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Danielle Smiths tattoo has caught the attention of the internet, with some arguing on social media that she has the logo for a right-wing libertarian think tank on her forearm.

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The tattoo was done by her stepson, a Calgary tattoo artist. Its an ancient Sumerian cuneiform symbol for liberty or freedom.

That same symbol also happens to feature in the logo for the Liberty Fund, a libertarian think tank headquartered in Indiana.

We believe that the first written reference to the concept of liberty is the ancient Sumerian cuneiform symbol amagi which Liberty Fund uses as its logo, the Liberty Fund website states. The translation of the inscription literally means return to the mother.'

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While the Liberty Fund does clearly use the symbol in its logo, that doesnt mean Smith got the tattoo to represent the group. Just as a person with a tattoo of a maple leaf couldnt be accused of being a Toronto hockey fan, or a supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada, or an Ironman triathlon finisher.

Smith recently told National Post that she learned about the Sumerian word during her days at the Fraser Institute, another libertarian-adjacent think tank, having seen the Liberty Fund logo, and loved the symbol and its history.

I always thought if I ever have a tattoo, thats what it would be, Smith said.

Liberty and freedom has been one of the things that Ive written an awful lot about.

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While the symbol is often translated as liberty or freedom, there seems to be some debate among scholars over whether it simply means freedom from a debt and should not be used more broadly.

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich released a campaign video Thursday announcing his run for re-election in 2024.

When I look at Washington these days, I see plenty of fighters, Heinrich, a Democrat, said in the video. The problem is too many are fighting for themselves for their career and their big donors. The way I see it, you hired me to work for you. And I want you to know, Im all in.

Heinrich is seeking his third term in the U.S. Senate. Before winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2012, Heinrich served as a member of Congress for two terms, representing the states 1st Congressional District.

Heinrich won a three-way race for reelection in 2018, defeating Republican construction company owner Mick Rich and former Gov. Gary Johnson, who ran as a Libertarian.

The video, entitled, All In and included a listing of the things Heinrich was all in for in recent years.

These things include how he tried to curb gun violence, expanded veteran health care benefits, helped to get $4 billion to help communities affected by last years wildfires, worked to lower prescription costs and brought more than $1 billion for New Mexicos infrastructure, the video states.

Im running for the Senate again, because we still have more work to do, Heinrich said in the video. We have to take on the challenges that have been written off for too long. We need to diversify New Mexicos economy. We have to continue the transition to clean energy. We have to build upon our historic investment in early childhood education.

He has a background in engineering including a contract with what is now the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base working on directed energy technology.

Democrats currently hold a small majority in the Senate, 51-49, over Republicans. The 2024 elections are considered friendly to Republicans in at least three states currently represented by Democrats.

Cook Political Report, Crystal Ball and Inside Elections all project New Mexico to be a strong Democratic state.

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Before I dig in, allow me a personal note: If you put me in a philosophy class, I am a pretty radical libertarian, but if you ask me how I want the government of these United States of America to conduct its business in the real-world here-and-now, Im an Eisenhower Republican. I dont love the debt-ceiling gamesmanshipI didnt love it when Democrats, including Joe Biden, were doing it, and I resent that Im apparently expected to forget that ever happenedand, in general, I prefer orderliness in administration and predictability in policy. I would prefer a politics of consensus to our current politics of apocalyptic imbecility.

All that being stipulated, the direness of the debt ceiling is in some ways exaggerated and in many ways misunderstood. Three ways of looking at it.

First, the math: Almost all of our media conversation about the debt ceiling is presented as though it were a foregone conclusionand an economic necessitythat the federal government would default on its debt if the debt ceiling is not raised. There isnt any reason for that to happen: We have something like $11 in tax revenue coming in for every $1 in debt service going out of the Treasury doors. Congress declining to raise the debt ceiling would not change that. The federal government does not have to borrow money to have enough to keep current on its obligations to bondholdersin fact, when you are obliged to borrow money to make good on current debt obligations, thats when you really are in a debt crisis, and we are not there. (Yet.) It is the case that the federal government would not have enough money to pay for all authorized spending (that is why we borrow in the first place) but there is no financial reason that should mean defaulting on the debt rather than suspending or deferring some other spending.

Owing at least in some part to what looks suspiciously like an intentional campaign of obfuscation to me, much of the media has taken to use the word default in such a way as to blur the distinction between a debt defaultwhich would be economically catastrophicand deferring or forgoing other congressionally authorized spending. The latter would not be a great outcome, for all sorts of reasons, but it is not the same thing as a debt default and nowhere near occupying the same height of seriousness.

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Donald Rainwater has decided to seek the Libertarian nomination for Indiana Governor in 2024.

Rainwaters campaign for Governor in 2020 drew nearly 12% of the vote, which was the highest ever in Indiana by a Libertarian statewide candidate in a three-way race. He says its time to build on that.

I believe that the three already declared candidates (Mike Braun, Suzanne Crouch, and Eric Doden) represent Eric Holcomb 2.0. Indiana doesnt need another Eric Holcomb, said Rainwater in an interview Friday morning with 93 WIBCs Kendall and Casey.

Rainwater will focus on education reform, tax reform, and administrative reform.

Our government education system is inexorably failing. Weve ignored the fundamentals of education to focus on our social indoctrination. We need better government, not bigger government. If you look at the budget that was just passed, its bigger government, said Rainwater.

Rainwater maintains that taxes are too high and the fact that Indiana politicians are getting raises while so many other people are out of work is an injustice that has to be fixed. Rainwater thinks hes the man to fix it.

Weve decided that now is the time to get to work. Renters and homeowners are adversely affected by these current ballooning property tax assessments and it needs to stop. These politicians that are running our legislature are living in a completely different Indiana than we are, said Rainwater.

Instead of hard-working small business owners getting relief, Rainwater believes the government is giving the majority of the tax breaks in Indiana to the lawmakers and their donors.

Rainwater has spent the last 20 years as a software engineer. He and his wife have a blended family that includes six children and three grandchildren.

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Ubet, WIThe bipartisan dysfunction over the Federal national debt ceiling and the increasing deficits directly threatens every family in the country, said the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) Press Office, in a statement released this week. Democrats and Republicansbothhold absolute responsibility for their bullet-train deficit policies rapidly running out of track. They must own up for the mismanagement of their public trust.

Right now, with no plan in sight to actually change the business as usual, the national debt will more than equal 100 percent of the American GDP. Every man, woman, and child in the country now owns almost $100,000 each of that debt. That share will only go up. Did voters and taxpayers actually consent to that by their own free choice? Did they have any other choice at all?

Libertarians believe that the governments use of courts, sheriff auctions, and the threat of imprisonment to ensure tax collectionall violate a political doctrine of free-will choice and responsible consent, a doctrine promoted by the LPWI. And as such, forced taxation leads to fiscal irresponsibility, larger deficits, and unsustainable debt.

In contrast, many libertarian economists propose a competitive choice of goods and services for rents or fees, or a system of consumption-based taxation where people have choices. Voters who join or adopt a Libertarian Party program of restraint in government revenues and expenditures rid a free people of the problem of their government mismanaging its business, and it stops the moral crime of using violence against citizens in order to collect tax revenues, the LPWI statement concluded.

To find out more on the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin and its platform, please visitwww.lpwi.org.

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