Many have likely seen the pro-Obama music video, “American Prayer,” but libertarian Reason.tv takes a satirical look at the video in light of Obama’s oft-professed desire to transform the American economy and preserve American jobs.
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Libertarian Take on McCain and Obama’s Possible Supreme Court Picks
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“The Video Kickoff: Reason in Denver”
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Libertarian Bob Barr Chats with the Washington Post
by JOHN ADAMS •
Bob Barr spoke to readers of the Washington Post via chat on August 21st. Here are excerpts from that interview: On Energy Policy – Bob Barr: “I believe that we need to produce more of our basic fuel needs right here in the U.S. We should remove prohibitions to offshore drilling and exploration in ANWR.…
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Joe Biden: Not So Fond of Limited Government
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Senator Obama chose another, and less impressive, senator as his running mate. Much sport will be had at the expense of Joe Biden, a gaffe-prone, entrenched incumbent. Look at him seriously, though, and you find something worse: a career politician who has neither time nor understanding for limited government. David Boaz recalls Biden’s theatrics in…
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Weigel on the Barr Candidacy: “Look Who’s Coming in Third.”
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at Reason, in the September issue of the magazine, David Weigel observes that — despite fundraising challenges — the LP candidate for president is doing better than anyone might have hoped. I’m not sure that November will prove so optimistic for the LP, but Weigel correctly notes that this year has a fair chance…
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Video: Dour Libertarian Presidential Candidate Tries Standup
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Center for Small Government: “Small Government is Beautiful”
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Carla Howell is a libertarian activist and president of the Center for Small Government. A renaissance woman, she’s also a singer-songwriter. She’s successfully placed initiatives on the ballot in her native Massachusetts to end the state income tax, and her efforts have won significant backing – in 2004, 45% of voters in her state supported…
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The ‘Neo Prohibitionists’ and Science
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Earlier this week, I posted on a proposal from over 100 college presidents to begin debate on lowering the drinking age. The proposal was only to begin debate, but that alone is too much for those ‘Neo Prohibitionists,’ like those at Mothers Against Drunk Driving, who argue against a lower age on the basis of…
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Voters Want Libertarian in Presidential Debates, Major Parties Not So Agreeable
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Over at the Los Angeles Times, one of that paper’s bloggers reports on a study that shows that about 55% of voters would like to see the Libertarian candidate for president in the upcoming presidential debates. Unsurprisingly, the number drops when filtered to include only partisan Republicans or Democrats. Those major parties have a good…
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Barr and Feingold Against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
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Here are two videos explaining why FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is a bad idea. No American government should have the power to intercept phone calls of a citizen merely because he is calling someone — even family, friends, or colleagues — abroad, with no other basis or cause. It’s an infringement of the…
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The World’s Smallest Political Quiz
by JOHN ADAMS •
Your friends, if you call them such, probably send you any number of chain emails each day with polls, quizzes, and personality tests. I’ll offer you one, too, but at least I’ve not sent it to you. Here’s a quiz called the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, from the Advocates for Self-Government website. The website is…
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McClatchy Newspapers Assess Libertarian Barr’s Candidacy
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The McClatchy newspapers have an assessment of Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr’s impact so far. I think it’s half right — (1) Barr is having a great deal of trouble raising money, but it’s (2) not because he’s in Paul’s shadow (as quoted political scientist Steven Schier contends). I think a commenter remarking on the…
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Disproportionate Federal Sentence in a Medical Marijuana Case
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I don’t condone or support illegal drug use in any way. I would prefer, however, that each state had the option to change its laws so that medical use of marijuana was lawful, without federal interference. In California, and about a dozen other states, medical marijuana is lawful. Federal law does not recognize medical marijuana…