Fifteen participants in a protest organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) which took place on the campus of Hofstra University during the last Presidential debate were arraigned yesterday in Nassau county, New York on charges of disorderly conduct. This is the group, known as the Hempstead 15, against whom the police used horses, […]
Back in July when I created LibertarianPartyCandidates.us, my goal was to help LP candidates get a little more exposure. The national LP was busy with ballot access and people were upset that only a select few candidates were listed on lp.org. I was eager to be a part of the fight for liberty. I’d Call […]
Obama is desperate to bailout General Motors and even says the bank bailout bill that passed recently amid great controversy gives the President the discretion to do so. Is this change? Obama has been far more receptive than Bush to having the government intervene to rescue another major sector of the economy. He called automakers […]
The minutes for the September LNC meeting state: LP member George Donnelly put together a list of Libertarian candidates as noted on various state websites which has proven to be quite useful. This has generated some controversy, so I’d like to clarify exactly what happened. After I noticed Paulie Cannoli had put together a list […]
The problem with executive orders is that they’re often used to make, instead of just implement, law. So, instead of issuing new and different executive orders, Obama should not only fulfill his promise to dump the bad ones, but should also end this practice of using them to make new law, or to interpret existing […]
What’s the Free State Project, you ask? The Free State Project is a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to a single state of the U.S., where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government. Why’s Liberty so Important? Liberty is the prerequisite for […]
If you’d like to serve on the platform committee for the next convention, please write up an email that includes three sample platform planks and a short essay on your qualifications and send it to LP Secretary Sullentrup. Angela Keaton writes: Platform Committee will be chosen at the San Diego meeting. You should send the […]
CNN is showing a new documentary on the Colombian cocaine industry. The two-part video is about 25 minutes long. It’s quite interesting and worth a watch if you’re concerned about the unintended consequences of the prohibition on certain drugs. They only Catch the Harmless Ones In part 1, we learn about Michael, a French citizen […]
I want to share some thoughts on building the Boston Tea Party over the next couple years. With determined effort from a committed team of BTPers, willing to invest some time, we can eclipse the LP as the primary libertarian party in the US. I start with a few assumptions. Our numbers are small. Our […]
A libertarian political party should be (a) transparent, (b) bottom-up and not excessively hierarchical, (c) structurally free of common causes for infighting and schisms (like the platform), and (d) member-oriented. This is true of the Boston Tea Party. Sadly, this is not true of the Libertarian Party of 2008. Parallels with the Free State Project […]