http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/29/i-thank-the-fec-for-freeing-us/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/29/i-thank-the-fec-for-freeing-us/#comment-912 Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Carnival Of Liberty XXXIX Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:17:33 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/29/i-thank-the-fec-for-freeing-us/#comment-912 [...] Next, writing at The Liberty Papers, Brad Warbiany offers two excellent pieces. The first rips about the anti-liberty rationale behind laws restricting smoking and laws restricting what we can do on Sundays. As Brad points out, the people who advocate these laws are similar in the fact that they don’t trust free individuals to make choices. Brad’s second contribution takes a skeptical look at the Federal Election Commission’s recent decision that appears to exempt bloggers from campaign finance regulation. As Brad points out, the problem with the ruling is that it accepts the rationale that the FEC has any business getting involved in political speech to begin with. [...]

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