Gary Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, got 14% in his home state in a new poll conducted by Public Policy Polling for the New Mexico Political Report. The poll, conducted over the weekend, found that Clinton leading with 41%, while Trump received 33%. Clinton and Trump hold large leads in their parties….
Petersen, Johnson & McAfee Face Off One More Time Before The LP Convention By Avens O’Brien The last Libertarian Party presidential debate before the National Convention took place on Monday in Las Vegas. I was fortunate to be able to attend, and managed to “live-tweet” the experience extensively. The event was hosted by the Libertarian…
The Libertarian Perspective By Lee Enochs “For the best government is the least amount of government.” After watching last night’s debate between Libertarian presidential contenders Austin Petersen, Gary Johnson and John McAfee, I realized that Austin Petersen is the true heir to Ron Paul’s Libertarian legacy and not Johnson or McAfee. I also believe…
As a Libertarian, I have proudly mixed feelings about the transgender bathroom controversy now raging across America. On one hand, I do not want to see any American discriminated against, I do believe the Obama administration is acting very imperialistic in the way it is handling this sensitive issue. Last Friday, the Obama administration issued,…
By Jonah Bennett The United States decided Monday it wants to provide arms to the Libyan government, just five years after overthrowing the regime and accidentally providing weapons to Islamic militants. Several other countries have joined the U.S. in asking the United Nations to grant an exemption to the five-year-old arms shipment ban currently imposed on…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Senate used money from benefit cuts to military veterans in the 2016 budget to pay for the resettlement of an additional 3,000 Afghan interpreters in the United States. A dispute over a similar pay-for plan is behind the Judiciary Committee’s refusal to expand the program again in the 2017 budget. The Special Immigrant…
First published on The Liberty Conservative Is it just me, or have people lost sight of the concept that a private organization is just that– private? They can make their own rules as they see fit, that is until a progressive’s feeling get hurt and they make it their crusade to tackle the private organizations and all who…
By Michael Bastasch Residents of Anacortes, Washington are furious with environmental activists for littering their town with more than one ton of trash left behind from recent anti-fossil fuel protests ostensibly held in the name of protecting the Earth. Eco-activists held protests on a BNSF railroad line over the weekend to prevent oil trains from…
By Casey Harper The Nevada State Democratic Party issued a statement explaining exactly how Hillary Clinton was able to edge out a win at the convention Saturday despite Sen. Bernie Sanders going in with more delegate slots. A raucous protest broke out after the convention among furious Sanders supporters that eventually got so out of hand the…
By Kathryn Watson House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform members will mark up legislation Tuesday to give the Government Accounting Office (GAO) vastly expanded authority to conduct deep audits of the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act sponsored by Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie directs the Comptroller General of the United States, who…