by Kevin Daley Critics charging Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of curating a culture of corruption around the Clinton Foundation find an unlikely ally in former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Stevens, who served on the Court for 30 years before his retirement in 2010, authored the principle dissent in Citizens United v. FEC,…
by Craig Boudreau With the release of the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) report on safety issues at private prisons, their use has been called into question. The federal government started using private prisons as a means to help cut down on overcrowding in federal prisons in 1997. Privatization was supposed to reduce costs,…
by Thomas Phippen The National Park Service (NPS) celebrated 100 years of operation Aug. 25. Managing more than 84 million acres of some of the most beautiful land in America, the NPS receives most of its funding from federal coffers. In 2015, NPS got over $1 billion of taxpayer money, and President Barack Obama has made NPS funding a…
by Craig Boudreau A new study published in the journal Tobacco Control has shown that teens who vape don’t use nicotine by a 3 to 1 margin, EurekAlert reported Thursday. The study used data compiled by Monitoring The Future, a project designed to assess “behavior of young people,” and surveyed nearly 15,000 students from 12th, 10th and 8th…
by Saagar Enjeti Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump’s Aug. 15 accusation that President Barack Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq was responsible for the rise of ISIS has reignited debate over whether former President George W. Bush is really responsible. President Barack Obama’s critics center on his withdrawal of forces from Iraq in 2010 as the decision most responsible for the…
by Jacob Bojesson A German couple was stabbed at music festival Saturday by an intoxicated man shouting “Allahu akbar.” The couple was enjoying a picnic in the town of Oberhausen when the suspect attacked them. The 57-year-old male victim managed to overpower the suspect, despite receiving serious injuries. The female victim, aged 66, is fighting for her life….
By: Darrell England As you may already know, The Libertarian Republic has been given the privilege of being the first publication to break prior ads by the Americans Deserve Better PAC. We are not the first publication to break the following ads, but due to how recently they have been released, it is possible that this will be…
by Dallas Brooks Lily Tang Williams is running for the US Senate in Colorado on the Libertarian ticket. She and the party are making serious headway with the voters, but it seems that one group in particular is dead set on preventing anyone but Democrats and Republicans from sharing the stage. Club 20 is a…
by Ian Tartt The “FairTax” is popular idea among some conservative and libertarian circles. Supporters of the tax seek to replace federal income, payroll, business income, estate, and capital gains taxes with a national consumption tax. Eliminating the IRS and the tax code, raising wages, letting individuals choose their level of taxation through how much they…
Top 5 Reasons It’s Okay for Libertarians to Criticize Gary Johnson by Aya Katz In this election cycle, the Libertarian Party and its presidential candidate Gary Johnson have an unusual opportunity. This year, unlike all other years, a large plurality of voters dislike both the Republican and the Democrat running for President of the United…