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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz unequivocally ruled out supporting a U.S. strike on Syria, asserting Wednesday that the poison gas attack on civilians doesn’t demand an American response. “It is not the responsibility of the United States military to serve as the policeman of the world,” he said after a classified 3-hour Senate Armed Services Committee briefing with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “The strike that has been laid out does not seem to me to be focused on or advancing US national security interests. Inserting the United States in a sectarian...

An increasingly popular movement in this country is that of “libertarianism.” Ron Paul most recently brought it into the national spotlight with his token run for the White House. However instead of this movement being focused on liberty another concept jumps to the forefront, non-interventionism.This is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations and avoid all wars not related to direct territorial self-defense. However, the belief that there are barriers or certain limits on how liberty must be pursued seems to be the mantra of many “libertarians.” The whole idea of non-interventionism as...

The first major recession America experienced as an independent nation was in 1819. There was a clamor to halt immigration, but nothing was done. Within two years the economy was once again booming. There were further panics in 1837, 1857, 1873, 1883 and 1893; federal activity was minimal, and, in effect, the downturns cured themselves. The 1907 panic was settled by J.P. Morgan, a private individual, who, with fellow financiers, determined which businesses could be saved and which would go to the wall. The panic of 1920 was cured by the masterly inactivity of President Warren G. Harding: He did...

"The Democrats are better at understanding the impact of globalization on working people in America. The wages that have been arrested and halted in their growth, while, you know the boys in investment banking are making 10 times the average income of an American. I think the Democrats understand the consequences of it more than the Republicans and, frankly, another disagreement I've got with Republicans is that they are compulsive interventionists. They seem to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from what happened in Iraq when they are talking about doing the same thing in Iran." -- Pat Buchanan, November...

=============================== NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org =============================== For release: June 10, 2002 =============================== For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: pressreleases@hq.LP.org =============================== Americans who support Bush plan on homeland security are naïve, Libertarians say WASHINGTON, DC -- Americans who believe that a Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security will make the nation safer are being naive, Libertarians say. "We challenge every American to name one government agency that has solved the problem for which it was created," said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party...