Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The following is a media release from the Libertarian Party of Nebraska: The Libertarian Party Receives Ballot Access in Nebraska Jun 26th, 2008 by ABissen Jerry Kosch, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Nebraska, received official notification from the Secretary of State’s office today that the Party’s candidates will be on the ballot come November. By gathering nearly [...]
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has decided not to appeal last week’s U.S. District Court order putting the Libertarian Party on the ballot. This will be the first time any party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, has appeared on the ballot in Ohio since 2000.
Jock's Place - Comments (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Obviously, a member of a political party doesn't have to agree with every policy of that party, but I find it a bit odd that the Head of Policy at the Libertarian Party would go out of his way to criticise LVT when the Housing and Planning policy statement in their manifesto tacitly supports it with the statement: "Until a practical Land Value Taxation system can be devised, forms of zoning (such...
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Libertarian Party candidate Edward Martin of Louisville qualified to put his name on the November 4 ballot in the 3rd congressional district. Martin submitted more than 400 signatures to the Secretary of State's office Tuesday, according to his filing papers. Martin is listed as president of a Mt. Washington-based die supply company, Marco Die Supplies Inc. He will face Republican...
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate, is speaking on impeachment today before the House Judiciary Committee: Our constitutional system, and its commitment to limited government and individual liberty, is based both on a series of explicit guarantees that constrain the use of government authority, and a structure that divides government authority. As such, the [...]
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Libertarian Party of Kentucky candidate for US Senate explains his earlier statement: “We should go and bomb those camel-dung shovelers back into the sand,” if they don’t lower their oil prices. On the radio show “Weekly Filibuster,” Landham expands on his comment: “I’m a pro-American all the way. The Arabs, the camel dung-shovelers, the camel jockeys, whichever you [...]
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate, says in a recent media release: “After emphasizing confrontation and thinly-veiled threats of war for many months, the Bush administration apparently may now be considering initiating some form of diplomatic relationship with Iran. Such a step is long overdue…. “It is imperative to find a peaceful answer, since war [...]
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Jackson says on his blog in the Sandusky Register: A federal judge has ordered Ohio to put the Libertarian Party’s candidates on the ballot this fall, and to list them as Libertarians. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner decided to accept the ruling rather than appeal it. It will be the first time in Ohio since [...]
Free Keene (Free subscription) | yesterday
Free Minds TV travels to Grafton NH for Burning Porcupine, events included both a Libertarian picnic, as well as a funeral for Bob Barr and the Libertarian Party. Also, asset forfeiture and Downsize DC, and the nanny state in Europe; brooms deemed too dangerous for carpenters.
Jock's Place - Comments (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks, Jock, for your full reply, but I do need to clarify things here. I am not against LVT as a concept to tax and in the policy we at the Libertarian Party do say we would want to do it IF IT CAN WORK. That proviso has not yet been met by a long way, and btw, it is inaccurate of Paul Lockett (in the comments) to suggest there is any inconsistency here - we want a practical plan, and I criticise...
Amateur Economists (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is a common misconception that true adherents of the free market - libertarians - are “pro-big business” and do not care about the environment. This came up recently on the Rush Limbaugh show as he admonished libertarians to explain to Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s presidential hopeful, “what libertarianism is.” Now Bob Barr has many [...]
Jock's Place - Comments (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Well, at least the Libertarian Party give you the time of day. I signed up to their alleged mailing list when their website was about a week old, with a chirpy message saying how interested I was in the Libertarian/Lib Dem overlaps, and have heard bugger all since. [/grumble]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Bob Barr, the U.S. presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, said the Bush administration's diplomatic engagement with Iran is long overdue.Iran appears to be years away from possessing nuclear weapons, giving time for diplomacy to work, Barr said in a release. He said that war with Iran would be a disaster.American troops in Iraq would be at risk. U.S. citizens would be targeted for terrorist...
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The following is a media release from the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania 915 Union Deposit Road #223 Harrisburg, PA 17109 www.lppa.org For Immediate Release: July 21, 2008 Contact: Doug Leard (Media Relations) or Michael Robertson (Chair) at 1-800-R-RIGHTS / chair@lppa.org Harrisburg, PA - Pennsylvania gun owners breathed a sigh of relief at the Heller vs. DC Supreme...
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Some of the losers in the Libertarian Party—those who didn’t want Bob Barr to get the nomination—just aren’t moving on. Here, a bunch of them in New Hampshire hold a mock funeral for Barr and the LP. If you have as much beer and perhaps other stuff as they apparently had, it might [...]
