The Libertarian Blog is reporting that Mary Ruwart won a book of the year award, an honor bestowed upon Dr. Ruwart by the Freedom Book Club. Dr. Ruwart was one of the leading candidates for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination in 2008, but lost on the final ballot to former Congressman Bob Barr.
“Ruwart’s book is a tremendous achievement,” says Jeremy Furbish, who runs Freedom Book Club. “It shows how we hurt ourselves when we aggress against our neighbors through the guns of government.”
“Healing” lays libertarian solutions to a wide variety of problems, including health care, in which Ruwart cites the case of her sister, Martie. Dying of cancer and suffering from debilitating pain, Martie was prohibited by federal law from acquiring adequate pain medication and was not legally allowed to make her own decisions concerning the end of her life.
“I actually wept when I read this section,” Furbish says.
More here.
26 responses so far ↓
1 Robert Milnes // Mar 9, 2009 at 11:33 am
I would be satisfied with Mary Ruwart vp on my Progressive Libertarian Alliance Independent 2012 ticket.
2 Becky // Mar 9, 2009 at 11:42 am
Mr. Milnes,
I am sure that Dr. Ruwart will jump at that opportunity.
3 Robert Milnes // Mar 9, 2009 at 12:19 pm
becky, if she is interested in winning. actually she had a chance last year. after her humiliating loss to barr, she could have joined me and pursued an independent run. all we needed would have been sufficient ballot access which i’m sure the btp people could have helped with. in fact we could have led a revolt against the lp. but nooooooooo.
4 Ross Levin // Mar 9, 2009 at 1:07 pm
What’s the Freedom Book Club?
5 Michael Seebeck // Mar 9, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I’m sure the Milnes PLA (Pathetic Lone Amateur) would be the difference between Dr. Ruwart and Barr the next cycle.
And pink elephants are flying in formation over LAX right now, too.
6 libertariangirl // Mar 9, 2009 at 1:42 pm
congrats to Dr. Ruwart . ‘Healing our World was one of the first libertarian books someone ever mentored me to read .
7 Chuck Moulton // Mar 9, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Congratulations, Dr. Ruwart!
8 Jim Davidson // Mar 9, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Congratulations to Mary on this award.
Ross the club is:
http://www.freedombookclub.com/
The cash prize went to
http://www.lsfund.org/
9 sunshinebatman // Mar 9, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Uh, book of which year, exactly? Didn’t this thing come out ages ago? Is Hannah & Her Sisters up for Film of the Year?
10 Jim Davidson // Mar 9, 2009 at 7:56 pm
“Didn’t this thing come out ages ago?”
“Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle” was published in 1992.
“Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression” was published in 2003.
It is the more recent work which was cited for the best of the books nominated in 2008. If you want to suggest another book perhaps a more recently published book, the process for nominations is explained on the Freedom Book Club site.
For 2009, a book by Murray Rothbard, “What Has Government Done to Our Money” is nominated. This book was published in 1963, according to the wikipedia bio on Rothbard.
11 Hugh Jass // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Cool.
12 Morgan Brykein // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:06 pm
If we don’t get Gary Johnson to come to our side, I hope Ruwart runs on the LP ticket in 2012.
13 Trent Hill // Mar 9, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Im with sunshinebatman on this one. Although this is a decent book, most bookclubs only count books from THAT YEAR, rather than from decades before.
14 Jim Davidson // Mar 10, 2009 at 12:59 am
Well, Trent, form your own club, then. Or, write a book.
Or, and I’m just spitballing here, nominate Dr. Ron Paul’s book _Revolution: A Manifesto_ and see if you can’t get enough voters to join the club and vote it up. Yay.
15 Jim Davidson // Mar 10, 2009 at 1:02 am
Michael @5, I saw those elephants! Weren’t they being strafed by F16s? Seems to me.
Because when you think about pink elephants flying overhead and pooping on LA freeways, you are talking major terrorist incident here.
Now, if you said that Robert Milnes would win more votes than “none of the above” in a presidential nomination race when pigs can fly, I would wonder about genetically engineered pigs.
16 paulie cannoli // Mar 10, 2009 at 1:22 am
17 Michael Seebeck // Mar 10, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Jim, unless you were out here, you didn’t see them. I think they run the LA City Council, among other things.
And pink elephants pooping on LA freeways daily is probably the most likely cause of the non-accident traffic jams out here. At least it makes as much sense as anything else!
And of course they’re GMO pigs–Gravitationally Modifiable, Orbiting Pigs!
18 Michael Seebeck // Mar 10, 2009 at 4:25 pm
And they weren’t being strafed by F-16s–those are illegal under CA’s draconic gun laws!
19 Gary Chartier // Mar 11, 2009 at 9:50 am
They are, Mike–except that those laws, as we know, don’t apply to the state. We’re not talking about private F-16s, are we?
20 Michael Seebeck // Mar 11, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Gary, if we had private fighter jets, I’d try to get a USMC version of an F-35 with the winning lottery ticket the CA lottery keeps denying me! (Two-seater version VTOL, of course!)
21 Jim Davidson // Mar 11, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Michael, I move around a lot. I am able to see things that happen many thousands of miles away (and at times, what happened many millions of miles away, about 8 minutes ago for every 93 million miles). They have these things called televisions which is Greek for “far viewers.” Lately they have television on my computer. Nifty.
I was not proposing that the F16s were privately owned and operated. The gummint does have a supply of F16s in California.
If you are playing the state’s lottery you are paying their stupidity tax. Or, to quote Heinlein, there are always more optimists than statisticians in any gambling activity.
22 Andy // Mar 11, 2009 at 5:15 pm
“Trent Hill // Mar 9, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Im with sunshinebatman on this one. Although this is a decent book, most bookclubs only count books from THAT YEAR, rather than from decades before.”
I was thinking the same thing.
23 The Mango // Mar 11, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Is the Freedom Book Club just an internet poll?
24 Mary Had A Little Lamb // Sep 11, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Mary had a little lamb
she kept it in her back yard
when she took her panties off
his wooly dick got hard
25 Darryl W. Perry // Mar 8, 2011 at 12:37 pm
I’m honored to be on the same list with Dr. Ruwart as recipients of FBC Book Of The Year
http://www.freepatriot-press.com/2011/03/anarcho-teachings-of-yeshua-named-book.html
26 paulie // Mar 8, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I’ll be posting that today
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