an America fed up with government bans and government bailouts - with government, period - is seeing a return to its libertarian roots. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Eddie Moore, File)
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Leon Ceniceros posted at 5:13 pm on Sun, Jul 8, 2012.
WHYARE BEING DELUGED WITH SO MANY "ANONYMOUS" ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLES ALL OF A SUDDEN ???
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE UBER-LIBERAL "CUB" REPORTERS FROM THE "CRANKOUT SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM" ???
WHERE IS HOWIE FISCHER....OUR "PROGRESSIVE GURU" WHO CAN'T SEEM TO LEAVE HIS CHICAGO-LOS ANGELES-SAN FRANCISCO-NEW YORK POLITICAL SPIN AT HOME WHEN HE WRITES ABOUT US OLD-FASHIONED, FLAG-WAVING, AMERICA-LOVING.......ARIZONIANS ????