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Steve Kubby: Bomb Haiti

January 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments

BY STEVE KUBBY
It will take a miracle to save Haiti. Most of the recovery efforts are short term and will only result in future starvation and misery. While it is important that money be donated now for relief efforts today, we must recognize that we are only postponing a human disaster of even greater proportions.
If [...]

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Steve Kubby: How the War on Pot Protects Rapists and Kidnappers

September 21st, 2009 · 25 Comments

By Steve Kubby
ShadowCabinet.US
Phillip Garrido has been charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, when she was 11, and raping her over the course of years. Dugard was kept hidden for 18 years in a backyard compound, despite a 2006 call a neighbor made to 911, reporting that women and children were living [...]

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Steve Kubby: letter to San Diego District Attorney

September 14th, 2009 · 16 Comments

AMERICAN MEDICAL MARIJUANA ASSOCIATION
1017 Portola Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127
http://www.americanmarijuana.org/
September 12, 2009
Bonnie M. Dumanis
San Diego District Attorney
330 W. Broadway, San Diego
CA 92101
619-531-4040
FAX: 619-237-1351
Dear District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis,
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about medical marijuana. However they are not entitled to their own facts. As someone who played a key [...]

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Tom Knapp: ‘Consciences of the Critics’

September 9th, 2009 · 14 Comments

Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster:
Independent Political Report has been running and/or excerpting and/or linking to a number of reader reviews of Wayne Allyn Root’s recent campaign book, The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts.
While there’s certainly some overlap between IPR’s readership and KN@PPSTER’s, I figure [...]

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Steve Kubby Reviews Wayne Root’s ‘The Conscience of a Libertarian’

September 6th, 2009 · 69 Comments

Review: The Conscience of a Libertarian
by Steve Kubby
The Libertarian Party has always struck me as analogous to the infamous Mos Eisley bar featured in Star Wars. That’s because Libertarianism is an oasis of liberty, attracting a wide range of life forms, ranging from old hippies to suits to gays and, of course, recovering Republicans. [...]

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Tom Knapp on Cannabis Science, Inc. controversy: ‘Depends on what the meaning of “owns” is’

August 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Several of the former members of the Cannabis Science, Inc. board of directors are former candidates for the Libertarian Party presidential and vice presidential nominations and/or members of the Libertarian National Committee. The author of the article, Tom Knapp, is a candidate for the party’s 2012 presidential nomination.
For further reading:
Interview with Steve Kubby
Cannabis [...]

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ABC News and Wayne Root on Steve Kubby

August 12th, 2009 · 54 Comments

ABC News Medical Unit posted a story last week about possible uses of Steve Kubby’s cannabis lozenge to treat flu, and this week 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate Wayne Root made available an excerpt from his book passionately criticizing the prosecution of his 2008 LP rival Kubby on charges related to medical marijuana.

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Interview with Steve Kubby

July 27th, 2009 · 44 Comments

Steve Kubby ran for Governor of California as a Libertarian in 1998, was the runner up for the LP VP nomination in 2000 and 2008, and was a candidate for the party’s presidential nomination in 2008. I worked on that last campaign. Since then, he started a cannabis medicinal company with Libertarian National Committee member [...]

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Cannabis Science Accuses Kubby and Ruwart in SEC Filing

July 15th, 2009 · 16 Comments

From an article in San Francisco Business Times:
Ousted Cannabis Science Chairman, President and CEO Steven Kubby distributed company funds for personal gain, signed financial and share agreements without board consent and blocked the access of other officers and directors to a company account, the company said in a regulatory filing. [...]
The company said in its [...]

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Steve Kubby: ‘The Curse of Moderates’

July 12th, 2009 · 29 Comments

Article by Steve Kubby sent via facebook. While it is not directly related to alternative parties or independent candidates, the author was a two-time runner up for the Libertarian Party Vice Presidential nomination (2000 and 2008), 1998 Libertarian candidate for Governor of California, and candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Presidential nomination. Additionally, it touches on [...]

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Steve Kubby, Mary Ruwart, Ray Carr and Lee Wrights resign from Cannabis Science corporation Board of Directors

July 11th, 2009 · 61 Comments

Steve Kubby and Mary Ruwart are former candidates for the Libertarian Party Presidential and Vice Presidential nominations, and Kubby was the 1998 Libertarian candidate for Governor of California. Mary Ruwart and Lee Wrights are At Large members of the Libertarian National Committee. Ray Carr is Mary Ruwart’s husband.
From Steve Kubby, via facebook: “Dr. Ruwart, Ray [...]

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Steve Kubby: Appeasement is the Disease; Freedom is the Cure

April 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Posted by Steve Kubby at ShadowCabinet.US and reposted to IPR by Paulie. Steve Kubby was the 2008 and 2000 runner up for the Libertarian Party VP nomination, the 1998 California Libertarian Party candidate for Governor, and a candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Presidential nomination. Disclosure: I worked on Kubby’s 2008 Presidential nomination campaign.

“Government doesn’t [...]

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Steve Kubby: How Libertarians knew the Crash was coming

March 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Article by Steve Kubby at The Shadow Cabinet and emailed for submission to IPR. Posted by Paulie.

These days, everyone is an economist. However, few people can claim to have predicted the economic crisis, as I did. Back in 1995, when I wrote the Politics of Consciousness, I penned a chapter called “Voodoo Economics.” What [...]

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Steve Kubby: Medical Marijuana in Jamaica

February 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Steve Kubby and posted at shadowcabinet.us. Steve Kubby was the 2008 and 2000 runner up for the Libertarian Party VP nomination, the 1998 California Libertarian Party candidate for Governor, and a candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Presidential nomination. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Disclosure: I worked on Kubby’s 2008 Presidential nomination [...]

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Steve Kubby: ‘Change, what change?’

January 30th, 2009 · 15 Comments

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Steve Kubby and posted at shadowcabinet.us. Steve Kubby was the 2008 and 2000 runner up for the Libertarian Party VP nomination, the 1998 California Libertarian Party candidate for Governor, and a candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Presidential nomination. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Disclosure: I worked on Kubby’s 2008 Presidential nomination [...]

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