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National Libertarian Party vice chair Arvin Vohra, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, is the keynote speaker at the Colorado Libertarian Party Convention March 24-26, 2017, in Westminster. (Photo courtesy Arvin Vohra)

The vice chair of the National Libertarian Committee and a frequent candidate for federal office in Maryland, Arvin Vohra, headlines a diverse group of speakers including past presidential candidates this weekend at the Colorado Libertarian Party convention in Westminster, the party announced.

The partys convention runs Friday-Sunday, March 24-26, at the Westin Hotel in Westminster the home of Libertarian Party co-founder David Nolan and, in a distinction it shares with Colorado Springs, the birthplace of the party. The weekend is filled with speeches, panel discussions and entertainment, including casino-style games and dancing to a live band.

The party will elect state officers and consider its platform and bylaws in the morning on Saturday and Sunday. Anyone can attend these functions, but only Colorado residents registered as Libertarian for at least 90 days can participate. Tickets for other convention events, including Saturdays banquet and keynote address, are available at the state partys online store.

Vohra, an author and founder of the Vohra Method education service, ran for the U.S. Senate in Maryland last year as a write-in candidate and ran for two different congressional seats in the state the two elections before that. His main campaign themes have been eliminating the federal income tax, ending the drug war, repealing gun free school zones and cutting military spending by at least 60 percent.

Publisher and pundit Austin Peterson, who came in second to former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson in last years crowded Libertarian presidential primary conservative leaders Mary Matalin and Erick Erickson were among those endorsing his presidential bid is also slated to speak.

Coloradan Matthew Hess, a systems administrator and former gubernatorial and congressional candidate, is a recipient of the Presidential Volunteer Service Award and a past candidate for Douglas County commissioner. His philosophy, he says, is spreading the message of freedom and liberty in Colorado, reversing the gun control legislation, cutting taxes and getting government out of the way of businesses.

Another speaker, Nebraska state Sen. Laura Ebke, was elected to that states non-partisan legislature in 2014 and then changed her registration to Libertarian last year. She was a state leader of Ron Pauls presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012 and founded the Republican Liberty Caucus of Nebraska. Last year, she led the effort to ban civil forfeiture in the state.

Steve Kerbel, another 2016 Libertarian presidential hopeful, is also scheduled to speak. The author of Take Everyman Down, described as an eye-opening piece showing who is truly responsible for the condition of our country, Kerbel runs the Truth in Polling nonprofit and plans to support ballot initiatives to promote liberty nationwide.

The convention will also include a discussion about alternative voting methods, such as Approval Voting and Ranked Choice Voting.

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld chided the media for taking "the bait" every time President Trump tweets.

In an interview with the Boston Herald's Inside Track, Weld, who ran as 2016 Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson's running mate, said journalists are enabling Trump's agenda by breaking "one of the rules of politics" by jumping on every 140-character message sent by the president.

"One of the rules in politics is don't go for the bait," Weld said. "When someone drags a wiggly nightcrawler in front of you, don't snap at it every time. The media seems to be snapping at every single tweet that Mr. Trump does and I think he knows exactly what he's doing. The media is making it work for him."

Weld went on the say that Trump is having "fun" in his war against the media, in which he often singles out certain certain outlets like CNN and the New York Times for criticism and calling them "fake news."

Despite the sometimes questionable nature of the tweets, which sometimes verges on the edge of conspiracy (i.e. Trump's tweets alleging without proof about President Barack Obama wiretapping Trump tower), Weld said the president is confident the media will cover him "no matter what he says or does."

"I think he's having fun with the media," Weld said. "He knows they're going to cover him no matter what he says or does, so there's no penalty for dabbling in alternative reality."

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On Friday, conservative pundit Tomi Lahren declared that she is pro-choice, because "I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies." Libertarian YouTube star Julie Borowski shot down this argument in less than two minutes. (Related: Will Tomi Lahren lose her job?)

"It is not hypocritical for limited government people to be legally pro-life," Borowski declared. "We do not advocate for a society where people can do whatever they want."

In her classic sarcastic style, the YouTube star mocked the view that libertarians have to support an anarchic society without any limits on human freedom. "Murder, theft, rape, go for it, liberty!" The libertarian response to this would be "No, these things would still be illegal for good reason."

Borowski laid out the non-aggression principle: the key question is "is there a victim? With abortion, pro-life people would say yes there is a victim the fetus. Therefore, it's not hypocritical to call for laws against abortion." She scathingly added, "To suggest otherwise means that you either think the fetus is not a victim, or you fundamentally misunderstand the concept of liberty." Ouch.

"The victim is still in another person's body, but he or she is still a human being with the right to life that's in the Constitution," the YouTube star explained. "It's only hypocritical to call for government bans when there are no victims. Drugs and prostitution I personally don't like those things, I think they're disgusting. But people have the liberty to put whatever they want and do God knows what to their own bodies."

Abortion is not a victim-less crime, and that is Borowski's point. The YouTube star acknowledged that outlawing abortion would be difficult, but the point of this short video is that Tomi Lahren is incorrect it is not hypocritical for libertarians to be pro-life. So long as genetics suggests a fetus is a human being (which it does), it might even be hypocritical for a libertarian who champions the right to life to be pro-choice.

Wouldn't that be ironic!

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The Libertarian Ethic of Responsibility Being Libertarian If we are genuinely committed to the libertarian cause, and to seeing libertarianism take root in American politics (either independently through the Libertarian Party or through another vehicle of political action), we have to recognize that such a ...

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Theres a congressional election coming up on May 25th and three candidates are currently out barnstorming the state to gather votes and remind people that the special election actually exists.

Republican Greg Gianforte and Democrat Rob Quist have big-name parties to help promote their message and a head start. Libertarian Mark Wicks was picked at a nominating convention on Saturday March 11, nearly a week after his competitors, and now hes out explaining how he differs from the crowd.

With Gianforte theres a lot of stuff I agree on, but I think he goes a little too far right, Im a little more friendly to some of the alternative communities than I think he will be, Wicks said. With Quist, Im not in favor of sanctuary cities, I think we need to know whos coming into our country, I also know that immigrants are some of the best people we have in this country, but weve gotta know whos here.

Wicks says says he originally thought the special election would give a Libertarian an advantage, but now says that the short time-span of the special election makes it even more difficult to run a successful third-party campaign. Still, Wicks is using the outcome of the last general election as part of his campaign.

This campaign is a little different, you know, usually we dont know what the balance of power is going to be on election day: its all up in the air, every congressional seat is up in the air, but this time we know what the balance of power is going to be, if there is one more R or one more D its not going to change the balance of power.

Wicks says he would most likely caucus with the Republicans if elected and argues that a Libertarian in Washington D.C. would get more air time and coverage for Montana interests, because of the unique nature of his third-party role in congress.

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